About Dr. Bryan:
Carolyn J. Bryan is Associate Professor of Saxophone and serves as a member of the graduate faculty. Bryan received her Doctoral and Master's degrees in saxophone literature and performance from Indiana University and the Bachelor of Music Education degree summa cum laude from Baldwin-Wallace College . Her teachers include Eugene Rousseau, Daniel Deffayet, and Galan Kral.
Dr. Bryan has performed and lectured at the 12th World Saxophone Congress, the American University Saxophone Symposium, the 2006 conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) and meetings of the Florida and Minnesota Music Educators Associations. Her ensemble The Arden Duo , with soprano Sandra McClain, has performed at NASA meetings in 1998, 2002, and 2004, at the 13th World Saxophone Congress, and at the Festival of Women Composers International in 2001 and 2004. Actively commissioning and arranging new literature for voice and saxophone, The Arden Duo also appears on college and university recital series throughout the southeast United States .
Dr. Bryan's research focuses on developmental literature for the saxophone and music by American women composers. She was a contributor to Women and Music in America Since 1900 and to Yamaha's Educator Series . Bryan has been involved in various orchestral, chamber, and solo premiers and recorded with the Winds of Indiana on Eugene Rousseau's CD Saxophone Vocalise and the Savannah Jazz Orchestra's 2000 release Satin Doll.
An active participant in departmental and university study abroad programs, Dr. Bryan has developed a course titled The Holocaust in Art and Music . The Holocaust Educational Foundation selected her as a Fellow of the 11 th Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. Dr. Bryan has also been recognized with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence and membership in Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lambda.
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