{"id":151,"date":"2015-05-22T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2015-05-22T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:30:02","slug":"nathan-bogert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/performers\/amigo-saxophone-collective\/nathan-bogert\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Bogert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nathan Bogert<\/h2>\n

For the past several years, Nathan Bogert has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Belgium, Mexico, Japan, and Brazil both as a soloist and with various ensembles. Described as \u201cunbelievably stunning\u201d by Sequenza 21 of the Contemporary Classical Music Community, Nathan\u2019s musical endeavors have offered him the opportunity to perform in venues ranging from the Chautauqua Institute in New York to the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall at the Universit\u00e9 Concordia-Loyola in Montreal, Quebec and the historic Andy\u2019s Jazz Club in Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n

Bogert began his applied saxophone studies with Mr. Ron Jones of Louisville, Kentucky with whom he studied both classical and jazz saxophone. After graduating from the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky, he continued saxophone studies with Dr. George Wolfe at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Dr. Wolfe, describes him as \u201ca deeply expressive performer.\u201d Bogert recently completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Saxophone at the University of Iowa. In 2010, he completed a Master’s in Jazz Studies at the same institution. At the University of Iowa, he studied saxophone with Dr. Kenneth Tse.<\/p>\n

Bogert has been a featured soloist with the Youth Performing Arts School Wind Ensemble, the Ball State Symphony Orchestra, the Ball State Jazz Lab Ensemble, the University of Iowa Jazz Repertory Ensemble, the University of Iowa\u2019s Johnson County Landmark and the University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra. He has also premiered compositions by American composers Dr. Jody Nagel, Dr. Benjamin Fuhrman, and Dr. Israel Neumann. He participated in the premiere of Nagel\u2019s saxophone quartet composition\u00a0Star<\/em>\u00a0and has also appeared with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Dr. Nagel\u2019s\u00a0Sui Generis<\/em>. Dr. Nagel also wrote a saxophone duet for Bogert entitled\u00a0Spirals out of Control<\/em>. With Israel Neumann, Bogert has been working on projects involving interactive improvisation with innovative computer software that is controlled by another performer, but responds instantaneously to the sounds from the saxophone.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Bogert was selected as the first ever overall winner of the Yamaha Young Performing Artists competition after performing for an audience exceeding 3,000 people at Illinois State University\u2019s Braden Auditorium. He was also awarded first place in the Ball State University Concerto Competition and the University of Iowa Concerto Competition. Most recently, Bogert won first prizes in both the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance classical solo competition (at the Biennial conference at Arizona State University) and the 2012 Music Teachers National Association young artist competition held in New York City. In 2010, he was awarded 2nd prize in the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) quartet competition as the baritone saxophonist of the Axius Saxophone Quartet as well as 2nd prize in the classical solo competition. As a member of Axius, he was also awarded 1st prize in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) national chamber music competition and a silver medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.<\/p>\n

Bogert has worked with esteemed saxophonists such as Claude Delangle, Eugene Rousseau, Timothy McAllister, Kenneth Tse, Joseph Wytko, Patrick Meighan, Bill Street, and Jean-Marie Londeix. His passion for jazz has led him to share the stage with jazz artists Wayne Bergeron, Andy Milne, Winnard Harper, Ted Nash, Jimmy Greene, Marcus Printup, Andy Martin, Chuck Findley, Buddy DeFranco, Don Aliquo, Denis DiBlasio, and Carmen Bradford. With his band Groove Theory, Dr. Bogert has garnered regional attention as a gifted young jazz saxophonist. Legendary jazz critic Scott Yanow describes Bogert as a \u201cpassionate\u201d saxophonist in his review of Cassius Goens III\u2019s album\u00a0Transition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan Bogert For the past several years, Nathan Bogert has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Belgium, Mexico, Japan, and Brazil both as a soloist and with various ensembles. Described as \u201cunbelievably stunning\u201d by Sequenza 21 of the Contemporary Classical Music Community, Nathan\u2019s musical endeavors have offered him the opportunity to perform in venues ranging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":181,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}