Clarinet & Saxophone Lessons
with Bruce Coates
Bruce Coates
Instruments: Clarinet & Saxophone
Days Available: Contact Coffey Music
Contact Form
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Get to know Bruce Coates:
- Professional Profile
- Saxophone, Clarinet, and Flute Performance and Instruction
- Saxophone Chamber Music Ensembles
- Jazz Improvisation
- Adjunct Faculty Howard Community College for 25 years
- Musician’s Union Local 40-543
- B.S. Music Education
- Graduate Work Music Performance at Towson State University
- Accepted as an undergraduate at North Texas State University, Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and Towson State University, Maryland
- Studied at Towson University during the Hank Levy years
- Education
- B.S Music education | towson state university, Towson, md
Distinguished Music Graduate of Towson University.
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- music performance | towson state university, Towson, md
Graduate work in Music Performance.
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- music performance | towson state university, Towson, md
Graduate work in Music Performance.
- Teaching Experience
- adjunct faculty | howard community college | 1990-present
- adjunct faculty | towson university | 1990-1992
- band director | baltimore lutheran schools | 1990-1997
- maintained large private studion | 1985-present
- Performance Experience
- former member of us army band
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- 324th Army Material Command Band
- 298th Army Band of Berlin Germany
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- perfomed with:
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- Baltimore Symphony
- Gettysburg Symphony
- Maryland Symphony
- Towson Chamber Players
- Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
- Johnny Mathis
- Rhythm and Blues Group –The Moments
- Pop Group – Professor Louie and the Crowmatix. Members of this band are from The Band, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Joe Jackson
- Recorded with Hank Levy Alumni Band
- Founding member of the Chesapeake Saxophone Ensemble which has performed with Young Audiences of Maryland and Jazz Festivals
- Student Awards and Honors
- honors band
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- Many students selected to Junior and Senior All States Bands of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
- Many students selected to All County Bands in Howard, Carroll, and Montgomery Counties.
- Many first chairs on saxophone, clarinet, and flute.
- Students have received Maryland Arts Scholarships.
- Students have received college scholarships at Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, University of Maryland, Towson University, and Arizona State University.
- Most students receive superior ratings at solo and ensemble festivals, both district and state.