Jeff Homan
Saxophone/Clarinet
Jeff Homan has been active on the Pacific Northwest music scene for four decades, and has been a Portland area resident since 1986. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Music, where he studied saxophone with former Marcel Mule student J. Robert Moore, as well as doing graduate study at Arizona State University, where he studied saxophone with Joseph Wytko and jazz improvisation with Chuck Marohnic.
Jeff has taught classical and jazz saxophone at several local colleges and universities, including the University of Portland, Portland State University, Lewis and Clark College and Reed College. He has maintained a thriving private studio, teaching all levels of saxophone in addition to clarinet and flute, since arriving in the Portland area, including teaching at Beaverton Music from 1986 to 2020. He is currently teaching privately at Music and Arts, formerly Tigard Music. Over the years, Jeff has produced many students who have won or placed at the Oregon State Solo Contest, and received outstanding soloist awards at major jazz festivals. Additionally, he has numerous former students performing professionally.
Jeff has performed with a wide variety of jazz and popular artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, the Temptations and the Four Tops, Arturo Sandoval, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Curtis Salgado, David Foster, Nancy King, Michael Buble, Mason Williams, and many others. He has numerous recording credits, including recordings with jazz fusion pioneers Dan Siegel and Tom Grant, avant-garde jazz legend Anthony Braxton, and Northwest legends Steve Christofferson, Terry Robb, and Don Latarski.
As a classical saxophonist, Jeff has performed with the Oregon, Eugene, Columbia, and Vancouver Symphonies, as well as the Britt, Cascade, and Sunriver Festival Orchestras.
He is a long-time member of the Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band, and can also be seen performing with Linda Michelet, John Gilmore, Joe Millward, and numerous other local artists.
