MUSIC
Solo
William Bolcom (°1938) Lilith - for E-flat Alto Saxophone and Piano
I. The Female Demon II. Succuba III. Will-o'-the-Wisp IV. Child Stealer
V. The Night Dance
Floris Van der Veken (Alto Saxophone) Pi-Lin Ni (Piano)
April 2021 Kilbourn Hall Rochester, NY
Sequenza VIIb for Soprano Saxophone Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Floris Van der Veken
April 2021 Ray Wright Room Rochester, NY
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Cello Suite No. 5 in c minor -
Prélude for Baritone Saxophone
Solo: Floris Van der Veken
April 2021 Kilbourn Hall Rochester, NY
Ichirô Nodaïra (°1953) Arabesque III pour saxophone alto mib et piano Floris Van der Veken (Alto Saxophone) Pi-Lin Ni (Piano)
April 2021 Kilbourn Hall Rochester, NY
Fractured water for Alto Saxophone by Kate Ragan (1998) - premiere
Solo: Floris Van der Veken
Fall 2022 Hatch Recital Hall Rochester, NY
Rite I for Alto Saxophone by Marlies Hollevoet (1997) - premiere
Solo: Floris Van der Veken
August 2022 Hatch Recital Hall Rochester, NY
Chamber music
Floris Van der Veken (sax), "Desguin" string quartet and Babette Craens (piano).
Live recording during the concert "A tribute to Luc Brewaeys". October 2019,
"Blauwe zaal" de Singel / Antwerp / Belgium
Leafless Trees by David Laganella I. Unyielding II. Separated from the others
V. Towards the sky
Excursus IV Colin Crake, soprano saxophone
Floris Van der Veken, alto saxophone
Wesley Taylor, tenor saxophone
Leonardo Aguilar-Arias, baritone saxophone
Recorded December 9th, 2021
Hatch Recital Hall Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY, USA
Premiere of '4' by Marlies Hollevoet - Saxophone Quartet
Colin Cracke (Soprano), William Pyle (Alto), Wesley Taylor (Tenor), Floris Van der Veken (Baritone)
Ray Right Room, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Premiere of 'Village Sauvage' by Deqing Wen - Saxophone Quartet
Floris Van der Veken (Soprano), Chongjin Li (Alto), Dykeem Cervantes (Baritone), Matthew Harinda (Tenor)
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Floris Van der Veken & Tucker Johnson - Improvisation for Soprano Saxophone & Latop
Hatch Recital Hall, Rochester, NY
Ensemble
Eastman Saxophone Project
Chien-Kwan Lin, director
Recorded on December 4, 2021 Kilbourn Hall Eastman School of Music University of Rochester
Claude Debussy (arr. Clancy Ellis) Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune
Eastman Saxophone Project Fall Concert November 30th, 2021 Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music La Gazza Ladra Overture Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Colin Crake