About Dr. Benji Tomassetti

Education: Doctor of Musical Arts, 1995 Master of Music 1987 Bachelor of Music 1984 Virginia Department of Education Teaching License in Music, 2019

Performance Experience: Many bands between 1980 to the present. Shenandoah Conservatory of Music Jazz Band I University of Oregon Jazz Band I Affinity Metropolitain Saxophone Quartet Tastes Like Chicken Art Grouveau Mixed Company The Original Superband (others whose names I no longer recall)

Teaching Experience: 30 years experience as a private lesson instructor. 20 years experience as a college professor. 25 years as a Dad.

Teaching Philosophy: I strive to engage my students in a meaningful way and to provide them with an outstanding music education. Each of my students leaves my studio having grown in two significant ways: Each can do something o the instrument that he/she could not do before, and each leaves understanding music in a deeper way than before. It's my approach to answer an age-old question....what do you know and what can you do? I also teach virtually all of my students jazz improvisation.