Professional

Bill Perconti is becoming one of the most-recorded saxophonists in the history of classical saxophone.  He has recorded twenty-two world-premier works on eleven recordings since 1994 as a soloist and leader of the Alloy Saxophone Quartet, the LCSC Chamber Players, and the Idaho Saxophone Trio.   Perconti’s four solo/ensemble CDs are with Albany, Centaur, and Crystal Records.  The 2013 release of his CD Women Composers and Their Music for Saxophone is the first of it’s kind for classical saxophone.  He has also contributed to six volumes for the Arizona University Recording series America’s Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax and to Volume IX of The Chamber Music of Nancy Van de Vate on Vienna Modern Masters Recordings. 

Perconti’s recording of Joan Tower’s Wings was singled out and submitted by AUR to the first round of the 42^nd Grammy Awards.   Fanfare has written “... young American virtuoso Bill Perconti is an accomplished interpret”, and from American Record Guide “I would be happy to spend an evening in the concert hall with Bill Perconti.”  The Bossak-Heilbron Foundation, the Idaho Commission on the Arts (with pianist Kay Zavislak), LCSC, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with composer Elena Ruehr), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Washington Artists Trust have provided grants for his recordings.

Perconti’s performing career spans fourteen states nationwide (USA), Canada, and Japan, including among other guest recitals at the U. of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and the U. of Wisconsin-Madison.  Academic performances include solos at state, regional, and national meetings of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the World Saxophone Congress (Tokyo).  Perconti is also a two-time winner of Outstanding Soloist Certificates at the Hampton Jazz Festival. 

Also an active arranger for solo saxophone and saxophone quartet, Perconti has published twenty works with Advance Music/Schott (Germany) and Northeast Music Publications (New Jersey).  The Instrumentalist (with Ron Tyree), the Saxophone Journal, and the NACWPI Journal have published his articles.   

Perconti is found in the 7^th Ed. of Marquis Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the West, 27^th Ed.