What Can Saxofonix Offer Your School, College, & Community?

Share our passion for education, jazz, classical music, world music, popular music, and chamber music through audience-centered presentations, clinics, workshops, and community concerts. We bring decades of pedagogical experience to your school, college, and community, covering a wide range of topics. Saxofonix can offer our services completely catered to the specific needs and desires of the school and the community in which they take place. Saxofonix is completely suitable to work with K-12 schools, colleges, and beyond. The band can work with your students during the school day, or in before/after school clinics.

Whether it’s for an entire wind band, entire jazz band, entire woodwind section, entire saxophone section, or 1-on-1 coaching, Saxofonix will bring some of the finest musicians and educators in Illinois to your event and you won’t be disappointed! Feel free to invite neighboring schools/colleges to combine for an awesome opportunity for all of the saxophonists and woodwind players in your district. We offer a variety of discussion topics and activities (in addition to our live show) based on the age and grade of your students. Here are some examples:

Elementary & Middle School Presentations/Clinics/Workshops/Concerts
Topics & Activities Include:
-Sound and song recognition
-Each member of group performs for kids so they can hear the sonic capabilities for each saxophone from sweet to the extremes.
-Discussion of the history of the saxophone
-Discussion about developing good practice techniques
-Discussion about each member’s background and how we developed in music
-A basic introduction to instrument construction and sound production
-During our live performance, have kids draw on paper what the music makes them think of and then discuss afterwards
-Q & A Session

High School Presentations/Clinics/Workshops/Concerts
Topics & Activities Include:
-Careers in music
-Improvisation
-Saxophone/woodwind gear talk
-The art of ensemble playing AND listening
-Self-promotion in the 21st century
-Big band, jazz band, concert band, solo & ensemble coaching
-How to prepare for music school/college
-Brief tech/repair discussion from tenor saxophonist and master repairman, Andy Schlinder
-Discussion about each member’s background and how we developed in music
-How to rehearse in a chamber group
-A reading/sight-reading session with your saxophonists
-A possible collaborative performance with your jazz band or concert band, in addition to our solo performance
-Q & A Session

College & Community Presentations/Clinics/Workshops/Concerts
Topics & Activities Include:
-Careers in music
-Improvisation
-Saxophone/woodwind gear talk
-Recording technology and live technology
-Discussion about writing and doing commissions for saxophone quartet and its limitations
-The art of ensemble playing AND listening
-Self-promotion in the 21st century and being a music entrepreneur
-Discussion about each member’s background and how we developed in music
-Big band, jazz band, concert band, solo & ensemble coaching
-Preparing for life after college as a member of the music industry
-Brief tech/repair talk discussion from tenor saxophonist and master repairman, Andy Schlinder
-How to rehearse in a chamber group
-A reading/sight-reading session with your saxophonists
-A possible collaborative performance with your jazz band or concert band, in addition to our solo performance
-Composer readings, where composition majors write music for saxophone quartet and Saxofonix will read/perform it
-Q & A Session

For information on hiring Saxofonix for your school, college, community, or any other type of event, please contact:

SSB Intl Band Booking
Attn: Steve
Chicago, IL
312-399-3936
saxofonix@protonmail.ch