Josiah Boornazian Quartet

Josiah Boornazian is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Utah. Dr. Boornazian is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, educator, electronic musician, and scholar of music most recently active in Salt Lake City, South Texas, Miami, New York City, Washington state, Europe, and California. As a performing and recording artist, Dr. Boornazian has been cultivating an innovative, technology-based jazz performance practice for several years, which began with his adoption of digital effects pedals for live concerts. He has continued to develop his musical approach to include the use of software-based synthesizers and improvised digital accompaniment using Ableton, the popular digital audio workstation.