BurnettMusic.BIZ
We are a sole proprietorship business located in the State of Kansas and we are both military veterans of Army Music. Our online portal gives access to all of our websites, digital properties, and platforms.
The primary focus of our for-profit business BurnettMusic.BIZ is centered in three areas of the music industry:
MUSIC EDUCATION
(Photo by: Terri Anderson Burnett)
(1) Music Education – We began our private music teaching practice in 1983 during our off-duty hours while still on active duty military serving with Army bands. It’s proven to be a great opportunity for engaging in community service using our professional skills as musicians and teaching artists. And it’s also proven to be a tangible opportunity to positively impact the lives of young people wherever we are in the world. An active member of the National Association for Music Education, all of our students have benefited from these studies as validated over several decades and many are now successful musicians or teachers themselves. Portfolio details are available at The Burnett School of Music 🔗 website.
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
(Photo by: Bill Hauldren)
(2) Music Performance – Our performing artist activities are centered around Christopher Burnett Ensembles and Clinics. This activity includes community concerts, master classes, music clinics, and serving Music Education Associations around the country as an adjudicator and subject matter expert. Endorsed by the Conn-Selmer Inc. and Henri Selmer (Paris) companies we’ve performed tens of thousands of activities over decades. Portfolio samples are 🔗 here.
MUSIC PUBLISHING
and (3) Music Publishing – As a Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) Composer our publishing activities include a significant commercial audio recording discography, our published print sheet music catalog of select works from our BMI catalog, and an ever-expanding catalog of music lesson plans and music subject matter expert clinics. Portfolio samples are found at 🔗 BurnettPublishing.com
DEMO REEL of Original Compositions
DEMO REEL of Arrangements and Orchestrations
And the primary focus of our nonprofit public charity centers upon the perpetuation of American Jazz Music as an art form, economic catalyst, and cultural legacy of our country.
NON-PROFIT CHARITY
YouthJazz.US
Kansas City Area Youth Jazz Inc (aka Youth Jazz) 92-2098803 is officially determined by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization under IRC Section 501(c)(3) with further Public Charity status allowing donors to deduct contributions they make to Youth Jazz under IRC Section 170. VISIT OUR OTHER JAZZ ARTS RELATED NONPROFIT PROGRAMS – Record Label: Artists Recording Collective. Celebrating Charlie Parker: Bird Boot Camp + Musical Salute. Digital Magazine: Jazz Artistry Now. After the 2025 Season the Youth Jazz program discography is 7 commercial albums.
AWARDS + GRANTS + MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Following are some of our major awards
4 Kansas Press Association Awards
National Federation of Music Clubs 5-Star Award of Merit (Composition)
Active Duty Regular Army Retired (Professional Career Musician)
Department of Defense Meritorious Service Medal
2 Army Meritorious Service Medals
4 Army Commendation Medals
GRANTS
Following are grants we have been awarded
ArtsKC Regional Arts Council
The Louis and Frances Swinken Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
iSTEAMKC
Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund
DAF giving 360
The JB Reynolds Foundation
Constance Cooper Charitable Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Francis Family Foundation
Kansas City Jazz ALIVE
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
The Sally Ann Firestone Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts, Inc.
MEMBERSHIPS
Following are our professional memberships and associations
Conn-Selmer Inc. (USA) Artist and Clinician; Official Henri Selmer (Paris) Endorsing Saxophone Artist
Kansas Touring Roster Artist
Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) Composer
American Federation of Musicians (Kansas City Local 34-627)
National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Kansas + Missouri
Jazz Journalists Association
(Voting Member – Editor, Jazz Artistry Now)
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… an “esteemed member” of the 2025 inaugural class of Kauffman Uncommon Leader Impact Award nominees.
HISTORY ARCHIVES HIGHLIGHTS
Music Industry: 1974 – present
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” from Kansas Public Radio Jazz Scene Christmas 2004 Hour 2 arranged by Christopher Burnett (BMI).
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Credits: Burnett, alto saxophone; Roger Wilder, piano; Craig Akin, acoustic bass; David Basse, drums.
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Released: 2004. Track 1. Genre: Jazz.
Military Music Career: 1974 – 1996
This video features a rehearsal cassette tape recording of the Allied Forces Southern Europe (NATO) Saxophone Quartet, “ALLSAX” from the period of 1990-1992. This was a multi-national and multi-service military band made up of selected military musicians from NATO countries. This band no longer exists.
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The four members of the Allied Forces Southern Europe (NATO) Saxophone Quartet, “ALLSAX” were Christopher Burnett (soprano saxophone, US Army), Savvas Gritzelis (alto saxophone, Greek Army), Paul Carmichael (tenor saxophone, US Navy), Andrew Reisinger (baritone saxophone, US Navy).
- Portal: https://BurnettMusic.biz
- Muse: https://ChristopherBurnett.us + https://TerriBurnettFlute.com
- Teaching: https://BurnettSchool.net
- Portfolio: https://BurnettPublishing.com
- Nonprofit: https://YouthJazz.us
- Office: (913) 250-5141
- Mail: Post Office Box 47
Leavenworth, KS 66048-0047
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