Chamber Music Milwaukee / Nicki Roman and Elena Abend
Nicki Roman (saxophone) and Elena Abend present an evening of music for saxophone and piano
Nicki Roman (saxophone) and Elena Abend present an evening of music for saxophone and piano
Invited Guest, Interlochen Arts Camp Saxophone Intensive
Information and how to APPLY: https://www.interlochen.org/music/camp-programs/saxophone-intensive
Faculty at Great Plains Saxophone Institute (GPSI) and Great Plains Saxophone Workshop (GPSW)
GPSInstitute: June 22 - 23, 2024
GPSW College: June 23 - 27, 2024
How to apply: http://www.h2quartet.com/aboutgpsw
Masterclass at the 2024 NASA Conference. Details forthcoming.
March 4-8, 2024
Splinter Reeds residency at the Butler School of Music
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Details forthcoming
1pm Master class: Generation Saxophone Quartet
Location: Shattuck 156, Conservatory of Music
7pm Guest recital: Generation Saxophone Quartet
soprano saxophone, Nicki Roman
alto saxophone, Myles Boothroyd
tenor saxophone, Joe Connor
baritone saxophone, Drew Whiting
soloist, José L. Encarnación
Location: Harper Hall
Presenting world premieres by Shahrzad Talebi, Philip Sink, Zoë Wallace, and Trey Makler.
https://arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot
The Taproot New Music Festival will take place on the campus of the University of California, Davis, during the week of February 5, 2024, and will culminate in performances at the end of that week (February 8–11, 2024). Eight composers have been chosen to participate in the festival: they’ll have new pieces performed, and will participate in seminars and workshops facilitated by the visiting artists and UC Davis composition faculty. The festival will feature Splinter Reeds as a visiting ensemble. UC Davis’s own Empyrean Ensemble will also join the festival line-up.
Fuego Quartet performs at The 44th International Saxophone Symposium
Nicki Roman, soprano saxophone
Erik Elmgren, alto saxophone
MU1 Harrison Clarke, tenor saxophone
Gabriel Pique, baritone saxophone
nodes.branches.loops (Peter Van Zandt Lane)
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World-Premiere performance of Jules Demersseman’s “Fantasie” with string orchestra
Friday, December 8th, 7:30pm
November 16-17, 2023
Splinter Reeds residency at Oregon State University
November 17th, 2023 at Noon
Splinter Reeds Concert at Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
Presenting works by Marc Mellits, Yannis Kyriakides, Dana Reason, and others.
November 18th, 2023 at TBA
Splinter Reeds Concert at University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
Program features an Austrian silent film from 1924 by Hans Breslauer which presages the events of the Holocaust. Thought to be lost, a print of the film was discovered at a Parisian flea market in 2015 and digitally restored through a crowdfunding campaign. The Vienna Conzerthaus then commissioned a new score from composer Olga Neuwirth, which will be performed live by the Present Music ensemble, conducted by Yaniv Dinur. We will also feature an interpretation of the Woody Guthrie /Lisa Gutkin song Gonna Get Through This World arranged for Present Music by Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman and sung by Donna Woodall.
The performance is in conjunction with the exhibit “Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings from the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader”. In-person PM performance ticket holders also receive access to the Milwaukee Art Museum galleries the day of the performance.
This event includes a Pre-concert Panel Discussion at 6:00 pm in Lubar Auditorium and a post-concert reception in Windhover Hall at MAM.
https://www.presentmusic.org/events
UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Ensemble, invited performance at the 2023 Wisconsin State Music Conference
Residency at University of Missouri Ffeaturing a world premiere by Stefan Freund, supported by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
October 18-21, 2023
Residency at University of Missouri
October 20th, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Mizzou New Music Initiative presents Splinter Reeds
Guest Artist Masterclass (3pm) and Recital (6pm).
https://risk.uni.edu/events/guest-recital-nicki-roman-saxophone
Clinic and performance at Sun Prairie High School
A solo program of works for saxophone.
Concerts take place on Wednesdays between 12:15 and 12:45. A variety of performers, including choir, guitar, cello, piano, organ, voice, string trio, harp, and others, provide a mid-day respite to downtown workers and guests. Though a freewill offering is taken, there is no charge to attend the concerts. The Wednesday Concert Series is the only ongoing series of its kind in the Greater Milwaukee area.
https://www.stjohncathedral.org/index.php/concert/
Invited Guest, Interlochen Arts Camp Saxophone Intensive
https://www.interlochen.org/music/camp-programs/saxophone-intensive
Presenting a program of new music written for the ensemble, including the world premiere of a new work by Stefan Freund.
World-Premiere of Kevin Day's "Unquiet Waters" for alto saxophone and wind band
North American Saxophone Alliance 2022 Biennial Conference
University of Southern Mississippi
1606 Paseo De Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Presenting a program of new music written for the ensemble.
Presenting workshops, concerts, and composer readings at the University of New Mexico
Guest artist for the UW-Eau Claire Saxophone Day
FEB 17-18, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Jan Serr Studio & Present Music Digital Stage
Composer and singer Leila Adu joins Present Music as soloist in her own Freedom Suite. The PM ensemble introduces music of the multi-faceted composer collective Kinds of Kings, and unleashes high-octane music by Unsuk Chin.
Details announced soon!
Nicki Roman (saxophone) and Casey Dierlam Tse (piano) preent a recital featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, David Biedenbender, and Miriama Young.
https://uwm.edu/arts/event/nicki-roman-faculty-recital-2/
Generation Quartet presents an evening recital at Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Generation Quartet is a newly formed Wisconsin-based professional saxophone quartet. This chamber ensemble features saxophonists Myles Boothroyd (UW-Stevens Point), David Hastings (UW-Stevens Point), Nicki Roman (UW-Milwaukee), and Drew Whiting (UW Oshkosh).
With a refreshing look to the saxophone’s historic repertoire combined with a new focus on music of the present, Generation offers an engaging listening experience to audiences throughout Wisconsin and beyond. The ensemble fulfills this mission by including composers of varied and inclusive backgrounds and supports its outreach goal by providing professional concerts and educational opportunities.
Generation brings to the stage and classroom combined training and experiences from the top-rated music programs and saxophone studios in the country. Their individual efforts to promote newly composed and newly discovered music include internationally recognized and reviewed performances, innovative recordings, commissions with significant composers, and captivating premieres.
https://www.nicoletcollege.edu/community/nicolet-live/season-events
The Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific invites all woodwind instrumentalists to participate in Pacific Woodwind Day on Saturday, September 17, 2022 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. This event is open to college and high school students, as well as community members, and features headlining guests Splinter Reeds, the West Coast's first reed quintet comprised of five innovative musicians with a shared passion for new music. Pacific Woodwind Day includes performances, masterclasses, and workshops aimed at woodwind players.
In addition to participating in activities throughout Saturday, Splinter Reeds will perform a full concert on Friday, September 16th at 7:30pm in the Recital Hall. Admission is free!
Performance and masterclass with Splinter Reeds at the San Francisco Conservatory
SEPT 11, 2022 | 7:30 pm
Milwaukee Art Museum
Jean Cocteau’s classic 1946 film, La Belle et la Bête (aka Beauty and the Beast), with live music from the Philip Glass opera for a full cast of singers, ensemble, and film, meets music from French crossover sensation, Christophe Chassol from his magnum opus, Big Sun. In conjunction with MAM's exhibition, Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret.
*Free admission to MAM starting at 10:00 am the day of the performance with Present Music ticket purchase.
TIME:SPANS 2022: Splinter Reeds
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
New York, NY
Yannis Kyriakides
hypothetical islands, 2012
Sky Macklay
Choppy, 2017
Michael Gordon
New Work, 2022*
* world premiere
Sam Pluta
New Work, 2022*
* world premiere
with Sam Pluta, electronics
Faculty at the 2022 Great Plains Saxophone Workshop, featuring performances by David Biedenbender.
http://www.h2quartet.com/gpsw
Performance with the Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra.
“Our Town: By George!”
Program:
George Gershwin: Cuban Overture
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin (arr. Bennett): Porgy and Bess Selections
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Ticket information: https://manitowocsymphony.org/