september 22, 2019
season opening CONCERT

“fall fanfare”

Featuring
Jordan Smith, Saxophone
Ryan Brechmacher, Typist

Program
Tomasi Ballade for Saxophone and Orchestra
Milhaud Sacaramouche
Leroy Anderson The Typist
Haydn Surprise Symphony
Ravel Alborado del Gracioso
Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever

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Dr. Jordan Smith, the Saxophone soloist, has praised regarding his “liquid tone,” Dr. Smith has concertized extensively throughout the US, and internationally in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Greece, as a soloist, conductor, and chamber musician. As an orchestral member, he has performed with the New World Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and numerous other ensembles under acclaimed conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Robert Spano. During the past decade, Dr. Smith has appeared in Haydn Hall in Eisenstadt, Austria, prestigious venues in New York City including Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Eisenhower Hall at West Point.

As a chamber musician who is a strong proponent of new music, Dr. Smith has premiered over thirty works by composers from the US and abroad, including Volodymyr Runchak, Mark Stambaugh, Marilyn Shrude, David Noon, Hayes Biggs, Marc-Antonio Consoli, James Adler, Robert McMahan, Steve Cohen, and Rex Isenberg. He is also a member of the Manhattan Saxophone Quartet (MSQ), which has premiered and commissioned numerous works by leading composers from New York City and around the world.

Ryan Brechmacher, the Typist, is an active pianist, composer, artist, and most recently, a typewriter enthusiast. As a solo performer, he has given recitals in Ohio and New Jersey, and has served as faculty accompanist for Princeton Day School, accompanist for the Princeton Girl choir, Westminster Youth Chorale, Voices Chorale, and many singers and instrumentalists in the area. He has taught at Bowling Green State University's Summer Piano Camps, Westminster's Middle School Piano Camp with Lillian Livingston, and Westminster's High School Piano Camps with Ingrid Clarfield. An accomplished composer, his works have been premiered by the Westminster Schola Cantorum, Westminster Youth Chorale, Bowling Green Junior High School Bands, Bowling Green Area Community Band, Cincinnati Children's Choir, Voices Chorale, and Princeton Day School Chorus and Chorale. His piece "The Lobster-Quadrille" won the 2010 Cincinnati Children's Choir Choral Composition Competition,and he was named the 2015 New Jersey Music Teachers Association's Commissioned Composer of the Year. His works have been published through Transcontinental Music Publications, Alfred Music Publishing, and GIA Publications.

Mr. Brechmacher has been teaching private piano lessons at Princeton Day School since the fall of 2007, where he also serves as Faculty Accompanist and AP Music Theory teacher in the Upper School. He lives in Lawrenceville, NJ, with his wife, Rose, and son, Mason.