Creative Activity

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Recordings

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2017    (in process) The Persistence of Beauty , Todd DelGiudice, OA2 Records (leader/composer)

 

2016   Unnamed, Mica Bethea Big Band (lead alto/featured soloist)

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2016   No Secrets No Lies, Larry Wilson (tenor sax/featured soloist)

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2016   University of North Florida Faculty Jazz Ensemble, UNF Faculty (alto/tenor/composer)  

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2015   Identity Crisis, Tony Glausi (alto sax/featured soloist)

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2013   Idyl Wild, Jon Hamar, Rich Perry, Origin Records (alto sax/featured soloist/composer)

 

2013   Stand Up Eight, Steve Owen, Origin Records (lead alto/featured soloist)

 

2012   Hymn, Jon Hamar, Geoffry Keezer, Origin Records (alto sax/featured soloist/composer)

 

2011   Pencil Sketches, Todd DelGiudice, Origin (OA2) Records (leader/composer)

 

2011   Fireflies, Free Range Sax Quartet, Origin Classics (tenor sax/composer)

 

2009   Letters from Lincoln, Spokane Symphony (3rd clarinet)

 

2007   A Place in the World, Bob Curnow Big Band (lead alto)

 

2004   Romances, University of Miami Concert Jazz Band (tenor sax)

 

1996   Images, Dennis Marks (tenor sax)

 

1994   New York Toast, Phil Flanigan (alto sax)

 

1994   Swing, Swing, Swing, Duffy Jackson (alto sax/composer)

 

Selected Jazz Performances

 

2016   Guest Artist at Vienna Conservatory. Performed original compositions and standards with a

group comprised of graduate, undergraduate students and faculty members

 

2016   Performed at Larry Wilson CD release event, Indochine, Jacksonville, FL

 

2015   Todd Delgiudice/Joel Frahm Quintet performed at the 55 Bar in NYC with a program featuring my

original compositions.

 

2015   Lead alto and featured soloist at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival with Mica Bethea Big Band

 

2015   Featured soloist with UNF JE1 at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival

 

2015   Featured soloist performing original compositions at Savannah Jazz Festival with UNF JE1

 

2014   Performed with singer Bobby Caldwell at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival

 

2014   Guest artist with Uinversity of Texas, Arlington’s top big band at their annual jazz festival.

Arlington, TX

 

2013   Guest artist with University of Oregon’s top big band. Performed a program of my original

compositions. Eugene, OR

 

2013   Lead alto/featured soloist with River City Big Band, Jacksonville Jazz Festival

 

2012   Performed with Rich Perry at Tula’s Jazz Club. Seattle WA

 

2012   Performed with Rich Perry at Boxley’s Jazz Club, North Bend, WA

 

2012   Guest artist along with Rich Perry and the Jon Hamar Quartet at Mountlake Terrace Jazz Festival,

Mountlake Terrace, WA

 

2012   Performed at Ballard Jazz Walk with my quartet featuring mostly original compositions, Seattle,WA

 

2011   Featured guest artist with Bug, Tim Ries and Josh Roseman at University of California, Fresno

 

 

Selected Classical Performances (clarinet and saxophone)

 

2016   Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll , St. Augustine Music Festival

 

2016   Performed on clarinet as a member of the Novacane Trio in a program featuring works by Mozart,

Joplin, Peter Schickele and others with Peter Wright (Principal Clarinet, Jacksonville Symphony)

and Anthony Anurca (Principal Bassoon, Jacksonville Symphony)

 

2016   Principal alto saxophone on George Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue with

the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

 

2015-2016   2nd clarinet replacement for Marci Gurnow in the Jacksonville Symphony during her leave of

absence

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2016   2nd clarinet on Prokofiev's ballet, Cinderella

 

2016   Performed Bruckner Symphony No. 6 with the Jacksonville Symphony

 

2016   Performed Sibelius Symphony No. 2 with the Jacksonville Symphony

 

2016   Performed Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 with the Jacksonville Symphony

 

2016   2nd clarinet on Claude Debussy’s La Mer with the Jacksonville Symphony

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2015   Performed Stravinsky's Petrouchka with the Jacksonville Symphony

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2015   Principal clarinet, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Christmas Pops Concert

 

2015   2nd clarinet on Gustav Holst’s The Planets with the Jacksonville Symphony

 

2013   2nd clarinet on Shostakovich’s Symphony No.7 with the Jacksonville Symphony

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Work in Progress

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My second album, The Persistence of Beauty, is well into the planning stages and should be released on

OA2 Records in 2017.

 

The album will contain mostly original pieces along with a couple reharmonizations/arrangements.

One of the compositions, Ollie’s Mode, will be based on chord structures extrapolated from Oliver

Massiaen’s modes of limited transposition as represented in Guy Lacour’s 28 Etudes.

The size of the ensemble will range from quartet to sextet and will feature myself and Joel Frahm on saxes

and clarinet/bass clarinet, John Bailey on trumpet, Jon Hamar on bass, Gary Versace on piano/Rhodes and

Matt Wilson on drums.

 

I have been compiling etudes into an instructional book based on my unique approach to improvisation,

using upper-structures and common substitutions as points of departure over standard chord changes.

I compose these etudes for my students and for clinics/masterclasses using chord changes from Great

American Songbook standards to show how to take triads and expand them to structures, such as 1-2-3-5,

1-3-4-5 etc. and then pentatonics to create an inside-out approach.