Professors at SOU keep a busy schedule on top of working with their students and this summer proved no different for Professor Rhett Bender of the music department. On top of performing, Bender spends his summer months directing not one, but two workshops in Southern Oregon—the Siskiyou Saxophone Workshop and the Ashland Chamber Music Workshop. Each of these intensives attracts people from across the region, not to mention internationally. He’s been recognized and interviewed by Saxophone Journal for his work both as a mentor and his personal musical accomplishments and the Ashland Chamber Music workshop was featured in All Things Strings, not in small part thanks to what he has
helped make it.

All Things Strings article (pdf)
Saxophone Journal article (pdf)