Benjamin Boone

Benjamin Boone performing on the occasion of the Erlanger Poetenfest 2012

Benjamin Boone (* 1963 in Statesville , North Carolina ) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and music teacher.

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Boone studied at the University of Tennessee , Boston University and the University of South Carolina , where his teachers included Jerry Coker , Gordon Goodwin , Charles Fussell , John A. Lennon and Bernard Rands . He has taught at various universities in the United States and received the 1999 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching . Since 2000 he has been an assistant professor at California State University, Fresno . He has also given lectures and master classes at the Univeritatea de Stat Alec Russo in Moldova, the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, the University of Erlangen , the Charles University in Prague and the University of Cape Town .

He composed works for solo instruments, chamber music, orchestral works and works for jazz ensembles. As the leader of his own jazz quartet, he performed with musicians such as Donald Ray Brown , Ernie Watts , Slide Hampton and Randy Brecker . With Louis Bellson and Peter Erskine he gave the world premiere of Bellson's Concerto for Three Percussionists . He has received awards from ASCAP , Billboard Magazine , Boston University, and the National Association of Composers for his compositions . Works by Boone have been recorded on CD by musicians such as the National Flute Choir , the cellist Elizabeth Morrow , the clarinetist F. Gerard Errante , the saxophonist Cliff Leaman and the violinist Stefan Poetzsch , with whom he also composed pieces.

In addition, Boone worked as a music manager in New York and participated in scientific recordings of infrasound communication of rhinos in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Works

Come to me now for male voices and studio orchestra, 1983
Blue Eyes for male voices and studio orchestra, 1984
Young Folks for jazz combo, 1986
Alesims for alto saxophone and string orchestra, 1987
Night for Jazz Combo, 1987
The Smoke Filled Saloon for violin and piano, 1987
Genesis: A Geyer's Poem for horn and piano, 1987, 1990
Tribute to Debussy's Syrinx for flute, 1989, 1999
Le Pont Mirabeau (based on the poem by Guillaume Apollinaire ) for chamber ensemble, 1990
Black Tears for jazz combo, 1990
The Gospel Hour for alto saxophone and tuba or trombone, 1990
Harlem Sunset for jazz combo, 1991
Harlem Sunset for alto saxophone and piano, 1991, 2006
Hitchcock Woods , 1993
Election Year for Saxophone, 1994, 2001
Buffing the Gut: A Jazz Etude for Solo Cello , 1995
Alley Dance for saxophone quartet, 1996
Black and Blue for narrator and tape, 1996
Jenks: A Dance Remembered for dancers, clarinet and tape, 1996
Squeeze for alto saxophone and orchestra, 1997
Sky on the Plain for chamber orchestra, 1997
Over the Edge for flute choir, 1997
The Good Doctor for string quartet and narrator, 1998
East and Shallows for string quartet and narrator, 1998
Volunteer Fanfare for four trumpets, bass trumpets and timpani, 1998, 2003
Holiday Fanfare for six trumpets, 1998, 2003
Rush hour for jazz combo, 1999
We Wish You a Merry Christmas for saxophone quartet, 2000
My Favorite Things for saxophone quartet, 2000
We Four (Three) Things for saxophone quartet, 2000
Psychotherapy: A Sonata for Alt Saxophone and Piano , 2000, 2004
Drunken Bastards # 2 for soprano saxophone and piano, 2001
Remembrance for saxophone, 2001
Squeeze for alto saxophone and band, 2001, 2004
Rafflesia for flute, 2002
Vicissitudes for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble, 2003
Vicissitudes for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble, 2003
Abstract contacts for saxophone, violin and dancer, 2003
Dream Hereafter for mezzo-soprano and piano (text: Helene Joseph-Weil ), 2004
9-12: Voices Echo for wind ensemble and recorded voices, 2003 * Concerto for Baritone Saxophon and Orchestra , 2005
Serenade for flute choir or quartet, 2005
Celebration for flute choir or quartet, 2005
Triumph for wind ensemble, 2006
Star Spangled Banner for saxophone quartet, 2006
Five Funny Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano (text: Ralph Katherman ), 2006
Not Today for saxophone and piano, 2006
Amazing Grace for alto saxophone and piano, 2006
Stained Glass Spirit for mezzo-soprano and piano (text: Nadine Alexis Weil ), 2007
Joropo Jam for alto saxophone and guitar, 2007
Inside Antics for piano, 2007
Child's Play for piano, 2007
How Composers Title Their Works: What Happens When Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Hindemith and Schubert Hang out in a Bar , 2007
Founding Fathers for three storytellers and tape, 2007
Numbers for two storytellers and tape, 2007
Ascencion: An Ethno-historical Cantata after Helene Joseph-Weil, 2008
Playing with Fire for chamber ensemble, 2008
Film music for The Nerd by Karl Valentin

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SURNAME	Boone, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, music teacher, jazz saxophonist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Statesville , North Carolina