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Conference and Festival Performances
Verismo Jazz Quintet to perform at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, July 1, 2007, two one-hour sets. Juried invitation.
Saxophone soloist with the Okanogan Symphony Orchestra, performing Scaramouche by Darius Milhaud. February 2007.
“Musique pour Saxophone Alto and Harmonie (1950)”By Serge Garant: The First Canadian Composition for Saxophone and Wind Band. Paper presentation at the Internationalen Gesellschaft Zur Erforschung Und Forderung Der Blasmusik Conference, Northfield Minnesota, July 2006.
“New Canadian Compositions for Saxophone Quartet”, a conference performance of new works performed at the World Saxophone Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2006 by the Calgary Saxophone Quartet, Jeremy Brown, leader.
World premiere performance of Fantasy by Nova Pon for string quartet and alto saxophone. University of Calgary Chamber Music Festival, June 2006. Commissioned by Jeremy Brown.
World Premiere of Resound by David Eagle with electrocoustic music at the 2006 American Biennial Saxophone Conference, Iowa City Iowa, February 2006. Commissioned by Jeremy Brown.
“Contemporary Electroacoustic Compositions for Soprano and Alto Saxophone by Canadian, American and Japanese Composers”. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 11-14, 2006.
Solo performance and United States premiere of Resound by David Eagle, presentation of “Graingerisms” of Percy Grainger in Chrysanthemums (1937) by Henry Cowell at the Region Four North American Saxophone Conference, Jonesboro, Arkansas, April 2005.
World Premiere performance of Resound by David Eagle for solo alto saxophone. The University of Calgary New Music Festival. January 2005.
Canadian premiere of Chrysanthemums (1936) by Henry Cowell at the University of Calgary New Music Festival. Score discovered by Jeremy Brown in 2003 at New York Public Library. January 2005.
“The Grainger-Cowell Prison Dialogues and the Origins of Henry Cowell’s Celtic Set (1938).” Paper presentation at the International Society for the Investigation of Wind Music of the 16 th IGEB Conference, Oberwolz, Austria. July, 2004
European premier of Fanfare for alto saxophone and harmonie at the Jungfrau Music Festival, Interlaken, Switzerland, also as conductor of the Calgary Concert Band in performances at the same conference. July 2004.
Second European performance of Fanfare for alto saxophone and harmonie at the 2004 Mid-European Conference, Schladming, Austria, also as conductor of the Calgary Concert Band in performances at the same conference.
American Premier of Fallibility, Logic and the Return of Wonder for alto saxophone and orchestra by Kelly-Marie Murphy at the 13 th World Saxophone Congress, Minneapolis, Minnesota. July 2003.
Conductor-in-residence for the University of Regina Conducting Institute, March 1-2. Performed Yorkshire Ballad by James Barnes and Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo by Malcolm Arnold
World Premier of Sonatafor Soprano Saxophone and Piano by William Jordan at the Region Nine Saxophone Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, February 2003.
World premier of Intonare 2 by David Eagle and Blue Melisma by Tim Brady at the 2000 World Saxophone Congress in Montreal. June, 2000.
Solo recital performance of works by Milhaud, Robert, and Francaix at the Canadian University Music Society Conference as part of the Learned Society Conference. Jennifer Snow, piano. University of Ottawa, May 1998.
Solo recital and world premier performance of Animus by Alan Bell at the Region 7 North American Saxophone Conference, with Charles Foreman. Victoria British Columbia. February 3, 1998.
Solo recital and European premier of Animus by Alan Bell and In the Company of My Soul by Kelly Marie Murphy at the 1997 World Saxophone Conference, with Charles Foreman. Valencia, Spain. September 29, 1997.
Coach and performer with SAXOFFONEE, a jazz ensemble comprised of University of Calgary students and community musicians. By audition, invited to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux Switzerland. July 1997.
Conductor of the University of Calgary Symphonic Band, only Canadian band invited to perform by audition at the 1996 Western Region Conference of the College Band Director’s National Association. Works by Grieg, Cowell, Shostakovich, Arnold. Reno Nevada. March 27, 1996.
World premier of In the Company of My Soul by Kelly-Marie Murphy. Region 7 Saxophone Conference, Edmonton, Alberta. March 1996.
“A Thirty Year Perspective: The San Quentin Wind Band Works of Henry Cowell (1897-1965).” Lecture at the 1995 Word Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference, Hamamatsu, Japan. July 1995.
“Elements of Jazz, Aleatory and Extended Techniques used as an Expressive Medium in the Sonate for Alto Saxophone and Piano by Edison Denisov.” Lecture/recital presentation at the 1995 Canadian University Music Society as part of the Learned Society Conference. With Jennifer Snow. Montreal Quebec. June 1995.