KURT HEISIG HAS STUDIED WITH:

SAXES

Al Anthony - Lead alto sax with Stan Kenton

Ray Pizzi - Top student of Joe Viola at Berklee      

     College of Music when he was 15, Woody

     Herman, Lead alto Dinah Shore, Burt

     Bacharach, Henry Mancini, Dizzy Gillespie

Bill Trimble - SJSU

Harvey Pittel - Leading Classical Soloist

CLARINET

Clement Hutchinson - Top student of Rufus

     "Mont" Arey at Eastman and "Hutch" taught

     at Eastman as a Senior, Olahoma University,

     USC, SJSU

FLUTE

Joan Butterfield - Student of Moyse and Kincaid

Alvin Cromwell - 1st Flute and Piccolo US Army

     Band Washington DC, Duet partner of Jean         Pierre Rampal

( FRENCH FLUTE SCHOOL - Joan studied under Moyse, who studied with Taffanel the father of the French Flute School. She also studied under Kincaid who studied with Taffanel's student Barrere. Both confirmed that she was doing as Taffanel taught. Cromwell studied with Hanson who was in Barrere's class with Taffanel, and showed him what Taffanel taught. (Since Moyse, Hanson and Kincaid all agreed as to what Taffanel taught, we know this is the true French Flute School teaching.)

OBOE

W Wayne Sorenson SJSU

BRASS PEDAGOGY

Carl Leach - Top protege of Dr Claude Gordon,

     Co-Lead Trumpet Stan Kenton

Dr Claude Gordon -World renowned brass

     teacher and writer of brass methods.

     1st trumpet CBS, Clinician, teacher of one

     year course for 8 years at Kurt Heisig Music

     (Assisted by Kurt Heisig) in the correct

     teaching of brass instruments.

INSTRUMENT DESIGN, MOUTHPIECE DESIGN

AND INDUSTRY CONCEPTS

Ralph Morgan - National Sales Manager,

     Senior Designer at Selmer USA  ( Mr Heisig was mentored for 25 years under Mr Morgan. They worked on a number of acoustical projects together.)

REED MAKING, WOODWIND CONCEPTS

AND BAROQUE MUSIC

Stephen Adelstein - World renowned soloist,

     teacher, Chairman of the committee to

     audition the Fullbright - Hays and ITT Grants

CONDUCTING

Dr Palmer - at UNH (When Mr. Heisig was 14)

Clement Hutchinson - SJSU

Mr Heisig also had several clinics with Sigurd Rascher legendary classical saxophnist, and spent one whole  day in clinics playing the first part (doubling together)  in sax quartets playing with Mr Rascher.

Also Mr Heisig spent 5 days observing the great Joe Allard teaching and had a lesson and spent several hours in conversations about sax and clarinet playing.