Bill Street, saxophone
Bill
Street is currently an instructor of saxophone and jazz studies and
coach
of jazz ensembles at the University of Southern Maine. His
undergraduate
training was done in composition and woodwind performance at Michigan
State
University.
Mr. Street has played professionally and is known throughout New England for his original compositions as well as the Bill Street Jazz Quartet. He spent a number of years in the Boston area where he recorded commercially with Alan Dawson, Gary Burton, Charlie Mariano, Dick Johnson and Herb Pomeroy, and many others. Mr. Street also made public appearances with Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Hal Crook, was featured in concert with McCoy Tyner, and has backed up a number of other well-known musicians. He has appeared with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Other public performances include the Maine Blueberry Festival, the Maine Festival, and the Deering Oaks Family Festival, as well as numerous private performances.
Mr. Street served as Director of the Maine All-Star Jazz Band (state competition) in 1980 and 1986, and as saxophonist in the Maine State Professional All-Star Jazz Ensemble in 1985. He is on the touring roster of the Maine Arts Commission, and is a member of the original board of Jazz Alliance of Maine, Maine's first jazz association.
Bill
Street enjoys the research and study of acoustics that relate to
instrument mouthpiece making, and has consequently created original
mouthpiece
designs for saxophones and clarinets which are used by jazz musicians
and
musicians in major symphony orchestras across the United States.
Contact:
Bill Street
University of Southern Maine School
of Music
37 College Avenue
Gorham, ME 04038
207-780-5265
billstreetsax@netzero.net