The ARC Saxophone Quartet

Saturday, March 29, PASQ Chapel, 1:00pm - 1:30pm

 Program:

Quartet for Saxophones……………Elliot Del Borgo (1938-2013)

I.               Quickly

II.             Gently

III.           with Vigor 

String Quartet……………Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) (orch. Johan van der Linden)

IV.          Vif et arité

Wapango……..………………………………………………….Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948)

Cooper Sluka (he/him), soprano saxophone, junior, Music Education

Brenden Stilwell (he/him), alto saxophone, senior, Computer Science with Music Minor

Eric Francis (he/him), tenor saxophone, junior, Music Performance

Quin Coltman (he/him), baritone saxophone, sophomore, Music Education and performance

The ARC Saxophone Quartet of Slippery Rock University is directed by Dr. Jason Kush. Comprised of undergraduate music education, music performance, majors, the ARC Saxophone Quartet has performed at the PMEA All-State Convention, various North American Saxophone Alliance regional conferences, and the International Saxophone Symposium. In 2019, the quartet traveled to Medellín, Colombia to perform as part of Universidad de Antioquia Festival de Artes. The quartet has also engaged in several commissions, most recently an octet for saxophones and multi-percussion - This Route Has Tolls – by Robert Traugh and David Reeves.