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Dr. Dave Camwell, from Calgary, Canada is Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Simpson College, Indianola, IA. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and is endorsed by Protec, Beechler, SD-Systems microphones and Sax Scarf.

Camwell has received degrees from the University of Calgary and Jacksonville State University (B.Mus, dual degree in Jazz Studies and Education), the University of Northern Colorado (M.Mus, dual degree in Performance and Education), and the University of Oregon (D.M.A in Performance with a secondary emphasis in Jazz Studies).

Camwell has performed widely since 1997, including the jazz festivals of Montreux, Brienz, Calgary, Edmonton, and Victoria. He spent three summers as a musician for Norwegian Cruise Lines, touring Hawaii, Alaska and the Caribbean. He has performed with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra and New York Central City Chorus, and with the colleges and universities of Cincinnati (CCM), North Dakota State, Concordia (MN), Jamestown (ND), Graceland (IA), Northern Iowa and Manitoba. He performs regularly at the regional and national conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and presented the World Premiere of Nate Brown’s Whooshing Noise at the 14th World Saxophone Congress in Slovenia (2006).

Camwell has over twenty publications available through Dorn Publications and the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press. His transcriptions have been performed across Canada, the United States, Great Britain and China. A recent notable performance of one of his transcriptions (Schumann’s Fantasiestücke) was given by James Bunte and Dr. David Riley in Carnegie Hall. He also writes a regular column for Saxophone Journal and recorded John Anthony Lennon’s Aeterna as a CD Master Class for the March/April 2007 issue.