Saxophone Quartet Performs
	The Ithaca College Visiting Artists Series continues on Tuesday, March 31, with a performance by the New Century Saxophone Quartet. The 8:15 p.m. performance in Ford Hall Auditorium is free and open to the public. The only saxophone quartet ever to win first prize of the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition, the New Century Saxophone Quartet is known for its versatility and enthusiasm for the saxophone quartet and its diverse repertory. The quartet is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where members Michael Stephenson, James Boatman, Stephen Pollock, and Brad Hubbard met while attending the North Carolina School of the Arts. After making its New York debut in 1993 at the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, the quartet was praised by the New York Post for a "virtuosic display of dexterity and keen ensemble work." Other performances have been around the United States, in Central America, and in Europe. The quartet has been featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and on North Carolina Public TV. Other engagements have included a command performance at the White House and a first-ever performance by a saxophone quartet at the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles. The group’s Ithaca performance will include works by Sherwood Shaffer, Lenny Pickett, and Arthur Frackenpohl. These works were all written for the group. Represented by the Concert Artists Guild, the quartet has released two compact discs from Channel Classics Records.