Jazz flutist and adjunct music professor David Heywood making his sweet sounds.
Flutist David Heywood has been named the co-winner of the 2015 Jazz Flute Soloist Competition organized by the National Flute Association. Heywood, who has been an adjunct music professor at the College since 1999, will play at the flute association’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. in August, both as a soloist and as a member of an all-flute Big Band ensemble.
At the College, Heywood directs the wind ensemble, basketball pep band and two jazz performing ensembles. Off campus, he’s performed with The New Music Collective, the Charleston POPS! Orchestra, The Charleston Jazz Orchestra, and more.
Judges selected Heywood as a top jazz flutist based on three songs he submitted to the National Flute Association as part of an audition. Playing along with Heywood were fellow College of Charleston music faculty Quentin Baxter ’98, Ron Wiltrout, and Gerald Gregory ’05, as well as jazz studies alumnus Jake Holwegner. See them all play below (with the exception of Baxter) as part of the Charleston Latin Jazz Collective:
