"Pull Up" for Soprano or Tenor Saxophone 

Commissioned as a result of the 2018 Solo Saxophone Commissioning Consortium with Samantha Etchegary.

Performed by Greg Bruce, tenor saxophone. Recorded by Aida Khorsandi at the University of Toronto. Mixed and Mastered by Andrew Noseworthy.

Music video by Theo Woodward: https://youtu.be/bVJLyuTnuBQ

From the album, "Consortium Works: Solo Saxophone" on people | places | records
https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/consortium-works-solo-saxophone

Pull Up

Greg Bruce is a woodwind player, composer, and educator from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. As a veteran of the indie, classical, jazz, and experimental music scenes of his hometown, he can be heard playing with a wide variety of groups and on numerous recordings. In addition to having thoroughly toured Eastern Canada, he has performed in the US and Europe.

His main creative output for the past several years has been composing for and leading the award-winning “world-beat-party-jazz” group, Ouroboros. In 2017, Greg was commissioned by the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Orchestra to write Spear and Sand, which was premiered in April 2018.

Currently, Greg lives in Ontario where he is pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto. As part of his research, Greg is composing for a new amplified-saxophone-feedback system that he invented, as well as studying jazz and classical approaches to electroacoustic saxophone.

Andrew Noseworthy (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary artist whose music reflects upon the acceptance/rejection of “locality,” while addressing ideas of post-regional spaces and questions of accessibility for the musical voices within them. His genre-fluid projects coalesce wide-ranging styles and distinct artistic practices, while building sustainable relationships through communal collaboration. Recent collaborators include The Metropolis Ensemble, The 21C Guitar Conference, Angie Moon Dance Theatre, Saman Shahi, India Gailey, Yang Chen, Tim Brady/Bradyworks, Phong Tran, Adam Cuthbért, SlowPitchSound, Greg Bruce, The St John’s International Sound Symposium, Bekah Simms, Tanea Hynes and Andrea Lodge. He is a member of the experimental hardcore duo this place is actually the worst (with Aeryn Jade Santillan), post-genre duo laydøwn (with Yaz Lancaster), Toronto-based contemporary ensemble ContaQt, and co-runs people | places | records.