“(John) Adams goes for more than stylizations with [City Noir’s] wily jazz spine. Keeping a sweaty, smoky after-hours jam percolating were Timothy McAllister’s volcanic sax…”
“John Adams said he wouldn’t wish [that alto saxophone solo] on anyone, but Timothy McAllister dispatching it with wonderful grace on this world premiere evening.”
“the main attraction of this enjoyable St. Louis Symphony album, conducted by David Robertson, is Adams’ Saxophone Concerto, composed for the virtuosic Timothy McAllister, who plays it here. Stacked with swing-era allusions, moody 4am interludes and cartwheeling acrobatics, it is unpretentious fun from start to finish”
“Soloist Timothy McAllister proved brilliantly up to the enormous demands — vast spreads of pitches, disjunct lines that wanted to be as lyrical as possible and some dazzling scurries.”
“brilliant solos were in abundance, especially by Timothy McAllister…”
Duo SONUS (Timothy McAllister, saxophones; Simone Mancuso, percussion)
Faculty Artists Timothy McAllister and Simone Mancuso perform ground-breaking works for saxophones and percussion by Iannis Xenakis, Andrea Rinkemeyer, Magnus Lindberg, Luciano Berio, and Karlheinz Stockhausen!
Music of Bright Sheng, Huang Ruo, Fang Man, Lei Liang, and more!
Ingolf Dahl Saxophone Concerto Jerry Junkin, conductor
Carlos Kalmar brings down the curtain on a thrilling season with a program that highlights the extraordinary musicians of our own orchestra – including the Portland premiere of composer John Adams’ edgy, new City Noir.
Carlos Kalmar brings down the curtain on a thrilling season with a program that highlights the extraordinary musicians of our own orchestra – including the Portland premiere of composer John Adams’ edgy, new City Noir.
Born in the early 1960s in the underground scene in San Francisco and New York, minimalism and its offshoots (post-minimalism, totalism) have become wildly popular forms of new classical music. The PRISM Quartet performs music by two of its originators and long-time champions, Terry Riley and Philip Glass, along with composers deeply influenced by their work, including John Adams, Michael Torke, and Matt Johns, winner of the 2011 PRISM Quartet/Walden School Commissioning Award.
Born in the early 1960s in the underground scene in San Francisco and New York, minimalism and its offshoots (post-minimalism, totalism) have become wildly popular forms of new classical music. The PRISM Quartet performs music by two of its originators and long-time champions, Terry Riley and Philip Glass, along with composers deeply influenced by their work, including John Adams, Michael Torke, and Matt Johns, winner of the 2011 PRISM Quartet/Walden School Commissioning Award.
La Maja Dolrosa - Robert Deemer (b. 1970) I. O, Muerte Cruel II. Ah! Majo de mi vida III. De aquel majo
Timothy McAllister, soprano saxophone Valentina Shohdy, viola Lucia Unrau, piano
Forever Overhead (2012) World Premiere - Roshanne Etezady (b. 1973) George Sakakeeny, bassoon Timothy McAllister, saxophone Gwendolyn Burgett Thrasher, percussion
8:00pm, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
“The Hidden World of Girls” Cabrillo Festival Orchestra Marin Alsop, conductor
3:00pm and 8:00pm
“The Hidden World of Girls”: Stories for Orchestra Cabrillo Festival Orchestra Marin Alsop, conductor
Music in the Mountains@Nestldown, Los Gatos
Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone Andrew Norman, piano
Andrew Norman garden of follies for alto saxophone and piano
8:00pm, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Dylan Mattingly: I Was A Stranger
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra Marin Alsop, conductor
Sunday, October 14, 2012 PRISM Saxophone Quartet 8:00 p.m. Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center Wright State University
Repertoire TBA
John Mackey Soprano Sax Concerto Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble Mallory Thompson, conductor
November 4, 2012 Lutkin Recital Hall 7:30pm Music of Biedenbender, Bruch, Norman, Schnyder, Pann
November 11, 2012 7:30pm, Philips Recital Hall University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of Music
Timothy McAllister, saxophones Kathryn Goodson, piano
Music by Andrew Norman, Caleb Burhans, William Albright, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Charles Ives, Roshanne Etezady, and more
Glint (2007) by Roshanne Etezady (b. 1973)
Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone Steve Cohen, clarinet
November 23 & 24, 7:30pm, Uihlein Hall
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Sarah Hicks, conductor
Bernstein West Side Story
Music for Saxophone and Organ 12:15pm, Alice Millar Chapel Eric Budzynski, organ
Terry Riley Composer Portrait Concert Chanting the Light of Foresight (1987) Tread on the Trail (1964) Mandala Minatures (1999)
Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 South 18th St Philadelphia, PA 19103 (see Dec 15 program)
Clinic: “Building Better Bridges: Modern Pedagogy for the Emerging Saxophonist”
Synopsis: This clinic tackles the ever-evolving prerequisites for emerging, school-aged saxophonists, particularly those ultimately wishing to pursue demanding study at the collegiate level in performance or music education. Saxophone pedagogy is still in its adolescence, and many misconceptions pervade early training on the instrument. Topics for this session cover strategies for assisting students with tone, technique, multiple-tonguing, and altissimo; problems that go undiagnosed for years; and the skills collegiate professors have grown to expect from matriculating students.