Bay Area Rainbow Symphony June 2012 Concert June 2, 2012

BARS will perform Conte's Fantasy for Orchestra (Bay Area composer), Mihaud's Scaramouche featuring David Henderson on saxophone, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration). Please join us for this San Francisco Pride Official Event. Post concert reception sponsored by Barefoot Wine & Bubbly.

David Henderson grew up in Hartford City, Indiana, and has degrees from the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School. In 1980 he gave his Carnegie Recital Hall solo debut as a winner of the East and West Artists competition. The New York Times stated, "An exceptionally accomplished instrumentalist with something to say, his work is poised, cultivated and expressive." In 1981 he received a first prize in saxophone from the Conservatoire de Bordeaux as a recipient of a Fulbright-ITT grant to study in France.

Since moving to San Francisco in 1988, he has played regularly with the San Francisco Symphony, including tours, recordings and television broadcasts under maestro Michael Tilson Thomas. He has also toured with the BBC Symphony under Andrew Davis and performed with the New World Symphony, the San Francisco Opera and Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg (Russia) Philharmonic. He has appeared as soloist with the Oakland/East Bay Symphony.

In 1989 he joined the San Francisco Saxophone Quartet as tenor saxophonist and keyboardist. Starting out as street musicians in downtown San Francisco, the group was discovered on the street by the president of Angel/EMI records in 1990, and has since recorded many CD's and toured most of the 50 states as well as Japan. In 2006 Mr. Henderson joined the Premiere Saxophone Quartet, artists-in-residence at San Jose State University.

He has played both on and off-Broadway while living in New York, including the original productions of Nunsense and March of the Falsettos.

Mr. Henderson currently teaches saxophone at the University of the Pacific and Stanford University.

Official Website: http://bars-sf.org