With generous funding from the Serge Koussevitzy prize (Library of Congress) and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, there is a free concert at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC involving two premieres by Peabody faculty members: Sky Macklay and Alyssa Weinberg.

Macklay’s new work is the recipient of this year’s Koussevitzky prize, and is composed for saxophone quartet, live electronics, and audience participatory mobile video game designed by Baltimore composer and developer Jason Charney. It will be presented by the acclaimed Project Fusion Saxophone Quartet, and is a unique technical achievement: the pacing and unfolding of the music will be driven by the audience’s live input on the mobile game.

Weinberg’s new composition was commissioned by a coalition of 55 saxophonists from around the world, led by faculty artist Doug O’Connor and Jeff Siegfried. It is scored for tenor and baritone saxophones and live electronics.

The program will be further supported by the music of UGA’s Peter Van Zandt Lane, as well as medleys from Miazaki films and other video games. 

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