GVPAF Highlights

Congratulations to all UVic saxophonists who participated and who won their categories in the GVPFA 2021! Here is a schedule of events for the highlights concerts.

The 2021 Virtual Highlights Concert Series has begun! 

Go to gvpaf.org and click on Highlights Concerts.  Admission is by donation.

All concerts will be available until December 2021.

Future concert dates are:

May 7: Speech and Dramatic Arts

May 10: Piano

May 12: Four Sections featuring Brass, Classical Guitar, Woodwinds and Composition

May 14: Classical Voice and Musical Theatre

May 17: Large Ensembles (Choral, School Bands, School Orchestras) and Fiddle

May 19: School Dance

May 21: Roberto and Mary Wood Scholarship Concert featuring performers from Classical Guitar, Piano, Strings, Classical Voice and Woodwinds.

Congratulations to all of our performers for an amazing Festival 2021!

Baylie Adams Graduating Recital 30MARCH2021

The UVic Saxophone Class celebrates the graduating recital of Baylie Adams. Well done Baylie!

The Class acknowledges the superb work of Yousef Shadian, pianist. Well done Yousef!

https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/calendar/events/degree-recital-baylie-adams-saxophone-bmus/

Ms. Adams recital was well attended by her peers and an online audience.

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We wish Baylie every success as she pursues graduate studies!

NASA 2021 UVIC QUARTET

Quartet Cantabile William Grant Still performance-lecture will be streamed on zoom at 3pm (MDT)/2pm (PDT) on March 20, Saturday.

• https://arts.ucalgary.ca/creative-performing-arts/news-and-events/school-events/2021-nasa-region-9-conference
• https://fb.me/e/82eQgnjei (event page)

Ensembles Concert 2021

Thank you, dear students, for a lovely evening! Please thank your families and friends for listening online!

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SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE CONCERT

MARCH 6TH 2021 Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Students from the Class of Wendell Clanton

Quartet T’zum

Sylvanna Wilkinson, soprano

Emerson Jong, alto

Bethanie Tran, tenor

Rhys Batstone, baritone

Premier Quatuor (1857) by Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812 – 1875)

I. Andante and Allegro

II. Adagio sostenuto

III. Allegro vivace

IV. Allegretto

Quartet Lemolo

Madison Wang, soprano

Meghan Pimm, alto

Hannah Stanwood, tenor

Melissa Holyhead-Miles, baritone

Sarabande No. 2 in A minor by J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750)

Fantazia by Orlando Gibbons arranged by Frederick L. Hemke (1935 – 2019)

Quartet Cantabile

Ayari Kasukawa, soprano

Baylie Adams, alto

Alex Tiller, tenor

Cole Davis, baritone

Quatuor pour 4 Saxophones Op. 109 (1932) by Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)

I. Allegro, Piu mosso

BRIEF INTERMISSION TO RESET THE STAGE

UVic Saxophone Ensemble

Skye Boat Song arranged by Karen Street & Nigel Wood

Conducted by Wendell Clanton

Quartet Day 22FEB2021

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February 22, 2021

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Wilkinson, Tan, Batstone & Jong

Pimm, Wong, Holyhead-Miles & Stanwood

Tiller, Adams, Kasukawa & Davis

In Appreciation of William Grant Still; A Virtual Benefit Concert

A concert organized by Baylie K. Adams for Black History Month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9j7NmhRYc&feature=youtu.be

(T)he concert was presented in honour of the composer William Grant Still. He was one of the first of many influential classical composers of African-American heritage. His music holds historic importance in that he was the first African-American to conduct an orchestra in the US and have his Afro-American Symphony performed by a mainstream orchestra in the US.

Incantation and Dance for oboe and piano, Transc. Brian N Perez

Romance for saxophone and piano

Suite for Violin and Piano, Transc. Andy Austin Peeks

II. Mother and Child

Three Visions, for Piano

I. Dark Horseman

II. Summerland

III. Radiant Pinnacle

Lyric Suite for String Quartet, Arr. Volkman

I. The Sentimental One

II. The Quiet One (based on an Inca Melody)

III. The Jovial One

Baylie Adams, Yousef Shadian (piano)

Quartet: Ayari Kasukawa, Baylie Adams, Alex Tiller, Cole Davis