Athanasios Zervas, saxophone     Achilleas Gouastor, piano

Saturday January 9^th 2010  -  18:30 pm

Admission Free

Program

Symptoms II for solo alto saxophone  (2009)                                                Athanasios Zervas

Elegy for alto saxophone and piano   (1987)                                                   Patricia Morehead

Aria for alto saxophone   (2009)                                                                       Frank Abbinanti

Impressions II for alto saxophone and piano (1998)                                    Dinos Constantinides

Winter Waltz for alto saxophone and piano   (2009)                                      Victoria Malawey

Serenade for solo alto saxophone    (2008)                                                     Ilya Levinson

The Carpenter-Wood Rag for soprano saxophone and piano (1991)                Al Benner

Bios

Frank Abbinanti, composer, musicologist, pianist, trombonist. MA in Composition, University of Chicago, USA.  Seminar Lecturer at the University of Chicago, USA.

Al Benner, composer, pianist, conductor.  DMA in Composition, Louisiana State University.  Professor of Instrumental/Theory and Composition at the Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts, USA.

Dinos Constantinides, composer, conductor, violinist; PhD in Composition, Michigan State University, USA.  Boyd Professor of Composition at Louisiana State University, USA.

Achilleas Gouastor, virtuoso pianist.  Diploma, Athens Conservatory, Greece.  Graduate studies at the Hanover Academy of Music, Germany.  Professor of Piano at the Art Music School, Greece.

Ilya Levinson, composer.  PhD in Composition, University of Chicago.  Assistant  Professor of composition at Columbia College Chicago, USA.

Victoria Malawey, theorist, composer.  PhD in Theory of Music, Indiana University, USA.  Assistant Professor of Music at Kenyon College, USA.

Patricia Morehead, composer, theorist, oboist; PhD in Composition, University of Chicago, USA. Lecturer of Composition and Music Theory at Columbia College Chicago, USA.

Athanasios Zervas, composer, saxophonist; DM in Composition, and MM in Saxophone, Northwestern University, USA.  Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Macedonia, Greece.