Resume - Gary Dooms - Saxophones
WORK HISTORY
Arranged and Performed Theme music for Branson Now - Bott Radio Network
2008 Branson, MO
Saxophone Soloist Lost In The Fifties With The Platters
2002 - 2007 (Substitute) Branson, MO
Saxophone Soloist Grand Old Gospel Hour
(1997 - 1999) (2005 - Present) Branson, MO
Saxophone Magnificent 7 - Saturday Jubilee - TV
2004 Branson, Mo
Composed and Performed TV Theme Song for The Jim Bakker Show – TV
2003 - 2004 Branson, MO
Saxophone Mickey Gilley
1996 - 2001 Branson, MO
Saxophone Soloist At The Hop
1995 Branson, MO
Saxophone Soloist Ray Stevens
1991 - 1993 Branson, MO
Woodwind Instructor College of the Ozarks
1991 - 1993 Point Lookout, MO
Saxophone Soloist The Texans
1991 Branson, MO
Band Leader Sultans Of Swing - Local Jazz Group
1991 - 1992 Branson, MO
MEDIA
Video - (1991 - 1993) “Ray Stevens Live” and “More Ray Stevens Live”
Video - (1996 - 2001) “Mickey Gilley Live Performance”
TV APPEARANCES
1991 - 1997: Nashville - “Prime Time Country” - TNN - Branson - Branson Jam - CBS Morning Show - PBS - TNN - Flood Relief Benefit - Radio Cafe - Antique Car Show
EDUCATION
College of the Ozarks 2003 - Sixteen undergraduate hours - graphic art and design
Forest Institute of Professional Psychology 2002 - Eight graduate psychology hours
College of the Ozarks 2001 - 2002 – Twenty-Five undergraduate psychology hours
Webster University - 1988 - 1990 Master of Music - Twenty hours Jazz and Commercial Music
Central Missouri State University - 1987 Bachelor of Arts Degree -Jazz and Commercial Music
COMPETITIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Horn Player of the Year “All American Music Awards” Branson, MO - 1993
Grand Prize Winner “That’s Show Biz Talent Contest” - Branson, MO- 1991
Performance Scholarship Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri - K.C., MO
Grand Prize Winner “John Lyman National Memorial Scholarship” - K.C., MO
Grand Prize Winner “Most Promising Young Jazz Musician Scholarship” - K.C., MO
Bio
Gary Dooms, born June 14, 1964, in Kansas City, Missouri, began playing the saxophone at age nine. He purchased his first album that year, “The Very Best Of Ray Stevens.” His formal education started in 1982 with a performance scholarship at UMKC Conservatory of Music. Studying classical music by day and vintage and smooth jazz in his spare time, by age 16 he played professionally in Kansas City as a warm up for jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, who has topped all of the major jazz polls for more than a decade. In 1991 he was the Grand Prize Winner of Branson’s “That’s Show Biz” talent contest, which, ironically led to the start of his Branson career playing with none other than Ray Stevens, 1991-93. He went on to play at other Branson shows, including “At The Hop,” “The Mickey Gilley Show” and “Lost In The 50’s.” In 2003 he joined the internationally televised “Jim Bakker Show,” writing and playing the television theme song daily. Dooms has also taken graduate level classes in psychology as well as jazz and commercial music, studying under the first music instructors of Pat Metheny (Music Theory Instructor, John Elliott) and David Sanborn (Saxophone Instructor, Paul DeMarinis).
