Dan St. Marseille is a renowned jazz saxophonist/clarinetist who plays in the tradition of all the jazz legends. Employing a warm tone and melodic approach, he has won praise from jazz critics worldwide and worked with many major jazz and commercial artists, including Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, conguero Poncho Sanchez, singers Mel Torme and Cab Calloway, pianists Cecilia Coleman and Bill Cunliffe, among others.

Dan’s recordings are heard internationally on jazz radio and have been the subject of articles in publications such as Downbeat, JazzTimes, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Japan’s Jazz Critic magazine, and France’s International Herald Tribune, among others. St. Marseille’s recordings have received four-star ratings in the third edition of the All Music Guide to Jazz; The Experts Guide to the Best Jazz.

Mr. St. Marseille is a sought-after jazz performer and director, a Yamaha Performing Artist and Master Teacher, and a D’Addario Woodwind Performing Artist. In addition to performances on numerous local and national tours, Dan has performed in Europe, Canada, and many jazz clubs and festivals, including a headline performance at the prestigious Coleman Hawkins Festival in Topeka, Kansas. In May 2001, Dan was the music director for an international event entitled Clickin’ with Clax at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Beyond performing, Dan has established himself as a Jazz composer of distinction, with his Claxography, written for renowned jazz photographer William Claxton, chosen as the title of Claxton’s book of photographs in which Dan also appears.

Dan is the Program Director for the Music Education/Performance Division and Director of Jazz Studies at California Baptist University (CBU) in Riverside, California. In addition, Dan is the former director of the Instrumental Music Conservatory at the celebrated Orange County School of the Arts, where he founded the nationally recognized Garn Family Jazz Studies Program, and has held positions as jazz ensemble director at Irvine Valley College and California State University Fullerton (CSUF). For over twenty-five years, he has been on the faculty for the Idyllwild Arts Summer Jazz Intensive, where he serves as assistant director, and has been a guest artist and clinician at various schools abroad.