Members
Marc Phaneuf
Marc Phaneuf has performed with Quincy Jones and the LA Philharmonic, The Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, John Williams, Aretha Franklin, Clark Terry, Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Lou Rawls, and Natalie Cole. He was a member of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and the Artie Shaw Orchestra and has performed in countless Broadway shows.
He has toured extensively. His musical travels have brought him to Japan, Russia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, France and Great Britain. He has recorded with Iggy Pop, Deborah Cox, Tony Bennett/Lady Gaga, Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, and the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra. He has two recordings: “Locking Horns” 1996 and “Talking Horns” 2012.
Marc has taught privately for over thirty years. His specialty is Jazz and Classical saxophone with an emphasis on improvisation. He is a former faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell College of Music. He taught privately and coached jazz ensembles at Boston College, LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and the Performing Arts.
He lives in Westchester with his wife, cellist, Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf.
Mark Lopeman
Tenor saxophonist Mark Lopeman has recorded for and written arrangements for (and sometimes appeared in) numerous films and TV shows (including, most currently, “The Joker”, “Priscilla”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”). His orchestral arrangements and orchestrations have been performed by Michael Feinstein, Ken Peplowski, Catherine Russell, Clairdee and Bobby Short. He contributes transcriptions of Duke Ellington compositions for the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s educational “Essentially Ellington” program. He has written for and/or performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (Wynton Marsalis), Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (Gunther Schuller), American Jazz Orchestra (John Lewis), Westchester Jazz Orchestra (Mike Holober), Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans.
He is a long-time member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. His original compositions and arrangements may be heard on the LPs and CDs of the Loren Schoenberg Jazz Orchestra, as well as his own 2011 release “Nice Work If You Can Get It”. He has performed in the orchestras for numerous Broadway shows. Early in his career he toured as lead alto with Buddy Rich and backed Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan and Mel Torme; he was a member of the New York version of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra and has also recorded with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.
He holds music degrees from the Eastman School of Music (B.M. 1978), where he studied with Ray Wright, Bill Dobbins and Ramon Ricker, and the University of Akron (M.M. 1981), where he worked with his mentor Roland Paolucci and performed at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival in 1980, garnering the prize for most outstanding instrumentalist.
Jay Brandford
As a jazz musician for 40 years, Jay Brandford has traveled around the world and freelanced extensively in New York City. He performed and recorded with the Count Basie Orchestra, Ron Carter, Gerald Wilson, Mercer Ellington, Jon Hendricks, David Liebman, Jimmy Heath, Ben Riley, and many others. Jay's arrangements have been played and recorded by the Artie Shaw Orchestra, Jerry Dodgion's Joy Of Sax, and the Westchester Jazz Orchestra. In 2017 his composition “Speaking In Triads” was awarded 3rd place in BMI’s Charlie Parker Prize Jazz Composition Competition.
As a woodwind doubler, Jay has performed and/or recorded with a wide variety of entertainers including Hugh Jackman, Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Cleo Laine, Tony Bennett, Barry Manilow, Jay-Z, Bobby Short and many others.
CARL MARAGhI
Baritone saxophonist Carl Maraghi moved to New York City from Montreal to study at the Juilliard School. He performed at The White House twice for two different Presidents. He’s part of the two-time Grammy winning Christian McBride Big Band. He recorded and performed with the Grammy nominated Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society and bass master Rufus Reed’s Grammy nominated large ensemble. He also performed and toured with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He played with Harry Connick Jr., Kurt Elling and trumpet icon Doc Severinsen, just to name a few. Carl tours and records regularly in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He recorded with Alicia Keys, played with Bruce Springsteen, as well as Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police. He’s also part of the Uptown Jazz Tentet, the Remy LeBoeuf Assembly of Shadows, the Jihye Lee Jazz Orchestra, the Miggy Augmented Orchestra and the Helen Sung Big Band. Carl Maraghi has been part of the New View Saxophone with Marc Phaneuf, Jay Brandford and Mark Lopeman since 2020. He has been a woodwind instrument teacher at NJPAC, Stony Brook University and Fordham University in New York City. He composes for and leads different projects including his own quartet/quintet/sextet, sax ensemble, nonet and film scores. Carl plays on wooden Frederic Lebayle mouthpieces on all saxophones, D’Addario clarinet mouthpiece, and uses D’Addario reeds exclusively.