CHRISTOPHER CREVISTON
Saxophone

Saxophonist Christopher Creviston has been performed in Carnegie Hall, Paisley Park and the Apollo Theater. As soloist and with the Capitol Quartet, Creviston has been showcased internationally with outstanding ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Czechoslovakian National Symphony Orchestra, and others. As a recitalist and clinician, he tours globally with the Capitol Quartet, and with pianist Hannah Creviston.

Creviston is featured on premiere recordings of the Soprano Saxophone Concerto by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Carter Pann, and the Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Band by Pulitzer Prize Winner William Bolcom. Over the coming year, he is scheduled to premiere new concerti by Robert Paterson and Mischa Zupko, and to release the premiere recording of a concerto by Jaromír Weinberger. 

Now at Arizona State University, Creviston has been faculty at the Crane School of Music, Greenwich House of Arts, the University of Windsor, and the University of Michigan, and he serves as faculty for the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop. His students have won top prizes at some of the world's most prestigious competitions, including The Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the American Prize, the MTNA National Competitions, the Coltman Chamber Music Competition, and many others. In addition to maintaining performing careers, many of Creviston’s former students hold positions in US military bands and at internationally at universities. Creviston is formerly president of the North American Saxophone Alliance. 

HANNAH CREVISTON
Piano

Described as “impressive and expressive” (Fanfare Magazine) and “superb...[with] great dexterity, rhythm, and touch” (American Record Guide), Hannah Creviston is Clinical Professor of Piano Pedagogy, Director of the ASU Community Music School, Keyboard Area Coordinator and Coordinator of Class Piano at Arizona State University. She received her B.Mus. in Piano Performance and Music Education with a Piano Pedagogy concentration from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, studying with Eugenia Tsarov. She holds an M.M. in Piano Performance and an M.MuED in Early Childhood/Elementary Music Education from the University of South Carolina where she studied piano and piano pedagogy with Dr. Scott Price and music education with Dr. Wendy Valerio. Prior to joining the faculty at ASU in Fall 2012, Creviston was on the faculty at the Crane School of Music.

As a collaborative pianist, she regularly performs in festivals and competitions throughout the United States and abroad. An avid performer of contemporary music, Creviston has been part of numerous commissions and premieres. Workshop topics include Music Learning Theory, teaching music to children with special needs, the importance of movement in teaching rhythm and music by composers killed in the Holocaust. Her articles and compositions appear in Piano Pedagogy Forum, Clavier Companion, Music Play II, ECMMA’s Perspectives and others.

She performs regularly in a duo with her husband, saxophonist Christopher Creviston. Together, they have recorded Phoenix Rising on the Blue Griffin label, Snell Sessions and Columbia Sessions, both on the Albany Records label, and Sunday Afternoon and Breaking, available through CD Baby. Their recordings have been described as “engrossing” (Fanfare Magazine), “highly imaginative and expressive” (composer Denis Bédard), “a good blend of the standard and the new” (American Record Guide), and “sensitive, transparent, powerful music making that causes one to hold their breath often” (Donald Sinta). Their newest CD, reminiscences, featuring music centered around the Holocaust, is available through Blue Griffin.

AMANDA DEMARIS
Soprano

Amanda DeMaris, soprano, has been heard on opera, recital, and concert stages singing a range of repertoire including Lucy in The Telephone, Papagena in The Magic Flute, and soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Vesperae. She holds a B.M. in vocal performance from Ithaca College, M.M. in vocal performance from New England Conservatory, and Ed.D. from Columbia University’s Teachers College.

DeMaris has taught at Cornell University as a visiting lecturer, Ithaca College as a lecturer and assistant professor, and at Columbia University and the New England Conservatory as a teaching assistant. DeMaris is skilled teaching a variety of styles from classical and opera, to musical theatre and popular. She earned her Level 1 certification in Sheri Sanders’ Rock the Audition, and also participated in the musical theatre vocal pedagogy workshop, Bel Canto can Belto at Penn State University. Her students have gone on to perform Off-Broadway, with Forbidden Broadway, Vocal Essence Ensemble Singers, The Glimmerglass Festival, Walt Disney World, Phoenix Theatre, Childsplay Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, cruise ships, and numerous regional theatre and summer stock companies. She joined the faculty of Arizona State University as clinical assistant professor of voice in 2015.

DeMaris is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, New York Singing Teachers Association, and Pi Kappa Lambda. She recently taught a masterclass at the Classical Singer National Convention. Her conference presentations have included the NATS National Conference, the Voice Foundation's Annual Symposium, ISME’s World Conference in Bologna, Italy, CalWestern Regional NATS Conference, and Arizona Music Educators Association. Her research interests include musicianship for singing, and self-directed learning in the applied voice studio. Her work has been published in the Journal of Singing.