Dr. Connor Mikula

Dr. Connor Mikula is an active performer and teacher in the Washington D.C. area and currently serves as a saxophonist with “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in Washington, D.C. He joined the organization in 2019 and has performed regularly at the White House as well as in concerts around the D.C. area and throughout the United States.

Originally from the great state of Michigan, he holds degrees from University of Michigan (MM Music Performance) and Michigan State University (DMA, BM Music Performance & Jazz Minor). Dr. Mikula has studied under Dr. Timothy McAllister, Prof. Joe Lulloff, and Dr. Jonathan Nichol.

An avid performer, Dr. Mikula has been a featured soloist at the Severance Music Center, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. His passion for commissioning new works for the saxophone have led to world premieres at Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School of Music, and multiple NASA conferences, including the 2014 World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, France and the 2018 World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia.

Dr. Mikula is a passionate educator who is the newly appointed Adjunct Professor of Classical Saxophone in George Mason University's Dewberry School of Music. He has previously taught at Alma College in Alma, Michigan, and is an in-demand masterclass teacher, having given master classes at Northwestern University, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin- Madison, and Michigan State University.

Adjunct Applied Faculty

• Classical Saxophone

Degrees

• DMA, Michigan State University
• MM, Music Performance, University of Michigan
• BM, Music Performance and Jazz Minor, Michigan State University