Jacob Nance is a saxophonist and musician based out of East Lansing, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Music and Michigan State University with a Masters in Music. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Musical Arts. He is renowned as a classical saxophone, winning second place in the Music Teacher’s National Association’s Young Artist Woodwind competition in the Spring of 2021, winning the University of Oklahoma’s Young Artist Competition in 2018, and performing the Glazunov Concerto as the featured soloist with the Conroe Symphony Orchestra in 2018. As a chamber musician with the saxophone quartet Sound Session he has been successful in numerous competitions, including being chosen as First Prize for the 2021-2022 Music Teacher’s National Association Chamber Music competition, being chosen as First Prize in the 2021-2022 North American Saxophone Alliance’s biennial Quartet Competition, and winning First Prize at the 2022 Wagner Chamber Music competition. Jacob is also an active jazz musician and composer, having many commisisons for his compositions and performing with jazz groups at Michigan State and around the Lansing Area.