Anne Kunkle

Masterclass Sunday, March 30, 1:00pm - 2:15pm RECITAL HALL Mb1

Sonata for Tenor Saxophone      James Dipasquali  (b. 1941)

            Andante

            Adagio non troppo

            Allegro con Brio

Sara Powell, tenor saxophone (West Chester U.)

I-Fei Chen-Markham, piano

Concerto for Alto Saxophone     Paul Creston (1906-1985)

I. Energetic                                          

Owen Smith, alto saxophone (Susquehanna University)

I-Fei Chen-Markham, piano

Anne Kunkle is an award-winning saxophonist and educator based in Rochester, New York. She made her Chicago debut at the Chicago Cultural Center as the First Prize winner of the 2018 Musician’s Club of Women Competition. As soprano chair of the Khroma Saxophone Quartet, Anne was awarded the Silver Medal at the 2019 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. She frequently collaborates with contemporary composers and continues to perform at nationwide events while committing to education and outreach.

Anne has performed at prestigious venues across the United States including the Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Internationally, she has performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing with the Eastman Saxophone Project, as well as the Esplanade Theater in Singapore, where she performed and recorded an album of Shostakovich’s music with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton.

Currently Anne is the Instructor of Saxophone at Syracuse University Setnor School of Music, Nazareth University, and an Adjunct Professor of Saxophone at Houghton University. For her work at the Eastman Community Music School, she received the Jack L. Frank award for excellence in teaching.

Anne earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance and Literature with a minor in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, where she was a member of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and former Assistant Director and chief arranger of the Eastman Saxophone Project. She also received her Bachelor of Music with High Distinction in Saxophone Performance and Music Education from Eastman, and a Master of Music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Anne was inaugurated into the Beta Pi Eastman Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda for her academic excellence and earned a certificate from the Eastman Arts Leadership Program. Her primary teachers include Chien-Kwan Lin and Debra Richtmeyer. Anne is a Selmer Artist.