Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!About the DirectorTom Walsh is Robert J. Waller Sr. and Robert J. Waller Jr. Professor of Music (saxophone) and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An active performer of jazz and classical music, he has presented concerts and workshops in South Africa, China, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, and across the United States. In 2019, his beginning improvisation book Jazz Master Teaches You to Improvise was published by Shanghai Music Publishing House. Recent recordings include The Pandemic Sessions by the IU jazz faculty, Luke Gillespie's Moving Mists, Basically Baker, Vol. 2, with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois), Mike Hackett's New Point of View (Summit) and two CDs released on the IUMusic label: Holiday Celebration and Sylvia McNair's Romance. Premiere performances include Scott Jones's concert band arrangement of Russell Peck's The Upward Stream, Chris Rutkowski's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, and David Baker's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra. His latest solo CD release is Intersections (Arizona University Recordings), featuring Luke Gillespie on piano. Earlier solo CDs include New Life (RIAX) and Shaking the Pumpkin (RIAX). Other releases include the David Baker Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on Paul Freeman Introduces David Baker, Vol. XII (Albany), Basically Baker with the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois), and Sky Scrapings: Saxophone Music of Don Freund (AUR). Walsh has appeared at conferences of the International Association for Jazz Education, Jazz Education Network, North American Saxophone Alliance, and World Saxophone Congress. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a Vandoren Artist. He has taught at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops since 1991. He co-leads the IU Summer Saxophone Academy with Otis Murphy and is co-director of the College Audition Preparation Workshop. Walsh earned degrees in Saxophone Performance and Jazz Studies from Indiana University, where his principal teachers were distinguished classical saxophonist Eugene Rousseau and renowned jazz educator David Baker. His other influential teachers include Mike Tracy, Pat LaBarbera, Jerry Coker, and David Liebman.