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Two Evenings With Saxophone at Ursinus Feature George Wolfe/James Helton and Junction Saxophone Quartet

Ursinus
College will offer two performances featuring saxophone: George Wolfe and James
Helton on Sept. 12 and the Junction Saxophone Quartet on Sept. 15.
Both events, which are free and open to the public, will be held in Bomberger
Auditorium.



On Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m., saxophonist George Wolfe and pianist
James Helton will present a recital of saxophone and piano music inspired by
world cultures.



George Wolfe, a professor of saxophone at Ball State University, has
appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the United States Navy Band, the Saskatoon Symphony, the
World Band at Disney World,
the Chautauqua Motet
Choir, the
Indianapolis Children’s Choir.
He has presented master classes
at the Paris Conservatory, Indiana University, and the Interlochen Center for
the Arts, and he has taught as an artist-in-residence at Arizona State
University, Klagenfurt Conservatory (Austria), the University of Saskatchewan
(Canada), and at the University of San Jose in Costa Rica. From 2002-06, he served
as Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Ball State
University. He frequently lectures on arts and social injustice.

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James Helton, associate professor of piano at Ball
State University, has been heard in many states throughout the U.S. as
recitalist, collaborator, and orchestra soloist. He has worked with Pulitzer
Prize-winning composers George Crumb, William Bolcom, Lucas Foss and Joseph
Schwantner in concerts broadcast over public radio and television. For New
World Records, Helton collaborated with the Blair Woodwind Quintet on works by
composer Michael Kurek. He has served on the faculties of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He
is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and its state and local
affiliates, and currently serves on the Indiana state board as chairperson of
MTNA Collegiate Performance Competitions and as chairperson of MTNA first state
Committee on Collaborative Arts.



On Sept. 15 at 4 p.m., the
Junction Saxophone Quartet
,
a new, Pennsylvania-based chamber ensemble comprised of Todd Goranson, Amanda
Heim, Holly Hubbs, and Samuel Lorber, will perform new repertoire and standard
works for saxophone quartet. All active solo and chamber musicians and
college-level instructors (Hubbs is an associate professor of music at
Ursinus), they joined together in early 2013.

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Ursinus College
is a highly selective, independent coeducational liberal arts college located
on a scenic, wooded, 170-acre campus in suburban Philadelphia. The college is
one of only 8 percent of U.S. Colleges to host a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

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