Playing & Teaching the Saxophone: A Modern Approach

Playing & Teaching the Saxophone: A Modern Approach provides a method for teaching the saxophone that is specific enough to use as a textbook in a collegiate saxophone methods class, simple enough for a band director to use in guiding their saxophone sections, clear enough for adult beginners to teach themselves the instrument, and deep enough for professionals to use as a resource in teaching private lessons at any level.

Allison D. Adams is Associate Professor of Saxophone at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and a member of the Nief-Norf Contemporary Music Ensemble. A frequent performer with the Knoxville Symphony, she has also presented recitals and lectures at events such as the World Saxophone Congress, the International Saxophone Symposium, and NASA Conferences. Her saxophone quartet, The Estrella Consort, was appointed ensemble-in-residence at the 2022 Alba Music Festival Composition Program in Italy. Adams previously served on the faculties of Ithaca College and Cornell University. Her main saxophone teachers include Steven Mauk, Eugene Rousseau, and Timothy McAllister.

Brian R. Horner has designed a multifaceted career as a saxophonist, educator, artist manager, author, and entrepreneur. A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music where he studied with Donald Sinta, his 15-year university teaching career has included appointments at Middle Tennessee State University, Austin Peay State University, the University of Tennessee, and Western Kentucky University. Horner has appeared at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, and New York City's Mannes College of Music, and has performed with the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and the Gateway Chamber Orchestra. He has premiered more than a dozen new works for saxophone, and his recordings with pianist Elizabeth Avery include Saxophone Music of M. Zachary Johnson--Live At Steinway Hall, and Serenade - Music for Saxophone & Piano, and garnered a cover feature in Saxophone Journal.