About this project
This summer, I will begin working on a new piece for unaccompanied alto saxophone. I have written several other pieces for saxophone in the past while working with some truly world-class players. For this project, I will be collaborating with saxophonist Timothy Rosenberg. The work will be approximately 8 minutes long. It will be appropriate for advanced (collegiate) saxophonists, but it won't be prohibitively virtuosic. I will finish the work in October of this year. The score and recording will be available some time in November. Tim and I hope to present the work at the College Music Society's National Conference in San Diego in November 2012.
Be a part of commissioning a new work for saxophone. Joining a commissioning consortium allows you to support the creation of new works without having to spend thousands of dollars. Thanks to the web and services like Kickstarter, forming a consortium is easier (and cheaper) than ever. About as much as it would cost to buy a score of an older work, you can get one of a brand new piece while directly supporting the composer. (That's me!) You'll also be part of a group that has performance exclusivity until the end of 2012.
If you would like to listen to some of my music, including pieces I'm offering with some of the rewards, click here.
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RECORDING - You will have your name listed in the score as a member of the commissioning consortium. You will also receive a digital download of the first recording of the work.
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SCORE PDF - You will have your name listed in the score as a member of the commissioning consortium. You will also receive a digital download of the first recording of the work, as well as a digital download of the completed score in PDF format. You and other consortium members will have exclusivity on performing the piece through the end of 2012.
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HARD COPY OF THE SCORE - You will have your name listed in the score as a member of the commissioning consortium. You will also receive a digital download of the first recording of the work. I will mail you a hard copy of the score (signed by request). You and other consortium members will have exclusivity on performing the piece through the end of 2012.
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ONE MORE PIECE - You will have your name listed in the score as a member of the commissioning consortium. You will also receive a digital download of the first recording of the work. I will mail you a hard copy of the score (signed by request). You and other consortium members will have exclusivity on performing the piece through the end of 2012. I will also include a copy (signed by request) of my tenor saxophone solo Inner/Outer Monologue.
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TWO MORE PIECES - You will have your name listed in the score as a member of the commissioning consortium. You will also receive a digital download of the first recording of the work. I will mail you a hard copy of the score (signed by request). You and other consortium members will have exclusivity on performing the piece through the end of 2012. I will also include one copy each (signed by request) of my tenor saxophone solo Inner/Outer Monologue and my saxophone quartet Falling Up the Down Escalator (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone; score and parts).
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MY FULL SAXOPHONE CATALOG - You will have your name listed in the score as a member of the commissioning consortium. You will also receive a digital download of the first recording of the work. I will mail you a hard copy of the score (signed by request). You and other consortium members will have exclusivity on performing the piece through the end of 2012. I will also include one copy each (signed by request) of my tenor saxophone solo Inner/Outer Monologue, my saxophone quartet Falling Up the Down Escalator (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone; score and parts), and my mixed chamber ensemble Emulsion Quintet (cl./b. cl., sop. sax, hn., vlc., marimba; score and parts).
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David MacDonald’s music has been performed at venues around the world, including Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. He is from St. Louis, Missouri and received a B.M. in composition and trumpet performance from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 2006 and an M.M. in composition from Michigan State University in 2008. He is currently a D.M.A. candidate and graduate teaching assistant at M.S.U. His past composition teachers include W. Thomas McKenney and Stefan Freund.
In 2007, David won the Michigan State University Honors Competition for Emulsion Quintet, and in 2006, he was a winner of the 54th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards for Elegy. He received an Honorable Mention in the 2005 MTNA State-level Young Artist Composer Competition, and was a 2005 finalist in the Sinquefield Family Foundation Prize in Composition.
David is the editor and a contributor to the Guidonian Hand, a blog about music, art, and contemporary culture. Additionally, he is co-Artistic Director of SCENE&heard, a new music concert series at the (SCENE) Metrospace gallery in downtown East Lansing.
