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Premieres, live radio, and new works for next year!
Dec 30, 2025
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The Apple and its Tree
Learning to live with your inheritances—musical and otherwise
Dec 16, 2025
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CONCERTS! Move With Me and Morning Comes Always
A saxophone double header this Sunday in Seattle and Tacoma
Oct 21, 2025
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Shane Valle
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Portland Saxophone Ensemble on the Radio
Thursdays @ Three with Christa Wessel
Sep 17, 2025
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Shane Valle
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CONCERT: Portland Saxophone Ensemble at Chamber Music Northwest
Just a quick heads up: Portland Saxophone Ensemble is performing at Chamber Music Northwest this Saturday at 7PM, Kaul Auditorium on the Reed College…
Jul 17, 2025
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NEW RECORDING: Rhapsody for Double Reeds
Students of the Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy performed a new arrangement of Rhapsody for Double Reeds
Jul 8, 2025
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NEW RECORDING: A Sunward Tilt, for reed quintet
In premiering A Sunward Tilt, Fivemind Reeds found something in my music I didn't know was there.
Jun 27, 2025
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NEW RECORDING: After Hours, for reed quintet
nonesuch.reed quintet strikes again! This time with a beautifully refined take of my piece After Hours, for reed quintet.
Jun 10, 2025
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The rewards of musical trust
Tim Salzman, Director of Bands at University of Washington, is retiring after nearly a half-century of conducting and teaching
Jun 5, 2025
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Premiere of a new reed quintet: A Sunward Tilt
On Saturday May 24th, Fivemind Reeds will premiere my new reed quintet A Sunward Tilt. The piece was selected as a winner of Fivemind Reeds’ 2024 Call…
May 23, 2025
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Trees, musical islands, and the process of being
Context and contrast in life and music
May 15, 2025
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Shane Valle
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A Modern Pictures at an Exhibition
This weekend the Portland Wind Symphony traverses Adam Schoenberg's Picture Studies
Apr 25, 2025
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Shane Valle
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Golden ratios and bomb craters
Scene: Road tripping up the Columbia River Gorge with a couple of musical friends and the topic turns to Programmatic vs Absolute music - that is, music…
Apr 21, 2025
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NASA, a new recording, and a moment for Mark Deffebach
Over the weekend, I traveled with the Portland Saxophone Ensemble to the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Region 1 conference in Moscow, ID.
Apr 9, 2025
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