Jon plays all saxophones except baritone and oboe. He plans to attend Tallahassee Community College for his fall semester and then transfer to Florida State University in January 2024. His current major is in international affairs, but he plans on changing it to business and finance. He will be practicing as hard as he can to audition and get into the jazz performance and commercial music program at FSU.

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In his musical career, he has played in numerous ensembles. It started when he first began taking private lessons from Andrew Cleaver in the seventh grade at DeLaura Middle School. Thanks to those lessons, he was able to get second tenor in the all county jazz band his junior year and then first tenor this year. He also made the all county concert band during his 8th grade and junior year on tenor sax, and then he also got second chair alto sax this year. He was recommended by his band directors and was selected to travel to Tallahassee to take part in the Florida State University Tri-State Band Festival, where he also got first chair tenor sax and even had a classical tenor solo and earned a superior on a grade 5 soprano sax solo his freshmen year, and got an excellent at states.

 

The next year he was also a part of a saxophone quartet where they earned a superior in both district and at states on a grade 6 as well. Outside of an academic setting, I has also been able to play with some amazing players. He occasionally sit in with The Space Coast Big Band, participated in the Brevard Symphony Youth Orchestra during his freshmen year, and as of last year, has been a part of the Brevard Youth Big Band, where he plays with last year’s two Space Coast Jazz Society scholarship winners, Tyler Dransfield and Alex Kaufman, and where he currently plays lead tenor.