This fall, Chair of the Instrumental Division and Professor of Saxophone Timothy Roberts, D.M.A., performed Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Conducting Emanuele Andrizzi, D.M.A., during his inaugural concert at Shenandoah Conservatory.
Roberts will also perform a program of “New Music for Two Saxophones” and teach a masterclass at the XIX World Saxophone Congress in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain this December.
Roberts will perform “Bolero” with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, and “The Great American Songbook” with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra this month. He will also lead the Shenandoah Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble in a diverse and eclectic program of music in November that will celebrate and feature some of the most successful recent alumni from the SU saxophone studio.