Alan Leech Saxophone & Bassoon Studio, Wood Wind Pedagogy Improvisation Music History 136 Howard Hall Tel: 994-5763 aleech@montana.edu

Professor of Music-bassoon, saxophones; chamber music ensembles, and classes in improvisation, woodwindpedagogy, music literature, world music, and contemporary music. Alan Leech holds the B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where he studied bassoon with Otto Eifert and conducting with Max Rudolf and Erich Kunzel. He has also had bassoon master classes with Sherman Walt, studied the saxophones with Clifford Myers and William Stein, and musical improvisation with Ralph Towner and Paul McCandless. Besides the performance of solo concerto works with a number of orchestras, his performance experience includes positions as principal bassoonist with 12 American orchestras, saxophonist with large and small jazz groups and show bands, and extensive chamber music playing with professional groups using bassoon, saxophones, WX-7, and recorders. He has composed chamber works, jazz pieces, and incidental music for plays and films. He came to MSU in 1972 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he had taught for four years. He currently performs with the Montana Consort, musiCollage, the Gallatin Woodwind Quintet, and is also principal bassoonist with the Bozeman Symphony.

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