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Monica Shriver

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Monica Shriver can be seen performing in a wide variety of musical situations. A professional musician, clinician, composer & arranger, and teaching artist Monica has played in big bands, jazz combos, pit orchestras, rock bands, chamber ensembles, and orchestras. Monica regularly performs on all the saxophones, flute, piccolo, clarinet and bass clarinet. She is also working on her bassoon and electric bass chops.

Monica enjoys a diverse and creative career performing all kinds of music, including flute and saxophone in the unifying world ensemble the Pangean Orchestra, bari saxophone with the funky Hot Birds & the Chili Sauce, and bari sax with the Sonoran Serenade Big Band and the Superstition Jazz Orchestra. Monica most recent project is The Doublers Collective, a unique and progressive jazz saxophone quintet made up of fellow professional doublers.

Monica enjoys being a teaching artist in Phoenix and online. In addition to doing masterclasses and clinics, she maintains an active and successful private studio with students earning Regionals, All-State and National Honor Band honors. From 2005 – 2011 she taught saxophone, clarinet, bassoon and jazz band at Arizona School for the Arts. Monica is an active member of AFM Local 586 – American Federation of Musician – Arizona, the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA), the Jazz Education Network (JEN) and NAfME, formerly MENC.

Monica earned the prestigious SURDNA Arts Teachers Fellowship Grant in 2010 to study jazz improvisation and a Professional Growth Grant from the Arizona Commission for the Arts in 2011.

Monica is the founder and artistic director of the Doublers Collective, a group of five established jazz saxophone professionals that fill a need for woodwind doubling performance and instruction while collaborating with composers to create a repertoire for this unique instrumentation. A powerful and creative group, made up of the highest caliber mutil-instrumentalists, Doublers Collective hopes to make an impact in the repertoire, appreciation, and education of woodwind doubling.

Learn More: http://www.monicashriver.com