Timothy McAllister

The American saxophonist Timothy McAllister, who was born in 1972, made his solo debut with the Houston Civic Symphony at the age of 16. He studied saxophone with Donald Sinta and conducting with H. Robert Reynolds at the University of Michigan, where he became the only saxophonist to date to receive the Albert A. Stanley Medal and also earned his doctorate in musicology in 2002. Timothy McAllister performs worldwide as a soloist and as a member of the Prism Quartet. He is passionately dedicated to contemporary music and has so far premiered more than 200 works. In 2013, for example, he enjoyed international success with the premiere of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto, which he performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the composer’s baton. His recording of the work with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson won a Grammy Award in 2015. Last season, Timothy McAllister premiered John Corigliano’s Triathlon with the San Francisco Symphony, among other works. His recordings of Kenneth Fuchs’s saxophone concerto Rush and Adams’s City Noir with the Berlin Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel — a work Timothy McAllister also performed in Dudamel’s inaugural concert as Principal Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009 — have also been nominated for Grammy Awards. His recording of Guillaume Connesson’s saxophone concerto A Kind of Trane came out in 2019, and in the fall he will release the album Project Encore, on which he and pianist Liz Ames perform contemporary music from Nina Shekhar to Tyshawn Sorey. Timothy McAllister is a professor of saxophone at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and also teaches in master classes and academies around the world, such as in his regular appearances at Music Course Weeks in Arosa and the Académie Musique in Orford, Canada.

July 2022