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We’re being brave and putting thoughts on the internet 🤓
If this resonates, please comment or send me a DM ❤️
Spring cleaning…but for your saxophone 🌸🎷
Your instrument, technician, and wallet will thank you.
What to clean:
🎷Body swab
🧼Spit sponge and mouthpiece pouch
🪩Polish cloth
👄Mouthpiece
🧹Case
03/12/2026
In Columbus for the 2026 conference!! So excited to see all your beautiful faces, 🥰
03/08/2026
Most of us were trained extensively as performers, but almost none of us were trained to teach a student their first breath, first sound, and first notes.
This session is about the pedagogical tools many of us had to figure out the hard way.
If you teach beginners (or ever will), this one’s for you
❤️ The Beginner Blueprint
🗓 Saturday, March 14
⏰ 1pm
📍 Classroom 310
🎷North American Saxophone Alliance Conference
03/01/2026
Women in Saxophone 🎷 was a special concert for many reasons.
As Liz said so beautifully: for most of my life, I’ve been one of a only a few women in the saxophone section. I’ve always loved collaborating in every setting, but there is something uniquely powerful about sharing the stage with so many outstanding musicians who brought similar lived experiences to the music making.
It was especially meaningful to perform alongside students from 15 schools(!) and watch the next generation step into the space with confidence and artistry.
The saxophone world is evolving in so many ways, and it’s inspiring to see more voices represented on stage and in programming. I’m grateful to be part of that momentum here in Austin, where I live in work, in the Live Music Capital of the World.
Thank you to the students who shared the stage, the band directors, private teachers, and parents who shared their students with us, the incredible musicians I get to perform with, and the colleagues who helped bring the concert to life.
What a night ✨❤️🔥
📸 credit: Binkard Photo
02/22/2026
Really, really excited for this one!!
Women in Saxophone 🎷
Featuring works by .saxophone, , , and .
Also welcoming to the stage all female-identifying saxophone students in the Austin metro area.
02/08/2026
Can’t WAIT for and to present on Beginner Saxophone Pedagogy. See you Thursday at 5:30 in CC214!!
02/01/2026
It is ‘s birthday today! 🥳. He’s in Milan at the moment for the but if you’re anything like me you’ll bombard him with singing.
Love you, sweetheart!! So thankful for you 😌
What are the thoughts you have floating around when you practice? What messages have you internalized that are causing limiting beliefs?
The power of the word “yet” for teachers, students, artists, and humans.
I didn’t come up with this, but it sure is handy!!!
Who else is guilty of using too many words when teaching air? 🫠
Use this exercise to feel 3 things:
1. Posture alignment (shoulders aligned with hips)
2. Expansion of abdominals during the inhale
3. Release and speed of air during exhale
12/16/2025
It’s FINALLY here!! 🤩
Headed to Chicago for and so excited to present “It Takes Two” on clarinet and saxophone pedagogy with the formidable Beth Fabrizio.
My students at are playing the socks off music by , , , , , , , Christina Huss, and .
In between, I’ll also be mentoring future music educators on career development and entrepreneurship.
Huge thanks to for their generous support in making this lecture possible!
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