Michael Monaghan

Office: Brooks 243
Phone: 508.793.2699
E-mail: mmonagha@holycross.edu

A freelance woodwind player in Boston for more then twenty-five years, Michael Monaghan also works as a jazz musician, studio singer, and back-up vocalist. He is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts and the Eastman School of Music.

Mr. Monaghan's freelance work includes performances with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestra; with orchestras for Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Bolshoi Ballet; and in pit orchestras for touring shows including "Cats", "Phantom of the Opera", "Porgy and Bess", "Sweeney Todd", and others, at the Wang, Colonial, and Shubert theaters in Boston. In addition, Mr. Monaghan has performed with popular entertainers including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Ray Charles, among many others. Mr. Monaghan has been a member of the Herb Pomeroy Jazz Orchestra; his jazz experience also includes performances at Carnegie Hall with Mel Torme and Gerry Mulligan, participating in Rosemary Clooney's "Demi-Centennial" special on A&E, and playing with the Woody Herman Band, the American Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra, and with many jazz artists, among them Anita O'Day, Buddy Rich, and Chick Corea.

His Boston Pops experience includes working with Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, and Keith Lockhart at Symphony Hall and on the long running PBS series "Evening at Pops". He has recorded with John Williams and has played on all of Keith Lockhart's Boston Pops recordings. He is a featured saxophone soloist on the recent Pops CD, "The Latin Album". In addition, his sax playing has been heard on many network TV programs including the "soap operas" All My Children, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, and others; he has also played on "Walker, Texas Ranger" and the film "In the Time of Butterflies" starring Edward James Olmos. He is also the saxophone soloist on the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's highly acclaimed film, "Mystic River".