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Hailed as a “talented young player” with “the skills to go far” by Westword (Denver), Aakash Mittal has been making a name for himself leading his own jazz quartet, which performs all original music at such venues as Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge , Bliss Café, Vita, the Ft. Collins Jazz Festival and the Boulder Creek Festival. He also leads a standards-based jazz duo, a Brazilian duo and a classical flute and harp duet. As a sideman Mittal has played with the Jared Johnston Trio and the Bill Huston Duo, the Funk/ Rock bands “The Down Unit” and “Voodoo Brown,” as well as “The Speakeasy”, a project combing improvised music with poetry. Other musicians he has performed with include internationally acclaimed bassist Kai Eckhardt as well as local musicians Gabriel Beach, Matt Fuller, and Andrew Trim. His performance experience also includes playing the woodwind book for the award winning musical “Urintown” and playing flute in the orchestra for the Loveland Opera Theater’s production of Mozart’s the Magic Flute.

As a music educator Mittal has been running a private lessons studio since 2002 and as been a faculty member at The Lesson Studio sense 2007. He has taught jazz and classical approaches to saxophone, clarinet, flute, composition, and music theory. He has also taught ensembles, including the Cherry Creek Jazz Band, the Loveland High School saxophone section, the Thompson Valley saxophone and clarinet section, the Windsor High School Clarinet and Flute section, as well as 6th grade woodwind students at Lucille Erwin Middle School.

In his approach to composition and improvisation, Mittal seeks to create music that relates to his diverse background of both American and East Indian heritage, drawing inspiration as much from straight-ahead jazz and the avant-garde as East Indian music and modern grooves.

Aakash Mittal received a BM in Saxophone Performance at The University of Colorado at Boulder.

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