About

Joel Ferst is a multi-disciplinary experimental performance artist, improviser, composer, and educator, pushing the boundaries of both the saxophone and music technology. A native of Florida, he is currently a doctoral student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ferst feels comfortable performing in any musical genre and has performed as an improviser and soloist at Brazil’s Plurisons Music Festival and recently completed 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, he has premiered over fifty new works for Saxophone.

Joel Ferst uses he/him pronouns.