Learn from Great Akai EWI Teachers

2021/2020 TENOR SAX LESSONFACE TEACHER OF THE YEAR! Erika Friedman holds education and performance degrees from Ithaca College (B.M. in Music Education and Saxophone Performance) and New Jersey City University (M.M. in Multiple Woodwind Performance). She has taught private music lessons to beginner and advanced students for over 15 years.

Denis Belyakov is a versatile saxophonist, trained at the renowned Gnessin State College of Music. Living in the Dominican Republic for many years, Denis blends a wide range of styles—from Jazz and Pop to Funk, Rock, Latin, and Classical—into his performances, studio work, and teaching.

Gage Schmitt a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa with a BM Music Performance degree, as well as The Institute of Production and Recording with a degree in Audio Production and Live Sound. Gage has been a clinician for All-State honor band workshops, an adjudicator for honor bands, participated in competitions, won the MTNA State Chamber Music Competition in Iowa and…

I graduated from The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London in 2018, with a degree in Jazz performance (saxophone). I received a first class (honours) and 'Final Recital Diploma' and I'm now performing throughout Europe as a band leader for The Goodbye Look and Sam Knight Quintet and as a sideman in a variety of other projects and ensembles, ranging in genre.

Craig Young served 23 years as the Director of Bands and Professor of Saxophone at Mississippi College, where he served as the head of the Instrumental Music Department, guided all aspects of the MC Band Program, and taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in instrumental music education, conducting, and saxophone, among others. Prior to teaching at the university level, Dr.