Judith Saxton
Adjunct Faculty
Trumpet
- 336.758.5026
- M309 Scales Fine Arts Center
Judith A. Saxton enjoys a multi-faceted thirty-five year career as an international concert and recording artist, chamber, orchestral, liturgical musician and improviser, and educator. A Certified Alexander Technique Teacher (ATI) and Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME), her complete program ‘Boosting the Brain-Body Bond for Brass’ (2022) shares her experiences in a practical pedagogy guide coupled with 10 teaching videos.
As a recitalist, Ms. Saxton has performed in the UK, China, Finland and Brasil. She concertizes and records with organist Timothy Olsen, Landfall (2020), The American and French Muses (2017); and with pianist Allison Gagnon, Concert and Contest Pieces for Trumpet, the
International Trumpet Guild CD distributed globally to 5,000 members. As principal and soloist, she leads the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. She served 25 seasons on Eastern Music Festival (EMF) faculty with whom she recorded under Gerard Schwarz’s leadership.
She can be heard regularly with orchestral, opera, and chamber organizations across the eastern seaboard of the US. A Vincent Bach Artist/Clinician, she has offered her musicianship and body/mind expertise for over 200 master classes at conservatories,
festivals, conferences and Eldercare facilities world-wide including ITG, Road Scholar, Trumpet Festival of the South East, and International Women’s Brass Conferences (IWBC).
For several seasons, Judith was principal and soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Illinois, South Bend, Illinois Chamber, Wichita, and Key West/South Florida Symphonies. She was guest principal for the St. Louis and Roanoke Symphonies and extra with Chicago, North Carolina, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Grant Park, Sydney (Australia) and Harrisburg Symphonies. In demand as a versatile musician during her decades-long freelance career, Judith performs a variety of shows, commercials, recording sessions, big bands and combos. Chamber credits include Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, Southeast Chamber Brass, Wichita Brass Quintet, UNCSA brass quintet (founder) and Jazz Septet, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Sierra Brass (Japan tours), Musica Harmonica, Tromba Mundi, Millar and Monarch Brass ensembles. She was North Carolina Brass Band’s founding principal solo cornet, and soloist for concerts and recordings.
A full-time member of two dozen ensembles, she has recorded for
over 20 labels. She has written and recorded for Vincent Cichowicz
Long Tone Studies and Flow Studies Volumes 1 and 2, and has contributed articles to both ITG Journal and the Brass Herald and two books: Arnold Jacobs Legacy – Sound advice for developing brass
players (2015), and Arnold Jacobs: His artistic and pedagogical legacies in the 21st century (2022).
Past teaching positions include ten years at University of North Carolina School of the Arts as Artist/Faculty and Brass/Percussion
Chair, tenured Associate Professor at Wichita State University, and positions with Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Illinois Wesleyan and Northeastern Illinois Universities.
Her students can be found performing and teaching around the world.
