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Frederick L. Hemke

sax, *1935 US, Milwaukee
Musician / Composer of Classical

Fred Hemke, DMA (né Frederick Leroy Hemke, Jr.; born July 11, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American virtuoso classical saxophonist and influential, long-standing professor of saxophone at Northwestern University. Hemke helped raise the popularity of classical saxophone, particularly among leading American composers and helped raise the recognition of classical saxophone in solo, chamber, and major orchestral repertoire. For a half century, from 1962 to 2012, Hemke was a full-time faculty music educator at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. In 2002, Hemke was named Associate Dean Emeritus of the School of Music. Hemke retired from Northwestern University in 2012. From the start of his career in the early 1960s, building on the achievements of earlier influential Americ

Instruments

• Saxophone
• Alto sax

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