Julia Nolan, 20th-century classical saxophone music

5 Penny New Music Concerts 2005-2006

Sudbury - The 5-Penny New Music Concert series of Laurentian University is pleased to present eminent Canadian saxophonist Julia Nolan on Friday, January 20, 2006, at 8 p.m. in the Social Center of Huntington University College at Laurentian University. The recital will include original works for saxophone and piano by contemporary American, Canadian and Russian composers. For the recital, Julia Nolan will be assisted by Vancouver pianist Sandra Joy. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. Tickets are available at the door and at Black Cat Too!

"Incertitude," a work for alto saxophone and piano by Sudbury composer Robert Lemay, will open the evening. Lemay is a part-time member of Laurentian's music faculty and winner of the prestigious Belgian Harelbeke Musikstadt competition for 2003-2004. Keith Hamel, a noted electronic new-music Canadian composer from Vancouver, is represented on the program with "WindoW" for saxophone and computer (real-time transformation). Hamel is vice-president of the International Society of Contemporary Music and a developer of music software. The "Sonata" for saxophone and piano, by Russian composer Edison Denisov, is a major work of the contemporary saxophone repertoire. Written in 1970, this remarkable piece has influenced other composers in their writing for the instrument. "Sky Scrapings," by the respected American composer Donald Freund, has jazz-like colors and rhythms. Freund is a professor of composition and the chair of Indiana University's composition department in Bloomington, Indiana. "Two Preludes," by the Chinese-Canadian composer Dorothy Chang, will complete the program.

Born in Sudbury, Julia Nolan is a soloist and chamber musician who performs in a wide variety of genres. She has appeared with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music Society, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet and Saxoduo, with her husband David Branter. Nolan teaches saxophone at the University of British Columbia and Western Washington University, and is an artist-clinician for Yamaha Canada. She has also been invited to join the faculty of the Siskiyou Saxophone Workshop at Southern Oregon University for the summer of 2006. Nolan was the featured artist in the Sept.-Oct. 2001 issue of Saxophone Journal.

Sandra Joy has focused her career on contemporary music. She has a master's degree in Piano Performance from the University of British Columbia. Her piano studies were with Jane Coop, Douglas Finch and Jean Broadfoot; her master class instructors have included Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode and Marek Jablonski.

For more information, please contact Robert Lemay, professor of Music at Laurentian University, at (705) 523-4167, or [email protected] .