Christopher Herald is an artist and composer in jazz and classical music, with his Masters in Jazz Studies and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Saxophone Performance from the University of Arizona. Since the Fall of 2016, he has served as Adjunct Professor of Saxophone at Tucson’s Pima Community College, and is on staff as a music teacher at the Leman Academy of Excellence in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Herald performs in a wide variety of genres ranging from big band to free jazz, fusion, and contemporary. Increasingly focused on recording his own compositions, he released an album of original pieces incorporating jazz improvisation and rhythmic components of progressive rock, called Resurrecting Id (2014). A second album for this project, called “Ephemera” was released on December 2018. Herald has given masterclasses and performances at colleges of music as far away as Bangkok, Thailand. His research has centered around the “post avant-garde” style of Colin Stetson and jazz saxophonist Evan Parker, with a doctoral paper completed in 2017. Currently Herald is researching the use of polyphonic techniques for solo saxophone music.

As a writer for production music libraries, Herald has released several albums including folk, jazz, classical, and Christmas selections for notable publishers.