Saul Waxler Green
Percussion
Saul Waxler Green attends the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studies with Robert van Sice and David Skidmore. Prior to his conservatory studies, Green studied under a full scholarship at the North Carolina School of the Arts with John R. Beck. During the summer of 2006, he attended the Brevard Music Festival, as well as the Cloyd Duff timpani master class. In the summer of 2007, Green was awarded the Emerson, a full merit-based scholarship, to attend the Interlochen Arts Camp. That same summer, he made his Carnegie Hall debut as principal timpanist with the Greensboro Youth Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2011, Green attended the Chautauqua Music Festival, where he studied with Michael Burritt and played in the Music School Festival Orchestra. Most recently, Green joined the faculty of the Peabody Preparatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He has participated in master classes with Tom Freer, Tim Adams, Markus Rhoten, Tim Genis, and Sō Percussion. Green’s professional ambitions are to play with a major orchestra, teach percussion at the college level, and perhaps be active in the music business. When he’s not practicing, performing or rehearsing, Green is usually playing golf.
