![]() George Wolfe Professor of Music Performance View e-mail address | Log in to view e-mail w/your BSU Username MI 208 (765) 285-5418 Fax: 285-5401 School of Music Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 Add Contact Info to Outlook Biography Saxophonist George Wolfe has performed extensively throughout the Wolfe’s teacher, Eugene Rousseau, describes him as "an artist of exceptional ability and great sensitivity." Critics have praised his playing as "brilliant and moving." His recordings have won praise from Steven Ellis of Fanfare Magazine and jazz great David Baker. Thomas Liley, writing in the Saxophone Symposium, states: "...Wolfe performs with beautiful tone, impeccable intonation, and assured technique in a wide range of stylistic contexts...He negotiates the wide range of dynamics and of register with exceptional ease." Critic John Lambert writing in the Winston Salem Spectator, described Wolfe’s performance as “a deeply satisfying and moving artistic experience.” Dr. Wolfe holds a Performance Certificate from Indiana University and is a featured soloist on seven volumes of the compact disk series America’s Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax distributed by Arizona University Recordings. He has presented master classes at the Paris Conservatory, Indiana University, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and he has taught as an artist-in-residence at Arizona State University, Klagenfurt Conservatory ( Dr. Wolfe received his Doctorate in Higher Education from Indiana University.From 2002 -2006, he served as Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Ball State University and taught an interdisciplinary class on the history and philosophy of non-violence. Wolfe performs each summer at Chautauqua Institution, where he has taught a class on Christianity and the History of Nonviolence in America. At Chautauqua he has also spoken on the topic Countering Political Extremism. He frequently lectures on topics related to peace education and the role of the arts in the fight against social injustice. His lecture-recital, Music as a Form of Protest, features a video-acoustic composition by Martin Wesley Smith entitled Weapons of Mass Distortion. As a result of his contribution to Peace Studies and his performance of protest music, Professor Wolfe has been recognized by national conservative commentator David Horowitz as one of the “101 most dangerous academics in |