PAST PERFORMANCES
June 14, 2024 - ESQ and pianist Roger Admiral perform the world premiere of Howard Bashaw’s 13 For Saxophone Quintet at the Now Hear This Festival, hosted by New Music Edmonton.
October 28, 2023 - ESQ in concert at King’s University. Works by Greg Wanamaker, Takuma Itoh, Fernande Decruck, Joseph Lai, and Thierry Escaich
December 14, 2021 - Performing a program of entirely new works written by students in composition at the University of Alberta. To be live-streamed online here.
February 15, 2019: North American Saxophone Alliance Region 9 Conference, Lethbridge, AB. Performing Duluth by Erin Rogers, Feng II by Chen Yi with guest soloist Kenneth Tse, and Widdendreams by Andriy Talpash with guest soloist William Street.
April 16, 2019: World Premieres of four new quartets by graduate students at the University of Alberta.
March 9, 2018: University of Alberta Faculty Composers' Concert: new works by Andriy Talpash and Scott Smallwood Convocation Hall, Edmonton
July 31, 2017: MusiCamp Alberta Faculty Concert, Red Deer, Alberta
March 17, 2017: Now Hear This New Music Festival, Works by Jamie Leigh Sampson, Pauline Oliveros, Jacqueline Walker, and more
February 16-18, 2017: Co-Hosts of the North American Saxophone Alliance Region 9 Conference
July 27, 2016: MusiCamp Alberta Faculty Concert, Red Deer, Alberta
March 18-20, 2016: Now Hear This New Music Festival, Featuring works by Erin Rogers, Carl Schimmel, George Andrix, Lansing McLoskey, and Mei-Fang Lin
Tour of Alberta: October 24-27, 2015
October 24: Music Conference Alberta - Red Deer, Chamber Ensembles in Your Music Room: A Value Added Tax
October 25: Downtown Sounds @ Gaetz, Gaetz Memorial United Church, Red Deer, Alberta, Concert featuring works by Allan Gilliland, Charles Stolte, Eugene Bozza, Colin Labadie, Thilo Schaller, and Joseph Jongen
October 25: University of Calgary, Craigie Hall, Doolittle Theatre, Concert featuring works by Allan Gilliland, Charles Stolte, Eugene Bozza, Colin Labadie, Thilo Schaller, and Joseph Jongen
October 27: University of Lethbridge Music at Noon Recital Series, University Recital Hall
Feb. 2015 - North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Calgary - performance of Allan Gilliland's Shoestring Sincerity and Charles Stolte's Stop Don't Stop
2014 - Performed Allan Gilliland's Shoestring Sincerity at the Grant MacEwan University faculty concert
2001 - Featured on the Wednesdays@Winspear series in Edmonton, recorded and presented by the CBC
2000 - World Saxophone Congress, Montréal - world premiere of Charles Stolte's Last Transfer for quartet, two pianos, and two percussion, performed with the Hammerhead Consort. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
2000 - CBC recording of Last Transfer by Charles Stolte
selected commissions and dedications
Howard Bashaw 13 for Saxophone Quintet (2020)
Alex Eddington Stoirnmfly Ewecatiheron
Scott Edward Godin Abhaya Mudra (Freedom from Fear), made possible with support from the Conseil des Arts et Des Lettres Québec
Allan Gilliland Shoestring Sincerity
Piotr Grella-Mozejko Four Lines, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
Shane Krepakevitch theme, things that happen to it and other unjustifiable material
Robert Morin In Between Moments
Charles Stolte Stop Don't Stop
Charles Stolte Last Transfer
Selected repertoire
Tim Brady Quartet 1998
Gavin Bryars Alaric I or II
John Cage Four4
Dorothy Chang Obsess
Franco Donatoni Rasch and Rasch II
Christian Lauba Reflets
Iannis Xenakis XAS