Highlighting studio soloists, saxophone duet, saxophone quartet, and saxophone ensemble.

Performing works by Yoshimatsu, Banks, Wanamaker, and Waignein. Assisted by Steven Vanhauwaert and Laura Grantier.

Featured soloist on Claude T. Smith’s Fantasia with the Grandville High School Symphonic Winds.

Sound Session performs an hour-long program of competition-ready and memorized repertoire without intermission at the beautiful Beacon Hill at Eastgate Living Center. Performance time TBD.

Featuring guest composer Adam Schoenberg’s Losing Earth and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring (arr. Merlin Patterson) with solo percussion performances by Jon Weber.

Please join me and my 13 collaborators as I perform a variety of chamber works by Poulenc, Cuong, Scott, Petersen, and Snyder. Refreshments to follow!

Featuring guest soprano Lindsay Kesselman, the program includes Intrada 1631 by Stephen Montague, Is A Rose (arr. Cody Edgerton) by Caroline Shaw, and Aurora Awakes by John Mackey.

The MSU Wind Symphony travels to Lawrence, KS to be a featured ensemble in this year’s American Bandmasters Association Convention held at the University of Kansas

Michiganders! Please join us on Sunday, February 12th at the beautiful Eastminster Presbyterian Church as we take part in their 2022-23 Music Concert Series! This program consists of a wide selection of pieces by composers such as Emma O’Halloran, David Maslanka, Kevin Day, and our very own, Jacob Nance. Come hear this program, entitled Coming Home, as we depart for our Texas Tour the following week! We hope to see you there!

Program includes Masquerade (transcr. Dennis Llinás) by Anna Clyne, Rhosymedre (arr. Merlin Patterson) by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Moorside March by Gustav Holst, Siren Songs from Tuebor Suite by Andrew David Perkins, Bravura by Charles E. Duble, Gumsuckers March by Percy Grainger, Burning the Wickerman by Julie Giroux, Soul from Concerto for Wind Ensemble by Kevin Day, and D-O-N-E from Sinfonia by Zhou Tian.

Come join Sound Session in Highland, Michigan for a night of great music. We are ecstatic to be partnered with the Huron Valley Council for the Arts to bring you this breathtaking program: Reagan Spring.

Please join us at Lansing’s beautiful Robin Theatre in REO town on Thursday, December 8th! Sound Session will be working in collaboration with Lansing Facts, WKAR, and The Robin Theatre for this event full of saxophone quartet standards, classic rock hits, and more! Special thank you to Kaylee Bernard for stepping in on the alto saxophone for this performance. See you there!

Program includes Dance of the Jesters (arr. Ray Cramer) by Peter Tchaikovsky, This Night by David Biedenbender, and The Planets Op. 32 (transcr. Merlin Patterson) by Gustav Holst.

A moving and provocative program of works written by American composers, past and present, including David Maslanka, Augusta Reed Thomas, Florence Price, and Steven Banks. Assisted by Chang Li, piano.

Sound Session performs a dynamic hour-long program for the Huron Valley Council for the Arts.

Concert features guest saxophone quartet Nois with the MSU Wind Symphony performing Commando March by Samuel Barber, Severance (concerto for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble) by David Biedenbender, and Symphony No. 6, Op. 69 by Vincent Persichetti.

Sound Session presents a concert in the Billman Pavilion’s Murray Hall.

Featuring oboist Nermis Mieses, this program includes Sokol Fanfare by Leoš Janáček, Legacy (concerto for oboe and wind band) by Óscar Navarro, Dionysiaques, Op. 62 by Florent Schmitt, and Yellow, Red, Blue by Paul Dooley.

Sound Session performs an hour-long concert of music depicting and inspired by nature in the beautiful Beal Botanical Gardens on Michigan State University’s campus.