Perry Roth is on the faculties at Kent State University, Duquesne University, The College of Wooster and holds the tenor saxophone chair in the Barkada Quartet. As an avid performer, he has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony, the Heights Chamber Orchestra, the Tuscarawas Philharmonic, the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, the JACK Quartet, the American Modern Ensemble, and the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra.

He previously taught at The Hartt School and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In the summers, he has taught with the Yale School of Music—Morse Summer Music Academy and the American Saxophone Academy. Dr. Roth held fellowships at New Music on the Point and Yale’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, New Music Workshop, and at the Brevard Music Center

He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Hartt School, University of Hartford; a Master of Music degree from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of South Carolina.