This concert features members of the percussion and saxophone studios in a chamber concert highlighting the Fall 2026 William Bolcom Guest Composer Steven Mackey. A composer Q&A moderated by SMTD Professor of Saxophone, Dr. Timothy McAllister, will take place during intermission. Reception to follow the concert in the lobby. ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST STEVEN MACKEY is a GRAMMY-winning composer of works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, dance, and opera – commissioned by the greatest orchestras around the world, and winner of several awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award. Bright in coloring, ecstatic in inventiveness, lively and profound, Mackey’s music spins the tendrils of his improvisatory riffs into large-scale works of grooving, dramatic coherence.