About

Joel Ferst is a multidisciplinary experimental performance artist, improviser, composer, and educator whose work pushes the boundaries of the saxophone and music technology. A native of Florida, he holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado Boulder. Ferst has served on the faculty at the University of Wyoming as Visiting Instructor of Saxophone, as sabbatical replacement, as well as a Doctoral Teaching Assistant at The University of Colorado Boulder. He is equally at home performing across musical genres and has appeared as an improviser and soloist at Brazil’s Plurisons Music Festival, among other venues. His work has also been supported through artistic residencies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the Federal University of Paraíba in João Pessoa, Brazil, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. A dedicated advocate for new music, Ferst has premiered more than fifty new works for saxophone.

Joel Ferst uses he/him pronouns.