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Music for a Garrulous Grumpy Gato
 • Shane Valle
Portland Saxophone Ensemble on the Radio
Thursdays @ Three with Christa Wessel
 • Shane Valle
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…
 • Shane Valle
NEW RECORDING: Rhapsody for Double Reeds
Students of the Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy performed a new arrangement of Rhapsody for Double Reeds
 • Shane Valle
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.
 • Shane Valle
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.
 • Shane Valle
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
 • Shane Valle
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…
 • Shane Valle
Trees, musical islands, and the process of being
Context and contrast in life and music
 • Shane Valle
A Modern Pictures at an Exhibition
This weekend the Portland Wind Symphony traverses Adam Schoenberg's Picture Studies
 • Shane Valle
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