Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD)
Stephen C. Page, saxophone with Alex Maynegre-Torra, piano
Join us for a guest artist recital featuring saxophonist Dr. Stephen C. Page and pianist Dr. Alex Maynegre-Torra.
ABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS
STEPHEN PAGE has garnered international prominence as one of today’s leading saxophonists and has concertized across five continents. Stephen has earned prizes in more than ten international and national competitions, including the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist and Chamber Music Competitions, the North American Saxophone Alliance Solo and Quartet Competitions, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition, and the AUREC Saxophone Competition, among many others.
Stephen is the Alto Saxophone chair of the critically acclaimed Zzyzx Quartet. Zzyzx has been featured in concert at meetings of the North American Saxophone Alliance, and the World Saxophone Congress, along with extensive touring throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Dr. Page has released more than twenty recordings as a soloist and chamber musician which can be heard on the Enharmonic, Teal Creek, Crystal Music, and AUR Labels. His most recent recordings showcase works by John Mackey, Fazil Say, Miriama Young, Yusef Lateef, and John Adams, released with PARMA records. Stephen has enjoyed significant collaboration as a Musicians Advisory Board member with D’Addario and serving as Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician for nearly twenty years, and has recently released the SP Saxophone Mouthpiece, in collaboration with Macsax. In addition to his work within the industry, he has served as an elected member of the North American Saxophone Alliance for two terms and is now the organization’s Archivist.
Stephen Page currently serves as Associate Professor of Saxophone at the Butler School of Music within the University of Texas at Austin, where he has received the Teaching Excellence Award, the Foxworth Centennial Fellowship, and was one of twelve nominees’ campus-wide for the Blunk Memorial Professorship, the University’s most prestigious award for teaching and mentorship.
ALEX MAYNEGRE-TORRA has a versatile career as collaborative pianist, orchestral pianist, solo performer and music editor. Dr. Maynegre-Torra has been working as collaborative pianist at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas in Austin since 2010. He has also held positions at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the Hartt School in Hartford, CT.
Active in summer music festivals, he has been on the piano accompanying staff of the renowned Meadowmount School of Music in NY and the GASA Institute in Austin. As soloist, he has appeared with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Ridgfield Symphony Orchestra. Maynegre-Torra also has a deep interest in revising standard piano reductions for instrumental concerto scores. In 2013 OvationPress published his piano reduction of Schelomo by Ernest Bloch. The original reduction of this piece is known in the field as one of the most impractical scores to read and to play.
Dr. Maynegre-Torra holds degrees from the "Conservatori del Liceu" in Barcelona, the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he completed his DMA in Collaborative Piano under the tutelage of Anne Epperson. Other former teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro and Dr. David Westfall.
ABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS
STEPHEN PAGE has garnered international prominence as one of today’s leading saxophonists and has concertized across five continents. Stephen has earned prizes in more than ten international and national competitions, including the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist and Chamber Music Competitions, the North American Saxophone Alliance Solo and Quartet Competitions, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition, and the AUREC Saxophone Competition, among many others.
Stephen is the Alto Saxophone chair of the critically acclaimed Zzyzx Quartet. Zzyzx has been featured in concert at meetings of the North American Saxophone Alliance, and the World Saxophone Congress, along with extensive touring throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Dr. Page has released more than twenty recordings as a soloist and chamber musician which can be heard on the Enharmonic, Teal Creek, Crystal Music, and AUR Labels. His most recent recordings showcase works by John Mackey, Fazil Say, Miriama Young, Yusef Lateef, and John Adams, released with PARMA records. Stephen has enjoyed significant collaboration as a Musicians Advisory Board member with D’Addario and serving as Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician for nearly twenty years, and has recently released the SP Saxophone Mouthpiece, in collaboration with Macsax. In addition to his work within the industry, he has served as an elected member of the North American Saxophone Alliance for two terms and is now the organization’s Archivist.
Stephen Page currently serves as Associate Professor of Saxophone at the Butler School of Music within the University of Texas at Austin, where he has received the Teaching Excellence Award, the Foxworth Centennial Fellowship, and was one of twelve nominees’ campus-wide for the Blunk Memorial Professorship, the University’s most prestigious award for teaching and mentorship.
ALEX MAYNEGRE-TORRA has a versatile career as collaborative pianist, orchestral pianist, solo performer and music editor. Dr. Maynegre-Torra has been working as collaborative pianist at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas in Austin since 2010. He has also held positions at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the Hartt School in Hartford, CT.
Active in summer music festivals, he has been on the piano accompanying staff of the renowned Meadowmount School of Music in NY and the GASA Institute in Austin. As soloist, he has appeared with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Ridgfield Symphony Orchestra. Maynegre-Torra also has a deep interest in revising standard piano reductions for instrumental concerto scores. In 2013 OvationPress published his piano reduction of Schelomo by Ernest Bloch. The original reduction of this piece is known in the field as one of the most impractical scores to read and to play.
Dr. Maynegre-Torra holds degrees from the "Conservatori del Liceu" in Barcelona, the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he completed his DMA in Collaborative Piano under the tutelage of Anne Epperson. Other former teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro and Dr. David Westfall.
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