CGE 2023-24 Mentor
Adrianne Honnold
Dr. Adrianne Honnold has performed as a saxophonist throughout the United States and Europe including at Royal Albert Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Salle Pleyel in Paris. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Lewis University in the southwest suburbs of Chicago where she teaches courses in popular music studies and applied saxophone. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was a student of Debra Richtmeyer and Chip McNeill, and she completed the PhD in Ethnomusicology/Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her research engages with methods from critical organology and the sociology of music to explore the nature of the relationship between music and identity. She is a co-editor of the book Contemporary Perspectives on the Legacy of Elise Hall (1853-1924), forthcoming from Leuven University Press in 2024, recently published an essay as part of the “Revisiting Kenny G (Colloquy)” in the Journal for Jazz Studies, and serves as the Coordinating Editor of Reviews for the Saxophone Symposium. Honnold has performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the USAF Band of Mid-America, USAF Heritage of America Band, Sessions Big Band, the St. Louis Jazz Orchestra, the Pete Ellman Big Band, and the NATO Jazz Orchestra. She was a founding member and co-Artistic Director of Chamber Project St. Louis and the alto saxophonist with the Missouri Saxophone Quartet from 2007-2015. Dr. Honnold is an Artist-Endorser for the Conn-Selmer Corporation and is proud to perform on Selmer Paris and Yanagisawa saxophones exclusively.
www.adriannesaxophone.com.
www.adriannesaxophone.com.