Josiah Boornazian Quartet
Dr. Josiah Boornazian is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, educator, electronic musician, and scholar of music most recently active in Utah, Europe, Texas, South Florida, New Orleans, Idaho, New York City, Washington state, and California. He is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dr. Boornazian has also taught applied saxophone and jazz studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, music technology at Broward College, jazz and general music appreciation at the City College of New York, and applied saxophone, jazz performance, and musicology at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, a Master of Arts degree from the City College of New York, and a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University, Northridge.
Dr. Boornazian’s recordings feature his original modern jazz compositions on albums released by Jazz Hang Records, Elegant Noise Records, and Fresh Sound New Talent Records, as well roughly thirty self-published jazz and electronic albums available on Bandcamp.com and all major online music streaming platforms. In his career as a jazz and electronic artist, Dr. Boornazian has performed with a stylistically diverse collection of renowned musicians including Mark Farina, Dave Liebman, Dave Holland, Nick Smart, Diane Schuur, Dave Grusin, Arturo Sandoval, John Faddis, Jimmy Heath, Ignacio Berroa, John Beasley, the New York Voices, Dafnis Prieto, Steve Miller, Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin, Brianna Thomas, Will Downing, Tom Scott, Cyrille Aimee, Chris Potter, Sal Lozano, Marcus Strickland, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Drew Gress, David Binney, Wayne Krantz, Ari Hoenig, Donny McCaslin, Will Vinson, Ben Wendel, Fima Ephron, Jonathan Crayford, Obed Calvaire, Ferenc Nemeth, Alan Ferber, Matt Brewer, John Daversa, Kenny Wollesen, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Dan Weiss, John Escreet, Jacob Sacks, Lew Soloff, Massimo Biolcati, the South Florida Jazz Orchestra, and Shelly Berg, among others.