A masterclass in jazz sax
Koh Mr Saxman’s music-friendly Japanese-food restaurant Saxsociety will have American jazz sax maestro Scott Litroff conducting a masterclass on June 11 at 4pm.
The restaurant’s on Bangkok’s Ratanatthibet Road. Admission is Bt500, and that covers a curried rice dinner available. Learn more at (083) 966 5591 and http://Saxsociety.com/home.
Litroff mixes passions for performing and educating in both the jazz and classical styles.
He made his solo debut at the Lincoln Centre’s Alice Tully Hall in New York and has since performed all over the world. He’s shared the stage with Ray Anderson, Bakithi Kumalo, Steve Salerno and Nellie McKay and been under the baton of conductors George Manahan, Rosen Milanov, Joseph Colaneri and David Hayes.
Litroff enjoys collaborations with composers and has commissioned new works for the sax by David Loeb, Andriy Lehiky, Sidney Boquiren, David Campbell, Karl Hinze, Jason Gerraughty and Dawn Chambers.
On albums, his collaborations have included three records with the Oatmeal Jazz Combo.
Litroff has won a Samuel Baron Prize, Ackerman Prize, Bob Meyers Award for Excellence in Jazz, First Prize in the Stony Brook University Graduate Concerto Competition and others.
He holds a doctorate in musical arts from Stony Brook on top of a master’s from the Mannes College of Music, both American schools.
