Resumé
Award-winning woodwind multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger with considerable performance, composition, arranging, transcription, copy, and editing experience. Extensive background in varied styles of music, particularly jazz, classical, musical theatre, Argentine, Brazilian, Peruvian, Columbian, rock, pop, and others. Organized, prompt, and professional at all times. References available upon request.
Notable Recordings
Television:
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Season 3) (2017) — Jeff Richmond (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Alto/Tenor/Baritone Saxophone)
Film:
"Inland Freaks" (2017) — (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet)
“Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom” (2017) — (Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Oboe)
“Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom” (2016) — (Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Oboe)
Video Games:
Make Sail (2018) — (Flute, Clarinet, Oboe)
available on Steam
Sally's Salon (2018) — (Flute, Bansuri)
available on mobile devices
Yoku's Island Express (2018) — (Harmonica)
available on Nintendo Switch and Steam
codeSpark Academy (2017) Snoopy Snow Brawl— (Flute, Tenor Sax)
available on mobile devices
Albums:
“Jay Armstrong Johnson LIVE at Feinstein's / 54 Below”(2016) — (Alto/Tenor Sax, Flute, Clarinet)
Be More Chill (2015) Original Cast Recording — (Flute, Alto Recorder, Tenor/Bari Sax, Keys 2, Vocoder)
Great Pretenders Club (2015) — The Pop Ups (Tenor/Bari Sax, Dizi, Xun)
Other:
"Flag Song" (2016) — Stephen Sondheim arr. Charlie Rosen (Clarinet) (original recording of song originally cut from Sondheim's "Assassins)
“World’s Greatest Dad”(2015) from Elf (Reed 1; 12/15/15 Wendy Williams Show airing)
Awards/Distinctions
Writing Competitions
ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award Recipient (2015)
Luminarts Jazz Composition Winner 1st place, College Division (2013)
Luminarts Jazz Arranging Winner 2nd place, College Division (2013)
Civic and Arts Foundation Jazz Composition Winner 2nd place, College Division (2012)
Performance
Performance with Esperanza Spalding (2014)
Performance with Susana Baca (2014)
Outstanding Soloist Award Jazz in the Meadows, Class 3a (2010)
From the Top NPR radio performance (2008)
Fishcoff National Chamber Music Competition quarterfinalist (2008)
Scholarship
Berklee Woodwind Department Achievement Award (2014)
Berklee Achievement Grant (2013)
Andre Lizotte Scholarship Award (2013)
Berklee Achievement Scholarship (2012)
Copy Work
Legendary Romance (2016-2017) — Geoff Morrow
Outlaws (2016)—Alexander Sage Oyen
Extended Instrumental Techniques
Saxophone: Altissimo, Slap Tongue, Multiphonics, Growling, Flutter Tongue, Playing Two Saxophones At Once
Flute: Beat Boxing, Double/Triple Tonguing, “Fretless Flute” Technique, Altissimo, Growling, Flutter Tongue
Clarinet: “Smearing", Altissimo, Growling, Flutter Tongue, Circular Breathing
Traditional Woodwinds: Chromatic Half-Hole Technique, Flutter Tounge
Sight transposition from concert pitch on all instruments.
Musical Theatre
Broadway:
*The Lion King—Woodwind 1 (Flute, Piccolo, Bansuri, Pan Flute, Toyo) 2017-Present
Off-Broadway:
Goldstein (Flute, Clarinet) 2018
*Marry Harry—Reeds (Flute, Clarinet) 2017
*A Dog Story—Reeds (Tenor Sax, Flute, Clarinet) 2016
A Spring Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, “Sweet Smell of Success” —Reed 1 (Soprano/Alto Sax, Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet) 2015
Tour:
Elf the Musical (Equity)—Reed 1 (Alto Sax, Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet) 2017
Elf the Musical (non-Equity)—Reed 1 (Soprano/Alto Sax, Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet) 2015
List of all shows in alphabetical order: A Broadway Musical; A Dog Story; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; A Little Night Music; A Little Princess; Aida; Anne of Green Gables; Assassins; Be More Chill; Broadway Bounty Hunter; Bye, Bye, Birdie; Cinderella; Chicago; Company; Dream Girls; Elf The Musical; Goldstein; Hair; Hairspray; I Love You Because; In The Heights; Inner City; Legally Blonde; Little Shop of Horrors; Love in Hate Nation; Marry Harry; Parade; Pippin; Ragtime; Standup Shakespeare; Seussical; Sweet Smell of Success; The Color Purple; The Drowsy Chaperone; The Lion King; The Music Man; The Rocky Horror Show; The Wizard of Oz; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Urinetown; Young Frankenstein; and others.
*denotes substitute chair
Education
Berklee College of Music
Dual Major: Performance and Jazz Studies
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Northwestern University
Major: Jazz Studies
Software
Sibelius 7.5
Finale 2014.5
Logic Pro X
Final Cut Pro
Audacity
Microsoft Office Suite
iWork
Foreign Languages
French (moderate proficiency)
Spanish (moderate proficiency)
Portuguese (beginning proficiency)
German (moderate proficiency)
Japanese (intermediate proficiency)
Chinese (beginning proficiency)
Organizations
American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 802
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Cruise Ships
Holland America Volendam (2014-15) Tenor Sax/Alto Sax/Flute/Clarinet
Azamara Journey (2014) Tenor Sax/Flute/Clarinet/Arranger
Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas (2013) Tenor Sax/Flute/Clarinet/Arranger
Ongoing: Recommended Arranger for Royal Caribbean Cruises