Ponce • Estampas Nocturnas

Villa-Lobos • Fantasia

Allison Balcetis • saxophone

Fuchs • Serenade no.4

Soloist

Internationally recognized as an ambitious contemporary saxophonist, Allison Balcetis has studied and collaborated with artists from around the world. Her international performance career includes concerts throughout North America, Europe, Brazil, Thailand, and Taiwan. Her work as a soloist and chamber musician has produced over 100 world premieres.

Allison's current chamber ensembles include performing with mixed instrument quartet UltraViolet, the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet, Proteus Quartet, the free improvisation ensemble damn magpies, and weaving loom/saxophone duo echoradia. She is a major proponent of playing the music of our time, music by living composers, music that encompasses the sounds of our modern world.

As a full-time faculty member of the University of Alberta since 2009, Allison trains the next generation of thoughtful, artistic musicians, teaching saxophone, chamber music, woodwind techniques, and aural skills. Outside of the university, she served as President of New Music Edmonton from 2018-2020 and she was also the co-curator of SubArctic Improv, a monthly concert series pairing over 150 cross-disciplinary artists in a totally improvised context which ran from 2016-2018. In 2017 she was awarded the Qualico Artistic Leadership Award from the City of Edmonton