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John Sampen
John Sampen is an American classical saxophonist. Sampen's degrees are from Northwestern University. His teachers included Frederick Hemke, Larry Teal, and Donald Sinta. He has served as professor of saxophone at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio since 1977. His wife is the composer and pianist Marilyn Shrude. Sampen plays all types of the saxophone. He specializes in new music, and has commissioned over 60 new works for these instruments, from composers such as Samuel Adler, William Albright, Milton Babbitt, William Bolcom, John Cage, Michael Colgrass, John Harbison, Donald Martino, Ryo Noda, Pauline Oliveros, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Elliott Schwartz, Marilyn Shrude, Morton Subotnick, and Vladimir Ussachevsky. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sampen) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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Albums
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Electric Saxophone II 2015
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Shadows and Dawning 2002
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Shrude, M.: Shadows and Dawning / Albright: Alto Saxophone Sonata 2002
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Visions in Metaphor 2001
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Distant Visions 1999
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The Electric Saxophone 1997
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The Contemporary Saxophone 1992
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Shadows And Images 1985
Singles & EPs
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Trio Music of Marilyn Shrude EP2021
Videos See All
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Vache Sharafyan Sonata for Saxophone and Piano John Sampen & Marylin Shrude premiere Vache Sharafyan1.1K views
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3rd JMLISC Noa Even USA Renewing to the myth by M Schrude AdolphesaxTV1.1K views
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RENEWING THE MYTH ドルチェ新人 Yo,MATSUSHITA Yo Matsushita Classics637 views
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3rd JMLISC Yo Matsushita (Japan) Renewing the myth by M. Schrude AdolphesaxTV1.2K views