Timothy McAllister will be performing as guest saxophonist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra at our Something New concert on April 19. Tickets are available online or through our box office.
photo credit: Ara Howrani
Today’s most celebrated classical saxophonist, Timothy McAllister has appeared in more than twenty countries with the world’s finest orchestras, from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms. As a champion of contemporary music, he is credited with more than fifty recordings and two hundred premières of compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. He premièred John Corigliano’s Triathlon, a Concerto for Saxophonist and Orchestra composed specially for him, with the San Francisco Symphony under Giancarlo Guerrero, recorded it with the Nashville Symphony, and will perform it with the New York Philharmonic and conductor Leonard Slatkin in 2025. McAllister gave the first performances of the Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith), by his long-time collaborator Tyshawn Sorey (2024 Pulitzer Prize winner), with the Lucerne Festival and Atlanta Symphony orchestras. After his première of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, he recorded the work along with Adams’s City Noir with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson; that recording won a Grammy Award. His recording of Kenneth Fuchs’s Rush, with the London Symphony Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta, won another Grammy, and his reprisal of City Noir with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Gustavo Dudamel appears on Adams’s Grammy-nominated multi-volume anthology. Timothy McAllister has recently appeared as soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Seattle, and with the Brussels Philharmonic under Stéphane Denève gave the Belgian première of Guillaume Connesson’s A Kind of Trane. Timothy McAllister spent over twenty years as soprano saxophonist of the Grammy-winning PRISM Quartet. He studied with the legendary saxophonist Donald Sinta and holds degrees from the University of Michigan. He serves as Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and since 2019 has served as Visiting International Tutor in Saxophone at the Royal Northern College of Music. www.timothymcallister.com