Ralph Bowen

Horace Silver, Andy Bey, and Ralph Bowen

Selected Performances
Performances With
Awards
Commissions
Teaching
Education

Avery Fisher Hall (New York City)
Berlin Jazz Festival (Berlin, Germany)
Bern Jazz Festival (Bern, Switzerland)
Birdland (New York City)
Blue Note (New York City; Osaka and Tokyo, Japan)
Carnegie Hall (New York City)
Catalina's (Los Angeles, California)
Club Il Classico (Rome, Italy)
Cork Jazz Festival, (Cork. Ireland)
Fashion (Stockholm, Sweden)
Georges (Toronto, Canada)
Half Note (Athens, Greece)
Helsinki Jazz Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
Iridium (New York City)
Jazz Standard (New York City)
Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.)
Kimbals (San Francisco, California)
Kool Jazz Festival (Richmond, VA)
Lucerne Jazz Festival (Lucerne, Switzerland)
Madrid Jazz Festival (Madrid, Spain)
Monmartre (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Montreal Jazz Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland)
Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival (Tokyo, Japan)
Munich Symphony Hall (Munich, Germany)
National Library (Ottawa, Canada)
Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI)
New Morning (Paris, France)
North Sea Jazz Festival (the Hague, Holland)
Rio de Janeiro Jazz Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Smalls (New York City)
Steinway Hall (New York City)
Sweet Basil's (New York City)
Sweet Rhythms (New York City)
Symphony Space (New York City)
Teatro Metropolitan (Catania, Italy)
Village Vanguard (New York City)
Visiones (New York City)

Art Blakey Big Band
David Baker
Kenny Barron
Gary Bartz
Jim Beard
Peter Bernstein
Andy Bey
Walter Bishop Jr.
Brian Blade
Michael Brecker
Calgary Olympic Big Band
Carnegie Hall Jazz Band
Michel Camilo
Michel Camilo Big Band
Benny Carter
Ron Carter
Mino Cenilu
Dennis Chambers
Bill O'Connell
Avishai Cohen
Stanley Cowell
Kenny Drew Jr.
Jon Faddis

Charles Fambrough
Joe Ford
Kenny Garrett
Al Gray
Johnny Griffin
Stephon Harris
Antonio Hart
Jon Herington
Teramasu Hino
Freddie Hubbard
Bob Hurst
Anthony Jackson
Hank Jones
Stanley Jordan
Branford Marsalis
Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass
Bob Mintzer Big Band
Charnett Moffat
Ted Moses Big Band
Lewis Nash
Sam Newsome
Ralph Peterson
Tom Pierson Big Band

Trudy Pitts
Lou Rawls
Paquito D'Rivera
Claudio Roditi
Rene Rosnes
Maria Schnieder Big Band
Shirley Scott
Horace Silver
Marvin "Smitty" Smith
James Spaulding
Bill Stewart
Rick Tait Big Band
Don Thompson
Stanley Turrentine
Chu Cho Valdez
Vangard Jazz Band
Jeff Watts
Tim Warfield
Lenny White
Tony Williams

Inaugural "Brick," Philadelphia Clef Club for the Performing Arts, 1995.
For opening-day performance with George Benson & Trudy Pitts.

Juno Award-Canada, 1994.
Best Mainstream Album: Free Trade - Free Trade.

Outstanding Service to Jazz Education, National Association of Jazz Educators, 1988.

Silver Disk Award, Japan, 1986.
Best Jazz Album: OTB - Out of the Blue

"Little Miss B" Commissioned by "The Commission Project," Rochester NY and Anthony Branker-Sons of Sound Music for the Princeton University Jazz Ensemble; premiered May, 2006.

NJ-IAJE Junior Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 4, 2001.
NJ-IAJE High School Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 4, 2001.
NJ-IAJE Junior Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 2, 1999.
NJ-IAJE High School Jazz Saxophone Etude No. 2, 1999.

Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1990-.; Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Ensembles; Professor of Jazz Theory and Jazz Saxophone.

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2000-.
Instructor of saxophone.

Mount Royal College Conservatory Summer Jazz Workshop, Calgary, Alberta,
2005 and 2006. Guest Clinician.

Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989-91.
Major: Classical Performance
Flute Studies under Dr. James S. Scott and Robert Dick
Masters in Music, 1991.

Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1985-89.
Major: Jazz and Classical Performance
Bachelors of Music, 1989.
Saxophone and Flute, Summa cum Laude

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1984-1986.
Concentrations:
Jazz Composition, Improvisation, Theory, and History (under tutelage of David N. Baker);
Classical Saxophone (with Eugene Rousseau and Daniel Duffaette).