McAllister joins with celebrated percussionist Doug Perkins!
Music of Ueno, Etezady, Finnissy, Xenakis, Cage and more!

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Marin Alsop, conductor
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

Ingolf Dahl’s Saxophone Concerto (1949/53);
Michael Haithcock, conductor

Music of Zupko, Biedenbender, Schnyder, Fisher-Lochhead and World Premiere of “Mahagony Moods” by James Stephenson.

Riccardo Muti, conductor;
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures from an Exhibition

Lorna McGhee, flute; Jon Kimura Parker, piano;
Tim McAllister, saxophone
Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, KV 493;
Charles Koechlin Épitaphe de Jean Harlow for flute, saxophone and piano;
Gershwin (arr. McAllister) Preludes for saxophone and piano;
William Walton Façade – An Entertainment

see Aug. 6

See Aug. 6

Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone;
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Music of Prokofiev and Dinicu

Hailed by Chamber Music Magazine for “pioneering achievements of the highest order,” the PRISM Quartet presents the next installment of Heritage/Evolution, a groundbreaking project featuring world premieres of new works composed and performed by today’s most inventive jazz saxophonists. This time around, Heritage/Evolution spotlights PRISM with saxophone luminaries Chris Potter and Ravi Coltrane. The program follows PRISM’s January 2015 CD release of Heritage/Evolution, Volume 1 on Innova Recordings with guest saxophonists Steve Lehman, Dave Liebman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Greg Osby, Tim Ries, and Miguel Zenón.

John Adams CITY NOIR
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

John Adams CITY NOIR
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Steven Mackey is an electric guitarist and composer whose concert music is influenced by all the jazz and rock he’s played. The World Premiere of his new, 45-minute orchestral work is followed by Reich’s moving three-act video opera (2002) about advancing technology, created in tandem with visual artist Beryl Korot and combining projections with live performers.

Presented by PRISM Quartet, Inc. in partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music, PRISM presents an electrifying program of world premieres of new saxophone quartets by Bang on a Can composer and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Julia Wolfe; Grammy Award-winner Michael Daugherty; the Curtis Institute’s David Hertzberg; Princeton University’s Emma O’Halloran, Viet Cuong and Jonathan Russell; counter)induction’s Kyle Bartlett; Solon Snider and Mark Macaluso, winners of the PRISM/Walden School Commissioning Award; and PRISM’s own Matthew Levy. The program also features the U.S. premiere of “La Caverne des Idées” by Leilei Tian, winner of the Rome Prize.

PRISM performs William Bolcom’s Concert Grosso along with works by Beethoven and Rossini

Music of Bruch, Messiaen, Franck, Gabel, & more!
Gail Williams, horn; Randy Hawes, bass trombone;
Tim McAllister, saxophone; Kathryn Goodson, piano

William Walton, FACADE Entertainments

LiveConnections brings you unique collaborations and fresh sounds from some of the best artists today, in the intimate atmosphere of World Cafe Live. LiveConnections is pairing Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Uri Caine, “a musical polymath with abundant improvising skills” (NPR), with the acclaimed PRISM Quartet for a concert of adventurous new music. Building on the artists’ reputations as innovators, LiveConnections has commissioned Caine to write a quintet for piano and saxophones that fuses modern jazz and new classical styles. The program also features music by Dutch avant-pop composer Jacob TV from PRISM’s Pitch Black CD, and recent solo piano music by Caine.

Works by Nono, Francesconi, Berio and Scelsi. Gustavo Dudamel, conductor. Jennifer Koh, violin.

Darius Milhaud La Creation du Monde
Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
H. Robert Reynolds, conductor

Belle Nuit CD Release Concert
including special guest, Fritz Kaenzig, tuba
music of Bruch, Franck, Vaughan Williams, Messiaen, and more!

TMEA Convention
San Antonio, TX
Frank Ticheli Saxophone Concerto
Texas A&M University Symphonic Band
Dr. Timothy Rhea, conductor

Riccardo Muti, conductor

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

See Jan. 22

See Jan. 22

Music of John Adams, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt; Liz Ames, piano

Riccardo Muti, conductor

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op. 45