PRISM Quartet at University of Michigan and Western Michigan University on October 27 & 28

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Generate Music, Out Now — Listen / Order

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"Requiem for AJ," the single from Generate Music — listen now.

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From XAS Records - Dissolve by Emily Cooley

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Featured XAS Release: Procession Along the Aciga Tree by/with Susie Ibarra

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FEATURED VIDEO - Every Thing Must Go: III. Pensoso, con sobrio espressione by Martin Bresnick

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Under the umbrella of PRISM Quartet Institute, PRISM's residency programs cover everything from composition classes and chamber music coaching to entrepreneurship and record production workshops.

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"This virtuosic ensemble is a saxophone quartet, but prepare to hear sounds that transcend the traditional palette of that instrument." The New York Times

FEATURED VIDEO - PRISM & So: Blue Notes and Other Clashes: II. Rustic Ballad by Steve Mackey

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JazzTimes: Overdue Ovation: PRISM Saxophone Quartet

By: . September 30, 2026. Posted under:

Matthew Levy and colleagues expand musical frontiers with decades of cutting-edge jazz/classical collaborations and commissions. August 22, 2026 – By Tom Greenland Just as a prism refracts and disperses beams of light into separate bands of color, PRISM Saxophone Quartet seeks to bend sound waves into a rainbow of resonances. One of the world’s foremost saxophone chamber ensembles, it’s been active over four decades; performed throughout the States, South America, China and Russia; dropped 39 recordings (with eight more pending); and commissioned over 400 new works. Despite this impeccable track record, PRISM — currently comprised of Timothy McAllister (soprano), Zachary Shemon ...

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PRISM Quartet and Craig Taborn – Sept. 11 Philly, Sept. 13 Brooklyn

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The ever-adventurous PRISM Quartet joins forces with the composer/pianist and MacArthur Fellow Craig Taborn in a program featuring the world premiere of Taborn’s Three Animal Riddles. Taborn writes, “Three Animal Riddles is a work in three movements—Two Fish, Red Sulfur Birds, and Her Basilisk—in which improvisatory piano, in dialogue with a saxophone quartet, encounters metaphors of decomposition, transformation, and synthesis. Alchemical animal riddles, Duke Ellington, and Cecil Taylor inspired this piece, which will take on a new final form with each performance.” The program also includes work from PRISM Quartet’s ongoing Heritage/Evolution project by Greg Osby, Melissa Aldana, John Coltrane, and Chris ...

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Media Coverage

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  • I CARE IF YOU LISTEN: Review: PRISM Quartet “Generate Music”

    Generate Music has created a timely, stylistically rich, and utterly profound body of music, poetry, and dialogue.

  • JazzTimes: Overdue Ovation: PRISM Saxophone Quartet

    Matthew Levy and colleagues expand musical frontiers with decades of cutting-edge jazz/classical collaborations and commissions. August 22, 2026 – By Tom Greenland Just as a prism refracts and disperses beams of light into separate bands of color, PRISM Saxophone Quartet seeks to bend sound waves into a rainbow of resonances. One of the world’s foremost saxophone chamber ensembles, it’s been active over four decades; performed throughout the States, South America, China and Russia; dropped 39 recordings (with eight more pending); and commissioned over 400 new works. Despite this impeccable track record, PRISM — currently comprised of Timothy McAllister (soprano), Zachary Shemon ...

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