Kevin McNerney received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Education (Jazz Studies emphasis) from the University of North Texas, where he directed the Six and Nine O'Clock Lab Bands and served as a Teaching Fellow in applied saxophone. (While in school, he was also a longtime morning DJ for KNTU-FM 88.1.) Since 1993, he has been an Associate Professor of Music at Collin College, where he is the director of Jazz Combo Too and Jazz Combo PM and teaches applied saxophone and a jazz improvisation class. He also maintains an extensive private saxophone studio at six secondary schools in the Garland Independent School District, and he taught at Brook Mays Music Co. in Plano from 1995 until the store's closure in 2006.
Kevin has performed with Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, Randy Brecker, Kevin Mahogany, Bobby Shew, Mike Vax, Kim Richmond, Clay Jenkins and Frank Mantooth, as well as the Shelley Carrol Big Band, the Duke Ellington Small Band featuring Barrie Lee Hall, Jr., the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, the Dallas Wind Symphony and the symphony orchestras of Garland, Mesquite and Irving. He has been on the faculty of the Texas All-Star Jazz Camp since 1999 and appears on their CD All of Us , released in 2004 on Sea Breeze Records.
Kevin is a co-founder of the EMANON Jazz Orchestra , a youth big band in Dallas that made its debut in the summer of 2006. He is the occasional saxophonist for the Impact Worship band at Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, and he also serves as Governor of Province 32 for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia , a national music fraternity.
Kevin is active as a freelance performer, adjudicator and clinician in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. He is a co-founder of the jazz combo Team Demon/Dingus , which has performed in the Metroplex area for the past few years, and he occasionally leads a slightly different combo under the name of "Kevin McNerney and Friends."
