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William H Street

from Canada

William Street has performed and lectured in Belgium, Canada, Federation of Russia, France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine and the USA. He tours frequently with pianist Roger Admiral and The Quatuor International de Saxophones emphasizing the importance of both solo and chamber music making. Strongly influenced by his former teachers Etheridge, Hemke and Londeix, Street has sought to make heard the music of today's composers in his concerts. He can be heard on compact disc recordings Sunthesis: Les Septs Iles, L'Ensemble International de Saxophones, At Your Service with pianist Sylvia Taylor and the Centaur recording of Evolution V for five saxophonists by Marilyn Shrude, with the Chicago Saxophone Quartet. Tre Vie, Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra by Malcolm Forsyth with Grzegorz Nowak and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra was nominated for a 1999 Juno award and has been re-issued in 2009. He recorded heliosaxo, MY VERY FIRST SOLO and Westwind, Canadian Music for Saxophone with Roger Admiral and Quatuor International de Saxophone LIVE. Street also served as jury member for international competitions in Belgium, France, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and the United States. He served as President of the North American Saxophone Alliance from 1992-1994.

Zut! for Saxophone and Piano - Andriy Talpash

Zut! (2009) by Canadian composer Andriy Talpash typifies the incoherent ramblings of Mr. Z. Invariably, he babbles to himself incessantly, curses disjointedly, and rambles continuously at an alarming rate. The streaming outbursts are occasionally broken by brief silences, only enough time to take a breath before?.Zut! [Andriy Talpash].

Smoke and Mirrors (Symbia II) for Solo Alto Saxophone - John M Kennedy

Smoke and Mirrors (Symbia II) for Solo Alto Saxophone (1995) composed by American John Kennedy has two ideas that work separately and individually. "As you will see from the performer's opening remarks I often use words to describe portions of the piece in a way that resembles the form. I think it works nicely with the proper inflection". [John M. Kennedy].

Tour de France for Alto Saxophone & Piano (excerpts) - Alfred Joel Fisher

iii. Carpentras
iv. Monsieur Le Mignon Minime

Tour de France (1990) by Alfred Joel Fisher is a set of four movements of which movements three and four are presented in today's concert. Alfred Fisher began his career trying purposefully to avoid "looking" back and has said that it used to be easy for him to define his music in technical or compositional terms. That has become more difficult, he says, now that his music has matured. Fisher's music is rooted in communication with its audience and strives to maintain a freedom to find the right mode of expression, while "respecting the listener," he has said. His cheerful and occasionally rather tongue in cheek Tour de France is named, not for the famous yearly bicycle race, but for a tour Fisher himself took in the Fall of 1989. As France was the country in which the saxophone first found "legitimacy," Fisher said, he scored this work for alto saxophone and piano. "The final movement Le Petit Mignon brings the work to a truncated, breathless (figuratively and literally) conclusion," Fisher has stated. The third movement, however, is again in Fisher's words, "mine, wholly mine." Written in homage to the city of Carpentras, Fisher's own words suggest the music. "It is surrounded by hills covered in myrrh and lavender. I will not forget Carpentras." [Adapted from the liner notes to compact disc MY VERY FIRST SOLO, William Street and Roger Admiral, Arktos Recordings Limited 200367 © 2003 D.T. Baker].

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