Thomas Giles

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New York, NY
Saxophone (Classical)
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Thomas A. Giles is a New York City-based saxophonist devoted to the performance of contemporary music and the creation of interdisciplinary work. He is the baritone chair of the MANA Quartet, performs a growing number of solo engagements, and often collaborates with artists of other media as multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer.
Last season, Giles’ was a guest soloist at Meredith Monk’s Happy Woman gala and with MANA made concerto appearances with the ECHO Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco, premiered and toured a new edition of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, and performed recitals at Berkeley Chamber Performances and the international Bachfest in Leipzig.
Giles has performed at festivals and venues as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Princeton Sound Kitchen, the Whitney Museum, American Repertory Theater at Harvard, FringeArts Philadelphia, PROTOTYPE Festival, Festival of New American Music, Music Center at the Strathmore, SoundWired Chicago..etc

Traditional Repertoire

SOLO:
Bach, J.S.: Partita in A minor BWV 1013
Keuris, Tristan: Canzone
Kox, Hans: The Stranger
Messiaen, Olivier: Abime des Oiseaux
Monk, Meredith: Hocket

WITH PIANO:

Brehme, Hans: Sonata Op. 25
Debussy, Claude: Beau Soir
Decruck, Fernande: Sonata in C-sharp Major
Messiaen, Olivier: Théme et Variations | Vocalise-Etude
Ravel, Maurice: Sonatine
Schumann, Robert: Fantasiestücke Op. 73
Scriabin, Alexander: Prelude in B Major, Op. 16, No 1.

SAXOPHONE AND FRIENDS:

Mozart, Wolfgang: Oboe Quartet K. 370 (w/ String Trio)

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Performed groupmuses (20)

Fall Line Series presents: GHOSTLIGHT

  • Friday, October 28, 2022, at 7:00 PM
  • East Williamsburg NY
  • $25 tickets ($20 for supermusers}

This groupmuse happened 5 months ago

LoftMuse Returns!

  • Friday, April 22, 2022, at 8:00 PM
  • East Williamsburg

This groupmuse happened 11 months ago

Gotham Arts: "Mysteries of the Macabre" Recital & Album Launch Party

  • Friday, March 18, 2022, at 7:00 PM
  • Flatiron New York, NY
  • $55 tickets

This groupmuse happened about 1 year ago

Chelsea Groupmuse: Sax is Back

  • Friday, January 31, 2020, at 6:30 PM
  • Chelsea, New York

This groupmuse happened about 3 years ago

Skyloft Groupmuse 2

  • Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at 7:00 PM
  • NOHO

This groupmuse happened over 3 years ago

Skyloft Groupmuse

  • Friday, October 4, 2019, at 7:00 PM
  • NOHO

This groupmuse happened over 3 years ago

Peridot Green: Symbolic Symbiotic

  • Tuesday, August 27, 2019, at 7:00 PM
  • Upper West Side, New York

This groupmuse happened over 3 years ago

Chelsea Group: Cooling Sax

  • Friday, August 16, 2019, at 6:30 PM
  • Chelsea, New York

This groupmuse happened over 3 years ago

Sounds & Movement on Seventeen: Classical Saxophone with a Touch of Dance Theatre

  • Friday, July 19, 2019, at 7:00 PM
  • Chelsea

This groupmuse happened over 3 years ago

Peridot Green: The Hex

  • Friday, March 29, 2019, at 7:30 PM
  • Upper West Side, New York

This groupmuse happened about 4 years ago

Peridot Green: Strangers and Saxophone

  • Sunday, April 16, 2017, at 7:30 PM
  • Upper West Side, New York

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago

A Spring Evening with #ihostharlem

  • Saturday, April 15, 2017, at 8:00 PM
  • Upper Manhattan, NYC

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago

A Recording Studio Saxmuse

  • Thursday, April 13, 2017, at 7:00 PM
  • Greenpoint, Brooklyn

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago

Classical Sax!

  • Saturday, April 1, 2017, at 7:30 PM
  • Allston, Boston Boston, MA

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago

Mozart (and more) on Monday

  • Monday, December 19, 2016, at 8:00 PM
  • Flatbush - Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

This groupmuse happened over 6 years ago

Classical Sax!

  • Saturday, December 17, 2016, at 7:30 PM
  • Upper West Side, NYC

This groupmuse happened over 6 years ago

20th-Century Music for Saxophone and Piano | Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

  • Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 6:00 PM
  • Prospect Heights

This groupmuse happened about 1 month ago

Spring is Here!

  • Friday, May 19, 2017, at 7:30 PM
  • SoHo

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago

Classical Guitar and Flute Duo

  • Friday, May 5, 2017, at 7:30 PM
  • Park Slope

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago

Musa Carioca

  • Friday, April 28, 2017, at 7:30 PM
  • Gowanus

This groupmuse happened almost 6 years ago