Signal Quartet

Signal Quartet brings together saxophonists Kendra Wheeler, Kyle Hutchins, Nathan Mertens, and Jessica McCready. Its members maintain individual careers as performers and educators, with work encompassing solo and chamber performance, contemporary music, commissioning, recording, and collaboration with composers. Together, the quartet performs repertoire from across the contemporary saxophone quartet literature alongside recent and newly created works. Wheeler is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Louisiana State University, Hutchins is Associate Professor of Practice in Saxophone at Virginia Tech, Mertens is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Colorado Boulder, and McCready is a music educator based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Program:

• Quartet (2014) by Georg Frederich Haas (b. 1953)
• The Witness (1989) by Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)
• Intercepting A Shivery Light (2011) by Marcos Balter (b. 1974)
• are we all lost like you? (2023) by Kyle Hutchins (b. 1988) with Possible Saxophone Quartet: Jacob Short, soprano saxophone; Sarah Jung, alto saxophone; Luke Smith, tenor saxophone; Drew DiFilippo, baritone saxophone
• Worthless (2018) by Jeffrey Loeffert
• Part I: The Depth Psychology of Heroismm - The Terror of Death
• Part II: The Failures of Heroism - A General View of Mental Illness
• Part III: Retrospect and Conclusion: The Dilemmas of Heroism - What is the Heroic Individual?

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