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First Lady of OSU Concert to feature Loeffert and friends

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Dr. Jefferey Loeffert

The First Lady of OSU Concert will highlight the talents of Dr. Jefferey Loeffert on the saxophone and offer several selections from other members of the music faculty on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 2:30 p.m. in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts.  The concert is free and open to the public.

Loeffert is the featured artist for the annual event after being selected as the recipient of the 2015 First Lady of OSU Distinguished Music Professor Award, presented by the Friends of Music, the Music Department and the First Lady of OSU, Ann Hargis. He will be joined by Pi-Ju Chiang on the piano and the concert will also include numbers from 10 faculty members as well as the saxophone ensemble.

“I am honored to receive this award and take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the incredible support that I have received from my colleagues at OSU as well as our peer institutions,” said Loeffert. “I owe so much of my professional growth to the excellence of my colleagues and I would like to celebrate this collective accomplishment by featuring many of them at this concert as well as students I’ve worked with closely over the past several years.”

Loeffert serves as associate professor of saxophone at OSU. During the summer months, he teaches at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop in Oklahoma, New Music on the Point in Vermont, and the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy.

Loeffert is a very active chamber musician and a founding member of the h2 quartet. He has won numerous chamber music prizes in national and international competitions and performed in venues across the world.

Loeffert graduated Summa Cum Laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Music double major in saxophone performance and jazz studies. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University, where he was awarded the Paul Harder Award for music theory and composition.

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