Resume

• 1983

  Jazz/Jazz Studies

  Berklee College of Music

• Public Speaking

  Music Education

  Teaching

  Music Composition

  Higher Education

  Newsome

  Sam Newsome is one of the leading soprano saxophonists on today'’s music scene as well as associate professor of music at Long Island University’'s Brooklyn Campus. He has toured the world many times with own groups as well as with jazz luminaries as Leon Parker

  Bruce Barth

  Jean-Michel Pilc

  Lucian Ban

  Ugonna Okegwo and many others. Mr. Newsome has also appeared in the Downbeat Critics Polls for the past eight years as one of the “Top 10 saxophonists in the Soprano Saxophone category. In addition

  he has received numerous grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)

  NYSCA

  and Meet the Composer

  and has recorded 12 CDs as a leader and has appeared on over 50 as a side-person. For more information

  visit www.sopranosaxtalk.blogspot.com.

  Sam

  Newsome

  Long Island University

  Some New Music

  Long Island University

  Professor

  Some New Music

  Greater New York City Area

  Select Discography:\n\n•\tSopranoville: News Works for Prepared and Non-Prepared Saxophone\n(Some New Music)

  2017\n•\tThe Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation – The Art of the Soprano

  Vol. 2 (Some New Music)

  2014\n•\tThe Solo Concert: Sam Newsome Plays Monk and Ellington (Some New Music)

  2013\n•\tThe Art of the Soprano

  Vol.1 (Some New Music)

  2012\n•\tBlue Soliloquy: Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone (Some New Music)

  2009\n•\tMonk Abstractions (Some New Music)

  2007\n

  Professional Musician/ College Professor