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Quick Facts
Hometown: Miami and Satellite Beach, Florida
Current Location: Columbus, Ohio Performance Rights Organization: BMI Institutional Affiliation:
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Education
Ohio State University (DMA-saxophone, MM-composition)
Northwestern University (MM-saxophone) Stetson University (BME-education) |
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Biographical Profile
Saxophonist, composer, improviser, educator, and curator, Michael Rene Torres serves as Assistant Teaching Professor of Saxophone at The Ohio State University. He is the Artistic Director of the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE); a 501(c)3 nonprofit contemporary music ensemble that is dedicated to the promotion, performance, and perception of contemporary concert music in Central Ohio. Additionally, Michael serves as the Program Director and an Advisory Board member of the Johnstone Fund for New Music which advances the performance of new music for the benefit of the Central Ohio community. As a composer, Michael is a winner of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and the Greater Columbus Arts Council Composition Fellowship and has previously taught composition at Ohio State University and Muskingum University. An advocate of contemporary music for the saxophone, Michael has extensively commissioned and premiered works by living composers and has presented recitals, clinics, and masterclasses at festivals, conferences, concert series, art venues, and universities in Canada, Cuba, Spain, and throughout the USA and Brazil. Michael is an active chamber musician as a member of the Iovi Saxophone Quartet and the contemporary flute and saxophone duet, Tower Duo.
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