stephanie
LONG

Stephanie Long, alto saxophone, flute

Stephanie earned a degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Arizona, where she intensely studied saxophone, flute, piccolo, clarinet, and oboe. She played in numerous wind ensembles and jazz bands, as well as marching in the Pride of Arizona Marching Band and in the select pep band. In 1997, she was chosen in a national search for the Disney-Grammy All-American College Orchestra, and lived at Disney World for a summer as a musician. Stephanie also had a successful saxophone quartet called SaxMania, which won a 1998 Downbeat Magazine award.

In 1999, Stephanie began her graduate studies in saxophone at the Hartt School of Music and studied with jazz legend Jackie McLean. It was there in Connecticut that she began playing in the Rob Zappulla Big Band. Soon she started to use her multiple woodwind capabilities in pit orchestras for musicals at the Hartt School and around Connecticut. Stephanie became a New Yorker in 2003, and enjoys being a freelance jazz and woodwind player. She's played for dozens of regional theaters in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, as well as playing many summers at the Monomoy Theater on Cape Cod.

Stephanie has been teaching piano, saxophone, flute, clarinet, and oboe for over eighteen years, and loves every minute of it. The only thing that matches her love of teaching is performing, which she has done most often with her groundbreaking quintet, BIPOLAR in New York City.

More info at www.musicwithstephanie.com