Albert Regni

Albert Regni is a respected saxophonist and clarinetist, prominent being a jazz, single classical, and orchestral participant and popular as a studio room musician. He started playing clarinet when he was nine, and from enough time he initial performed a saxophone at age 12 he discovered he could perform things he appreciated with it which were extremely hard for him on clarinet. He made an appearance at recitals and kid amateur displays, and was in the countrywide Ted Mack’s Beginner Hour 3 or 4 times while an adolescent. He begun to think about playing saxophone being a profession when he used the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra at 16, enabling him to utilize conductors Erich Leinsdor and José Iturbi. The last mentioned trained him how exactly to interpret the saxophone solo of Ravel’s Bolero, which Iturbi acquired learned in the composer. Regni graduated in the Eastman College of Music and Manhattan College of Music, majoring in clarinet. While vocalist Steve Lawrence is at the military and interested at service night clubs, he utilized as his accompaniment jazz octet Regni, also a soldier at that time. After the military he became a member of the orchestra at Radio Town Music Hall and, in 1963, was asked to be primary saxophonist of the brand new York Philharmonic. Aside from a couple of years around 1980 when he trained at the University or college of Tx in Austin, he is a busy person in the brand new York Town music picture. Regni continues to be primary saxophonist of the brand new York Philharmonic, as well as the NEW YORK Ballet, as well as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestras. This triple-dipping will be difficult for players of all instruments, however the saxophone is certainly under-used within the traditional repertoire. Still there were occasions when just the fact that three organizations function in New York’s Lincoln Middle provides allowed him to pay two assignments using one night time, as when he takes on the offstage saxophone spend the the offstage children’s chorus in Puccini’s Turandot in Functions I and III, and in-between performed a piece using the Philharmonic that needed a saxophone. He cites one night time when he used Garrison Keillor’s radio system (broadcast live from Brooklyn) from 6 to 8, then visited Lincoln Center to try out the excess bass clarinet component in Stravinsky’s Rite of Springtime using the Philharmonic, and performed from 10:30 to at least one 1:30 having a jazz group inside a club. He’s among the founding users from the American Saxophone Quartet, the only real founder remaining using the group, which he is the first choice. For the reason that quartet he takes on soprano sax. He offers trained at the University or college of Texas, and it is Teacher of Saxophone at the faculty of NJ. He has made an appearance as saxophone soloist with the brand new York Philharmonic, THE BRAND NEW York Chamber Soloists, and orchestras in Leningrad, Rotterdam, and Israel. He was the single clarinet player within the soundtrack of Angelo Badalamenti’s rating towards the innovative tv series Twin Peaks. The Compact disc release from the music to Twin Peaks: Open fire Walk beside me received a Grammy Award. He provides joined up with Sons of Audio Recorded Music, a forward thinking independent label mixed up in New York region interested in modern traditional music. He provides appeared in the label using the American Saxophone Quartet with an record known as Spanning the River, mainly including newer music including Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla. Regni in addition has released a single recital, Un Amor, on Sons of Audio, which includes also rereleased the traditional jazz documenting Gandy Dance by the initial American Saxophone Quartet.