George Wolfe
Saxophone, Improv, Hindi Music
Website: cms.bsu.edu
YouTube Channel

Dr. George Wolfe has performed extensively throughout the United States and has also concertized in Europe, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Canada, India, Korea and Japan. He has been heard on radio stations across the US and has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the United States Navy Band, the Saskatoon Symphony, the World Band at Disney World, the Chautauqua Motet Choir, The Indianapolis Children’s Choir, and the Royal Band of the Belgian Air force. Critics have praised his playing as “brilliant and moving.” John Lambert, writing in the Winston Salem Spectator, described Wolfe’s performance as “a deeply satisfying and moving artistic experience.” His CD, Le Saxophone Mélodieux, was released in June of 2009 and the sequel CD, Le Saxophone Extraordinaire, became available in September of 2013.

Wolfe holds a Performance Certificate from Indiana University where he studied with Eugene Rousseau and Daniel Deffayet. He is in his 32nd year teaching at Ball State University and is featured on eight 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 (Austria), the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and at the University of San Jose in Costa Rica. He was also the recipient of an open fellowship award from the Eli Lilly Endowment to study Hindustani music in New Delhi, India and at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California. In 1997, Ball State University awarded Wolfe its Outstanding Creative Endeavor award for his CD entitled Lifting the Veil.

Professor Wolfe also has been an active performer of protest music. He served as director of the Ball State Center for Peace and Conflict Studies from 2002 to 2006. Arun Gandhi and peace educator Michael N. Nagler have endorsed his recently published book entitled The Spiritual Power of Nonviolence: Interfaith Understanding for a Future without War. Wolfe has been named by national conservative commentator David Horowitz as one of the “101 most dangerous academics in America.”