Keenan McKenzie
is a Virginia native who has shown a love of music his entire life. At age 9, he began to take piano lessons, and after beginning on clarinet at age 12, he quickly fell in love with the saxophone. Keenan soon displayed an ambition to lead performing groups, arranging jazz standards and pop tunes for school talent shows as early as 7th grade.
Now residing in the Greensboro, NC, Keenan McKenzie is a professional performer, arranger, and teacher. Selected as the lead tenor player for the 2008 TIAA-Cref All Star Collegiate Jazz Ensemble, Keenan is one of the fastest rising young musicians in the Carolinas. He also was recently hired to write a jazz ensemble arrangement for saxophonist Joel Frahm, which Frahm will perform with various collegiate bands in the future.
Keenan enjoys both classical and jazz saxophone, and he is a founding member of The Soul Brothers, a James Brown tribute band that performs all over the southeast. Keenan holds a B.M in Jazz Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a minor in Computer Science. Keenan is also a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity.
