Anthony M Virgilio Music is an experience in story telling through the musical language. Always in different voices, always varying tales, but always written to convey a story. Message me on here or on my site to inquire about commissioned work. I enjoy working with artists and other composers. I would also love your feedback on the work I post on here. Most of the recordings on here are midi renderings and could use live recordings in order to truly bring them to life. If there is a piece you fancy to perform send me a message and maybe we could work something out.

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.

Composer Yiheng Yvonne Wu (b.1981, Taiwan) earned a Ph.D. and M.A in Music from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. in Music from Yale University. Her compositions have been performed by the La Jolla Symphony conducted by Steven Schick, Arraymusic, Palimpsest, Ensemble SurPlus, Bonnie Whiting, Jessica Aszodi, Carla Rees, Rachel Beetz, and Dustin Donahue, among others. Her music has been featured in the WasteLAnd concert series, New Music on the Bayou Festival, SoundSCAPE Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Schloss Solitude Summer Academy. She was the winner of the 5th Mivos/Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize. Primary composition teachers have included Katharina Rosenberger, Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Sophia Serghi, and Steven Takasugi. She is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Previously, she taught at Beloit College, where she founded and directed the InterArts Ensemble. 

Artwork by Karl Pilato www.karlpilato.com

Flute/saxophone duo based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.

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