Angela Davis

Based in New York City since January 2010,Angela Davis was born on June 23,1985 in Toowoomba,Queensland,Australia.She Started playing the saxophone at age nine,performed in her high schools jazz band and toured Australia with The Jazz Ed Big Band which performed and recorded with saxophonist Don Burrows,one of Australias leading jazz artists.While still in high school Davis also earned an Associate of Music diploma in classical saxophone from the Australian Music Examinations Board.Davis received a Bachelor of Music with first class honors in 2006 from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and while there toured Australia and recorded with The Con Artists,a big band led by trumpeter John Hoffman a veteran of big bands led by Glen Miller,Buddy Rich and Woody Herman.In July 2006 she attended the Manhattan School of Music Summer workshop in Amsterdam where she studied with Dick Oatts,Gary Dial and Michael Abene.In September 2008 she moved to Philadelphia to study at the University of the Arts from which she received her Masters of Music in 2009 and is currently on the jazz faculty there.