Noir Quartet is a premiere So-Cal based saxophone quartet featuring modern works and standard repertoire for four saxophones.

Noir Quartet was formed over a lunch back in May of 2013. Cameron, Laura, and Lee all went to school together at USC’s Thornton School of Music and have worked together in various musical capacities, including chamber ensembles, orchestras, wind ensembles, recording sessions, and new music performances. The newest member, Nicholas Casillas, a graduate of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, merged his talents with Noir Quartet in January of this year. Together, these four saxophonists and educators blend their artistry, creating a unique and captivating ensemble. Their repertoire includes everything from Bach to Ellington, as well as standard repertoire and new music written for the saxophone quartet idiom.

This is the Noir Quartet’s 2nd year with Bach in the Subways.

I have been a guitarist and lover of all things about the guitar for over 50 years now. My playing emphasizes feelings and expression as the primary goal of music that speaks from the heart, and for the heart. I perform solo guitar gigs for weddings, art shows, city festivals, restaurants, etc.
I perform with “The Leslie & Mark Duo” featuring vintage pop standards for vocal and two guitars.
I perform instrumental guitar-double bass duets featuring Great American SOngbook standards.
As Chairman of the Board for the American Guitar Society, I perform regularly for AGS meetings. Check out my performance channel at Youtube.com/channel/Mark Achuff

He has also worked with The Rex Merriweather Big Band, Big Band Theory, Point Doom, Jetpack, Woody James Big Band, Dusty Watson’s Califonia Sons, The Boardwalkers, John Blair – Marty Tippens Band, Flowmasters, The Fabulous Planktones / Hot Plankton, The Marauders, Outerwave, The Detonators, The Insect Surfers, Don and the Surftones, Buckskin Drive, Longboard Ranch,Pat Logo’s Swingin’ Little Big Band, The Clyde Reasinger Big Band, Off The Record, The Verdugo Swing Trio, The LAPD band, The Jim and Tina Starr Review, David Moscoe and Gary Gibbons, The Pay-It-Forward Band, The Buzz Maddox Octet, The Verdugo Swing Society, The Angeles Chorale, The Emi Gilbert Jazz Quartet, The Leroy Lovett Band, The Glenn Johnson Jazz Band, Lake Ave Church Chamber Orchestra, Glendale Community Symphony, The Wilkinson Dance Band, The Live 45’s, The Surfrockets, The Soundwaves, The Radio Station Jazz Octet and has played in professional productions of “The Music Man”,”Smokey Joe’s Cafe”, “City of Angels”, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum”, “Good News” and “Pajama Game”.

Doug has been in bands sporadically since 1963 playing many times at the Hullabaloo club and The Hollywood Palladium while in Jr. High School. After a 35 year hiatus he’s back playing electric and upright bass, guitar and keyboards. During High School he designed and built a fuzztone used by Jimi James in 1967 and adapted the artificial larynx for use with guitar, which was the first talkbox for guitar and became a commercial product known as “The Bag”. He attended Cal Tech and worked at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Space Sciences Division. He has worked for or consulted with Marantz, BGW, Fender, Lucasfilm, AMC, Paramount Pictures, Eastman Kodak, Hydraulic Research, Foxboro, Magic Mountain, Electromart, Pacific Stereo and others. He is a retired professor from College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita where he taught Computer Science, Electronics, and Music Technology.

Young musicians (age 3-14) perform Bach music! Still some slots open! Email to youngmusiciansbits@gmail.com for questions/reserving a time slot for your child(ren).
2:15-2:30 (8 year old/violin)
2:30-2:45 (12 year old/violin)
2:45-3:00 (13 year old/violin)
3:00-3:15
3:15-3:30 (7 year old/violin/solo)
3:30-3:45 (8 year old/violin/solo)
3:45-4:00 (8 year old/cello/solo) (7 year old/violin/solo)
4:00-4:15 (8 year old/violin/solo)
4:15-4:30 (8 year old/violin/solo)
4:30- Duet/Trio

Bach Organ Sonatas and Art of the Fugue arranged for recorders.