John Harle

English saxophonist John Harle (b. 1956) is one of the world's leading Saxophonists in the Concert Hall today. He has recorded more than 25 Concerto and Recital CDs, his solo recording of concerti by Debussy, Villa-Lobos and Glazunov having sold over 200,000 copies to date, and he has performed in Concertos with many of the major Orchestras in the World. He has had over twenty five concerti written for him, by composers such as John Tavener, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Torke and Harrison Birtwistle (Panic given in 1995 at the Last Night of the Proms). In 1996, Harle's own work, Terror and Magnificence, recorded by Decca, was performed on tour by himself with Elvis Costello.