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Composed: 2007 - Revised: 2009
Medium: alto saxophone and piano
Duration: c. 10:00
Dedication: Scott Sandberg

Program Notes

Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano was composed for Scott Sandberg and premiered on his faculty recital of "Saxophone Sonatas" on the 2006-2007 Voices Old and New Concert Series at the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York City. Multiphonics are an integral part of the language of the second movement, and they are contextualized within other sonic shifts, such as the use of quartertones, against a harmonically interesting but more simply set piano part. The outer movements are more traditional in presentation; the first is carried by melodic lines, and the third, the most rhythmically complex, unfolds through the evolution of thematic material.

World Premiere

March 23, 2007 - "Saxophone Sonatas" Faculty Recital, Voices Old and New Concert Series, Bloomingdale School of Music (New York, New York)
Scott Sandberg, alto saxophone, and Martha Locker, piano