Owen Broder

Saxophonist and band leader Owen Broder runs in a variety of musical circles. His American Roots Project’s debut album, Heritage, was praised by DownBeat Magazine as a “transcendent work of art,” and he has received critical acclaim for his recordings with his two quintets, Cowboys & Frenchmen and Hodges: Front and Center. Broder is a member of the GRAMMY® nominated Anat Cohen Tentet and the Manhattan Saxophone Quartet and has performed with internationally respected artists such as Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project, Trio Globo, and YouTube sensation Postmodern Jukebox. UNCSA’s 2021 Artpreneur of the Year Award and the 2018 Eastman/ArtistShare® New Artist program recognized Broder’s entrepreneurial ventures; most notably, in response to the pandemic, Broder co-founded and performed in Live From Our Living Rooms, credited as “the first online jazz festival” by Rolling Stone. As an educator, Broder teaches jazz courses at Portland State University and saxophone lessons at Pacific University.