Soprano Saxophone, Executive Director

Will was raised in San Antonio, TX, and from a young age, his interests have always been in flux — he bounced from soccer practice to the capoeira studio to drawing comics with his friends. His taste in music has also always been unpredictable. He is the kind of music fan who will become fixated on a particular artist, absorbing their music on repeat before inevitably moving on to something new and, more likely than not, very different.

The exception to this rule has been his love of making chamber music, which started when Will convinced his high school friends to form the, now award winning, Quid Nunc Saxophone Quartet. He attended Texas Tech University to study with David Dees and became a founding member of the Aruna Quartet. Will serves as Executive Director of the Aruna Quartet’s non-profit organization and continues to take a lead role in managing commissions, fundraising, and community outreach efforts.

Most recently, Will performed at the Divergent Studios festival in collaboration with composers Raven Chacon, Mark Applebaum, Alex Temple, and Pablo Chin. He was also recently featured as a concerto soloist, performing Florent Schmitt’s Legendé with the Texas Tech Symphony Orchestra and David Cho.

Will recently graduated from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with professor Chien-Kwan Lin, and made chamber music with the world-renowned Eastman Saxophone Project.

Alto Saxophone

Jose “Tony” Guzman is a native of Rio Grande City, TX. Much of his childhood was spent with a controller in hand, playing the video game Halo and trying to “go pro”. Fast forward 10 years, and he has not “gone pro”, but at least he can play the saxophone. All joking aside, Tony is Aruna’s resident Jack of all trades. By dawn he’s playing the stock market, by midday he’s working on his eBay store and by night he’s either practicing, writing articles on professional boxing, or maybe even playing some Halo.

Tenor Saxophone

Though he was born in New Jersey, Ryan has called Austin, Texas his home since 2005. After graduating from Vandegrift High School in 2014, he went on to study music at Texas Tech University, where he became a founding member of the Aruna Quartet. He earned his master's degree in saxophone performance from Texas Tech University in 2021 and currently resides in Austin, Texas. In addition to music, Ryan has a passion for other artistic mediums. The most notable being video games, which he discusses in various videos on Youtube.

Baritone Saxophone

Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Andrew’s musical journey began during his middle school years by playing bass guitar in a garage band with his neighborhood street hockey friends. The group, “Cheer Up Charlie,” had a dream of joining the wave of early-mid 2000s alternative rock bands and aspired to become the next Hawthorne Heights. By the 8th grade, Cheer up Charlie disbanded due to ‘creative differences’ which prompted Andrew to shift his focus to the world of percussion. After a short stint playing bass drum in a South Carolina marching percussion ensemble, Andrew’s love for making questionable low noises eventually manifested in the saxophone. After many years of studying music in school and playing in many different types of ensembles, Andrew finally found the perfect home serving as the baritone saxophonist of the Aruna Quartet.