Capitol Quartet is thrilled to announce the commissioning of a new Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra by the amazing award-winning composer STACY GARROP. The work is scheduled to be completed in 2027. Stay tuned for premiere and performance details!
2025 Premiere of Kevin Day and Baljinder Sekhon quartets
The Capitol Quartet will be performing at the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference at Penn State March 30, 2025, premiering of two fantastic new works written for us: BURN! by Kevin Day, and Different Paths by Baljinder Sekhon
CAPITOL QUARTET PERFORMS (again!) AT MIDWEST 2024
THIS PAST DECEMBER, 2024, the Capitol Quartet performed as a guest ensemble of the fabulous h2 Quartet, who graciously invited us to join them. Two years ago, Capitol Quartet performed as a featured performing ensemble at the 2022 Midwest Clinic and invited the h2 Quartet to join us for the premiere of EIGHT SAXOPHONES by Carter Pann. The 2022 performance also included our own exciting and original arrangements of classical, jazz and folk compositions, standard saxophone quartet repertoire.
Capitol Quartet to perform at Chicago Midwest 2022
Capitol Quartet will be a featured performing ensemble at the 76th Midwest Clinic, held December 19-22, 2022, at McCormick Place in Chicago. CQ will be performing on Tuesday, December 20, at 12:15pm in W-183.
The performance will include our own exciting and original arrangements of classical, jazz and folk compositions, standard saxophone quartet repertoire, and the premiere of Carter Pann’s Eight Saxophones, along with special guests, the h2 Quartet.
CQ Performs and Teaches at Cal State Summer Arts Festival 2022
Capitol Quartet members Christopher Creviston, Joseph Lulloff, and David Stambler joined forces with saxophonist and Cal State Professor Chika Inoue for a week of lectures, master classes, and recitals. We were delighted to work with and play for lots of great saxophone students on the west coast!
What a pleasure to have festival coordinator Chika join us on baritone for the finale!
NEW RECORDING!
Dionysian Mysteries by David Colson released on Navona (Parma) Records, April, 2022. This intense 5-movement work appears on a CD of works by David Colson.
Check out the opening movement, Madness Is My Specialty
Fall Residency Announced
Capitol Quartet announces its October tour and residency in Michigan: Performances and master classes at Michigan State U., Western Michigan U., and Hope College. Recital in downtown Lansing, and Entrepreneurship presentation at MSU. See calendar for details.
New Member!
The Capitol Quartet welcomes saxophonist Henning Schroeder to the baritone chair. Congratulations, Henning!
Pann a Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Capitol Quartet and Margot Music Fund are thrilled to announce that Carter Pann's saxophone quartet composition, The Mechanics: Six From the Shop Floor, was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in music, commissioned and performed by the Capitol Quartet, and with financial assistance from The Margot Music Fund.
The work is released on the Capitol Quartet CD, Balance, on Blue Griffin Recordings (2016). Congrats to Carter and engineer Sergei Kvitko!
http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/carter-pann-0
We are honored to have been catalysts for the creation of the work, and grateful to have had his input at the recording sessions.
-Christopher Creviston, Joe Lulloff, David Stambler, and Sergei Kvitko (engineer - Blue Griffin Recording)
New CD!
Our CD “balance” is named for one of the movements of Carter Pann’s THE MECHANICS: Six From the Shop Floor, which was commissioned and premiered by Capitol Quartet. The piece was named a finalist for the 2016 PULITZER PRIZE in Music Composition. The CD also features Elysian Bridges by John Anthony Lennon, The Flight of Icarus by Stacy Garrop, and the Quatuor by Alfred Desenclos