Master Classes & Visiting Artists

The Elon Music Department hosts various guest artists throughout the year, including composers, soloists, ensembles, producers, songwriters and engineers. Guest master classes and presentations have been conducted by:

Jimmy Webb
Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, orchestrator

Rob Lewis
Engineer, National Sales Director for Studer

Elliot Mazer
Record producer & engineer (Neal Young, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan)

Alex De Grassi
Guitarist

Douglas Neidt
Classical guitarist

Awadagin Pratt
Concert pianist

Gene Bertoncini
Jazz guitarist

Carmine Appice
Drummer (Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Stanley Clarke, Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd)

Bart Feller
Principal Flute of the New York City Opera, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

Arlene Shrut
Faculty member of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music

Lori Laitman
Composer of art songs

Adeline Tomasone
Flautist

Eugene Rousseau
Professor of saxophone, Indiana University

Arnold Jacobs
Principal tuba, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Renold Schilke
Manufacturer of Schilke trumpets and former member of Chicago Symphony

Bill Chase
Jazz trumpet recording artist and leader of "Chase"

Wolfgang Basch
International trumpet soloist

Leon Breedan
Director of Jazz Program, North Texas State University

Thomas Murray
International organ soloist and head of organ department Yale University