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Live clip from "Damaan" by Stacy Garrop
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This clip is from the premiere of Stacy Garrop's programmatic chamber concerto for alto saxophone, written for Chris Creviston. Click Lyrics/Story for info about the composer.
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"...one of the worlds top saxophone artists ..." - Audiophile Audition "...the personality and fingers of a first-rate soloist..." - American Record Guide
Saxophonist Christopher Creviston has played in Carnegie Hall with the Detroit Symphony, at Prince's birthday party at Paisley Park, appeared live on BET, and gigged the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. In the words of renowned cellist and conductor "Slava" Rostropovich, "Bravo!.. Bravo! Bravo!!..." As soloist and with the Capitol Quartet, Creviston has been featured with bands and orchestras across the US, including the Baltimore, Indianapolis and National Symphony Orchestras, working with conductors André Previn, Neeme Järvi, Randall Craig Fleischer, Jack Everly and Steven Reinicke, to name a few. In demand as recitalist and clinician, he appears regularly with Capitol Quartet, and in duos with pianist Hannah Gruber, guitarist Oren Fader and harpist Frances Duffy. He has appeared in concert with jazz names Wycliff Gordon, John Pizzarelli, Ken Peplowski, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jon Faddis, Bobby Shew, Bunky Green, Jim Snidero, Bob Mintzer, Steve Houghton, Vinny DiMartino, Dave Liebman, Peggy Cone, and Marvin Stamm, and has had the pleasure of working with pop performers Crystal Gayle, Maureen McGovern, Billy Porter, Patti Russo, Marty Thomas, Lisa Vroman, David Raleigh, Paul Mahos, Ben Vereen and Kim Sozzi, as well as playing shows with jokester Bob Hope. Now on faculty at the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, Dr. Creviston has held positions at the Greenwich House of Arts (NYC), the University of Windsor (Canada), and the University of Michigan.
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Classical • Contemporary
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Peak #176
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Stacy Garrop
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October 06, 2004
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MP3 2.0 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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Stacy Garrop (D.M., Indiana University, 2000) has won several competitions including the Chicago Symphony Orchestraa€™s 1999-2000 First Hearing Composition Competition, Omaha Symphony Guilda€™s 2000 International New Music Competition, and the New England Philharmonica€™s 2000 Call for Scores Competition. She was selected to participate in the American Composers Orchestra 2001/2002 Whitaker New Music Reading Session, Minnesota Orchestraa€™s 2001/2002 Reading Sessions and Composer Institute, Dale Warland Singers 2000/2001 New Choral Music Program, and the Minnesota Orchestraa€™s 2000 Perfect Pitch Reading Program. She received a 2002 Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council and a 2001 Barlow Endowment commission, and was a finalist for the 2001 Rome Prize. Stacy is the 2004-2005 composer-in-residence of Chicagoa€™s Music in the Loft chamber music series; her works will be performed on this series by the Enso Quartet, Biava Quartet, Lincoln Trio, and pianist Anthony Padilla. Other performances of her music will be given this year by the Orion Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, New EAR, Minnesota Youth Orchestra, and the choir Volti. Her works have been performed by the new music ensembles International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Callisto Ensemble, EARPLAY, New EAR, Third Angle, Seattle New Music Ensemble, Society for New Music, Ambassador Duo, and at the 2003 World Saxophone Congress; by the Princeton Singers, Volti, Murray State University Concert Choir, Vox Caelestis, and the Chicago College of Performing Arts Chamber Singers; and by the Minnesota Orchestra, Amarillo Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Womena€™s Philharmonic, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Her works have been choreographed by the a-ha! Dance Theatre of Kansas City. She has attended residences at the Banff Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Yaddo, Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Oxford Summer Institute, Round Top Music Festival, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Theodore Presser Company and Hildegard Publishing Company publish several of her works. Stacy was guest composer and speaker at the Texas Association for Symphony Orchestras conference in Amarillo, Texas in 2004. She has guest lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Missouri at Kansas City, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of South Carolina at Columbia, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Amarillo College, and West Texas A&M University. She is an Assistant Professor in Composition at the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University.
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