Thursday Dec. 11 • MUSIC GALLERY PRESENTS
WALLACE HALLADAY & RYAN SCOTT
New Music for Saxophone and Percussion

Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 member + senior, $10 student
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Programme:
Magnus Lindberg (Finland, b. 1958) — Ablauf (1983)
Dennis DeSantis (USA, b. 1973) — +8 (2000)
Erik Ross — (Canada, b. 1972) — New work (2008) ** world premiere
Jacob ter Veldhuis (Netherlands, b. 1952) — White Flag (2007)
Andrew Staniland (Canada, b. 1977) — True North (2007) ** world premiere
Ken Ueno (USA, b. 1970) — WATT (2000)
Nebosja Jovan Zivkovic (Germany, b. 1962) — Pezza da Concerto No.1 (1988)

Toronto new music stalwarts Wallace Halladay and Ryan Scott bring loud music for saxophone and percussion to the Music Gallery. From the ferocious sounds of Magnus Lindberg’s (Finland) Ablauf to the social commentary on Bush’s Iraq War in White Flag by Jacob ter Veldhuis (Netherlands); American music from the funk stylings of Ken Ueno’s WATT to Dennis de Santis’ Motown spins in +8; and electronics at the forefront in two world premieres of Toronto based composers Andrew Staniland and Erik Ross.

Wallace Halladay, saxophone
Canadian saxophonist Wallace Halladay captures the qualities of the modern virtuoso, being at home in numerous styles, from the traditional to jazz and beyond. A specialist in the performance of contemporary music, he has commissioned and premiered numerous works. As a soloist, he has performed concerti by Ibert, Schmitt, Husa, Scelsi and Donatoni, as well as premieres of Colgrass, Kagel and Scott Good. He inaugurated the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s “Intersections” Series in an entire concert of music for saxophone and orchestra. This year, Wallace makes his debut in front of the Vancouver Symphony. Wallace recorded the two saxophone Sequenzas of Berio and the Colgrass concerto for NAXOS. He has been presented by and performed with new music groups and orchestras across Canada and the US. Wallace holds a doctorate from Eastman, and studied in Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp with a grant from the Canada Council. Wallace has taught saxophone, chamber music and theory at Memorial University and the Eastman School of Music, and currently teaches at the University of Toronto. Wallace is a Conn-Selmer Artist and plays Selmer (Paris) saxophones.

Ryan Scott, percussion, is an acclaimed solo, chamber and orchestral percussionist who has performed and premiered new art music across Canada, and also in Africa, Europe and the UK, Indonesia, Japan and throughout the United States. Based in Toronto, He performs regularly with many art music ensembles including Continuum, Soundstreams Canada, New Music Concerts, the Bob Becker Ensemble, Tapestry New Opera Works, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, frequently as a guest artist with NEXUS, and in the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with composers Thomas Ades, Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Mauricio Kagel, Steve Reich, Murray Schafer, Gilles Tremblay and has recorded for NAXOS, hatART, Artifact, CBC and CMC records. He has recently premiered new works for percussion by Michael Colgrass, Bruce Mather and Christos Hatzis. This season he will perform concertos by Unsuk Chin and Maki Ishii with the Esprit Orchestra and will soon record a series of Canadian marimba Concertos with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Ryan plays on Marimba One and Zildjian Cymbals.

Additional support provided by the Toronto Arts Council.