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Sal Lozano
Collaborating with Today's Top Acts
Sal is a member of The Tom Kubis Big Band, and can be heard with Gordon Goodwin's critically acclaimed Grammy Award Winning Big Phat Band. A few of the artists Sal has also recorded with include Paul McCartney, Natalie Cole, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Lalo Schifrin, Brian McKnight, Michael Buble, Keely Smith, Barbra Streisand, Joey DeFrancesco, and Maynard Ferguson.
Sal has been a member of the Dancing with the Stars House Band and the Academy Awards Orchestra along with numerous other television and commercial credits. He has also performed at the Gala for the President at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. and as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony, The San Diego Symphony and the Los Angeles Opera. Other telivision credits include the Grammys, Emmys, American Idol, America’s Got Talent and others.
Sal can be heard on numerous movie soundtracks including West Side Story, Incredibles 2, Straight Outta Compton, LaLa Land, Sing, Joy, The Secret Life of Pets, Joy, Ice Age 5, National Treasure, Legally Blonde, Phineas and Ferb the last three Star Trek movies and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, to name a few. He frequently occupies the principal chair at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles as well as the Pasadena Playhouse. Shows include Newsies, Follies, Grey Gardens, The Drowsy Chaperone, Chicago, Caroline or Change and Edward Scissorhands.
Education: Cal State Long Beach. Former student of Greg Adams, Leo Potts, John Barcelona, Jim Walker, and Jim Kanter.
LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH NAME TALENT Frank Sinatra Michael Feinstein The Manhattan Transfer Joe Williams Chicago Idina Menzel Jimmy Kimmel John Legend Louis Bellson Natalie Cole Christina Aguilera Michael McDonald Take 6 Carly Simon Patti LaBelle Michel LeGrand Stevie Wonder Mandy Moore Leslie Uggams Brian McKnight Michael Buble Jennifer Lopez Celine Dion
LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH ORGANIZATIONS Los Angeles Opera Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band Pacific Symphony San Diego Symphony Tom Kubis Big Band Playboy Jazz Festival The Pasadena Symphony The Santa Barbara Symphony.
Sal is professor of Saxophone At Cal State Univ. Long Beach and is also a Teaching Artist with Disney’s Imagination Campus where he takes students thru a 90min recording session to experience the many aspects of playing music for film.
To learn more about Sal Lozano, visit sallozano.com