General Admission tickets are $45 each or purchase the entire summer series for $120.  Attendees must be age 21 and over.  Drink responsibly.

Saxophonist Tom Walsh is Professor of Saxophone and Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at Indiana University’s 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. He is the co-author with Scott Reeves of the 5th edition of Creative Jazz Improvisation (Routledge, 2022). His beginning improvisation book, Jazz Master Teaches You to Improvise was published by Shanghai Music Publishing House in 2019. Recent recordings include The Gennett Suite with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois Records, 2023) and The Pandemic Sessions by the IU Jazz Faculty. Earlier recordings include Luke Gillespie’s Moving Mists, Basically Baker, Volume 2 with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois Records), Mike Hackett’s CD
New Point of View (Summit Records) 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 solo CD releases are Intersections (Arizona University Recordings) featuring Luke Gillespie on piano, New Life (RIAX), and Shaking the Pumpkin (RIAX). Other CD releases include the David Baker Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra (Paul Freeman Introduces David Baker, Volume XII–Albany Recordings),
Basically Baker with the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois Records), and Sky Scrapings: Saxophone Music of Don Freund (AUR Recordings).

Walsh has performed and presented at conferences of the International Association for Jazz Education, the Jazz Education Network, the North American Saxophone Alliance, and the World Saxophone Congress. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a Vandoren Artist. Dr. Walsh taught at the Jamey
Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops for 28 years. He is the Director of the Indiana University Summer Jazz Workshop since 2024 and he has co-led the IU Summer Saxophone Academy with Dr. Otis Murphy
since 2014.

Dr. Walsh holds 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. Other influential teachers in his development were Mike Tracy, Pat LaBarbera, Jerry Coker, and David Liebman.