Matthew Sintchak

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Matthew Sintchak is an American saxophonist and music teacher.

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Matthew Sintchak studied from 1986 to 1988 at Boston University , then until 1990 at the New England Conservatory of Music with Kenneth Radnofsky and George Garzone (Bachelor). From 1990 to 1997 he continued his education at the Eastman School of Music with Ramon Ricker and obtained a Master's degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts. 1992–93 he took lessons from Claude Delangle at the Paris Conservatory . He has taught at the University of Hartford and the University of Iowa and has been Professor of Saxophone at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater since 2001 .

Sintchak gave master classes and concerts as a saxophone soloist in the USA, Canada, Europe, China and Japan. He has performed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra , the Portland Symphony Orchestra , the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and on two Japan tours with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and is a member of the Ancia Saxophone Quartet (with David Milne , Joan Hutton and Angela Wyatt ), the Duo Nouveau ( with guitarist Matthew Ardizzone ) and the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble . As an interpreter of works of new music, Sintchak has given more than twenty world premieres of compositions by contemporary composers such as John Harbison , Gunther Schuller , Lawrence Fritts , Mark Engebretson , Michael Colgrass and Yoshihisa Hirano .

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