Tyler Bauer
Musician
Educator
Composer
Arranger
“Tyler Bauer is my favorite kind of musician - An honest and courageous improviser who always seems to connect to the emotional aspect of music”
“Tyler plays with a lot of heart, has a beautiful sound, and he’s already developed a unique voice of his own both as a saxophonist and as a composer. I can’t wait to see how his artistic vision grows in the years to come.”
Tyler Bauer is a musician, composer, arranger, and educator currently living in New York City. As a saxophonist he has played festivals around the world and had the honor to play and present clinics with esteemed musicians such as Jeff Hamilton, Lewis Nash, and Cory Wong of Vulfpeck.
As a composer and arranger he has written for small ensemble projects such as Crossroads Quintet, Phoenix hip-hop band The Stakes, and for the John Raymond contemporary jazz ensemble at Indiana University.
As a teacher he has been running his own private studio since 2015 and has performed clinics at public schools, the JEN conference with combo director Lewis Nash, and educational outreach programs.
He is a recent graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music where he studied with accomplished saxophonists Walter Smith III and Greg Ward II.
New Album Out Now
Tyler co-founded “Crossroads Quintet”, a collective of musicians who met during their graduate studies at Indiana University. Listen to their album, Intertwined, on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp.
Album art by Kara Tucker
Discography
The Stakes “Prophecy”
Tyler had the pleasure of working with Phoenix based Hip-Hop band, The Stakes for two years. He can be found in the horn section on their album “Prophecy”.
Kate Vincent’s “Unfinished Business”
Vincent’s composition “Unfinished Business” got her an honorable mention at the 2018 ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2018. Tyler was the featured soloist on the track.
The “Crossroads Quintet” is a jazz quintet co-founded by Tyler during his time as a graduate student at Indiana University. This is their newly released album.