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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)

Songs

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Burlesque
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Facades (feat. Marilyn Shrude)
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Renewing the Myth
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Shadows and Dawning
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Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Ensemble: I. First Movement
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Albums

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Electric Saxophone II

2015
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Distant Visions

1999
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Shadows and Dawning

2002
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The Electric Saxophone

1997
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Shrude, M.: Shadows and Dawning / Albright: Alto Saxophone Sonata

2002
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The Contemporary Saxophone

1992
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Visions in Metaphor

2001
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Shadows And Images

1985

Singles & EPs

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Trio Music of Marilyn Shrude

EP • 2021

Videos

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Paul Schoenfield "Burlesque"

Martha-fluterunner • 1.2K views
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Renewing the Myth

chunhaoku • 1.3K views
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Vache Sharafyan Sonata for Saxophone and Piano John Sampen & Marylin Shrude premiere

Vache Sharafyan • 1.1K views
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3rd JMLISC Noa Even USA Renewing to the myth by M Schrude

AdolphesaxTV • 1.1K views
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RENEWING THE MYTH ドルチェ新人　Ｙｏ，ＭＡＴＳＵＳＨＩＴＡ

Yo Matsushita Classics • 636 views
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3rd JMLISC Yo Matsushita (Japan) Renewing the myth by M. Schrude

AdolphesaxTV • 1.2K views