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Zzyzx Quartet

Stacy Wilson Soprano saxophone
Stephen Page Alto saxophone
Matt Evans Tenor saxophone
Dana Booher Baritone saxophone

from USA

Described by the Saxophone Journal as "a superb ensemble with impeccable musical taste," the Zzyzx Quartet has quickly gained high regard after performances at the NASA Biennial Conferences, World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, as well as numerous guest recitals and master classes across the United States. ZQ won 2nd Prize in the inaugural North American Saxophone Alliance Quartet Competition and was selected as one of the only American Chamber groups and the first American Saxophone Quartet to ever be invited to compete in the OSAKA International Chamber Music Competition in Japan. Zzyzx was selected from 211 applicants from 29 countries and were chosen as semi-finalists in this world-renowned competition. Each of the members have also been recognized as award-winning soloists, receiving top prizes in national and international competitions including the Gaudeamus International Competition, North American Saxophone Alliance Competition, MTNA Young Artist Competition, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition, and the Carmel Music Society Instrumental Competition. They have also received recognition as semi-finalists in the world's most prestigious saxophone competitions including the Adolphe Sax International Competition, the Jean-Marie Londeix International Competition and the Aeolus International Competition. The quartet's critically acclaimed debut CD, "Zzyzx Road", was released in 2010 featuring world premiere recordings by Piet Swerts, John Leszczynski, and Erik Norman as well as works by Ida Gotkovsky and Thierry Escaich. The album features a collaboration with their former professor at Indiana University, Otis Murphy, as a guest soloist on Gotkovsky's Quatuor.

String Quartet No. 14 in D minor - Franz Schubert arr. Zzyzx Quartet

i. Allegro

They Might Be Gods - John Leszczynski

 

Toccata - Sergei Prokofiev arr. Matt Evans

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Yorkshire Saxophone Choir

Debbie Scherer Soprano Saxophone
Sarah Jobson Tenor/Bass Saxophone
Molly Anderson Soprano Saxophone
Matthew McGuffie Alto Saxophone
Sarah Aikin Alto Saxophone
Frankie Gill Alto/Sopranino Saxophones
John Farthing Tenor Saxophone
Mark Wilson Tenor Saxophone
Sarah Jobson Tenor/Bass Saxophones
Andy Ainge Baritone Saxophone
Alison Owen-Morley Baritone Saxophone


from UK

Yorkshire Saxophone Choir was the first independent 12 piece saxophone choir in the UK and, to our knowledge, remains the only such ensemble. The group was formed in 2001 and comprises saxophonists from across the Yorkshire region. It performs as a chamber ensemble, with a wide repertoire including classical, jazz, pop, contemporary and world music, and has commissioned a significant number of new works and arrangements.

Yorkshire Saxophone Choir performs mainly across Yorkshire and occasionally as far afield as Wales. Its first CD "Sax for Twelve" was released in 2009, comprising a range of original works and arrangements for 12 parts. The ensemble celebrated its first decade last year with a concert featuring two world premieres and a UK premiere, as well as the Ibert Concertino da Camera with the internationally renowned saxophonist and the group's musical director, Sarah Markham, as soloist.

Yorkshire Saxophone Choir also performs as a 10, 11 or 8 piece ensemble, and will feature a ten piece line-up for the World Saxophone Congress in a programme showcasing the work of contemporary British composers. Yorkshire Saxophone Choir is going from strength to strength and looking forward to many more highlights in its second decade.

El Torneo - Paul Harvey

i. Entry of the Knights
ii. The Joust
iii. Lament for the Wounded
iv.Triumph of the Victors

This programmatic suite composed in 1976 paints a sound picture of the various stages of a mediaeval joust. The four movements are Entrada de los Caballeros (The entry of the knights), La Justa (The joust), Lamento para los Heridos (Lament for the wounded), and Triunfo de los Vencedores (Triumph of the victors).

Closure - Keiron Anderson

Originally composed for brass ensemble, this thoughtful and thought provoking work from 2007 explores the industrialisation of Yorkshire. Seen from the viewpoint of a former miner, it reflects on the conflicting thoughts and emotions experienced while looking out over the changed South Yorkshire landscape. It was arranged for saxophone choir in 2008.

E-Type Jig - Chris Gumbley

This lively rhythmic dance provides a foot-tapping finale to our programme. Published by the composer's own company Gumbles, a saxophone quartet version also exists. Featuring alternating time signatures, the piece has an immediate appeal and promises to leave audience and performers alike full of the feelgood factor!

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YeoMin Yun (Video non authorizated)

from South Korea

YeoMin Yun is a Native Korean Saxophonist. He is currently working toward a DMA in saxophone performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he studies saxophone with James Bunte and Rick VanMatre. He has gained Bachelor and Master's degrees at the Korean National University of Arts and a Graduate Certificate in Performance at the University of Southern California. He has performed for various artists over the years including Nicolas Prost, Andrew Dahlke, Nubuya Sugawa, Arno Borkamp, Philippe Portejoie, Tom de Vette, Nathan Nabb, James Rotter and Timothy McAllister.

Some of the highlights in his performances include the Seoul Wind Ensemble, Educational Broadcasting System Space Concert, Korea Broadcasting System Open Music Concert, and the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensemble.

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Diaspora for Alto Saxophone and Electro-acoustic devise - Minsuk Yang

Jungle - Christian Lauba

Distyle for Alto Saxophone and Electro-acoustic device - Jean-Claude Risset

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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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William Chien

from Taiwan

A native of Taipei, Taiwan, saxophonist William Chien has performed and given concerts in the U.S.A (North American Saxophone Allience Conference, 2009), France (Habanera International Academy, 2004), Japan (OCC Music Center, 2009) and Taiwan. In 2005, Mr. Chien won the 1st prize in Taiwan's National Caxophone competition. In 2005, Mr. Chien received his Master Degree from the Boston Conservatory, where he studied with professor Kenneth Radnofsky. Mr. Chien has also premiered music by composers such as Elliott Schwartz, Lei Liang, and John Harbison.

Currently, Mr. Chien is a Teaching Fellow for the Saxophone Studio at the University of North Texas, where he is pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree under the instruction of Dr. Eric Nestler.

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Crisscross-Break through the Darkness - Ya-Ming Hsu

Crisscross- Break through the Darkness / Ya-Ming Hsu This work is a dialogue between saxophones and electronic music. The composer tries to convey a common experience of facing temptation and a power of breaking through this chaotic world. The overall style is improvisational. The beginning section is a saxophone solo and expresses the conflict and distortion from the heart. The electronic music represents temptation from the world. Sometimes it interacts with sax in an ultimate and concordance balance, but sometimes in a conflict and isolated world. The place of crisscross is where a survival heart is. Ya-Ming Hsu is one of the most representative composers to come from Taiwan in recent years. His music and compositions have been widely studied and performed around the world, such as Paris, New York, Germany, Vienna, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. . He is also the core member of ISCM, Asian Composer's League and the board member of Taiwan Association of Arts and Humanity, Taiwan Classical Music Society.

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