Studio
Using her extensive knowledge and experience in the fields of composition, arranging, recording, and audio production, Lexie Signor is able to provide ultra-high quality horn stacks for projects of all types.
From theater, horn section solis for your upcoming album, to commercials for radio and television, Lexie's studio work has you covered.
She has recorded lead trumpet, section trumpet, jazz trumpet, French horn, flugelhorn, trombone, saxophone, and tuba tracks for her own projects. She also composes and arranges music for any ensemble or genre including horn-driven rock, salsa, big band, small-group jazz, matching and concert band and a cappella vocal ensembles, as well as voice-over work.
Rates for different types of projects vary based on intensity and length of production. Typically, a starting rate for horn arranging starts at $100/hr. Voice over starts at $250/hr. Each project is completely individual so production costs do vary, but she's always willing to work within a budget; additionally she is well-versed in the needs of academic ensembles and funding formats.
Podcast
The Rogue Academic
The Rogue Academic is a weekly podcast, highlighting those who often had a nontraditional path in education, music, and other creative fields. Join Lexie as she interviews fascinating guests each week and asks them to share their experience and expertise in an ever-changing job market. While things may not have worked out as you expected, being resourceful is an evergreen skill!
Books
The Practical Guide to Big Band Terminology and Symbols
While Lexie was touring with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra and playing her way up and down the East Coast, she had the opportunity to study in some of the world's most famous jazz libraries such as the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. Yes, to her those are jazz libraries! She was looking at sheet music from well-known big band composers from the years 1957-1975 to find the most commonly used terminology and symbols so that she could compile this podium-friendly ready reference just for you! This book is meant for anyone who loves playing big band music in or out of the classroom but is particularly geared toward the non-jazz music educator. Dr. Signor hopes it makes your lives a little easier and she's looking forward to adding two more volumes in coming years to create the world's FIRST comprehensive glossary of big and terminology and symbols!
What Now?!
Before the pandemic, Lexie was learning about the world the hard way from a third story walk up outside of Philadelphia. She was working as a freelancing musician and had the misfortune of being stuck on stage with a lot of openly misogynistic musicians and she had had enough of the comments, poor treatment, and bullying she was experiencing. Without a safety net, I quit the one gig that was paying most of the bills and decided to strike out on my own for better or worse. At the time, she was tasked with coming up with some material to send to band directors so that they may be inspired to hire her to work with their bands. So, with a glass of wine and no real direction she did a free-writing experiment that yielded fifty-two pages of nuggets of great advice and quips that had helped her keep my sanity up until that point. She was a little lost as to what she was going to do with this until she realized that this would make a really funny and poignant little coffee table book and so What Now?! was born. Simply think of a stuck point or a problem you're trying to solve and then close your eyes and flip through the book 'til it feels like you should stop. Open these pages and the answer is there for you! Sure, it might not seem directly relevant but all philosophy is subjective anyway, right?
Speaking
In 2021, Lexie was given an amazing opportunity to share my story of navigating the world of the freelancing musician and making the jump to full-time academic. She was teaching full time at a state university and had just received my autism diagnosis. It was around this time that, after having been discriminated against by my colleagues both due to my age and gender that she decided to shed some light on what it is really like to be a woman in the academic field of music. There are some striking parallels between both businesses, and ultimately the disparity of pay, professional treatment, and lack of opportunity for promotion led her to leave both industries and go into business as a private music educator, full-time freelancing musician, classroom clinician, and performance consultant. Thank you for coming to her TED Talk...literally!