Home Recordings Gigs Bio	Bio   Bill Bliven plays a number of instruments including the sax, guitar and mandolin. His understanding of music has earned him a Masters of Music Degree. Other Highlights & Honors: Lead alto saxophone and soloist in the Western Washington University Jazz Band, having the distinction of winning a regional collegiate jazz contest, resulting in an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Selected to perform a duet with the famous jazz trumpeter, Clark Terry, in a jazz concert at Western Washington University. Composed a jazz band composition that was performed by Western Washington University's Jazz Band at a collegiate Jazz Festival. Member of a jazz combo having the distinction of winning a regional collegiate jazz contest, resulting in an all-expense paid trip to the University of Illinois to participate in the American College Jazz Festival. Frank Bliven graduated from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1972, then moved to Bellingham Washington and started the first undergraduate Classical Guitar program at Western Washington University. Following completion of a Masters degree in classical guitar performance in 1976, he headed undergraduate and graduate guitar studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He moved to Canada in 1990 and taught guitar at Trinity Western University: he now teaches privately in his studio in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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