Hailed by the New York Times as ‘brilliantly stylish,’ Pat Posey (he/they) is a versatile saxophonist, tubaxist, and multi-instrumentalist. He performs with a wide variety of ensembles including the San Francisco Symphony and Wild UP, is a founding member of the Los Angeles Reed Quintet, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall with composers John Adams, Thomas Adés, and Peter Eötvos, and Michael Tilson Thomas conducting their own works. He appears on Jognic Bontemps’ score to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, has collaborated with Iraqi oud virtuoso Rahim AlHaj, and in 2009 performed as ocarina soloist with the YouTube Symphony in a livestream that has been viewed over 1.7 million times. His debut solo tubax album they/beast will be released on Avie Records on November 3, 2023. More information can be found at www.patposey.com.