Repertoire Ellington: Feet Bone Cozma: October Moon Williams/Williams/Ellington: Royal Garden BluesLa Barbera: K's Delight La Barbera: St. Marks Square (A Special Day) Ellington/Tizol/Fedchock: CaravanAbout the ArtistsTom Walsh is Robert J. Waller Sr. and Robert J. Waller Jr. Professor of Music (saxophone) and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Indiana University 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. In 2019, his beginning improvisation book Jazz Master Teaches You to Improvise was published by Shanghai Music Publishing House. Recent recordings include The Pandemic Sessions by the IU jazz faculty, Luke Gillespie's Moving Mists, Basically Baker, Vol. 2, with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois), Mike Hackett's New Point of View (Summit) 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 latest solo CD release is Intersections (Arizona University Recordings), featuring Luke Gillespie on piano. Earlier solo CDs include New Life (RIAX) and Shaking the Pumpkin (RIAX). Other releases include the David Baker Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on Paul Freeman Introduces David Baker, Vol. XII (Albany), Basically Baker with the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra (Patois), and Sky Scrapings: Saxophone Music of Don Freund (AUR). Walsh has appeared at conferences of the International Association for Jazz Education, Jazz Education Network, North American Saxophone Alliance, and World Saxophone Congress. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a Vandoren Artist. He has taught at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops since 1991. He co-leads the IU Summer Saxophone Academy with Otis Murphy and is co-director of the College Audition Preparation Workshop. Walsh earned 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. His other influential teachers include Mike Tracy, Pat LaBarbera, Jerry Coker, and David Liebman.Robert Cozma is a Romanian jazz composer, arranger, trombonist and pianist. He began his musical journey at the "Octav Băncilă" National College of in Iași, Romania. His passion for jazz led him to the "George Enescu" National University of Arts Iași Art (GENUA) where he majored in Jazz Composition. Cozma received an Erasmus scholarship and studied jazz trombone at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg, Germany, under Jürgen Neudert. He graduated in 2019, refining his skills in trombone performance, jazz theory, and composition. From 2019 to 2021, he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Steffen Schorn. He also took jazz piano lessons with Rainer Böhm and Andreas Feith, two leading figures in contemporary German jazz. In 2019, the Sunday Night Orchestra in Nuremberg invited him to arrange Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Almen se non possio" for big band. For the Sunday Night Orchestra he composed "A Special View," inspired by Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, to mark the composer's 250th anniversary. In September 2021, he way invited by Sunday Night Orchestra to conduct a full concert of his compositions. In January 2022, he joined the NDR Big Band in Hamburg for the Podium for Composers and Conductors. His composition "Midnight Visions" was conducted by David Hveem. His impact in jazz grew in 2022 when he became a member of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania. completed his doctorate in music at GENUA, culminating in his Ph.D. thesis, "Jazz Styles and Writing Techniques for Big Band in My Own Works." Cozma is currently a teaching assistant at GENUA. He teaches jazz improvisation and composition.