Featured (alumni) soloist with the Clear Lake High School Wind Ensemble, Joe Munoz, director.

The Friends’ sponsored “Performance with A View” series will offer a free monthly event in the TCA Lakeside Room. These informative, entertaining and informal performances will feature guest artists from a variety of artistic disciplines. This community outreach series is open to Friends of TCA and to the public. Coffee service begins at 9:30 a.m. and the program follows at 10 a.m. Optional gallery and facility tours follow. Featured on Dec. 15 at 9:30am is Dr. Timothy McAllister and the ASU Saxophone Ensemble performing holiday and seasonal arrangements in classical and jazz styles. Fun for the whole family!!

Saxophonist for James DeMars’ 75-minute concert-opera, Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Roses, presented by the Phoenix Art Museum in honor of the annual Guadalupe celebrations involving Latino artists and the Latino community.

Preview concert for Clear Lake High School’s appearance at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.

Faculty and Guest Artists perform works by the late Karlheinz Stockhausen in a two-day festival in ASU School of Music’s Katzin Concert Hall. Featured works include Entfuhrung/Abduction for saxophone and electronics, Saxophon for soprano saxophone and bongos, and Knabenduett for two soprano saxophones. Performers include Timothy McAllister, David Wegehaupt, Patrick Murphy, and Allison Dromgold.

Encore performance of John Adams’ City Noir as part of the contemporary music festival: West Coast, Left Coast.

PRISM Quartet performs music of Roshanne Etezady, William Albright, Ken Ueno, Donnacha Dennehy, Nick Didkovsky, Matt Levy, Tim Ries, Gregory Wanamaker, Jennifer Higdon, Bernard Rands, and Martin Bresnick.

Solo Salon Concert in the Meadowbrook home of renowned contemporary architects, Atherton & Keener (www.athertonkeener.com). More information on the home can be found HERE.

Repertoire to include unaccompanied works by Luciano Berio, Caleb Burhans, Igor Stravinsky, Giacinto Scelsi, and more.

Masterclass for IAA Saxophonists at 1:30pm; Recital at 7:30pm, Dendrinos Chapel. Guest performers include Tymn Wallace, piano, and Deborah Chodacki, clarinet. Program to include works by Francis Poulenc, JacobTV, Olivier Messiaen, Evan Chambers, Roshanne Etezady, and Astor Piazzolla.

For his Inaugural Gala and Opening Night Concert, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the world premiere of John Adams’ City Noir, a major orchestral work inspired by LA itself and commissioned by the LA Phil. This historic event concludes with Dudamel conducting Mahler’s First Symphony. Gala packages which include a pre-concert reception, preferred concert seating and dinner and dancing following the concert are available now. For Gala package details, please call the Special Events hotline: 213.972.3051.

More information on the work and midi sound clip can be found at: www.earbox.com/W-citynoir.html

The Inaugural Gala will be telecast internationally, throughout the United States (via PBS Great Performances), Europe, South America and Asia. The concert is scheduled to air Oct. 21 on PBS stations and will be followed by a DVD release from Deutsche Grammophon on Nov. 23. Arte/ZDF will broadcast the concert in Europe on Oct. 18.

Saxophone Masterclass for CSU-Long Beach saxophone students. For more information, contact Prof. James Barrera at http://www.jamesbarrera.com/Contact.html

Performance of Roshanne Etezady’s GLINT with IAC Faculty and University of Colorado Professor of Clarinet Daniel Silver. IAC Faculty Composer’s Forum Concert in the Dendrinos Chapel/Recital Hall.

Faculty Artist Recital featuring Brownlow’s “Two by Four”, a two-movement work for flute, alto saxophone, cello, and vibraphone. Jill Heyboer, flute; Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone; Jeffrey Lastrapes, cello; David Hardman, vibraphone.

CMU “Saxophone Day”