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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
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Shane Valle
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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
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Shane Valle
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NEW RECORDING: Rhapsody for Double Reeds
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June 2025
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
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Shane Valle
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NEW RECORDING: A Sunward Tilt, for reed quintet
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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
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Shane Valle
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NEW RECORDING: After Hours, for reed quintet
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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
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Shane Valle
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May 2025
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
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Shane Valle
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Premiere of a new reed quintet: A Sunward Tilt
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Trees, musical islands, and the process of being
Context and contrast in life and music
May 15
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Shane Valle
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Trees, musical islands, and the process of being
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April 2025
A Modern Pictures at an Exhibition
This weekend the Portland Wind Symphony traverses Adam Schoenberg's Picture Studies
Apr 25
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Shane Valle
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A Modern Pictures at an Exhibition
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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
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Shane Valle
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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
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Shane Valle
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NASA, a new recording, and a moment for Mark Deffebach
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Off to NASA! (no, not that NASA)
<insert lame joke about saxophones in space>
Apr 4
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Shane Valle
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Off to NASA! (no, not that NASA)
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March 2025
From musical pastiche to something more
Synthesizing Shostakovich, Mahler, and Bruckner
Mar 28
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Shane Valle
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