Four Miniatures
Saxophone Quartet
Timothy Woos
About
Tim Woos’s Four Miniatures are “constantly rising and falling, augmenting and diminishing.” Woos continues, “The piece starts very agitated but soon moves to the simple glass-like sounds of the second miniature. The third movement is full of large glissandos that cover the entire instruments’ ranges. This leads without pause into the fourth movement, an increasingly angry polka.”
Performance
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Duration
04:30 |
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Commissioning Year
2012 |
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Premiere
May 9, 2012 Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA |
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Recording
May 9, 2012 Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA |
Artists
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Timothy Woos Composition
Timothy Woos (composer/bassoon), 17, from New Haven, Vermont began playing the piano at age 8 and wrote his first composition in sixth grade. As a composer, he has received honors from the ASCAP Foundation and had his pieces performed by members of the Vermon Symphony Orchestra and the Vermont Youth Orchestra. Homeschooled, he performs bassoon with the Vermont Youth Orchestra and has played with the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra and the Opera Company of Middlebury’s pit band. He also loves boxing, making pancakes and pierogies, and taking German classes at Middlebury College.
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Prism Saxophone Quartet
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Timothy McAllister Soprano Saxophone
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Zachary Shemon Alto Saxophone
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Robert Young Tenor Saxophone
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Taimur Sullivan Baritone Saxophone
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