PREMIERES
WORKS PREMIERED AND COMMISSIONED
2023 Andrew David Perkins - (Some) Assembly Required (Pedagogy Project)
2023 Chris Evan Hass - Final Boss (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)
2023 Benjamin Taylor - Metal Lizard Shift (baritone saxophone and electronics)
2023 Daniel Bernard Roumain - Lecolion Loops (version for saxophone duo and piano)*
2023 Kevin Day - Piano Trio no. 3 "Ecstatic Samba" (version for saxophone duo and piano)*
2023 Marc Mellits - Let The Funk Out (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)*
2022 Yuanyuan (Kay) HE - Blue Rainbow (for alto saxophone and piano)
2022 Jeff Scott - Finding Your Peace (for soprano saxophone and piano)
2022 Om Srivastava - SHAKTI (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)
2022 Ryan Todd - The Three Semi-Wise Men (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)
2022 Grace Baugher - Mountain Mornings (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)
2022 Steven Bryant - Dusk: version for Saxophone Quartet (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)*
2022 Frank Ticheli - Four Shaker Songs: version for Saxophone Quartet (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)*
2022 Astor Piazzola - Street Tango: version for Saxophone Quartet (Assembly Quartet: Pedagogy Project)*
2022 Michael Daugherty - Six Riffs After Ovid (version for saxophone)
2022 Aaron Kernis - 8,632 Places in New York City for saxophone and percussion (BGSU consortium commission)
2021 Carter Pann - Double Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Clarinet with Wind Ensemble
2021 Denis Bedard - Sonatina for alto saxophone and piano (Smart Repertoire Consortium)
2021 Jessica Rudman - Dangerous Coats for baritone saxophone and piano
2021 Liduino Pitomberia - Brazilian Landscapes #21 (Smart Repertoire Consortium)
2021 John Anthony Lennon - from other futures for alto saxophone and piano
2021 Jodie Blackshaw - Catango5 for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble (Assembly Quartet: North American Premiere)
2021 Martin Bresnick - Mending Time for saxophone quartet (Assembly Quartet consortium commission)
2021 Avner Dorman - Jerusalem (Re)Mix (arr. Heisler for the Assembly Quartet)
2021 Caleb Burhans - What Dreams May Come for soprano saxophone and piano (consortium commission)
2020 Benjamin Taylor - Get More EPIC! for solo alto saxophone (Asia / Taiwan Premiere)
2020 Joel Love - The Manitou Incline for soprano saxophone and piano (consortium premiere)
2019 Carlos Simon - Catch on Fire for saxophone quartet (Assembly Quartet)
2018 Benjamin Taylor - Aurum Tetra: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
2018 Bill Ryan - Original Blend for saxophone quartet, piano, and drum set (arr. Heisler)*
2018 Mischa Zupko - Quantum Shift for saxophone quartet (Assembly Quartet)
2018 John Mackey - Sheltering Sky for saxophone quartet (arr. Heisler)*
2018 Benjamin Fuhrman - There Preludes for saxophone and computer
2018 Alfred Schnittke - Quintet for saxophone quartet and piano (arr. Heisler)
2017 Franco Donatoni - RASCH II (Assembly Saxophone Quartet) U.S. Premiere*
2017 Chris Rutkowski - Changes (Assembly Saxophone Quartet)
2017 David Lang - Vent (version for soprano saxophone and piano)*
2017 Frank Wiley - Passages (Assembly Saxophone Quartet)
2016 Marc Mellits - Ex Machina for Saxophone Quartet (Assembly Saxophone Quartet)
2016 Jennifer Higdon - Dash (version for two saxophones and piano)*
2016 Gregory Wanamaker - Light and Shadows (consortium commission)
2016 Baljinder Sekhon - Sonata of Puzzles for saxophone and piano
2015 Marilyn Shrude - energy flows nervously... in search of stillness (Saxophone Quartet)
2015 Terry Herald - Moe Bi Us for saxophone and chamber orchestra
2015 Kurt Issacson - flickering species (Assembly Quartet)
2015 Roshanne Etezady - Behemoth (consortium commission)
2014 Benjamin Taylor - Digital Goldfish (Assembly Quartet)
2014 Frank Wiley - Portals of Light for alto saxophone and piano
2013 Nathan Davis - Cipher for baritone saxophone and interactive electronics (consortium commission)
2013 Thad Anderson - Lines (for hammers and reed)
2013 Justin White - Empyrean for soprano saxophone and piano
2013 Keith Lay - Happy Crazy for alto saxophone and piano
2013 David James Neilsen - What Kind of Garden Do You Want To Grow?
2013 Scott Dickinson - Conformation for soprano saxophone and piano
2013 Robby Elfman - Sonata for Saxophone and Piano
2013 David Biedenbender - Dreams in the Dusk Concerto for Saxophone and Wind Band (consortium commission)
2013 Vache Sharafyan - Goats in the Fog (duo for saxophones)
2013 Anthony Donofrio - III for saxophone, piano, and percussion
2013 Catherine Likhuta - Let the Darkness Out for alto saxophone and piano
2012 Timothy Stulman - Ekaggata for soprano saxophone and piano (prizewinner: 2012 NASA composition competition)
2012 Benjamin Taylor - Shipbreaking for alto saxophone and electronics
2011 Jeff Weston - Trust Me for alto saxophone and piano
2010 Benjamin Taylor - To Rise Up (tenor saxophone, piano, and interactive electronics)
2010 Marc Mellits - Tight Sweater (version for baritone saxophone, piano, and marimba)
2009 Andrea Reinkemeyer - Wild Silk (for baritone saxophone, piano, and percussion)
2009 David Gillingham - Double Image (duo concerto for saxophone(s) and wind ensemble)
2009 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Entführung (U.S. Premiere)
2009 Andres Carrizo - Encuentros (for saxophone, piano, and percussion)
2009 Timothy Stulman - Water (for saxophone, piano, and percussion)
2008 Steve Reich - Vermont Counterpoint (version for saxophones)*
2008 Chen Yi - Monologue (version for solo soprano saxophone)*
2008 Louis Andriessen - Elegy (version for tenor saxophone and piano)*
2008 Luciano Berio - Recit (Chemins VII) (North American Premiere)
2008 Robert Ash - Hip Hop Essay #1 (saxophone and electronics)
2008 Robert Ash - Street Urchins (version for saxophone and piano)
2008 Andres Carrizo - Aperturas (saxophone and percussion)
2008 Martin Blessinger - Duo for Saxophone and Piano
2008 Vincent Dunet - Blitz (U.S. Premiere)
2007 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Episodes for Soprano Saxophone and Piano
2007 Timothy Stulman - Deaf Ears
2007 Timothy Stulman - Brahma Viharas (for saxophone(s) and electronics)
2007 Halim El-Dabh - The Miraculous Tale (for saxophone and darbuka)
2006 Andres Carrizo - Scramasax (for saxophone quartet)
2006 Timothy Stulman - Rag Dreams (for soprano saxophone and piano)
2006 Scott Blanchard - Subjectivities
2006 Ivan Fedele - Magic (U.S. Premiere)
2006 Timothy Stulman - Such a Little Card (for saxophone quartet and narrator)
2005 Kevin McCoy - New Means and Forms
2005 Marilyn Shrude - Fantasmi
2005 Patrick Perringer - Contrast (for 2 alto saxophones and electronics)
2005 Amanda Porter - Beneath the Lamplight (for 2 baritone saxophones)
2004 Sean Hagerty - Feather's Tide / The Thrown Throne
2004 Marcus Williams - Sketches in Black and White(for saxophone, piano, and percussion)
2004 Randall Corneilson - Dance the Event Horizon (for 2 soprano saxophones)
2003 Robert Ash - Dark Blue (concerto for saxophone and wind ensemble)
UPCOMING PREMIERES AND COMMISSIONS
2024 Andrew David Perkins - JET SET (Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble)
2022 Francois Rosse - Space'Time for saxophone quartet and piano (Assembly Quartet w/ I-Chen Yeh)
2023 Benjamin Taylor - Aurum Tetra (Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Band) (Assembly Quartet commission)
2024 Andrea Reinkemeyer - TBA for saxophone and piano
2023 Marilyn Shrude - Quintet for saxophone quartet and piano (Assembly Quartet w/ I-Chen Yeh)
* transcribed for saxophone by Jeffrey Heisler with approval from the composer