NYSQ PERFORMANCE EVENTS

Christ & St. Stephen's Episcopal Church • • recital 'Sax in the City'

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC• • • • all ‘premieres’ recital

Juilliard School of Music - faculty recital

Mannes College of Music - faculty recital

World Saxophone Congress - Pesaro, Italy
World Saxophone Congress - Tokyo, Japan
World Saxophone Congress - Germany
World Saxophone Congress, Montreal, Canada
•••Octet w/ The Phoenix Saxophone Quartet

Douglaston Concerts....’First Sunday Series’

The Charlotte Performing Arts Center, Punta Gorda FL

An Evening of Jazz at the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium, NYC

Sundays on The Island Chamber Music Series at City Island

Queensborough Community College

El Dorado, Kansas: Community Concert Association

Bolivar, Missouri: Community Concert Association

Michigan City, Indiana: Community Concert Association

Waterloo, Iowa: Metro Community Concert Association

Koskiusco Foundation, NYC - Bohemian Society

Woodwind and Brasswind - NYC

WNYC Radio, ‘Around Town with Jonathan Shaffer’ - NYC

St. Peters Church in Chelsea, NYC - CD premiere recital

The Dorot House - NYC
 

The NYSQ offers Master Classes:• • Four of New York City’s most
renowned concert artists and recording musicians draw aspiring students and professional saxophonists, adding special value to the presentation of this versatile ensemble

Objective: To present a practical and informed overview of problem solving, performance practice, technique and repertoire for the saxophone


Master Class Format:

••Brief history of the saxophone as a concert and jazz instrument; development of the saxophone quartet as a viable chamber music ensemble

••Sound production: how to play- what to play; embouchure,
the ‘overtones’, articulation

••Rehearsal techniques: sight reading, practice routines,
rhythmical dexterity exercises

••Stylistic approach: What characterizes an American sound;
demonstration by contrast

••Jazz phrasing and inflection: improvisation techniques,
selected listening, preconceived melodic ideas and patterns

••What is doubling? how to develop skills as a multi-reed
instrumentalist

••Repertoire sources: pieces from the existing ‘classical’
saxophone library and commissioning new works for the
saxophone ensemble

••Stage presence: connecting with the audience


Question and Answer/Critique and Adjudication:

••Welcome student observation, questions and comments

••Encourage teacher- professor participation

••Stimulate interest if student quartet is present to
perform with the NYSQ

••• Collaborate with teacher/professor to implement
improvement techniques

••• Encourage students to take private lessons, seek out local
expertise in the jazz field, stimulate interest in attending concerts, master classes, music competition festivals and recitals

The NYSQ performs exclusively on Selmer saxophones

For further information and booking contact:

Andrew Schwartz/Red House Productions
Telephone: (201) 410-3425
email: andrewschwartz@optonline.net