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future performances

April 4-6, 2025:
2025 North American Saxophone Alliance Regional Conferences, Cal State Fullerton

April 7, 2025
Performance and Masterclass
Utah Tech

past performances

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  • March 12, 2022: set of four original compositions on BYU-Idaho Jazz Festival main concert

  • March 11, 2022: FOUR + Six regional public-school visits, student coaching and performance

  • March 10, 2022: BYU-Idaho Jazz Festival recital with FOUR + Six 2018

  • July 2018 Tour: World Saxophone Congress performance, Jazz & Cabaret: Club Kontesa in Zagreb, Croatia; tour performances in Russia, Germany, and Luxembourg cancelled due to Watkins’ increased blindness; Watkins and quartet member Ray Smith lectured at the conference

  • April 2018: with Utah State Jazz Orchestra, Logan, UT

  • March 2018: master class and performance, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

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  • November 2017: master class and performance, Brigham Young University—Idaho, Rexburg, ID

  • November 2017: recording sessions at Studio 10, Orem, UT for There You Go Thinking Again double quartet album; other quartets added their parts in early 2018

  • May 2017: Caldwell Performing Arts Series, Caldwell, ID, with Chuck Smith Trio

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  • July 2015 Tour

  • Reykjavik, Iceland: Jómfrúin

  • London, England: Concert with Sam Petchey Trio at St Philip and James Church, Whitton, London, UK and street performances (busking), Red Cross fund raisers, sponsored by Marriott; sax.co.uk, short concert broadcast online; Music Art and Poetry Club with Sam Petchey Trio; work with Buckingham Palace Guard Band cancelled due to their being called to duty at the last moment

  • Strasbourg, France: XVII World Saxophone Congress, conference performances a cappella and with Saxitude, Strasbourg club performances

  • Luxembourg: Blues Express and other events with Saxitude

  • Wulfenbüttel, Germany: Landesmusikakademie Niedersachsen (Music Academy of Lower Saxony); concert (standing room only), workshop, lessons

  • Hanover, Germany: Landeshauptstadt Hannover Musikschule, Germany (Music school in the state capital of Hanover), concert, workshops; Hanover Saxophone Society, performance, question and answer session

  • April 2015: recording sessions at Studio 10, Orem, UT for Got Somethin’ to Say album

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  • July 2012 Tour

  • Reykjavik, Iceland: Jómfrúin

  • St. Andrews, Scotland: XVI World Saxophone Congress 

  • Hanover, Germany: Landeshauptstadt Hannover Musikschule, Germany residency, a cappella performance, concert with Clean, Fine, and Funky Big Band

  • Luxembourg: Jazz and Blues Rallye, Summer in the City, Café do Brasil, and other events

  • April 2012: recording sessions at Rosewood Studio, Provo, UT for FOURway Stop album

    2009

  • July 2009 Tour

  • Rangsit, Thailand: Rangsit University residency, concert with Rangsit faculty trio

  • Bangkok, Thailand: Royal Queen’s Park Hotel Jazz club, jam session host

  • Bangkok, Thailand: XVV World Saxophone Congress, Mahidol University, performance and lecture

  • Singapore: concert at The Arts House, Singapore Radio interview

  • Quezon City, Philippines: University of the Philippines residency, concert with jazz trio, jazz ensemble, and concert band, workshops, and private instruction

  • Original itinerary: Beijing Conservatory visit cancelled due to H1N1 virus; Taipei, Taiwan concert sponsored by P. Mauriat cancelled due to temporary restriction of foreign performers by government; Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory residency cancelled due to social upheaval

    2008

  • July 2008: recording sessions at BYU-Idaho for On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’ album

  • February 2008: Premier of With Friends Like These, Of Things Hoped For, and Felices para siempre for saxophone quartet and concert band; performed with the BYU-Idaho Symphony Band

    2006

  • July 2006 Tour 

  • Reykjavik, Iceland: Jómfrúin

  • Vienna, Austria: Jazzland

  • Ljubljana, Slovenia: XIV World Saxophone Congress

  • Venice, Italy: cancelled due to club closure

  • Rome, Italy: Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival

  • London, England: Jazz After Dark; invited to perform at Ronnie Scott’s but date too late for tour duration

    2005

  • October 2005: performance with Idaho Falls Symphony (On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’, Chim Chim Cheree, and a cappella compositions)

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