Eureka! This concert will be the opening concert for our new concert venue, the Loading Dock in University Hall. Morris Palter, visiting us all the way from Fairbanks, Alaska will perform pieces by Globokar, Applebaum and more. Rhonda Taylor (from Los Cruces, New Mexico) will present pieces from her album Nocturne for saxophone and electroacoustics.
Born in Canada, Yamaha Artist Morris Palter’s wide range of musical interests have found him performing throughout North America, Asia, and
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Eureka! This concert will be the opening concert for our new concert venue, the Loading Dock in University Hall. Morris Palter, visiting us all the way from Fairbanks, Alaska will perform pieces by Globokar, Applebaum and more. Rhonda Taylor (from Los Cruces, New Mexico) will present pieces from her album Nocturne for saxophone and electroacoustics.
Born in Canada, Yamaha Artist Morris Palter’s wide range of musical interests have found him performing throughout North America, Asia, and Europe at some of the most prestigious festivals and concert venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall deput under gamed composer Peirre Boulex in 2001. As a frequent guest at universities and conversatories worldwide, Morris has commissioned and/or premiered hundreds of new compositions, working with prominent composers and performers including Bob Becker, Christopher Adler, Roger Reynolds, Anders Astrand, Mark Menzies, Chou-wen Chung, John Luther Adams, James Tenney, Phillipe Manoury, and more. Rhonda Taylor, a saxophonist dedicated to the creation and performance of meaningful sonic art of our time, first visited UCCS Music Program in 2009. She has commissioned, premiered, and/or recorded music by such composers as Chris Arrell, Rick Burkhardt, Ben Leeds Carson, Nathan Davis, Ben Grosser, Bernard Rands, and Avi Tchamni.
Her recent activities include lecture recitals on Gérard Grisey’s Anubis et Nout at institutions in the U.S. and abroad, performances at NASA Conferences, World Saxophone Congresses, and new music festivals throughout the United States. Currently she is working closely with Steven Takasugi on a new work for saxophonist and electronics, as well as developing a live set based loosely on her recent album of solo free improvisations with electronic processing, Nocturne. Dr. Taylor has been on faculty at New Mexico State University since 2003, where she is the College Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Music Theory. Rhonda Taylor is a Conn-Selmer artist and plays on Selmer Paris saxophones exclusively.
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