John Sampen
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John Sampen is an American classical saxophonist.
Sampen holds degrees from Northwestern University (B.M., 1971; M.M., 1972; and Doctor of Music, 1984), and his teachers have 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.
Sampen performs on the alto and soprano sizes of the instrument. 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.
