Alex Han

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Alex Han (born in the year 1987 in New Jersey) a jazz saxophonist, enters Berklee College of Music as a 2006-2007 Presidential Scholar.

Alex Han

At the age of 12, he performed as a guest of Paquito D'Rivera at Lincoln Center and was featured in the New York Times. Since that time, he has gone on to perform with jazz artists who include Marcus Miller, Slide Hampton, Nicholas Payton, Joe Lovano, Kenny Barron, George Benson, Jon Faddis, Johnny Griffin and others. He has also performed at such jazz venues as The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, The North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, The Festival Internacional de Jazz de Lapataia in Uruguay, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other venues within the United States and Canada.

In 2005, he won the 17th Annual Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition for saxophone and was chosen to perform as a member of the Monterey Jazz Festival Next Generation Orchestra. A year later, he was selected to participate in the Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY Jazz Ensemble and was awarded an ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.

At the age of 18, Han became the youngest endorsed performing artist of Rico Reeds (a division of D'Addario). He has also secured product endorsements from Applied Microphone Technology (AMT), Beechler Mouthpieces and Neotech Straps.