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Department of Music
Paul Bro
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Bro has performed throughout the United States and Canada as
well as in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan.
As a soloist, Bro has recently performed concertos with the U.S.
Navy Band, the Royal Air Force Band of Belgium, the Tambov Symphony Orchestra (Russia), and the Terre Haute
Symphony Orchestra. Bro recorded Libby Larsen's Holy Roller,
a work written for him, with the Indiana State University Wind Ensemble
on the compact disc Symphonies and Such. He released his
first solo CD, Nostalgie: A Retrospective of the Saxophone Music
of M. William Karlins, in the summer of 2000. As part of the
Bro/Street Duo, he has appeared on Minnesota Public Radio and the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Bro has performed with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago
Sinfonietta, the Grant Park Orchestra of Chicago, the St. Louis
Symphony, and the Lydian String Quartet. He is the alto saxophonist
of the Chicago Saxophone Quartet and appears on the group's three
compact discs, The Chicago Saxophone Quartet, Capriccio,
and July.
He has given clinics at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra
Clinic, the Indiana Music Educators Association Convention, and
numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States
and Canada. He has also served as an artist-in-residence at the
Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.
Bro is a co-founder along with William Street and Jean-Marie Londeix
of the saxophone research web site called SaxAmE.org (The Saxophone
in American and Europe) and is currently working with SaxAmE on
a second edition of Harry Gee's book, Saxophone Soloists and
Their Music: 1844-1985.
Dr. Bro is professor of music (saxophone) at Indiana State University
in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received his Doctor of Music and Master
of Music degrees from Northwestern University, where he studied
with Dr. Frederick Hemke. Dr. Bro has served as Membership Director,
First Vice President, President Elect, President, and Past-President
of the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA).
D.M. & M.M. Northwestern University; B.M.
Iowa State University.
Office: CA 213
Phone: (812) 237-2730
 E-Mail: p-bro@indstate.edu
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