Jazz Saxophonist, Bandleader, Composer, Recording Artist
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Educator at The Brubeck Institute
- Faculty at The Jazzschool
- Musician at AntonJazz
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Harvard
- Dalton
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Anton Schwartz’s Summary
I'm a jazz saxophonist. I compose & perform jazz music, record CDs and tour nationally, performing in clubs, concert halls, jazz festivals and the like. I also perform live jazz for fine corporate and private events in Northern California and beyond. My rather unusual background: I began playing music at a young age but got my BA in Math & Philosophy at Harvard and did five years of a Ph.D. at Stanford in Artificial Intelligence before I made the switch to be a full time musician.
Anton Schwartz’s Experience
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Educator
The Brubeck Institute
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Teach jazz theory and improvization, lead combos. The Brubeck institute is a school of jazz music that teaches just a handful of students each year, selected by highly competitive nationwide audition. See www.brubeckinstitute.org.
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Faculty
The Jazzschool
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Music industry)
September 2000 — Present (8 years 11 months)
Teach jazz theory and improvization, lead combos, give clinics. Also teach occasional seminars on the music industry. See www.jazzschool.com
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Musician
AntonJazz
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
August 1994 — Present (15 years)
Saxophonist, bandleader, recording artist.
Anton Schwartz’s Education
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Stanford University
Ph.D. , Artificial Intelligence , September 1989 — May 1994
I never finished my disertation & got the degree. Instead I left academia and became a jazz musician [www.antonjazz.com]
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Harvard
B.A. , Mathematics & Philosophy , September 1985 — May 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude
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Dalton
High School , 1980 — 1985
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Anton Schwartz’s Honors:
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow (1989-92)
IBM Graduate Fellow (1992-93)
John Harvard Scholar (1987, 1989)
Phi Beta Kappa (1989)
Harvard College Scholar (1988)
National Merit Scholar (1985)
