“(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…”

Lewis Whittington American Record Guide (Sept/Oct 2010)

“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”

Richard Morrison The Times London (5/31/14)

“brilliant solos were in abundance, especially by Timothy McAllister…”

Janos Gereben San Francisco Classical Voice

“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.”

Scott Cantrell The Dallas Morning News (4/25/12)

“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.”

Fred Child Commentary from American Public Media/Performance Today’s coverage of Gustavo Dudamel’s Inaugural Concert with the LA Phil

Performances

  1. PRISM Quartet Residency at Shepherd School of Music - Rice University

    8:00 PM

    Friday, 8:00pm, Duncan Recital Hall Music by Jalbert, Lavenda, Gottschalk, Albright, Ludwig, Bolcom, Ueno, Etezady, and more

    Saturday, 9am, Duncan Recital Hall Student Composer Readings and Recording

  2. PRISM Quartet: Beyond Silence - John Cage Composer Portrait

    7:30 PM

    Program PRISM and Curtis Institute’s 20/21 Ensemble Freeman Etudes Sonata for Two Voices Music for Nine Four5 Thirteen

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  3. Performances and Recording of John Adams’ City Noir with the St. Louis Symphony

    10:30 AM

    10:30am Powell Symphony Hall City Noir - John Adams David Robertson, conductor

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  4. Performances and Recording of John Adams’ City Noir with the St. Louis Symphony

    8:00 PM

    City Noir - John Adams St. Louis Symphony David Robertson, conductor

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  5. Performances of John Adams’ City Noir with the Grand Rapids Symphony

    8:00 PM

    Feb. 22 & 23 8:00pm, DeVos Performance Hall John Adams - City Noir George Gershwin - An American in Paris Grand Rapids Symphony David Lockington, conductor

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  6. Performance of John Adams’ City Noir with the Grand Rapids Symphony

    8:00 PM
  7. PRISM Quartet Residency at University of Oregon School of Music

    2:36 PM

    TBA

  8. Composition Residency Guest Artist Recital at Roosevelt University

    8:00 PM

    Ganz Hall, 8pm Roosevelt University Performances of Winning Student Compositions and more! Music of Etezady, Garrop, Albright and Premiere by Souphis and Scranton

  9. Featured Soloist with the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia

    3:00 PM

    Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia

    11th Annual Concert 2013

    1st April 2013 (Monday) 3pm Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall

    Professor Jerry F. Junkin, Music Director Professor Timothy McAllister, Saxophone Soloist Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia

    John Mackey Concerto for Soprano Saxophone

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  10. Guest Artist Recital - SUNY Potsdam

    7:30 PM

    Guest Artist Recital Crane School of Music, Potsdam, NY Timothy McAllister, saxophones Elizabeth Ames, piano music of Etezady, Souphis, Albright, Mackey, and Garrop.

  11. PRISM Quartet performs music of Steven Stuckey with Cornell University Chamber Orchestra

    8:00 PM

    CU Music: Cornell Chamber Orch. with PRISM Quartet Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 8:00pm Barnes Hall, Auditorium 129 Ho Plaza Cornell University: Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

    Cornell Chamber Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor, with guest ensemble PRISM Quartet. Features Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major and Steven Stucky’s Music for Saxophones and Strings.

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  12. PRISM Quartet: ICE CREAM TIME, Music of Nick Didkovsky

    5:45 PM

    Arts after Five Series Main Staircase, Philadelphia Museum of Art

  13. PRISM Quartet at Roulette: ICE CREAM TIME, Music of Nick Didkovsky

    7:30 PM

    Roulette Brooklyn, New York

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  14. PRISM Quartet at the 2013 Tianjin Conservatory May Festival

    7:30 PM
  15. Performances of John Adams’ City Noir with the National Symphony Orchestra

    3:42 AM

    May 30, 31 and June 1 Kennedy Center John Adams - City Noir National Symphony Orchestra John Adams, conductor

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  16. Featured Recital and Masterclass at 17th International Saxophone Festival

    7:30 PM

    Nova Gorica Conservatory Music Hall with guest Joonatan Rautiola 7:30pm Music of Adams, Carter, Etezady, JacobTV, Albright

  17. World Premiere of John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto

    3:46 AM

    August 22, 1pm, Sydney Opera House August 23, 8pm, Sydney Opera House John Adams - Saxophone Concerto (World Premiere) John Adams, conductor

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  18. World Premiere of John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto

    8:00 PM

    2nd performance of the John Adams Saxophone Concerto (see link for details)

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  19. Performances of John Adams’ City Noir with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

    7:30 PM

    August 29 & 31, 2013 John Adams - City Noir Melbourne Symphony Orchestra John Adams, conductor

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  20. Performances of John Adams’ City Noir with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

    7:30 PM
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  21. U.S. Premiere of John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    8:00 PM
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  22. Soloist with the St. Louis Symphony; John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto

    8:00 PM
  23. Soloist with the St. Louis Symphony; John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto

    3:00 PM
  24. Performance at the “Ned@90”: A New Rorem Tribute at Northwestern University

    7:30 PM

    Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone Kathryn Goodson, piano

    Picnic on the Marne (1984) - Ned Rorem

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  25. PRISM Quartet at Carnegie Zankel Hall`

    7:30 PM

    Showcasing the music of one of Greece’s contemporary composers, the Onassis Cultural Center NY presents a concert of works by Giorgos Koumendakis, whose eclectic works range from chamber pieces to the music for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The program, performed by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet and pianist George-Emmanuel Lazaridis, features Koumendakis’s Typewriter Tune and the US premiere of excerpts from his piece Mediterranean Desert, Steven Mackey’s Animal, Vegetable, Mineral in a new transcription made especially for this concert, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

    Program

    * GIORGOS KOUMENDAKIS Typewriter Tune
    * MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
    * STEVEN MACKEY Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
    * GIORGOS KOUMENDAKIS Excerpts from Mediterranean Desert (US Premiere)
    
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  26. Soloist with the Northshore Concert Band

    3:00 PM

    Sunday, November 3, 2013 3pm, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

    Northshore Concert Band Mallory Thompson, conductor Timothy McAllister, soloist

    This concert will feature guest soloist Timothy McAllister, Professor of Saxophone and Co-director of the Institute for New Music at Northwestern University. He will perform the Concert Suite for Alto Saxophone by William Bolcom, a work commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the University of Michigan Symphony Band and premiered by McAllister’s former teacher, famed saxophonist Donald J. Sinta.

    Program to include:

    Leonard Bernstein - Fanfare for the Inauguration of JFK Ronald Lo Presti - Elegy for a Young American William Bolcom - Concert Suite for Alto Saxophone Norman Dello Joio - Variants on a Medieval Tune Donald Grantham - Southern Harmony

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  27. Performance of John Mackey’s Soprano Saxophone Concerto with Sacramento State Wind Symphony

    8:00 PM
  28. Faculty Artist Series Recital

    7:30 PM

    7:30pm, Lutkin Recital Hall Liz Ames, piano Steven Cohen, clarinet Katri Ervaama, cello

    Music of John Adams, William Albright, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Roshanne Etezady, Edison Denisov

  29. Soloist with the Colorado Mesa University Wind Ensemble

    7:30 PM

    Best of the West Band Festival William Bolcom - Concert Suite Calvin Hofer, conductor Colorado Mesa University Wind Ensemble