CONSORTIUM COMMISSION
Saxophone Quartet Concerto
for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble
Transcription of Aurum Tetra (saxophone quartet concerto with orchestra)
Collegiate and professional ability level performers
Completed by TBD (likely late Fall 2020) and delivered by PDF via email to all consortium members
Buy-in price is $500 for each wind band or saxophone quartet
Final date to join consortium is TBD (likely early Fall 2020)
Transcription of Aurum Tetra (saxophone quartet concerto with orchestra)
Collegiate and professional ability level performers
Completed by TBD (likely late Fall 2020) and delivered by PDF via email to all consortium members
Buy-in price is $500 for each wind band or saxophone quartet
Final date to join consortium is TBD (likely early Fall 2020)
Details of Consortium Commission
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TRANSCRIPTION
Aurum Tetra currently exists as a saxophone quartet concerto (with full orchestra) commissioned by Assembly Quartet. The work is in three movements: I. Majestic, Playful II. Serene, Mysterious III. Fiery, Spirited The total duration is about 23 minutes. This consortium is to commission a transcription for wind ensemble (grade 4-5). You can watch a performance at NASA of the orchestra version featuring Assembly Quartet here. |
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BUY-IN
To become a consortium member, please click below. For other payment arrangements such as checks, please email benjamintaylormusic@gmail.com
The deadline to join the consortium is TBD.
To become a consortium member, please click below. For other payment arrangements such as checks, please email benjamintaylormusic@gmail.com
The deadline to join the consortium is TBD.
Buy submitting your buy-in payment, you are agreeing to this consortium contract. Please download and keep for your reference.
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About the Composer - Benjamin Dean Taylor
The music of Benjamin Dean Taylor (born 1983), has been described as “elegant and energetic” (Kenneth Thompson) and “powerful and direct with delightful surprises in each work.” (Marilyn Shrude) Having grown up as a performer in jazz, rock, ska, country, and concert bands as well as in choirs and orchestras, Taylor is driven to write music that highlights the strengths of each performing ensemble. His catalog of more than 100 works covers a large range of styles and genres including music written for orchestra, wind band, opera, choir, jazz big band, gamelan, chamber ensembles, and soloists with live electronics. Taylor has received commissions from ensembles including the Calidore String Quartet, Omaha Symphony, Solaire Saxophone Quartet, New World Youth Symphony, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Civic Wind Symphony. As a sought-after composer for wind band, Taylor has been commissioned by over 75 band directors of players at all educational levels. Recently named a recipient of his third commission from the Barlow Endowment, Taylor’s prizes and honors include Winner in the 2013 Ticheli Composition Contest, a grant from the Indiana Arts Council (2015), Dean’s Prize in Composition from Indiana University (2013), BMI Student Composers Award (2011), Winner in the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings (2012), and an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award (2011). Benjamin Taylor completed a doctorate degree from Indiana University and holds degrees from Bowling Green State University (MM) and Brigham Young University (BA).
