Music Department Faculty and Staff

B.M., University of Missouri at Columbia; M.M., Northwestern University

As a performer, saxophonist and composer Tim AuBuchon has led groups at such venues as Chicago's Velvet Lounge and Empty Bottle, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and Kansas City's Blue Room. He has shared the stage with Randy Brecker, John Abercrombie, Tim Hagans, Ray Anderson, Ingrid Jensen, and numerous others. He was selected to attend the David Liebman Saxophone Masterclass in 1997 and was a finalist in the 1998 North American Saxophone Alliance Jazz Solo Competition. At Truman State University, Professor AuBuchon directs the jazz studies program and teaches an interdisciplinary class on New Orleans. He is a former faculty member at Benedictine University and Moraine Valley Community College.  Professor AuBuchon is a past president of the Missouri Association for Jazz Education and was named Missouri Jazz Educator of the Year Missouri Association for Jazz Education in 2023. He has been a contributor to each edition of the Teaching Through Performance in Jazz series from GIA Publications.

The debut CD of the Tim AuBuchon Quartet, Bluz fer Mo, received favorable reviews including the following from Marshall Vente on the Jazz Institute of Chicago web page: "In a world of a thousand tenor players Tim stands out with a mature sound and an exceptional concept for improvising....The program is as exciting and personal. (Tim's compositions) show great depth and imagination." AuBuchon has also performed and recorded with Radio Improved, a collective jazz and improvised music group. David Liebman, master saxophonist who performed with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, had this to say about their album Jump In: "This is really a wonderful two horn group, with intelligent compositions and a well rehearsed rhythm section. In this rather difficult instrumentation, Radio Improved is making some real music. Highly recommended.”