Instruments Saxophone Role Music performer Name Greg Banaszak | Website www.gregbanaszak.com Years active 1982 - present Education The Hartt School | |
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Born June 23, 1966 (age 57) ( 1966-06-23 ) Origin Father Baker's Home for Boys, Lackawanna (Buffalo), New York Genres European Classical, American Jazz Labels Centaur Records, Chanson, Hyperion, Open Loop Albums Symphony no. 48 "Vision of Andromeda" / Prelude and Quadruple Fugue / Soprano Saxophone Concerto People also search for Alan Hovhaness, Gerard Schwarz, Bohdan Jarmolowicz | ||
Greg banaszak saxophone on the house 1940s street musician cameo
Greg Banaszak (born June 23, 1966) is an American saxophonist, specializing in European classical music and jazz. He has performed in both styles through concerto performances, solo and chamber music recitals and jazz festival appearances in the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Banaszak received a cum laude B.M. from Connecticut’s Hartt School of Music. He holds a M.M. degree from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and an Artist Diploma from the Centre Musical d’Annecy in France.
Banaszak is a faculty member of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University. In 2001, he was appointed to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences as a voting member for the annual Grammy Awards.
He is represented by Phoenix Classical Ltd. of Canada. Recording primarily on Centaur Records since 1999, he has also produced albums on the Chanson, Hyperion and Open Loop labels.