Woodwind Doubling Master Class with Emily Pecoraro

Brooklyn/Queens-based saxophonist and woodwind doubler Emily Pecoraro is known for her divergent ventures across the musical spectrum. In addition to her myriad creative pursuits, Pecoraro is a staple of the Broadway pit orchestra community, having worked or subbed on over a dozen Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, and spent five consecutive seasons as a chair holder in the orchestra for the Christmas Spectacular featuring the Radio City Rockettes.  

Pecoraro has played for a number of Broadway and television luminaries over the years, and has performed or recorded with such acts as: the New York Pops, Jimmy Fallon, Steven Colbert, Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond, Raye, Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Carla Gugino, Seth McFarlane, Lorna Luft, Audra McDonald, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Joshua Groban, Sara Bareilles, Amber Ruffin, Lea Michele, Kurt Elling, Barbie the Movie in Concert at Royal Albert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, Guster, Hal Willlner’s Amarcord Nino Rota, Lady Lamb, Red Baraat, the 8-Bit Big Band, the Ed Palermo Big Band, as well as many others. 

Her playing can also be heard on the South Park 25th Anniversary Special from Comedy Central, as well as in a handful of commercials, films, and other such similar projects. And for many years, Pecoraro played lead alto saxophone for both the Temptations and the Four Tops New York horn section, backing up the living Motown legends Otis Williams and Duke Fakir, and was also a regular tenor and alto saxophone soloist with the Temptations Revue featuring the late Motown legend Dennis Edwards.