Tyler Lustek & Aaron Hedenstrom

Join Dr. Aaron Hedenstrom and Tyler Lustek as they present a series of popular songs filtered thru their jazz-oriented lens, reimagined with brand new electro-acoustic experimentations!

Saxophonist and composer Dr. Aaron Hedenstrom has been composing, arranging, and performing music professionally for over a decade. Aaron has performed across the United States as a jazz saxophonist, clinician, and composer. Aaron has received many awards for his compositions and arrangements, including the Herb Alpert ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, the Detroit Jazz Festival Composition Contest, Downbeat Awards, the Jazz Education Network Student Composer Showcase, and the BMI Foundation Future Jazz Master scholarship. As a saxophone performing artist, Aaron has received numerous Downbeat Awards, including the 2013 Downbeat Award for "Best Graduate Jazz Soloist." As an active educator, Aaron Hedenstrom is professor of saxophone and jazz studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, in addition to a vibrant studio of private lesson students.

Tyler Lustek is a pianist, composer, arranger and educator from Eau Claire, WI. Tyler is involved with a variety of musical projects around the Chippewa Valley and the Twin Cities including his own quintet the Tyler Lustek Confluence, Blue Ox Jazz, avant-garde jazz duet Lustek / Granros, the Chippewa Valley Jazz Orchestra, and Eau Claire Funk Machine. Tyler has received accolades for his work as a composer and performer, including the Runner-Up Award for the 2022 Jan Bach Prize in Music Composition and #3 Best New Band / Artist in Volume One Magazine’s 2023 Best of the Chippewa Valley Reader Poll. Tyler co-directs the jazz combo program at UW-Eau Claire, coaches weekly improvisation workshops at Chippewa Falls High School, and maintains a private lessons studio. Tyler holds music degrees from UW-Madison (B.M. 2020) and Northern Illinois University (M.M. 2022).

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