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JENerations Jazz Festival Co-Presenter
JENerations Jazz Festival Co-Presenter

Mike H. Titlebaum

Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York

Saxophonist/composer/arranger Mike Titlebaum (he/him/his) is Professor of Music Performance and Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College, where he directs the Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble, coaches combos, teaches jazz saxophone and courses in jazz standards, arranging, and others. In 2010, he founded the Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest, which was endowed in 2017 with a generous gift by David P. ('60) and Susan W. Wohlhueter. He is also the director of the college's annual Commencement Eve Concert.

Titlebaum is the editor of several updated versions Jack Gale's "24 Jazz Etudes" and "12 Jazz Duets", published by Art of Sound Music in 2025. He is the author of the book "Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment," published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis in May 2021, and is co-editor of "Teaching School Jazz: Perspectives, Principles and Strategies," published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Titlebaum has performed and given workshops and lectures at numerous state and national conferences, including the Jazz Education Network, the International Society for Improvised Music, the New York State School Music Association, the New York State Band Directors Association, and the Texas Music Educators Association.

He has played in many of New York's famous musical venues, including the Blue Note, Smalls, Augies, Fez Under Time Cafe, and the legendary CBGB, as well as the pit orchestra of the Broadway musical "Cats" at the Winter Garden Theater. He has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, and with other internationally recognized artists and groups, including John Hollenbeck, Gary Versace, Jason Robert Brown, and dozens more. Titlebaum has published compositions and arrangements through Lorenz/Heritage Jazz Works, Advance Music/Schott, and GIA Publications.

Titlebaum earned his BM in Saxophone Performance and the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in 1991. He received his MM in 1992 from Eastman in Jazz and Contemporary Media with an emphasis in Writing Skills.

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