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Horace-Alexander YoungAssociate Professor of Music Office: Kimbrough 358 |
Native Texan and current Washington state resident, HORACE ALEXANDER YOUNG is one of a select group of "triple threat" recording and touring artists who is equally gifted as an multi-instrumentalist (woodwinds, keyboards and percussion), vocal musician and composer. His varied experiences in these three disciplines have led to appearances on sixty-one (61) recordings and several international tours and performances with Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins, B.B. King, Bill Withers, The Manhattans, Regina Belle, Johnny Kemp, Abdullah Ibrahim (a.k.a. Dollar Brand), Bubbha Thomas, Gerald Alston, Toots Thielemans, John Blake, Arnett Cobb, Jonathan Butler, Youssou N' Dour, Onaje Allan Gumbs, McCoy Tyner, Nancy Wilson, Kenny Barron, George Coleman, Dwight Sills, Milt Hinton, Dave Liebman, Norman Brown, Don Menza, Marvin Stamm, Betty Carter, Mark Ledford, Kim Waters and countless others. Having performed in eighteen (18) countries across five (5) continents his saxophone, flute and vocal skills have thrilled audiences at major Jazz Festivals in Montreaux, Hamburg, Leipzig, London, Paris, The Hague, British Columbia, Berlin, New York, New Orleans, Tokyo, Houston, Seattle, Gent, Laverkusen and Glasgow. While operating primarily as a soloist, musical director and studio musician, his most notable achievements occurred in 1993 when he conducted the National Symphony of South Africa (NSO) in a nationally televised concert honoring South African composer-pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and became one of the first people of native African descent to conduct any orchestra in that country and the first Black American to do so.
Mr. Young is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Washington State University and performs frequently as a guest artist, clinician, with his own touring unit and as a member of the Dozier-Jarvis-Young Quartet. He is also a member of Abdullah Ibrahim's touring septet, EKAYA (Enja Records) and functions as Mr. Ibrahim's musical director and principal arranger. Horace's upcoming CD release, "Acoustic Contemporary Jazz" (on DESIGN RECORDS) will be released nationally on April 30, 2006.
Mr. Young performs on Jupiter saxophones, DiMedici flutes and uses SKB cases, Vandoren reeds, mouthpieces and ligatures exclusively.
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