The Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival celebrates new and experimental music for saxophone. It explores the nearly unlimited sonic potential of the saxophone through new composition, improvisation, extended performance techniques, microtonality, electronic music, multimedia, and other experimental elements. The festival features performances by the Augustana saxophone students and faculty, as well as an annual guest artist. These performances often challenge and expand our ideas about music as they push the saxophone to its technical and expressive limits.

All events are free and open to the public.

10:30 am Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival: Student recital and~Nois masterclass.
The first event at 10:30 a.m. will include a student recital and saxophone masterclass with members of the ~Nois saxophone quartet.

The second event at 2 p.m. will include a performance from Dr. Randall Hall, Augustana professor of music and founder and artistic director of the festival. He has recorded on several labels and his compositions are published on Reed Music. In addition to saxophone, Dr. Hall also teaches improvisation, music theory and electronic music.

The final event at 7:30 p.m. will feature a performance from the Nois saxophone quartet.