Saxophone professor to give recital

09/02/2014 10:37 AM

Saxophone professor Keith M. Zimmerman and Andrea Molina, faculty accompanist, will present a recital  on Sunday, September 7, at 3 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue.  Featured will be original works for soprano and alto saxophones with all new instruments celebrating Zimmerman’s return to solo concert-recital playing after the devastation of the November 17 tornado, which destroyed all of his music and instruments.

The recital will include music by French, English, and American composers Darius Milhaud, Charles Koechlin, Roger Boutry, Jean-Paul Martini, Paul Harvey, Lawson Lunde, Paul Creston, and Rudy Wiedoeft.

Zimmerman is in his 15th year teaching saxophone at Bradley and also leads the BU saxophone quartet and quintet ensembles and is an artist-clinician for Selmer Paris saxophones and Rousseau mouthpieces.  He taught saxophone and music education at Illinois Wesleyan University for four decades, ending in 2013.  He leads the Illinois Saxophone Quintet and has performed in a large part of the US, Canada, France, England, and Germany.  Andrea Molina serves on the Bradley faculty as an accompanist for students and teaching staff.

Zimmerman holds music education and saxophone performance degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University and the Paris National Conservatory and also studied saxophone in Canada with Paul Brodie and at Ball State University with Cecil Leeson.

The recital is free and open to the public.  For more information, call 309.677.3596.