Jonathan Helton

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Jonathan Helton (* 20th century) is an American saxophonist and music teacher .

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Helton graduated from the North Carolina School of the Art and earned his Masters and PhD degrees from Northwestern University . His main teachers were Frederick Hemke and James Houlik . Two Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarships enabled him to study with Daniel Deffayet at the Conservatoire de Paris and with Jean-Marie Londeix at the Conservatoire National de Région de Bordeaux . He is a professor of saxophone at the University of Florida , a board member of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Illinois State Music Teachers' Association, and an associate editor of The Saxophone Symposium . Here and in other music journals he published music-analytical writings and reviews; he also wrote a biography of the saxophonist and music teacher Frederick Hemke.

As a saxophonist he has performed with various American symphony orchestras, the United States Navy Band and the Twelfth and Fifteenth World Saxophone Congress Wind Orchestras . a. Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Tokyo, Taipei, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary, at the World Saxophone Congresses in Bangkok and Montreal, the conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) and at the 33 . US Navy band International Saxophone Symposium in Washington. He appeared on the radio and recorded CDs for the Centaur , Elf / Ludwig , Innova and Mark Records labels . His recording of Ingolf Dahl's saxophone concerto was nominated for a Grammy .

Discography

(with the University of Florida Wind Symphony under the direction of David Waybright )

  • Music for Saxophone and Cello :

Walk on Water - Dorothy Chang
Field Music: Ash - Jonathan Elliott
Lake Reflecting Stars with Moonrise - Augusta Read Thomas
Bid Call - Libby Larsen
Four Short Songs: a certain sadness - Mark Engebretson
Sonate pour saxophone alto et violoncelle - Edison Denisov
(with Steven Thomas , Cello)

  • American Music for Saxophone and Piano

Distances Within Me - John Anthony Lennon
Holy Roller - Libby Larsen
Odd Preludes - Jonathan Elliott
Sonata for saxophone and piano - William Albright
Summer Nocturne - Sherwood Shaffer
(with Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer , piano)

  • Mountain Music

Concerto for saxophone and wind orchestra - Ingolf Dahl
(with the University of Florida Wind Symphony under David Waybright )

  • July

July - Michael Torke
Quartet for Saxophones - Tayloe Harding
Quarette (Allegro de concert) - Caryl Florio
Quartet for Saxophones - Arthur Lauer
Escape to the Center - Dana Wilson
Quartet for Saxophones - Elliot del Borgo
(with the Chicago Saxophone Quartet : Wayne Richards , soprano saxophone ; Paul Bro , AS, Jonathan Helton, TS, James Kasprzyk , BS)

Five Pieces for Three Players - Yehuda Yannay
(with Frankie Kelly , clarinet and Linda Siegel , marimba)

  • Nostalgia Music From Northwestern , Vol. 8

Nostalgia - M. William Karlins
(with the Northwestern Alumni Saxophone Ensemble under John Boyd )

  • Voices Rising from the Reeds

Agnus Dei (from Winter's Dream) - Paul Harvey
(with the University of Florida Chorus under Will Kesling )

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SURNAME Helton, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American saxophonist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century