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PRESTON
DUNCAN
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Preston Duncan is a performer and educator located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He has been a featured soloist throughout the United States, Europe, Taiwan and Costa Rica. Here currently teaches saxophone at the University of Minnesota Morris. Duncan performs regularly with the Minnesota Orchestra and is an active member of the Twin Cities musical community. As a sought after performer, Duncan has premiered works for saxophone by composers including Bernard Rands, Ernesto Pellegrini, Stephen Greico, and Heath Mathews. He is a Yamaha Young Performing Artist and sponsored by Eugene Rousseau Mouthpieces.
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BIOGRAPHY
Preston Duncan is a performer and teacher in the Twin Cities. He received his Bachelor of Saxophone Performance in 1996 from Indiana University where he was a student of Distinguished Artist Professor Dr. Eugene Rousseau. He continued his studies at Bowling Green State University with Dr. John Sampen where he received his Masters of Music in Saxophone Performance in 1999. In 2002 he completed his Artist Diploma at The Boston Conservatory with Kenneth Radnofsky. Duncan was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1996 for study in France with Jean-Yves Fourmeau. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota with Dr. Eugene Rousseau.
Duncan regularly performs as orchestral member with The Minnesota Orchestra. Duncan has appeared as soloist on two Indianapolis Pops concerts with composer Marvin Hamlisch and performed as instrumental soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony for the Ameritech Yuletide Celebration. A former Yamaha Young Performing Artist, he has appeared as soloist in Paris, Berlin, Austria, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Costa Rica, and Taiwan. He has appeared as Concerto Soloist with La Grande Orchestre des Alpes de la Mer of Nice, the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, the Bowling Green State University Philharmonic, and the 98th Army Band stationed in Fort Rucker, Alabama.
Duncan was the first prize winner in the 1998 Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Woodwind Competition and a prizewinner in both the 1998 North American Saxophone Alliance Saxophone Competition and the Heida Hermanns National Young Artists Competition. He has premiered works by Bernard Rands, Ernesto Pellegrini, and Stephen Greico. He was Artist in Residence at Ball Sate University in 1999 and has presented master classes at the National University of Taiwan and the National Conservatory of Costa Rica. Other teachers of Duncan include George Wolfe, Yushi Ishiwatta, and Iwan Roth.
events upcomingevents
August 15, 2011 Guest Recital at Shell Lake Arts Camp
October 24, 25 and 26 2011 performance of J. Adams "Fearful Symetries" with the Minnesota Orchestra _ Orchestra Hall / Vanska
November 4, 2011Concerto Soloist with the University of Minnesota Morris Symphonic Winds with masterclass
January 22, 2012 Guest Performance with Scotty Horey _ Ultan
Hall University of Minnesota 7:30pm
January 24, 25,and 26 2012 performance of M. Ravel's Bolero with the Minnesota Orchestra _ Orchestra Hall
February 6, 2012 Guest Performance with George Wolfe at the Searl Pickett Concert Series _ Windhover Arts Center in Fond du Lac, WI 7:30 pm
Feb. 15 Guest Recital _ St. Judes Hospital Chapel, Schubert Club Concert Series St. Paul, MN 2:00pm
March 2, 2012 Guest Recital Duncan/Horey Duo _ University of
Minnesota Morris School of Music ,7:30pm
March 4, 2012 Concerto Performance of "Concertango" by Serrano Luis Alercon, University of Minnesota Morris Symphonic
Winds, UMM School of Music, 2:00pm
March 18, 2012 Premiere performance of "Digressions" for Saxophone and Marimba by Heath Mathews _ the University of
Arizona, North American Saxophone Alliance National Conf.
March 21, 2012Recital _ Ultan Hall University of Minnesota 3:45pm
