John Harle
Saxophone

John Harle is one of the world's leading Saxophonists. He has recorded more than 25 concerto and recital CDs and has performed concertos with many of the world's major conductors and orchestras including Riccardo Chailly, Michael Tilson Thomas, Andrew Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Franz Welser-Most and the London Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, English Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, BBC Concert Orchestra and Lucerne Symphony.

He has had more than twenty five concerti written for him by composers including John Tavener, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Torke and Harrison Birtwistle. John is also a distinguished composer himself having written more than 35 concert works and over 40 film and television scores receiving a Royal Television Society award for his theme to BBC 1's Silent Witness, and nominations for Defence of the Realm and Summer in the Suburbs, as well as a Grammy nomination for Terror and Magnificence.

In recital, John Harle works regularly with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and John Lenehan. He has also collaborated with Willard White, the Brodsky Quartet, Evelyn Glennie, and the Guildhall Strings.

Since 1989 John Harle was appointed Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.