PAUL Creston: Saxophone Concerto
Aaron Copland: The Tender Land Suite
Ulysses Kay: Pietà
Walter Piston: The Incredible Flutist

ARTISTS: JoAnn Falletta, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Timothy McAllister
COMPOSER: Paul Creston
LABEL: Naxos American Classics
CAT ID: 8.559911 / 636943991121

GRAMMY® CATEGORY:
Classical Instrumental Solo, Saxophone Concerto, Op. 26 - Timothy McAllister
Engineered Album, Classical
Producer of the Year, Classical - Bernd Gottinger

JoAnn Falletta conducts the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in works by four extraordinary mid-20th-century American composers who helped shape the country’s musical destiny: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Paul Creston and Ulysses Kay. Includes two world premiere recordings – Paul Creston's Saxophone Concerto and Ulysses Kay’s poignant and elegiac Pietà.

JoAnn Falletta

GRAMMY Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has guest conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in America, Canada and throughout Europe, Asia and South America. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. Credited with bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and international prominence, she is a leading recording artist for Naxos, and won her most recent GRAMMY as conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic for Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua (8.559885-86). Other GRAMMY awards include a 2019 win as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for Kenneth Fuchs’ Spiritualist (8.559824), and 2 GRAMMY wins in 2008 for her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (8.559331). From 2011 to 2014 she served as principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, with whom she made her BBC Proms debut and recorded six highly acclaimed Naxos albums. She was the first woman and the first American to fill this post. Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as a member of the National Council on the Arts, is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards and was named Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year 2019.

For more information, visit www.joannfalletta.com/

National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic

The National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic is one of the most celebrated festival orchestras in the United States. Having received a GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Orchestral Performance in 2019 for their album of works by Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison (Naxos 8.559836), its alumni occupy important positions in virtually every major symphony orchestra in the US. Held annually since 1988 at the University of Maryland, the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic is a leader in orchestral training and creative programming, championing works by underrepresented composers alongside standards of the repertoire.

For more information, please visit: www.noi.umd.edu

Timothy McAllister

Critically acclaimed saxophonist Timothy McAllister is one of today’s premier wind soloists, a member of the GRAMMY Award-winning Prism Quartet, and a champion of contemporary music credited with over 50 recordings and 200 premieres of new compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. He has appeared with most of the world’s top orchestras across 20 countries. His recording of Kenneth Fuchs’s Rush (Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra) with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra appears on the 2019 GRAMMY Award-winning album Spiritualist (Naxos 8.559824). Additionally, he serves as professor of saxophone at the University of Michigan.

For more information, please visit: www.timothymcallister.com