Klonos - I.

Performed with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Carl Topilow, 2011

Lt. Kije Suite, Romance - Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra (2011)

"Il vecchio castello", Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky - Performed by the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra live at Severance Hall, 2012

"Il vecchio castello", Pictures at an Exhibition - Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra (2012)

Tableaux de Provence - V. "Lou cabridan" by Paule Maurice (excerpts, recorded live - 2014)

Tableaux de Provence - V. "Lou cabridan", excerpt (Live - 2014)

Alyssa Hoffert, soprano saxophone, Wilson Poffenberger, baritone saxophone, Emiri Koumura, Piano - live at the Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France. (Transcribed by Alyssa Hoffert)

Poulenc Trio Op. 43, Mvt I-III (excerpts - live)

'Charlas' for two alto saxophones - European Premiere
Alyssa Hoffert, Wilson Poffenberger, alto saxophones

Guillermo Lago 'Charlas' for two alto saxophones - European Premiere (excerpts)

Alyssa Hoffert, Noa Mick, Wilson Poffenberger, alto saxophones. Performed live at the Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France.

Dedicated to Echo Rogue Saxophone Quartet, the piece is an homage to the Italian artist Lucio Fontana, who is known as the founder of Spatialism.

Consistent with his oeuvre, Lemay incorporates elements of concert hall spacing and non-traditional effects in the piece, including bisbigliandi, quarter tones, slap-tonguing, stomps, breath-effects, and altissimo.

Concetto Spaziale - Robert Lemay, for 3 Alto Saxophones (French Premiere)

The Garden Of Love - JacobTV (Live)

Alyssa Hoffert, Sean Xue, soprano saxophones

Ximix - François Rossé (Live)

Tre Pezzi - Giacinto Scelsi (Live excerpts)

Alyssa Hoffert, alto saxophone, Nicky Purser, piano

Aeolian Song - Warren Benson (Live)

First Light (Tango) by Dave Morgan from "Romantic Pieces for Alto Sax and Piano", performed by Greg Banaszak, Alyssa Hoffert, and Stuart Raleigh. 

Recorded at Mixon Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Music, 2012.

Tango (from First Light)

Performed by Alyssa Hoffert and Elisabeth Tomczyk on April 5, 2013 in Berkman Hall at the Hartt School.

Creston Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band (Live - 2014)

Concert saxophonist, avid chamber musician, and versatile music educator, Alyssa Hoffert has both performed and premiered new works for saxophone extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances with the Liberty Wind Symphony, the Cleveland Winds, the University Circle Wind Ensemble, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Firelands Symphony Orchestras, and the National Collegiate Wind Ensemble under the baton of H. Robert Reynolds at Carnegie Hall. 

A staunch advocate of chamber music, Hoffert is a founding member of the Peroledi Duo with flutist Matthew Angelo, and soprano saxophonist and founding member of the La’Ventus Quartet, who recently garnered national recognition as prize winners of the 2014 'American Prize in Chamber Ensemble Performance'. 

Hoffert has also been a prizewinner of many competitions and fellowships, including a recipient of the Art of Wind Band Conducting fellowship at the University of Minnesota, a selected member of the Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Leadership Academy, an artist residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and prestigious fellowships from the Huntington Beebe Foundation and the Cité Internationale Universitaire (CUIP) to pursue studies in contemporary music performance and literature in Paris, France.

Hoffert holds an MM in Saxophone Performance from the Hartt School and a B.S in Music Education cum laude from Case Western Reserve University and the joint music program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has pursued additional studies at the American Saxophone Academy at the Eastman School of Music and the International SaxArts Festival in Faenza, Italy. Her primary teachers include Greg Banaszak, Carrie Koffman, and Jean-Michel Goury.

Alyssa can be heard alongside grammy-nominated saxophonist, Greg Banaszak, on Music Minus One’s, "Romantic Music for Alto Saxophone and Piano". Hoffert is a Conn-Selmer artist and performs on Selmer Paris Saxophones and mouthpieces.

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