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Timothy McAllister
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Joseph Lulloff
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Jennifer Higdon
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The USC Symphony's season finale will showcase the talents of two award-winning saxophone soloists. The performances of Timothy McAllister and Joseph Lulloff will kick off the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Biennial Conference, being held at the University April 16-19.The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. April 16 in the Koger Center for the Arts. Under the direction of Donald Portnoy, the symphony will accompany the soloists and also perform Brahms' Academic Festival Overture and Ravel's Bolero.
McAllister is a professor of saxophone at the University of Arizona School of Music, the soprano chair of the PRISM Quartet, and co-founder of the QUORUM Chamber Arts Collective. He will perform Soprano Sax Concerto by Brooklyn-born composer Jennifer Higdon. Higdon teaches music composition at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Lulloff is a distinguished professor of saxophone and chair of woodwinds at the Michigan State University College of Music. He also is a member of the summer artist faculty at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, N.C.; is past president of NASA; and is a Yamaha Performing Artist. He will perform Sunscapes by composer, pianist, conductor, and lecturer Don Freund. Freund is department chair and professor of composition at the Indiana University School of Music.
For more information about USC Symphony, go to www.music.sc.
edu/ea/orchestra/
index.html.
For more about the NASA conference, including a full schedule of performances, go to www.music.sc.edu/fs/leaman/NASAHome.html.
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