SWARM
for Nine Saxophones
Instrumentation
Nine Saxophones (SS AA TT BB Bs)
Program Note
This piece explores some of the various, contrasting qualities of swarm behavior – viciousness, unpredictability, ambiguity, agitation, etc. – exhibited through the medium of a large swarm of saxophones.
Premiere
Donald Sinta Quartet, the Platinum Quartet, and Jonathan Hulting-Cohen at the 2014 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Urbana-Champaign, IL - March 2014