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Jan Berry, saxophone
The Music Conservatory Faculty

Saxophonist Jan Berry is a native of Alberta, Canada. She has studied with Frederick Hemke, William H. Street, Jean-Marie Londeix, Eugene Rousseau and Barbara Lorenz and holds a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University.

Among the fellowships and prizes she has won are the prestigious Johann Strauss Foundation Scholarship for the advanced study of music in Austria, Anne Burrows Scholarship and the Winspear Fund for Advanced Musicians. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, France, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic, and has won top prizes in numerous competitions including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the North American Saxophone Alliance Concerto Competition. She has played with the Edmonton, Helios, and Enigma Saxophone Quartets and has performed as a soloist with the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, the University of Alberta Wind Ensemble and the Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble.

Berry has been broadcast in recital on CBC radio and WFMT Chicago and has premiered works by numerous composers, including M. William Karlins, Mark Engebretson, and André Ducret. As an educator, Dr. Berry has taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Alberta from 1998-1999, was the woodwind adjudicator for the Canadian National Music Festival in 2002 and has been lecturing at Northwestern University since 1999. She has been teaching classical saxophone at Roosevelt University since 2002.

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Jan Berry, saxophone
CCPA Faculty since 2002