UT Music Faculty to Perform at Sax Recital Sept. 30

On Wednesday, Sept. 30, The University of Tampa invites you to a faculty recital, with saxophonist Scott Devlin taking center stage. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Plant Hall’s Grand Salon and is free and open to the public.

Joining Devlin are fellow music department faculty members and pianists Dale Williams and Grigorios Zamparas.

The program will include works for piano and saxophone by Lawson Lunde, J.S. Bach, Jules Pegram and Joseph Arban, and the saxophone duet Black by Marc Mellits, performed by Devlin and Ryan Devlin. The program will conclude with Eric Ewazen’s Rhapsody for Saxophone Quartet, performed by Devlin with UT students Joe Ferraro ’19, alto saxophone; Alex Ehredt ’15, tenor saxophone; and Danny Bub ’18, baritone saxophone.

Devlin has been a professional musician at Walt Disney World for 20 years where he has conducted and performed with many different groups. He currently plays bass sax and is the leader of the Magic Kingdom Quartet. Devlin recently performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and has been featured as a soloist with the Orlando Concert Band.

Williams served as staff accompanist for the International Cathedral Music Festival in England for four years and the Seminar für Klassiche Musik in Eisenstadt, Austria, for three years. She served on the music faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was the organist at Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church, accompanist for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra Chorus and organist, pianist and harpsichordist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

Zamparas is an associate professor of music and director of piano studies at UT. He is an active concert pianist and performs both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. He has given master classes around the world.

For more information, contact Zamparas at gzamparas@ut.edu or (813) 257-3376.