alto

Mr. Costanzo, 44, is comfortable in the alto, mezzo and even the soprano registers, with rare beauty and presence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Hearing Hawkins’s recording of “Body and Soul” as a fourth-grader had been a turning point for Rollins musically and eventually lead him to switch from alto to tenor saxophone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Rollins’ first instrument, at age 13, was the alto saxophone, followed by the tenor when he was in his mid-teens.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

But to see instrumentalists like Lakecia Benjamin who has really come to the forefront as an alto saxophonist and to see her get Grammy nominations, that’s something that, for me, is huge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

It was my habit to keep working past everyone else, but someone would say to me, "Jorge, basta alto!"

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

She remembers opening the windows when the weather got warm, letting the sounds of altos and sopranos and tenors travel down the street.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023

Unlike England or Germany, Poland has almost no countertenor tradition, in which adult male vocalists sing at altitudes usually reserved for boy altos or mezzo-sopranos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

"But if you notice, they are all from melodic lines and they move in intervals that can be taken by sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, and this is not possible to do like that."

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021

Like other community choirs, we have way more sopranos and altos than tenors and basses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

I forfeit the solo to Anna Muller—whom Carissimi could never love—and am moved into the altos.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper