A concert saxophonist who defies classical conventions fills the first slot in the 2010-11 season of Covenant Arts performances at Covenant College.
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Kuang-Hao Huang
Ashu, 26, acknowledges that most people have never heard a saxophone played as he plays it, but he’s out to change minds about the instrument’s capabilities.
“It’s really an incredible instrument,” he says on his website.
“It can play with such emotional intensity, sing like a voice and effortlessly project in the largest of halls. It’s capable of a lot of really beautiful things.”
Ashu has won major international and national competitions traditionally won by pianists and violinists. His repertoire ranges from original works by Ibert, Debussy and Villa-Lobos to his own arrangements of Piazzolla, Rachmaninoff and Morricone.
IF YOU GO
* What: Covenant Arts concert featuring Ashu.
* When: 8 p.m. today.
* Where: Covenant College, 14049 Scenic Highway, Lookout Mountain, Ga.
* Admission: $22 and $27. Five-concert subscriptions $110 and $125 adults, $75 children/students.
* Phone: 706-419-1453, 706-419-1428.
* Website: www.covenant.edu/...>
* Note: Reservations are required two weeks in advance for candlelight, gourmet dinners served in the Great Hall before each concert. Dinner and show packages are $46, $47 and $52 (includes tax and gratuity). For details, call 800-868-6980 or visit www.shorter.edu.>
SAVE THE DATE Note: All programs start at 8 p.m. in the Dora Maclellan Brown Memorial Chapel. * Oct. 22: Teresa Walters, piano * Nov. 12: Petar Jankovic, guitar * Feb. 25: ETA3 (Alexey Gorokholinsky, clarinet; Tomoko Nakayama, piano; Emily Thomas, flute * April 29: Eugenia Zukerman & Friends (Eugenia Zukerman, flute; Svetlana Strezeva, soprano; Milana Strezeva, piano) ELSEWHERE Ashu, with accompanist Kuang-Hao Huang, will be featured in a guest recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Brookes Chapel at Shorter University, 315 Shorter Ave., in Rome, Ga. The performance is presented by the School of Fine and Performing Arts. Admission is free.
His engaging stage presence has been noted by multiple critics. The Dallas Morning News raved that he’s “just as much fun to watch as he is to listen to” and NPR described him as “riveting, brilliant (and with) pizzazz to burn.”
Ashu will be accompanied by pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, who has solo and collaborative performances to his credit, including the premiere of two works as part of Carnegie Hall’s Millennium Book Project.
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