Alex Iles is a trombone and jazz instructor at the California Institute of the Arts and California State University, Northridge. The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... Entrance to CalArts on McBean Parkway The California Institute of the Arts is commonly referred to as CalArts. ... California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN, Cal State Northridge, or C-Sun) is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, USA. Part of the California State University system, CSUN was founded in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College...

He appears frequently as a recitalist, guest soloist, and clinician with schools and organizations, including Indiana University, Oklahoma State University, the Disney Magic Music Days Program and his "alma mater", the Disney All American College Band. His successful career in many musical setting arises out of his active involvement in the musically diverse Southern California freelance performing and recording community. Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana. ... Oklahoma State University Logo The Oklahoma State University System comprises of five educational instututes across Oklahoma. ...

Alex began his musical career while a student at UCLA. He has studied trombone privately with Roy Main, Ralph Sauer, Byron Peebles and Per Brevig. Since graduating from UCLA, he has gone on to become an in-demand trombonist and low-brass performer. The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... Ralph Sauer is an American trombonist and teacher. ...

Among the varied palette of artists with whom Alex has performed and/or recorded are: Joe Cocker, Alan Jackson, The Tonight Show, Prince, Harry Connick Jr., The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Johnny Mathis, Natalie Cole, Danny Elfman, Ray Charles, Robbie Williams, Terence Blanchard, Hans Zimmer, Henry Mancini, James Horner, Lalo Shiffrin, Trevor Rabin, and John Williams. He has played in the pit orchestras of numerous Los Angeles Broadway shows including: Chicago, The Lion King, The Producers, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, and Hairspray. Joe Cocker Joe Cocker (born John Robert Cocker, May 20, 1944) is a rock/blues musician. ... Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter, who became one of the best-selling country musicians of the 1990s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Harry Connick, Jr. ... Johnny Mathis in 1959 Johnny Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on May 25, 2006. ... Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole, known professionally as Natalie Cole (born February 6, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. ... Danny Elfman Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter who was with the rock band Oingo Boingo throughout the 1980s, and has since gone on to become one of the most sought-after composers working in Hollywood today. ... Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ... Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on February 13, 1974 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) is an English pop artist/songwriter. ... Terence Blanchard (b. ... Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German Academy Award-winning composer, best known for composing film scores. ... Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994), was a noted American composer and arranger. ... James Horner James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer of orchestral music. ... Trevor Rabin onstage with Yes, 1995 Trevor Rabin (born Trevor Charles Rabin on January 13, 1954) is a South African guitarist and film composer, best known for being the guitarist and songwriter for the progressive rock band Yes from 1983 - 1995, and since then, as a film composer. ... John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is one of the most widely recognized composers of film scores. ... Chicago is a musical, first performed in 1975, based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins. ... The Lion King is an award-winning Broadway stage musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name and is directed by Julie Taymor, featuring actors in animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. ... The 1968 film, The Producers, was adapted as a critically acclaimed Broadway musical by Mel Brooks in 2001. ... The Phantom of the Opera is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. ... West Side Story is a musical written by Arthur Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and was originally produced, choreographed, and directed by Jerome Robbins. ... Hairspray is a Tony-winning musical, based on the 1988 movie Hairspray. ...

He has toured as lead and solo jazz trombonist with such legends as Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson, the later of whom he has recorded with twice. Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913–October 29, 1987), better known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and Big band leader. ... Walter Maynard Ferguson (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian-born jazz trumpet player and bandleader. ...

Today, he performs and records as a regular member of many of the top big bands and jazz groups in the L.A. area including The Tom Kubis Big Band, Bob Florence's Limited Edition, and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. He has also recorded and performs with the The Bill Cunliffe Sextet and The David Roitstein Group. Bob Florence is a jazz arranger and pianist born in Los Angeles on May 20, 1932. ... Gordon Goodwin is an American jazz pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and conductor. ... Gordon Goodwin is an American jazz pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and conductor. ...

He has also performed on The Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, The People's Choice Awards and hundreds of television series and motion picture soundtracks including Polar Express, National Treasure, The Incredibles, Troy, Robots, The Last Samurai, Pirates of the Caribbean, Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man I and II, Alias, Lost, JAG, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Seinfeld. An Emmy Award. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... The Polar Express is a 1985 childrens book, which was later made into a movie that was released on November 12, 2004. ... This is for the movie. ... The Incredibles is an Academy Award-winning Pixar Animation Studios animated feature film. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy Troy (Ancient Greek Τροία Troia, also Ίλιον Ilion; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. ... Robots is a computer-animated movie released March 11, 2005. ... The Last Samurai is an action/drama film written by John Logan and directed by Edward Zwick that was released in the United States on December 5, 2003. ... An advertising poster for the attraction at Disneyland. ... This article is about the book. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... Alias was an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams that aired on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006. ... Lost is an American drama/ thriller television series that follows the present and past lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... There are other articles with similar names; see JAG (disambiguation). ... Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs was a popular American animated television series, distributed by Warner Bros. ... Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters from the American animated television series Animaniacs. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

In the summer of 2001, Alex was one of sixteen trombonists from an international field chosen to participate in a 10 day orchestral/solo seminar hosted by New York Philharmonic Principal trombone virtuoso, Joe Alessi. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

In October, 2002 Alex was appointed principal trombonist of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as alto, tenor and/or bass trombonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The LA Chamber Orchestra, Opera Pacifica, The Pacific Symphony, The Pasadena Symphony, and the Santa Barbara Symphony. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, USA. From 1964 to 2003, the orchestra played its concerts in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. ...

He has also commissioned and/or premiered several new works for solo trombone. He is a Conn/Selmer performing artist and plays King and Conn trombones.