Florida Chamber Saxophonists
 from USA The Florida Chamber Saxophonists was founded in 2011 by Jonathan Helton to foster the creation and appreciation of music written for small chamber works with saxophone. Featured performers include Jonathan Helton, Professor of saxophone at the University of Florida, Michael Bovenzi, Assistant Professor of saxophone at the University of North Florida, and Geoffrey Deibel, Visiting Assistant Professor of saxophone at the University of Florida. Between them, these artists have performed in the United States, Canada, France, England, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, China, Singapore, and Thailand. Dr Helton presents frequent concert and masterclass tours in North America, Asia, and Europe. His teachers included Frederick Hemke, Daniel Deffayet, Jean-Marie Londeix, James Houlik, and Joe Allard. He is a past President of the North American Saxophone Alliance. Helton is a Conn-Selmer Artist-Clinician. Dr Bovenzi performed and premiered numerous works at national meetings of NASA and SEAMUS. His teachers included Debra Richtmeyer, Jonathan Helton, and Joe Lulloff. Dr Deibel has performed at Darmstadt, Xenakis festivals, in Europe, Asia, and the UK. Geoff won the Fischoff and NASA Competitions with the h2 quartet. His teachers include Joseph Lulloff, Frederick Hemke, Leo Saguiguit, Jonathan Helton, and Reginald Jackson. Geoff is a Rico Performing Artist. |
Four For Two - Sarah HershSarah Hersh (www.sarahhersh.com) is an Atlanta-based composer, music blogger and Business Director for the new music group Terminus Ensemble. Her work has been performed in the United States and Italy. Four for Two is a new work written for Jonathan Helton and Michael Bovenzi. Disjointed fragments of three of the four main ideas in the piece are presented in the first fifteen seconds of music, foreshadowing everything that follows. As each idea returns in context and fully realized, it completes the thoughts that were voiced at the beginning of the piece.Doo-Dah - William AlbrightAmerican composer William Albright (1944-1998), best known in the saxophone world for his landmark Sonata, was an organist, pianist and saxophone professor at the University of Michigan. He wrote over 40 works for saxophone. The title of this work, Doo-Dah, is a reference to the jazz influence in the piece. The work uses the timbral effects of the instruments to create unique sounds and colors which seem to expand the effect of the piece far beyond that of a typical trio. |
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