Lewis Spratlan - Invasion (2022)
Album: Music and Art for Ukraine, by Nadia Shpachenko
World Premiere Recording with
Anthony Parnther, conductor
Pat Posey, alto saxophone
Aija Mattson-Jovel, horn
Phil Keen, trombone
Yuri Inoo, percussion
Joti Rockwell, mandolin
Nadia Shpachenko, piano
100% of album proceeds benefitting Ukranian people affected by war
YouTube trailer above
michael torke - time (2022)
Michael Torke Orchestra
Alan Kay, clarinets and bass clarinets
Pat Posey, soprano and baritone saxophones
Ian Rosenbaum, marimbas and vibes
Michael Torke, piano
Elliot Figg, harpsichord
Sarah Brailey, sopranos and altos
Tessa Lark, violins and viola
Paul Wiancko, cello
Michael Thurber, bass
Ecstatic Records ERO92302
Available at www.michaeltorke.com
and on all streaming services
Los angeles reed quintet
South Bay Chamber Music Society
March, 2022
Mahler, arr. Trevor Cramer
Lob des hohen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Claire Brazeau, oboe
Don Foster, clarinet
Brian Walsh, bass clarinet
Alex Rosales Garcia, bassoon
Pat Posey, soprano saxophone
Trio concert
Zemer: Santa Barabra’s Jewish Music Festival
Dominic Cheli, piano
Pat Posey, alto and tenor saxophone
Rebecca Reale, violin
February, 2022
Program:
Erwin Schulhoff - Hot Sonate (1930)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Suite from Much Ado about Nothing (1920)
Adolf Busch - Suite (1926)
Edvard Moritz - Sonata a tre (1960s) (world premiere performance)
Lera Auerbach - Trio (2014)
Leonard Bernstein - Selections from West Side Story (1957)
i just want to be a tree
Music and video by Nick Platoff
Saxophones arranged/performed by Pat Posey
Created Fall/Winter 2020-21
In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl:
Hecho en México
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, music director and conductor
Broadcast on KCET and PBS Stations
(subscription required)
October, 2020 and January, 2021
have yourself a merry little christmas
Justin Elizabeth Sayre, vocals
Pat Posey, saxophone
Nastassia Lopez, keyboard
video by Pat Posey
created December, 2020
take five
Pat Posey, tenor saxophone, wine glass
Phil Bravo, ukelele, recorder, singing bowl
Nastassia Lopez, piano
Rachel Pryzgoda, chord harmonica, singing bowl
Music by Paul Desmond
Arranged by Phil Bravo and Pat Posey
Video by Pat Posey
Created October, 2020
nachtmusik
Pat Posey, bass saxophone (x5)
Original music for forthcoming album release
MAMA Don’t allow
Pat Posey, composer and soprano, tenor, and bass saxophones
Original music to accompany a story reading of Thacher Hurd’s
children’s book ‘Mama Don’t Allow’ performed by the author
Commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony and Berkeley Public Library
Created September, 2020
Leonard bernstein
West side story: symphonic dances
For solo saxophone
Prologue, Somewhere, Scherzo, and Mambo
Pat Posey, arranger and alto saxophone
Performed live, September, 2020
Silverlake, Los Angeles, California
Beautiful evening.
Pat Posey, baritone saxophone
Reimagining of a melody by
Claude Debussy paired with
video of LAPD helicopters
circling Silverlake
created July, 2020
Ravel - Bolero
Pat Posey, saxophones
Sopranino (Selmer MK VI)(x2)
Soprano (Selmer SA-80II)(x5)
Mezzo Soprano (Conn)(x1)
Alto (Selmer SA-80II)(x6)
Alto with Low A extension (Selmer MK VI)(x1)
Tenor (Selmer SA-80II)(x8)
Baritone (Selmer SA-80II)(x4)
Created April, 2020
NEIGHBORHOOD POPS CONCERT
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Pat Posey, alto saxophone
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
George Gershwin - An American in Paris 4:44
William Grant Still - Romance 7:22
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto Movement I, Allegro 21:57
Charlie Parker - Confirmation 33:46
Miles Davis - Little Willie Leaps 36:35
Recorded June, 2020
learn more about hosting a neighborhood pops concert here
Ravel - bolero
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Stephane Deneve, conductor
Hollywood Bowl
July 12, 2018
Neighborhood Pops concert
for steve’s birthday
Pat Posey, soprano saxophone
Traditional - Shenandoah
Weiss/Thiele - What a Wonderful World as performed by Louis Armstrong
Debussy - Syrinx
Bizet - Habanera from Carmen
JS Bach - Sarabande and Double
from Partita for solo violin no. 1, B minor, BWV 1002
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Rodgers/Hammerstein - My Favorite Things as performed by John Coltrane
Lennon/McCartney - Let It Be
Recorded May, 2020
learn more about hosting a neighborhood pops concert here
John Adams
saxophone concerto (2013)
Pat Posey, saxophone
Akina Motoyama, piano
November 5, 2019
Recorded in private performance
for Mr. Adams
Michael Tilson Thomas
Four Preludes on playthings of the wind
New World Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Measha Bruggergosman, soprano
Kristen Toedtman, vocalist
Kara Dugan, vocalist
Pat Posey, soprano and alto saxophones
April 20, 2019
New World Center
Miami Beach, Florida
Paul Creston
Sonata, Op. 19 (1939)
Pat Posey, saxophone
Laura Poe, piano
March 30, 2006
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School
New York, New York
Henry cowell
Air and Scherzo (1963)
Pat Posey, saxophone soloist
Adolphe Sax Birthday Concert
Sverdlovsk Philharmonic
Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
November 6, 2008
Lou Harrison
canticle No. 3 (1940)
YouTube Symphony Orchestra
Edwin Outwater, conductor
Pat Posey, ocarina
April 15, 2009
Stern Auditorium
Carnegie Hall
New York, New York
Charles ives
symphony no. 4
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Pat Posey, tenor and baritone saxophones
Recorded October 2017
Available for purchase here
james M. stephenson
symphony no. 3, visions
Click to hear saxophone trio excerpt from III. Scherzo
Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor
Pat Posey, principal saxophone
Recorded October, 2019