David Bixler

Affiliation: Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orch
David Bixler Quintet
Montclair State University
Bowling Green State University

Artist's Biography
Saxophonist, composer, and educator David Bixler is more and more establishing himself as a multi-faceted artist. David has performed and toured with the orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Duke Ellington, and Bobby Sanabria. Since 2000 he has been a member of the GRAMMY nominated Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra appearing every Sunday at NY C's Birdland.

David's CD entitled Lost In Queens was released in May of 2000. In the fall of 2003, David released his second CD, Show Me The Justice, which received national airplay and critical praise for demonstrating David's creative abilities as composer as well as improviser. His current CD, Call It A Good Deal, was released in July 2006 on the Zoho label and features all original compositions by David Bixler. The disc is garnering critical acclaim and in addition to receiving 3 and starts in Down Beat it recently was an Honorable Mention selection in All About Jazz's best of 2006. A live recording, The Darkness Is My Closest Friend, is slated for release in the summer of 2009.

David is also a member and contributing composer in Arturo O'Farrill's Sextet. He is represented on the new Zoho CD, Riza Negra, with three compositions.

March of 2010 will find David in the professional premier of his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, with the Sioux Falls Symphony Orchestra. Heptagon, a composition for saxophone quartet is included on a Naxos release of American composers by the Ancia Quartet.

David is an Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University. As a Selmer Artist he is active as a clinician throughout the world.

Appearances / Venues

• 2010-10-01 - Clinic Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 3pm
• 2010-10-02 - David Bixler Jim Snidero Blue Wisp Cinc, OH 8PM
• 2010-10-11 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-12 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-13 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-14 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-15 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-16 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-17 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-18 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-19 - China Toshiko Akioshi
• 2010-10-22 - Tawian Arturo O'Farrill Sextet/ALJO
• 2010-10-23 - Tawian Arturo O'Farrill Sextet/ALJO
• 2010-10-24 - Tawian Arturo O'Farrill Sextet/ALJO
• 2010-10-25 - Tawian Arturo O'Farrill Sextet/ALJO
• 2010-10-26 - Tawian Arturo O'Farrill Sextet/ALJO

Contact Information
E-mail Address: bixxlixx@gmail.com
Website: www.davidbixler.com
www.myspace.com/davidbixler