Peter Epstein


Peter Coleman Epstein is an American jazz saxophonist.

Biography

Epstein learned clarinet as a youth from his father, Ed Epstein, who played saxophone, but picked up his father's instrument in his teens, playing in high school ensembles. While attending the California Institute of the Arts, Epstein studied improvisation and composition with bassist Charlie Haden, flautist James Newton, and clarinetist John Carter, concurrently exploring West African music and dance, North and South Indian classical music and Balkan folk music.
He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a degree in music in 1992, then moved to Brooklyn, New York and has since appeared on more than 50 recordings and toured in 20-plus countries with artists including Ralph Alessi, Michael Cain, Scott Colley, James Carney, Jerry Granelli, Carola Grey, Paolo Jaoa, Pete McCann, Bobby Previte, Brad Shepik. and Marcelo Zarvos.
Epstein is a founding member of the School for Improvisational Music in New York City and has taught numerous workshops at universities, conservatories, and music festivals around the United States and the world.
He received his Master of Music Degree in Saxophone Performance from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004. Since 2007 Epstein has been the Director of Jazz & Improvisational Music and Associate Professor of Jazz Saxophone at UNR.

Discography

With Carola Grey
With Miroslav Tadic
With Marcelo Zarvos
With James Carney
With Brad Shepik
With Michael Cain and Ralph Alessi
With Pete McCann
With Jerry Granelli
With Joao Paolo
With Tronzo/Granelli/Epstein
With Chris Dhalgren
With Chris Woodson's Elipsis
With Chris Parker
With The Collective - University of Nevada Jazz Studies Faculty Ensemble
With The Gadfly
With EEA - Peter Epstein, Larry Engstrom, David Ake
With Epstein Alliance
With Chris Clark Quintet
With David Ake