is an multi-award winning saxophonist and a Selmer Paris artist. He enjoys a successful and busy career. Mr. Barnfield’s playing has been described as:
“One admires Barnfield’s virtuosity and his control of the instrument, but one never loses sight of the deeply felt musicality that underlies every phrase he plays”. Henry Fogel-Dean Chicago’s College of Performing Arts.
Mr. Barnfield performs frequently with the Kentucky Opera and the Grammy-Award winning Louisville Orchestra. He performed with Teddy Abrams conducting Walton’s Facade and was saxophone soloist on Milhaud’s Creation of the World. Performances with the Kentucky Opera included saxophone soloist on Massenet Werther and Pevin’s A Streetcar Named Desire and the brand new Opera, Enemies: a Love Story. Furthermore he has played most of the standard orchestral repertoire with saxophone and orchestra. Mr. Barnfield has also been a soloist with several bands and orchestras throughout the region.
Barnfield has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Barnfield has performed at several regional, national, and international conferences including the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, North American Saxophone Alliance conferences held in Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Arizona and Iowa, the World Saxophone Congress held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the United States Navy Band Symposium in Fairfax, Virginia. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Murray State University Orchestra, Murray State University Wind Ensemble, Southern Illinois Concert Band, Indiana State University Wind Ensemble, Indiana University Southeast Concert Band and Chamber Winds Louisville. Mr. Barnfield was also principal saxophonist with the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Youth Wind Orchestra in San Obispo, California and Lucerne, Switzerland.
As a recording artist, he can be heard on labels such as Mark Custom Recordings, Amos Recordings in Switzerland, New Dynamic Records and Centaur Records. Mr. Barnfield has championed new music by commissioning pieces from composers such as David Salleras, David Maslanka, Perry Goldstein, Daniel Powers and Peter Felice. Barnfield released his debut CD “Journey” on the New Dynamics Record label. His second album “Out of This World” and third album “Song and Dance” is released on Centaur Records. Pequena Czarda from his first album won BBC’s essential classical saxophone recordings to have and Out of This World and Song and Dance won Global Music Awards! Barnfield’s Song and Dance album also won Platinum from LIT Talent Awards, the highest honor. He is the soprano saxophonist of the DynaSax Quartet.
Mr. Barnfield teaches music, instrumental ensembles at Norton Commons in the Jefferson County Public School System. In 2019, he was nominated as a Grammy Music Educator. Mr. Barnfield has also given numerous clinics at middle schools, high schools and colleges throughout the Midwestern United States. He also maintains an active studio of instruction for saxophone students. These students have distinguished themselves as top players in their bands, all-state top chairs, finalists in national concerto competitions and have went on to study at some of the best colleges in the country.