MUSIC

Classical home concert featuring:
Performers: William Malone, saxophone, Gayle Grace, soprano, Sara McDaniel, piano, Abe Minzer, piano

Works by: Bonneau, Laitman, Desenclos, Charpentier & Dubois

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Suite for Saxophone and Piano (William & Abe) Paul Bonneau (1918 - 1995)
. Improvisation
. Danse des démons
. Plainte
. Espièglerie

I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1996) (Gayle & William) Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
. The Butterfly
. Yes, That’s The Way Things Are
. Birdsong
. The Garden
. Man Proposes, God Disposes
. The Old House

Prelude, Cadence and Finale (William & Abe) Alfred Descenclos (1912 - 1971)

- Intermission -


Gavambodi 2      (William & Abe)                        Jacques Charpentier (b. 1933)

Concerto for Saxophone (William & Sara) Pierre Max Dubois (1930 -1995)
. Lento expressivo e Allegro
. Sarabande
. Rondo

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Saxophonist William Malone, Chair of the Music Department at Pikes Peak Community College, will delight all with his mellifluous saxophone tones. William Malone excels not only as a classical player, but is an accomplished jazz saxophonist also. With well over 30 premiers to his credit, William Malone is a well-known performer specializing in 20th Century woodwind performance techniques. He has performed and recorded chamber music with The New Events Ensemble on the Nuema and Spectrum labels. William Malone has performed with many 20th Century ensembles Lydian String Quartet and Videmus and has appeared at various Contemporary festivals including the New Hampshire Music Festival and the NOW Music Festival.
William Malone served on the faculty of Otterbein College where he was the Instructor of Saxophone and Jazz studies. Malone was in the doctoral program at Ohio State University where he studied with James Hill. He has earned an MM from the New England Conservatory of Music and a BM from Wichita State University. He has studied with Joe Allard, Joe Viola, John Sampen and Fumiyoshi Maezawa.
Soprano Gayle Grace is an Instructor of Music at Pikes Peak Community College as well as an Adjunct Instructor of Music at UCCS. She has performed operatic and oratorio solos with the Friends University Community Orchestra, the Grand Junction Symphony, the Grand Junction Chamber Orchestra, and the Colorado Springs Chamber Orchestra. She received her Bachelor of Music Education degree with vocal emphasis from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas and she is presently writing a textbook on singing. Gayle has been the Music Director/Conductor for many presentations at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs including The Pirates of Penzance, Cinderella, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Man of La Mancha, A Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors, Oklahoma, and Nunsense as well as performing on their stage – her last role as the Beggar Woman in the FAC’s first production of Sweeney Todd. Ms. Grace has performed the soprano solos in Haydn’s Creation, Dvorak’s Te Deum, Handel’s Messiah, Schubert’s Mass in G and the Colorado Springs Chorale under the direction of Mr. Don Jenkins. In 2004, Gayle was chosen by Sir David Willcocks to sing the soprano solos in Dvorak’s Te Deum at the International Church Music Festival in Coventry, England, with a 400 voice choir and orchestra.

Pianist Sara McDaniel is known throughout the western region as a performer, teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. Much of her work has been done through Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and affiliates, Colorado State Music Teachers and Pikes Peak Music Teachers Associations. Her performance specialty is chamber music. She collaborates regularly with musicians of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and faculty of Colorado colleges. She has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and the Pikes Peak Philharmonic.

She has given piano pedagogy workshops and master classes throughout Colorado and many other states. Teaching comprises a major part of her career, both in an independent studio and on the faculty at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak Community College. In 2001, she was Colorado’s first nominee for Music Teachers National Association’s Teacher of the Year. Ms. McDaniel is a graduate of Southern Colorado State College (now CSU Pueblo) and received her masters degree from University of Hawaii. We are very pleased to have Sara McDaniel in her first performance with Classically Alive.
Pianist Abe Minzer earned a master’s degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory, a doctorate in music at West Virginia University, and has taught piano and chamber music at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. He plays concerts throughout the US, and has appeared as piano soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Dr. Minzer has performed and introduced compositions of many contemporary composers such as Robert Hall Lewis, Ofer Ben-Amots, Jorge Cardoso and Sylvia Hazlerig at venues, including Classically Alive, Temple Beit Torah, Colorado College, and the PILLAR Adult Education School. Currently, Dr. Minzer is an instructor at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), teaching courses such as Music Theory, Introduction to Music, and 20th Century Music. Dr. Minzer is also on the faculty at Pikes Peak Community College where he teaches private piano, Class Piano, and Fundamentals of Music. At the MTNA / Colorado State Music Teachers Association annual conference during June 2010, Dr. Minzer presented the lecture-performance “Late Chopin, New Beginnings”, in commemoration of the composer’s 200th birthday.
Abe Minzer is creator/director of “Classically Alive”. Under the sponsorship of the Pikes Peak Arts Council, Classically Alive hosts over 40 musicians and other artists, and features diverse monthly at-home music/arts salons, in addition to programs across Colorado. A venue for painters, poets, discussion, with fine food and great camaraderie, Classically Alive salons host a wide range of musical styles including classical, contemporary, popular styles, jazz, and world music