Sax Quartet Sees Statewide Acclaim
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
WINONA LAKE - The Grace Saxophone Quartet was formed in the fall of 1998 at Grace College, Winona Lake. Recognized for its excellence, the group has played for a number of colleges and universities in northeast Indiana as well as during high school and community arts organization programs.
The quartet performed at the Indiana Music Educators Association Conference in 2000 with a performance planned at the conference Friday in Indianapolis.
The group will play at the MENC North Central Division Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 25. The quartet has earned a reputation for playing the best in French and American saxophone repertoire as well as ragtime, jazz, classical transcriptions and popular music. The quartet is in the process of recording a second CD.
Members of the Grace Saxophone Quartet are soprano and alto saxophonist Andrew Brightbill, a graduate of Grace College with a master's, specialized ministry degree; alto saxophonist the Rev. Rodney Bollman, assistant pastor of the Pleasant View Bible Church in Warsaw; baritone saxophonist Benjamin Essick, a Grace College freshman studying for a bachelor's degree in management and information technologies; and tenor saxophonist Dr. James Chandler, a music faculty member of Grace College, who is the group's director.
Chandler also teaches clarinet, saxophone and woodwind methods at Grace College and in Fort Wayne. [[In-content Ad]]
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WINONA LAKE - The Grace Saxophone Quartet was formed in the fall of 1998 at Grace College, Winona Lake. Recognized for its excellence, the group has played for a number of colleges and universities in northeast Indiana as well as during high school and community arts organization programs.
The quartet performed at the Indiana Music Educators Association Conference in 2000 with a performance planned at the conference Friday in Indianapolis.
The group will play at the MENC North Central Division Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 25. The quartet has earned a reputation for playing the best in French and American saxophone repertoire as well as ragtime, jazz, classical transcriptions and popular music. The quartet is in the process of recording a second CD.
Members of the Grace Saxophone Quartet are soprano and alto saxophonist Andrew Brightbill, a graduate of Grace College with a master's, specialized ministry degree; alto saxophonist the Rev. Rodney Bollman, assistant pastor of the Pleasant View Bible Church in Warsaw; baritone saxophonist Benjamin Essick, a Grace College freshman studying for a bachelor's degree in management and information technologies; and tenor saxophonist Dr. James Chandler, a music faculty member of Grace College, who is the group's director.
Chandler also teaches clarinet, saxophone and woodwind methods at Grace College and in Fort Wayne. [[In-content Ad]]