Recent Guest Artists

John Scofield addresses students and faculty in 2012 during a clinic on campus.

In addition to others, these guests artists performed, lectured, guided students, and otherwise enriched our musical life during the last school year:

Bill Charlap, whose jazz trio was recently cited by the New Yorker magazine as the finest mainstream jazz trio in existence

Timothy O'Leary, General Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Vicky Smolick and Nancy Schick, officers of the American Federation of Musicians local in Saint Louis

Reggie Thomas, jazz pianist and educator, Edwardsville, Illinois

Mark O'Conner, prominent American classical and multi genre violinist and composer

Beth Enloe Fritz, choral educator, Fort Zumwalt West High School

Chris Cheek, saxophonist and Webster alumnus, New York

Neal Richardson, composer and music editor and arranger, Saint Louis

Erie Mills, famed singer and vocal pedagogue and English diction coach with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, California

Aurelia Hartenberger, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Saint Louis

Peter Martin, jazz pianist with Diane Reeves

Al Holcomb, Chair of Music Education, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey

Christine Brewer, world-renowned American soprano, Lebanon, Illinois

Dick Oatts, internationally acclaimed saxophonist, Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, New York

David Robertson, Conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

Ramon Ricker, Professor at Eastman and leading consultant on music entrepreneurship

A September 2011 panel discussion with Bret Dorhout of the
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Paul Kilmer with Opera Theatre
of Saint Louis; and Christine Brewer.