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We are excited to announce that the conductor for The NBBA Spring Band Blast will be James Kalyn, Associate Professor of Music at Mount Allison University!
Lauded by colleagues and students as a “world-class doubler," James Kalyn has built a career over the past twenty-five years as a soloist and orchestral musician of the highest calibre on both saxophone and clarinet. Grand Prize winner of the prestigious Canadian Music Competition’s International Stepping Stone division, and winner of the Fischoff national Chamber Music Competition in the USA, James Kalyn maintains an international career as a performer, conductor, and pedagogue. At Mount Allison, Kalyn teaches saxophone, clarinet, and conducting. He conducts the Symphonic Band and Chamber Orchestra and also supervises the Pep Band.
As a concert saxophonist, James Kalyn has performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Argentina, China, and Japan. He plays saxophone in the Cleveland Orchestra and has made a number of solo and chamber music recordings. As a clarinetist, Kalyn won his first professional orchestra position while still an undergraduate student, and has played in orchestras continuously since that time.
A conductor of both orchestras and wind ensembles, James Kalyn returned to his native Canada in 2011 to take up a post as Professor of Single Reeds and Conducting at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. Previous teaching appointments include the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Western Ontario, and Wilfrid Laurier University. Kalyn himself holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Michigan State University, and the Eastman School of Music.
Since 2005, James Kalyn has worked extensively in China, largely in connection with the Oberlin Conservatory, and studies Mandarin. You can learn more about James Kalyn by exploring his faculty page at Mount A. University.
Lauded by colleagues and students as a “world-class doubler," James Kalyn has built a career over the past twenty-five years as a soloist and orchestral musician of the highest calibre on both saxophone and clarinet. Grand Prize winner of the prestigious Canadian Music Competition’s International Stepping Stone division, and winner of the Fischoff national Chamber Music Competition in the USA, James Kalyn maintains an international career as a performer, conductor, and pedagogue. At Mount Allison, Kalyn teaches saxophone, clarinet, and conducting. He conducts the Symphonic Band and Chamber Orchestra and also supervises the Pep Band.
As a concert saxophonist, James Kalyn has performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Argentina, China, and Japan. He plays saxophone in the Cleveland Orchestra and has made a number of solo and chamber music recordings. As a clarinetist, Kalyn won his first professional orchestra position while still an undergraduate student, and has played in orchestras continuously since that time.
A conductor of both orchestras and wind ensembles, James Kalyn returned to his native Canada in 2011 to take up a post as Professor of Single Reeds and Conducting at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. Previous teaching appointments include the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Western Ontario, and Wilfrid Laurier University. Kalyn himself holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Michigan State University, and the Eastman School of Music.
Since 2005, James Kalyn has worked extensively in China, largely in connection with the Oberlin Conservatory, and studies Mandarin. You can learn more about James Kalyn by exploring his faculty page at Mount A. University.
