MEDIA
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Herzl (2021) by Noa Even; performed at Snow Pond Institute for the Arts in Sidney, ME on June 17, 2022. Herzl is a reflection on my cultural identity as an Israeli-American. The piece is my journey through pride reckoning, struggle, seeking, sadness, angst, guilt, questioning and more. It's an incomplete coming-of-age narrative. Influenced by Jewish folk music, cantorial singing, and the shofar, Herzl was created through improvisation with fragments as small as individual pitches from "Hatikva," Israel's national anthem.
In Part 1 of this instructional video series, sponsored by Vandoren I explain and demonstrate the correct way to articulate on the saxophone. Topics include the mechanics of tonguing, legato articulation and exercises to get you started.
Prélude, Cadence, et Finale (1956) by Alfred Desenclos; performed in November 2019 at Kent State University with Casey Dierlam Tse.
Clamor (2016) by Erin Rogers; performed by Ogni Suono on October 8, 2016 at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Composed as part of the SaxoVoce commissioning project. Featured on Ogni Suono's SaxoVoce album (released on New Focus Recordings, 2018).
For Those Who Fell (2019) by Adam Roberts; world premiere performed at Kent State University with the KSU Wind Ensemble on December 3, 2021. It is a programmatic concerto commemorating the Kent State Shooting of May 1970 for the 50th Anniversary of the event. It tells an imagined version of the events of that day, with the soloist acting as a leader of student protestors. The piece is in five main sections: Introduction, Gathering Energy, Energy of Protest, Shots Ring Out in Slow Motion, and Elegy.
b(locked.orders) (2019) by Emily Koh (video by Michiko Saiki); the audio is from a live performance on November 3, 2019 at University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The piece is part of a multimedia solo project, atomic, that explores themes of human connection.
Flat Circle (2017) by Carter Rice; released in August 2018 on New Focus Recordings, the piece draws inspiration from the concept of time as a function of space. If one were to remove themselves from spacetime they might see all the matter of the universe as a static object, a flat circle. All events, all decisions, all causes and effects, would be viewable as a continuum that has no beginning and no end.
Fractured Laundry (2016) by Charlie Wilmoth; recorded by Patchwork in 2017.
World premiere performance with the Rowan University Wind Ensemble, directed by Joe Higgins. Performed on March 3, 2022 in Pfleeger Concert Hall at Rowan University. Originally composed for soprano saxophone and organ, it was written to commemorate and celebrate the life of Noa's undergraduate saxophone teacher, Dr. Frederick Hemke, who passed away in April 2019. The subtitle of the concerto comes from John Dryden’s ode "Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music (1697)."
Collaboration with guitarist/composer Carlos Cotallo Solares; virtual collaboration created in March 2021 and premiered on the Fuse Factory’s Frequency Fridays Concert Series.
Violet Spirals of Twilight (2018) by Frank Wiley, for soprano saxophone and string ensemble; world premiere performed with the Kent State U. New Music Ensemble. Composed for Frank’s retirement celebration concert.