Dr. Brian Kauth has taught all levels of music education from kindergarteners to college students. As the music teacher at Horizons-on-the-Hudson Magnet School in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District (Newburgh, NY), he teaches general music, elementary band, elementary orchestra, and chorus. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Kauth is an active performer, serving as principal saxophonist of the New York Wind Symphony, on-call saxophonist with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, and soprano saxophonist with the Hudson Valley Saxophone Orchestra, as well as being an in-demand recitalist and chamber musician.
As a scholar, Dr. Kauth’s articles have been published in The Saxophone Symposium, Saxophone Today, and The Saxophonist, with his doctoral dissertation and articles about the Saxophone Concertino of Roman Palester increasing the visibility and acceptance of this notable composer and his music to the saxophone community. Recently, Dr. Kauth published an article about Laurence Wyman’s saxophone compositions and pedagogical resources. He regularly works with American composer Stephen Dankner in digitally preserving his compositions and is currently in the process of writing an article about the latter’s Saxophone Concerto.
Dr. Kauth holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in saxophone performance from The University of Southern Mississippi, where he served as a University Doctoral Teaching Assistant studying with renowned soloist Dr. Lawrence Gwozdz. He earned the Master of Music in saxophone performance and the Bachelor of Music in music education (cum laude) from The State University of New York at Fredonia, where he studied with Dr. Wildy Zumwalt and Dr. Laurence Wyman. Following his graduate studies, he traveled to Bordeaux, France to study with legendary French saxophone pedagogue Jean-Marie Londeix, as well as receiving additional instruction from acclaimed soprano saxophonist, Carina Raschèr, daughter of saxophone pioneer Sigurd Raschèr.
Dr. Kauth plays vintage Buescher saxophones manufactured between the 1920s and 1950s, Buescher and Mana mouthpieces, and Vandoren reeds.
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