Mary Fettig

Saxophone

Freelance Jazz Performer, San Francisco Bay Area

Saxophonist/ woodwind doubler Mary Fettig has recorded and toured with such greats as Stan Kenton, Marian McPartland, Tito Puente, Flora Purim and Airto, playing jazz festivals including Concord, Monterey, Playboy, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Montreaux, and North Sea. She regularly plays celebrity shows, having shared the stage with Seth Mac Farland, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett, Robin Williams, Lady Gaga, Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis and many others.

She has extensive studio credits in film, television, video games and radio, including many Peanuts and Garfield cartoons and specials. In San Francisco she played 25 different Broadway shows in the pit orchestras as a woodwind doubler, with the record-breaking 5 year run of Phantom of the Opera as her longest run. She regularly performs with the San Francisco Symphony and various bay area orchestras.

Mary’s own recordings include “In Good Company”, “Relativity”, and “Brazilian Footprints”.

She is a former faculty member of San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Diablo Valley College, St. Mary’s College and Los Medanos College. She stays busy as a free lance musician as well as adjudicating and performing with school groups.