Timothy McAllister

Timothy McAllister is an American concert saxophonist and pedagogue. He studied at the University of Michigan with Donald Sinta. He is the current professor of saxophone at Arizona State University. Dr. McAllister also taught at the Crane School of Music from 1997 to 2006 and The University of Arizona from 2006 to 2008. McAllister specializes on the alto and soprano saxophones and has premiered over 100 new works. He is soprano chair of the PRISM saxophone quartet, which performs and commissions new works for saxophone quartet.
In 2009, McAllister played the prominent alto saxophone solo in the world premiere of City Noir by John Adams as part of the inaugural concert of Gustavo Dudamel's tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall . The concert was broadcast live in Europe and subsequently on Great Performances on PBS, and was later released by Deutsche Grammophon on DVD, and later on digital download on their DG Concerts label. He continued performing the piece with the orchestra during their US tour in May 2010.
Discography
*In Transit, featuring new works and the William Albright, Sonata.
*Scena (music of Carter, Mead, Lauba, Stockhausen, Broening, Steinberg)
*Toys In The Attic: Electroacoustic Music from UMKC iMPACT Center (Timothy Place's Dandelions for alto saxophone and interactive computer)
*Cold Water Dry Stone, with QUORUM (music of Evan Chambers)
*Imaginary Landscape, with the University of Michigan percussion ensemble (Music of Kevin Beavers)
*Visions: Duo Nuova
*America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax Vol. 5, performing William Bolcom's Concert Suite.
*Chamber Symphony No. 4 for saxophones and winds "Towers of Power" by Daniel McCarthy and Univ. of Arizona Wind Ensemble
*GLINT (music by Agocs, Kuster, Etezady, Asia, Hurel, Terry, Burhans, Wanamaker)
*Adams: City Noir; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) (Deutsche Grammophon and DG Concerts)
*multiple releases as soprano saxophonist of the PRISM Saxophone Quartet

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