The studio is located at 60 Stephensburg Rd., Port Murray, NJ.  For more information regarding rates and availability, please email scottiewwright@gmail.com. 

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I have been teaching saxophone since 1995 and I am currently an adjunct assistant professor at Ocean County College and teach woodwinds at Far Hills Country Day School. Recently I was the saxophone teaching specialist at Inver Hills Community College, a woodwind instructor at the MacPhail Center for Music, and the assistant band director and woodwind instructor at the Saint Paul Academy in Minnesota. Previously, from 2008 to 2010, I taught saxophone and coached saxophone quartets at the University level as Dr. Rousseau’s graduate assistant while at the University of Minnesota.

 

As an educator, I have employed creative approaches that are relevant to my individual students—whether that be by meeting them at their level of technical proficiency, incorporating personal issues they are facing into a catalyst for their musicality, or teaching in new and different formats, such as distance learning, where I have over 10 years of experience. By working with diverse students at different skill levels, ages, and abilities, I have learned and developed new, creative methods of teaching saxophone technique; some of these new methods I have gathered together in a new book of exercises that presents a novel approach to teaching altissimo by focusing on mouthpiece exercises.

 

In terms of teaching outcomes, Dr. Wright’s students have won and/or reached the finals in regional and national competitions, including:

• the North American Saxophone Alliance’s Classical Solo Competition;

• the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition; and

• the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition.  

 

My students have been accepted into programs such as Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Eastman School of Music, Crane School of Music, University of Arizona, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and Montclair State University.