Serafin Sanchez

Serafin Sanchez is a saxophonist, composer, and music educator in Arvada Colorado. He began playing piano at age five and took up the saxophone in 6th grade. He is a graduate of The University of Colorado at Boulder where he received his Masters Degree in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy. Sanchez linked up with Guerrero and Bop Skizzum in 1999. The two have remained friends and musical allies ever since.

Serafin is an active performer in the Denver music community. He can be seen performing regularly with, The Serafin Sanchez/ Jeremy Jones Quintet, The Legacy Jazz Orchestra and with many other bands and side projects. He has performed with Flobots, Matt Morris, Kinetix, Bob Mintzer, Conrad Herwig, James Carter, The Teaching, The 9th and Lincoln Orchestra, The U.S.A.F. Falconaires, The Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, at Peru Jazz Festival, The Telluride Jazz Festival and Aspen Jazz Festival. He has also been a member of the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, touring across the United States, Canada, and Japan. Serafin is a two time student award winner from Down Beat Magazine.

Through the non-profit organization Flobots.org, Serafin teaches at The Denver Childrens Home where he conducts recording sessions, instructs songwriting lessons, general music classes and private music lessons as part of a unique music therapy program. Serafin is also the adjunct professor of saxophone at Regis University, teaches privately in his home studio and works as an independent music consultant for Colorado Conservatory for Jazz Arts and Dynamic Marching. He has also been a member of the instructional staff at the Bands of America Summer Symposium, Birch Creek Music Camp, Mile High Jazz Camp and at Pomona High School and Legacy HS.

When not on stage with Bop Skizzum, Serafin likes to get down with the Bikram Yoga, experiment creating new music in his home studio, and hanging with his friends and family.

Photo by Aimee Giese [Greeblemonkey.com]