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XVIII. SVJETSKI KONGRES SAKSOFONISTA ODRŽAVA SE POD POKROVITELJSTVOM MILANA BANDIĆA, GRADONAČELNIKA GRADA ZAGREBA | THE XVIII WSC IS HELD UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF MR MILAN BANDIĆ, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ZAGREB gradonačelnik grada zagreba

Poštovani sudionici, dragi gosti,

Zagreb prvi put ugošćuje renomirani Svjetski kongres saksofonista. Domaćin ovogodišnjega 18. kongresa je naša Muzička akademija koja je u svijetu poznata po izvrsnosti svoje Zagrebačke saksofonističke škole koju je utemeljio profesor Josip Nochta. Tijekom 5 dana, na više od 400 događanja, na brojnim mjestima u gradu će se predstaviti i susresti vrhunski glazbeni profesionalci, studenti i amateri. Bit će to, uvjeren sam, praznik glazbe, prigoda za promociju različitih stilova i izričaja te za razmjenu ideja. Svojom otvorenosti za publiku Kongres će obogatiti Zagrebačko kulturno ljeto te će doprinijeti boljem pozicioniranju Zagreba i Hrvatske na svjetskoj karti kulturnog turizma. Zahvaljujem organizatorima na uspješnoj realizaciji Kongresa, osobito red. prof. art. Draganu Sremcu, umjetničkomu ravnatelju Kongresa i prodekanu za umjetnost i poslovanje Muzičke akademije Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Svim sudionicima želim uspješno sudjelovanje i ugodan boravak u našem gradu!

Gradonačelnik Grada Zagreba Milan Bandić Major of the City of Zagreb

Esteemed participants, dear guests,

Zagreb is hosting the renowned World Saxophone Congress for the irst time. The host of this 18th Congress is our Academy of Music, world- famous for the excellence of its Zagreb School of Saxophone, established by professor Josip Nochta. In the course of 5 days, in more than 400 events at various locations in the city, top music professionals, students and amateurs will present themselves and meet each other. I am sure that it will be a celebration of music, an opportunity to promote various styles and expressions and to exchange ideas. Since it is open to the public, the Congress will enrich the Zagreb Cultural Summer and contribute to better positioning of Zagreb and Croatia on the world map of cultural tourism. I would like to thank the organizers for successfully realizing this Congress, especially Prof. Art. Dragan Sremec, the Art Director of the Congress and Vice Dean for Art and Administration of the Academy of Music, with the University of Zagreb. I wish all the success to participants, as well as a pleasant stay in our city!

Mayor of the city of Zagreb Milan Bandić ministrica kulture republike hrvatske

Zagreb, 13. 6. 2018.

U ime Ministarstva kulture i u osobno ime upućujem srdačnu dobrodošlicu svim sudionicima 18. Svjetskoga kongresa saksofonista, prvoga koji se održava u Republici Hrvatskoj. U ovoj prigodi ističem Muzičku akademiju Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, našu najstariju nacionalnu glazbenu ustanovu, kao domaćina koji je okupio veliku skupinu glazbenika najrazličitijih umjetničkih opredjeljenja. Nasljednica prve muzičke škole u Hrvatskoj otvorene još 1829. godine, Akademija je kroz gotovo dva stoljeća stvorila čvrste kulturne veze s međunarodnom zajednicom povezujući jedinstvenim dijalogom mnogolike prostore umjetničkog izražavanja. Upravo takva vrsta dijaloga simbol je cijeloga Kongresa.

Narednih dana umjetnici i publika svjedočit će što glazba jest u svojim različitim formama, strukturama i arhitekturi oblikovanja te u interpretacijama, a posebno što predstavlja fenomen obitelji saksofonâ, glazbala panoramskih mogućnosti i prijateljskoga zvuka s kojim se identiiciraju mnoge žanrovske vrste, od kanonske simfonijske literature do jazza i repertoara amaterskih puhačkih ansambala. U ozračju Svjetskoga kongresa saksofonista svim sudionicima želim puno uspjeha i puno zanimljivih koncertnih izazova.

Ministrica dr.sc. Nina Obuljen Koržinek the minister of culture of the republic of croatia

Zagreb, June 13th, 2018

In the name of the Ministry of Culture and my own, I would like to wish a warm welcome to all participants of the 18th World Saxophone Congress, the irst one held in the Republic of Croatia. On this occasion, I must mention the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, our oldest national music institution, as a host which gathered a large group of musicians of various musical styles. The successor of the irst music school in Croatia, opened as early as 1829, the Academy created, over more than two centuries, strong cultural connections with the international community, connecting through unique dialogue various spheres of musical expression. This type of dialogue, precisely, is the symbol of the whole Congress.

In the following days, artists and the audience will witness what music is in its various forms, structures and creative architecture and in its interpretations, especially what the phenomenon of saxophone family represents, an instrument of vast possibilities and friendly sound, which many genres identify with, from canonical symphonic literature to jazz and a repertoire of amateur wind ensembles. In the atmosphere of the World Saxophone Congress, I wish all participants a lot of success and a lot of interesting concert challenges

Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Ph.D. rektor sveučilišta u zagrebu

Iznimno sam ponosan što je Sveučilište u Zagrebu, naše najstarije i najveće Sveučilište koje 2018./2019. akademske godine slavi 350. godišnjicu postojanja, dio 18. Svjetskoga kongresa saksofonista i što Muzička akademija ima priliku biti domaćinom susreta vrhunskih glazbenih profesionalaca, studenata i amatera svih stilova i glazbenih izričaja.

Muzička akademija naša je najveća i najstarija glazbena ustanova s visokom razinom izvrsnosti i kvalitete, a organizacijom Svjetskoga kongresa predstavit će hrvatsku kulturu i umjetnost u svijetu, a položaj grada Zagreba dodatno učvrstiti na međunarodnoj kulturnoj mapi. Želim svima dobrodošlicu na naše Sveučilište i uspjeh u ovome hvalevrijednom projektu!

Vaš rektor, prof. dr. sc. Damir Boras rector of the University of Zagreb

I am very proud that the University of Zagreb, our oldest and greatest university, which is celebrating its 350th anniversary in the academic year of 2018/2019, is a part of the 18th World Saxophone Congress and that the Academy of Music has an opportunity to host the gathering of top music professionals, students and amateurs of all styles and musical expressions.

The Academy of Music is our greatest and oldest music institution boasting high levels of excellence and quality, and by organizing the World Congress it will present Croatian culture and art to the world and reairm Zagreb’s position on the international cultural map. I welcome everyone to our University and wish you success in this laudable project!

Rector of the University of Zagreb Prof. Damir Boras, Ph.D. Dekan muzičke akademije u zagrebu

Svjetski sax kongres svojim je značajem i brojnošću sudionika jedan od najvećih događaja u povijesti MA Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Nakon kongresa AEC-a u studenom 2017. gdje smo ugostili preko 300 dekana i rektora uglavnom europskih umjetničkih i glazbenih akademija, sada nam u goste nam stize 1500 saksofonista iz cijelog svijeta koji su odabrali Zagreb za svoje godišnje okupljanje. Iako je saksofon jedna od najmlađih disciplina na našoj akademiji, zahvaljujući kvalitetnom i predanom radu prof. Dragana Sremca postao je prepoznatljivi brend naše institucije što je nakon međunarodnog sax natjecanja “Josip Nochta” u konačnici rezultiralo ovom velikom svjetskom smotrom saksofona u Zagrebu.

Uz podršku Grada Zagreba, Ministarstva kulture, Ministarstva obrane i Sveučilišta u Zagrebu koji su prepoznali vrijednost i važnost ovog kongresa, saksofonističkoj eliti predstavit ćemo najeminentnije hrvatske institucije i najbolje orkestre kako bi umjetnički program kongresa bio na najvišem nivou.

Svim gostima želim ugodan boravak u Zagrebu i uspješan kongres!

Dekan Muzičke akademije u Zagrebu prof.art. Dalibor Cikojević Dean of the Music academy in Zagreb

World Saxophone Congress is one of the largest events in the history of the Music Academy, University of Zagreb, in terms of its signiicance and the number of participants. After the AEC Congress in November 2017, when we hosted over 300 deans and rectors of mostly European art and music academies, now, we will be hosting 1500 saxophonists from all over the world, who chose Zagreb for their annual gathering. Although saxophone is one of the youngest disciplines at our Academy, owing to the quality and dedication of Prof. Dragan Sremec’s work, it became a recognizable brand of our institution, which, following the international sax competition "Josip Nochta", inally resulted in this great world saxophone convention in Zagreb.

With the support of the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Defence and the University of Zagreb, which recognized the value and importance of this Congress, we are going to present the sax elite with the preeminent Croatian institutions and the best orchestras, so the artistic programme of the Congress is of the highest grade.

We wish all the guests a pleasant stay in Zagreb and a successful Congress!

Dean of the Music Academy in Zagreb prof.art. Dalibor Cikojević Umjetnički ravnatelj XVIII. Svjetskog kongresa saksofonista

Dobrodošli u Zagreb! Ponosan sam što su Zagreb i Muzička akademija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, dobivši domaćinstvo XVIII. Svjetskog kongresa saksofonista, postali važnim dijelom svjetske saksofonističke povijesti. Ovaj je kongres jedan od najvećih kulturnih događaja u Hrvatskoj, na kojem će u pet dana u raznim prostorima oko 1300 saksofonista i drugih glazbenika održati više od 400 programa i izvesti gotovo 1000 kompozicija, od kojih veliki broj praizvedbi. Zastupljeni su svi smjerovi i stilovi, klasika, jazz, etno, rock, elektronska glazba, performansi i edukacijski programi. Održavanje tako velikog projekta ne bi bilo moguće bez potpore Grada Zagreba, Ministarstva kulture RH, Ministarstva obrane RH, Sveučilišta u Zagrebu i Turističke zajednice Grada Zagreba koji su prepoznali vrijednost i važnost projekta. Zahvaljujući tome na Kongresu sudjeluje niz institucija kao što su Hrvatsko narodno kazalište, Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Studentski centar Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Koncertna dvorana Vatroslava Lisinskog, Zagrebačka ilharmonija, Simfonijski orkestar HRT i Jazz orkestar HRT, Orkestar Hrvatske vojske, Ansambl za suvremenu glazbu Cantus i Zagrebački solisti. Zahvaljujemo dosadašnjim organizatorima kongresa, u Ljubljani, Minneapolisu, St. Andrewsu i Strassbourgu, na dragocjenim informacijama i savjetima. Njihova iskustva pomogla su nam da se na najbolji način predstavimo kao domaćini XVIII. Svjetskog kongresa saksofonista.

Umjetnički ravnatelj XVIII. Svjetskog kongresa saksofonista Dragan Sremec Artistic Director of the XVIII World Saxophone Congress

Welcome to Zagreb! I am proud that Zagreb and University of Zagreb Academy of Music, by being elected to host XVIII World Saxophone Congress, became an important part of saxophone world history. This congress is one of the biggest cultural events in Croatia, where, in the course of ive days, in various venues, around 1300 saxophonists and other musicians will present more than 400 programmes and perform almost 1000 compositions, a lot of them premieres. All styles and types of music are represented, from classical, jazz, etno to rock and electronic music, as well as performances and educational programmes. Organizing such a great project would not be possible without the support of the City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Defense of the RC, University of Zagreb and Zagreb Tourist Board, who recognized the value and the importance of the project. Thanks to that a series of institutions will participate in the Congress, for instance Croatian National Theatre, Museum of Arts and Crafts, the University of Zagreb Student Centre, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra and Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra, Croatian Army Orchestra, The Cantus Ensemble for Contemporary Music and Zagreb Soloists. We would like to thank previous Congress organizers from Ljubljana, Minneapolis, St. Andrews and Strasbourg for valuable information and advice. Their experiences will help Zagreb to be a reputable host of the XVIII World Saxophone Congress.

Artistic Director of the XVIII World Saxophone Congress Dragan Sremec Počasni predsjednik XVIII svjetskog kongresa saksofonista

Svjetski kongres saksofonista utemeljen je u Chicagu prije četrdeset i devet godina. Činjenica da sada slavimo 18. izdanje ovog iznimnog događaja je izuzetna i uzbudljiva. Pozivam vas da zastanete i promislite o povijesti ovog instrumenta. Pomislite na trenutak koliko je u današnje vrijeme repertoar opsežan i bogat, a koliko je bio ograničen u doba kada je Marcel Mule počeo podučavati na Pariškom konzervatoriju 1942. Mule je imao jako malo djela na raspolaganju, pošto se instrument treba čuti u izvedbi kako bi kompozitor postao svjestan njegovog velikog potencijala kao medija muzičke ekspresije.

Često prije nastupa komentiram glazbu i instrument. Nije neobično da netko iz publike pita zašto Brahms nije pisao za saksofon. Uostalom, Brahms, koji je umro 1897. godine, bio je suvremenik Adolphea Saxa. Odgovor je jednostavno taj da Brahms nije nikada uživo čuo saksofon. Mozartov koncert K622 napisan je 1791. godine, otprilike stoljeće nakon izuma klarineta te je napisan zato sto je Mozart čuo Antona Stadlera kako ga vješto svira. Dva velika koncerta za naš instrument - Glazunovljev iz 1934. godine i Ibertov iz 1935. godine, napisani su oko sto godina nakon izuma Adolphea Saxa, zahvaljujući umijeću i posvećenosti Marcela Mulea i Sigurda Raschera.

Sa žaljenjem ne mogu biti s vama, ali sa zadovoljstvom vas pozivam da uživate u svim bogatstvima koje XVIII. Svjetski kongres saksofonista ima za ponuditi. Vive le saxophone!

Počasni predsjednik XVIII svjetskog kongresa saksofonista Eugene Rousseau Honorary President of the XVIII World Saxophone Congress

It was in Chicago forty-nine years ago that the World Saxophone Congress was established. That we are now celebrating the 18th convention of this marvelous event is both remarkable and exciting. I urge you to pause to relect on the brief history of our instrument. Think for a moment of how extensive and how rich our repertory is today, and how limited it was when Marcel Mule began teaching at the Paris Conservatory in 1942. Mule had very few works at his disposal, as the instrument must be heard in performance for composers to become aware of its great potential as a medium of musical expression.

Often, prior to a recital, I make comments about the music and the instrument. It is not unusual for an audience member to ask why Brahms did not write for the saxophone. After all, Brahms, who died in 1897, was a contemporary of Adolphe Sax. The answer is simply that Brahms had never heard the saxophone played in concert. Mozart’s Concerto, K622, was written in 1791, about a century after the clarinet was invented, and was created because Mozart heard the instrument played artistically by Anton Stadler. Two great early concertos for our instrument — Glazunov, 1934, and Ibert, 1935, were written about a century after the creation of Adolphe Sax, thanks to the artistry and devotion of Marcel Mule and Sigurd Rascher.

It is with regret that I cannot be with you, but it with pleasure that I urge you to enjoy all the riches that World Saxophone Congress XVIII has to ofer. Vive le saxophone!

Honorary President of the XVIII World Saxophone Congress Eugene Rousseau Honorary president Eugene Rousseau

Artistic Director of the XVIIIth World Saxophone Congress Dragan Sremec

Honorary board Damir Boras, rector, University of Zagreb Mladen Janjanin, vicerector, University of Zagreb Dalibor Cikojević, dean Marina Novak, vicedean Ljerka Očić, vicedean Krešimir Seletković, vicedean

Artistic board Dragan Sremec Saša Nestorović Goran Merčep Tomislav Žužak Gordan Tudor Goran Jurković Nikola Fabijanić

Production team Margit Antauer Gabriela Paradžik Ida Szekeres Vesna Rožić Rosanda Bonačić Petra Mitrović Ema Gross Marija Cestarić Valentina Badanjak Pintarić Nikša Gašpardi

Public relations Dunja Pavešić

Music for XVIIIth World Saxophone Congress Video Gordan Tudor Special thanks to:

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia dr. sc. Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Minister dr. sc. Iva Hraste Sočo, Assistant Minister City of Zagreb - City oice for culture dr. sc. Ana Lederer, Head of Oice Tedi Lušetić Zagreb Tourist Board Zlatan Muftić Martina Csyfary University of Zagreb dr. sc. Damir Boras, Rector Mladen Janjanin, Vice-rector Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia Croatian National Theatre Dubravka Vrgoč, General manager Museum of Arts and Crafts Miroslav Gašparović, director The University of Zagreb Student Centre Nataša Rajković Davorka Begović Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall Dražen Sirišćević, General manager Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Mirko Boch, Managing director Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra Ivana Kocelj The Symphonic Wind Orchestra of the Croatian Armed Forces Lieutenant Colonel Miroslav Vukovojac-Dugan Slovenian Armed Forces Band Maša Bertok Duh The Cantus Ensemble for Contemporary Music Berislav Šipuš The Zagreb Soloists Krunoslav Marić St. Mark’s Parish in the Upper Town of Zagreb reverend Vladimir Magić

Eric Nestler Richard Ingham Matjaž Drevenšek Dejan Prešiček Mathilde Jenn Members of the International Saxophone Commitee Kenneth Tse, president Claude Delangle Philippe Geiss Barry Cockcroft Javier Valerio Lev Pupis Dragan Sremec (2018 WSC Director) CONTENT

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commentary. The 44 panels of the 10 – 14 July English version, created for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, STUDENT CENTER already travelled to New York, French Pavilion Boston, Chicago, Miami, Barcelona and Tel Aviv. When it was shown at BANNED BY THE NAZIS: the Royal Festival Hall in London, Yehudi Menuhin commented: “This “Entartete Musik” exhibit must lead not to criticism of others and condemnation of others but to criticism of ourselves and Curator: Albrecht Dümling, Berlin to a keener awareness of our own On 24 May 1938, eighty years ago, responsibilities.” the propaganda show “Entartete This exhibition (plus catalogue and Musik” (Degenerate Music) opened in documentation of sound) should Düsseldorf. With respective glances belong to the intellectual luggage of towards the Twenties it condemned everyone, who today is dealing with any music that did not it into the music of these times and wants to be Third Reich’s racial, cultural and watchful, that “Entartung” will remain political agenda. ‘Entartet’ covered a term that belongs to the past. music perceived as subversive, atonal (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich) and left-wing, including operettas and jazz. A black saxophone player with the Star of David in the buttonhole was presented as a symbol of a “degenerate” racial mixture. Indeed IZLOŽBA - IZOPAČENA the saxophone was seen by many Nazis as an “un-German” and even UMJETNOST: ENTARTETE dangerous instrument. MUSIK” Today the pseudo-Darwinian word “Entartung”, a term of Nazi propaganda, has long since vanished Kurator: Albrecht Dümling from the vocabulary of political- 24. svibnja 1938., prije osamdeset cultural debate. The idea of making godina, u Düsseldorfu je otvorena music dependent upon a norm – izložba “Entartete Musik” (Izopačena especially a racial norm – is clearly, in umjetnost). Retrospektivno se our era of international music-making, osvrćući na dvadesete godine, an absurdity. The historical example of osudila je svu glazbu koja se nije so-called “Degenerate Music” should uklapala u rasni, kulturni i politički serve both as a warning against any program Trećeg Reicha. Termin attempt to prescribe norms, and ‘Entartet’ obuhvaćao je glazbu as a plea for cultural pluralism, for koju se smatrala subverzivnom, tolerance and dialogue in the arts. atonalnom i ljevičarskom, uključujući The present exhibition is a critical operete i jazz. Crni saksofonist s reconstruction of the Nazi show with Davidovom zvijezdom u zapučku

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10 – 14 July STUDENT CENTER French Pavilion

21 special projects - exhibitions predstavljen je kao simbol “izopačene” rasne mješavine. Zapravo, tuesday 10/7/ saksofon je većina nacista smatrala „nenjemačkim“, pa čak i opasnim instrumentom. 10:30 Danas je pseudodarvinistička riječ “Entartung”, kao termin nacističke EXHIBITION OPENING propagande, odavno nestala iz rječnika političko-kulturne debate. Ideja stvaranja glazbe koja ovisi Greetings: o normi, a posebno rasnoj normi, Dragan Sremec, Vice Dean University očito je u naše doba međunarodnog of Zagreb Academy of Music, Artistic stvaranja glazbe, apsurd. Povijesni director of the WSC primjer takozvane “Izopačene glazbe” Thomas E. Schultze, Ambassador of trebao bi poslužiti kao upozorenje the Federal Republic of Germany in protiv svakog pokušaja propisivanja the Republic of Croatia normi, i kao zagovor kulturnog pluralizma, za toleranciju i dijalog u Dr. Albrecht Dümling, Musicologist umjetnosti. and Curator of the Exhibition Ova izložba kritička je rekonstrukcija nacističke predstave s komentarima. 44 panela verzije na engleskom MUSIC: izrađena za udrugu Los Angeles Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): Philharmonic Association, već su Konzertstück for two alto obišla New York, Boston, Chicago, saxophones Miami, Barcelonu i Tel Aviv. Prilikom posjeta izložbe Royal Festival Detlef Bensmann, saxophone Hallu u Londonu, Yehudi Menuhin Tianhong Wu, saxophone komentirao je: „Ova izložba ne smije rezultirati kritikom i osudom drugih, nego kritikom nas samih te nas snažno osvijestiti o vlastitim odgovornostima.“ Ova izložba (zajedno s katalogom i zvučnim zapisima) trebala bi biti dio intelektualne prtljage svih koji se danas bave glazbom tog vremena i žele se pobrinuti da „Entartung“ ostane pojam koji pripada prošlosti. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, München)

Detlef Bensmann

22 special projects - exhibitions wednesday 11/7/ 13:30 STUDENT CENTER 11:00-12:00 MM Center STUDENT CENTER French Pavilion Lecture-Recital by Frank Lunte (45 Min) Guided tour by Dr. Albrecht Dümling

Erwin Schulhoff and his “Hot- Sonata”

MUSIC: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942): Hot-Sonata (1930) for alto saxophone and piano

Frank Lunte, alto saxophone Holger Groschopp, piano

23 special projects - exhibitions 14:30 thursday 12/7/ STUDENT CENTER MM Hall 11:00-12:00 STUDENT CENTER Lecture-Recital by French Pavilion Detlef Bensmann (45 Min)

The late period of Berlin composer Guided tour by Dietrich Erdmann Dr. Albrecht Dümling

MUSIC: Dietrich Erdmann (1917-2009): 11:30 Fantasia colorata for tenor STUDENT CENTER saxophone solo &TD Theatre Dialog for alto saxophone and tenor saxophone Lecture-Recital by Resonanzen for Saxophone Quartet III Allegro con fuoco Detlef Bensmann (45 Min)

Detlef Bensmann, Saxophones Heinz Gröschke, Sigrid Karg-Elert Frank Lunte, Saxophone and Darius Milhaud Bensmann-Saxophon-Quartett-Berlin From late-romantic to jazz-inluenced idioms in the 1930-ies 16:00-17:00 MUSIC: STUDENT CENTER Heinz Gröschke (1914-1996): MM Hall Quintet (1935) for two alto saxophones, tenor Saxophone, guided tour by baritone saxophone and piano Dr. Albrecht Dümling Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933): Giga and Cubana (1929) for Soprano Saxophone solo Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): Scaramouche (1937) for Alto Saxophone and Piano

Detlef Bensmann, saxophones Tianhong Wu, alto saxophone Bensmann Saxophon Quartett-Berlin Holger Groschopp, piano

24 special projects - exhibitions 15:00 17:30 STUDENT CENTER STUDENT CENTER MM Hall French Pavilion guided tour by Lecture by Dr. Albrecht Dümling Dr. Henning Schröder (30 Min)

16:30 Sigurd Raschèr - A German Pioneer of the Saxophone STUDENT CENTER MM Hall Lecture-Recital by frank lunte (45 Min)

German-American composer Ursula Mamlok Her life and her composition “Rück- blick”

MUSIC: Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016): Rückblick – In Memoriam Reichspogromnacht 9th November 1938 for alto saxophone and piano

Frank Lunte, alto saxophone Holger Groschopp, piano

Holger Groschopp

25 special projects - exhibitions friday13/7/ saturday 14/7/ 19:00 15:30 STUDENT CENTER STUDENT CENTER MM Hall French Pavilion

Lecture-Recital by lecture by Johannes Ernst (45 Min) Tina Tepper (30min)

What happened at the Musikhoch- Ingrid Larssen - A Female schule and Stern’sche Konservatori- Saxophonist in the Nazi Era um during the Nazi dictatorship.

MUSIC: Gustav Bumcke (1876-1963): Fantasie über Das polnische Lied op. 50/3 Fantasie über das Lied Näher mein Gott zu Dir op. 50/2 for saxophone orchestra

Saxophone Octet Berlin and guests Adrien Liebermann, Taixiang Wang, Johannes Ernst, soprano saxophone Anna C. Eckhardt, Shiqi Zhang, Frank Lunte, Tianhong Wu, alto Saxophone Chen Cheng, Tina Tepper, tenor saxophone Sebastian Lange, Xi Chen, baritone saxophone Johannes Ernst, Musical director

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Over the course of 177 years the 10 – 14 July saxophone has undergone a myriad of metamorphoses. An anonymous ISTITUTO ITALIANO nickel pipe has been able to transform DI CULTURA DI ZAGABRIA itself into the instrument of jazz capable of expressing anger, desire, sonority and diferent moods, SAXOPHOBIA, becoming the multiform icon of the twentieth century and the stereotype A COLLECTION for excellence of musical eroticism. DEDICATED TO ADOLPHE SAX AND TO THE METAMORPHOSES OF THE SAXOPHONE

Atilio Berni Curator: Atilio Berni Attilio Berni’s Saxophone Collection, consisting of over 600 musical instruments, is considered to be the SAKSOFOBIJA, ZBIRKA largest and most important collection POSVEĆENA ADOLPHEU SAXU I of saxophones in the world. During the exhibition, the public will be METAMORFOZI SAKSOFOMA able to admire and listen to some of the rarest and most unusual musical instruments: an Eppelsheim soprillo, the smallest sax in the Kurator: Atilio Berni world which is only 32cm long, a Zbirka saksofona Attilija Bernija, koja Grafton Plastic alto sax, Adolphe se sastoji od preko 600 glazbenih Sax’s instruments, a Selmer Mark6- instrumenata, smatra se najvećom i Varitone tenor sax that belonged to najvažnijom kolekcijom saksofona na Sonny Rollins, a gold-plated Selmer svijetu. Model 26 tenor saxophone that Tijekom izložbe, javnost će moći belonged to Tex Beneke, Swanee slide diviti se i slušati neke od najrjeđih i saxophones, a quartet of Roth-Bottali najneobičnijih glazbenih instrumenata: saxorusophones, the legendary Conn Eppelsheimov soprillo, najmanji O -Sax, the gigantic Orsi contrabass saksofon na svijetu dug samo sax which is over 2 metres, a 32cm, alt saksofon Grafton Plastic, Jazzophone trumpet-sax with two instrumente Adolphea Saxa, tenor bells, a goofus sax by Adrian Rollini, saksofon Selmer Mark VI-Varitone a Mellosax, a gold-plated Selmer C koji je pripadao Sonnyju Rollinsu, Melody Model 22 that belonged to pozlaćeni tenor saksofon modela Rudy Wiedoeft, a mammoth J’Elle & Selmer koji je pripadao Texu Stainer sub-contrabass saxophone Benekeu, Swanee slide saksofon, and many other special instruments .... kvartet rothofona/saksorusofona

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Roth-Bottali, legendarni Conn O -Sax, divovski kontrabas saksofon tuesday 10/7/ Orsi koji je viši od 2 metra, trubu- saksofon s dva zvona Jazzophone, saksofon Goofus Adriana Rollinija, 18:30 Mellosax, pozlaćeni Selmer C Melody Model 22 koji je pripadao Rudyju EXHIBITION OPENING Wiedoeftu, ogromni subkontrabas saksofon proizvođača J’Elle & Stainer i mnoge druge posebne instrumente... Tijekom 177 godina saksofon je prošao niz preobrazbi. Bezimena cijev od nikla pretvorila se u jazz instrument koji može izraziti ljutnju, želju, zvučnost i različita raspoloženja, postajući tako mnogolika ikona dvadesetog stoljeća i stereotip izvrsnosti glazbenog erotizma.

tuesday 10/7/ 13:00 Attilio Berni – Musical Journey Through History (concert) friday 13/7/ 13:00 Attilio Berni - guided tour

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14:30 Duonar- Andrew Joan Jordi chie Ball 14:45 Hermes Oliver Duo 15:00 Arcos Bohemia NAFA Saxophone Saxophone 15:15 Quartet Quartet YAMAHA Quirk Cliford Ukrainian 15:30 Momentum TIME Quartet Leaman Saxophone Saxophone Nobuya and Rich- Master- Ensemble 15:45 class Quartet Suga- Azar Duo ard Ingham wa and Saxophone 16:00 Minako Łukasz Octet of Koyanagi Avena Wójcicki the Royal Saxophone and Robert Birming- 16:15 Quartet Stefański ham Con- servatoire tuesday | 10/07 /2018 |

Tuesday Academy Academy Vatroslav Theatre Theatre University Academy Academy Academy Croatian Theatre Istituto di of Music of Music Lisinski &TD Semi- &TD MM of Zagreb of Music of Music of Music National &TD Cultura Stančić Lhotka Concert circular Center French July 10th Bersa Hall Huml Hall Room 339 Theatre Big Hall Zagabria Hall Hall Hall Hall Hall Pavilion 16:30 Nelligan Andrew Saxophone Allen 16:45 Young Quartet Wook The ACMH 17:00 Yang and Detlef Robert - Alicante I-An Chen Bens- Finegan Saxophone 17:15 mann(re- Ensemble cital and João lecture) 17:30 SOS Junior Pedro Silva RE/SONO Saxophone and Pedro Saxophone Orchestra Adam 17:45 Vieira de Conductor: McCord Quartet Almeida Gerald and Paul 18:00 Preinfalk Nicolas Tucker Arsenijevic 18:15 and Ivan Batoš

18:30 The Corto- SAXO- na Session PHOBIA, Saxophone exhibition 18:45 Collective opening

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Noa Mick, saxophone 9:45 Victor Hocquet, percussion

ACADEMY OF MUSIC HYPERPHASE Vaclav Huml Hall Pierre Jodlowski (1971): Collapsed JG Jemmy Genic Quartet Alex Mincek (1975): Nucleus

STUDENT CENTER MM Center Antares Saxophone Quartet

Masahito Tsuda, soprano saxophone Emi Kondo, alto saxophone Masanori Kobayashi, tenor saxophone Jun-ichi Sasao, baritone saxophone

Shunsuke Takizawa (1985): Good Summer Pictures fuurin to kobuta Jonas Eskeland, soprano saxophone mushitori syounen Veronika Helland Nordmo, alto yozora ni hanabi saxophone Marcella Pereira Rogde, tenor Takatsugu Muramatsu (1978): saxophone Earth (arr. Masahito Tsuda) Petter Voilås, baritone saxophone

Jean Absil (1893-1974): Suite sur des 10:00 themes populaires Roumains ACADEMY OF MUSIC I. Allegro vivace Svetislav Stančić Hall Thierry Escaich (1965): Tango Duo NoVex Virtuoso Russel Peck (1945-2009): Drastic Measures II. Allegro Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): La Muerte del Angel (arr. Johan van der Linden) Alessandro Marcello (1669-1747): Concerto for oboe and string orchestra in D minor Allegro (arr. Mark Walton)

34 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER 10:30 Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Wist Duo Fran Lhotka Hall tuesday Quatour B Saxophone Quartet

Wist Duo (William Chien, saxophone, Stefan Skrilecz, guitar) Kate I-Hsin Kang, piano

John Plant (1945): Faustus Suite (premiere performance) Sadahito Kunisue, soprano saxophone Faustus and Mephisto Masaya Yamaura, alto saxophone Marguerite and the Viper in the forest Sumichika Arimura, tenor saxophone The man from over the seas Gentaro Koyama, baritone saxophone Gerd Noack (1969): Rhapsodie Jun Nagao (1964): (premiere performance) Comets from The Planets by Trouvere for saxophone quartet About the Program Takashi Niigaki (1970): Faustus Suite is inspired by Gertrude Ballade for saxophone quartet Stein's magniicent libretto on the Faust myth, “Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights”. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): The saxophone personiies and brings life Chaconne from Partita No 2 in D to the principal characters, delineating the minor, BWV 1004 for saxophone individuality of each by stylistic means, quartet (arr. Yasuhide Ito) while the guitar and piano establish the emotional and physical atmosphere of the Steinian world. At certain passages, the music articulates the precise rhythm of Stein’s prose.

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Carlos Guzmán Muñoz (1972): 10:45 Monologo en tiempo de Joropo ACADEMY OF MUSIC Herman Carvajal Martinez (1986): Primera suite para saxofón solo Vaclav Huml Hall

Bun-Leng Trio STUDENT CENTER MM Center Steph Winzen

Guillermo Presa, saxophone Wisuwat Pruksavanich, saxophone Tipwatoo Aramwittaya, piano

Christian Lauba (1952): Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Massaï for alto and tenor saxophones Tango Étude No. 1 François Rossé (1945): Décidé Lombric–Biophonie 1 for two alto saxophones and piano Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Tango Étude No. 3 Christian Lauba (1952): Porgy Stride Molto marcato e energico for two alto saxophones and piano Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Tango Étude No. 5 11:00 Sans indication ACADEMY OF MUSIC Ronald L. Caravan (1946): Svetislav Stančić Hall Paradigms Ballad in Color Mabel Lorena Rios Gómez Dispersions Parallax Exposition & Statiication Blue Episode Barry Cockcroft (1972): Ku Ku for solo soprano saxophone Walter S. Hartley (1927-2016): Petite Suite for alto saxophone Intrada Daniel Taborda Higuita (1990): Tango: Andante Malicia - Meditación

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Scherzo: Presto Nocturne: Adagio 11:15 Capriccio: Allegro vivace ACADEMY OF MUSIC Werner W. Glaser (1910-2006): Blagoje Bersa Hall tuesday 3 Sonaten im alten Stil Allegro Zürich Saxophone Adagio Collective Allegro molto Lars Mlekusch, conductor

STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall Alah Quartet

Amit Dubester, Valentine Michaud, Yi Lu, Charles Ng, Joan Jordi Oliver, Vincent Magnin, Paulina Pitenko, Faustyna Szudra, Ferran Gorrea I Munoz, Kathrine Oseid, Pisol Manatchinapisit Yusheng Xue, soprano saxophone Lars Mlekusch, conductor Wenting Wang, alto saxophone Binhua Yuan, tenor saxophone HILLS & MOUNTAINS: Qianyi Xiao, baritone saxophone Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 Zhu Jianer (1922-2017): Rondo (arr. Miha Ferk) Xu Jianqiang (1953): Félix Ibarrondo (1943): Akaitz A Student’s Diary Alvin Lucier (1931): The Two Grey Classroom Hills (premiere performance) Keyboard Nap Tomorrow’s Dream Graduation Xu Jianqiang (1953): Return to Nature / Gui Yuan Tian Ju Xu Jianqiang (1953): Chasing the Tiger / Da Hu Shang Shan

37 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER 11:30 Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Domino Group Fran Lhotka Hall Alessandro Juncos and Matteo Dal Toso

Emma McPhilemy, soprano saxophone Lucinda Dunne, alto saxophone Vykintas Civas, tenor saxophone David Zucchi, baritone saxophone

Ida Gotkovsky (1933): Quatour de Saxophones Misterioso Lent Lineaire Cantilene Alessandro Juncos, saxophone Final Matteo Dal Toso, piano

Elena Rezzaro (1972): Nothing to Talk About for alto 11:45 saxophone and melodic instrument ACADEMY OF MUSIC Elena Rezzaro (1972): Vaclav Huml Hall No Tag for alto saxophone, melodic instrument and piano SaxWork Quartet Elena Rezzaro (1972): Waiting 4 Autumn for saxophone and piano (premiere performance of the version for saxophone and piano) Fabrizio Durlo (1972): Pictures for saxophone and piano

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Kateřina Pavlíková, soprano saxophone 12:00 Magdaléna Malíková, alto saxophone CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Magdaléna Křepelová, tenor tuesday saxophone Ensemble de Saxophones Stanislav Tischler, baritone saxophone de Montréal

CZECH DANCES Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Slovanské tance / Slavonic Dances Op. 46 No. 1 No. 7 (arr. Kateřina Pavlíková) Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884): Tommy Davis, Jennifer Lachaine, České tance II / Czech Dances II Stef Jackson, Clio Isis Theodoridis, Yara Nakhle, Thomas Gauthier-Lang, No. 2 Audrey Paquette, Jean-François No. 10 (arr. Kateřina Pavlíková) Guay, Corinne Lanthier, Sébastien Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959): Hébert-Plante Borová Czech Dances Alexandre David (1989): No. 1 Seokgamoni Bul No. 6 (premiere performance) No. 7 (arr. Kateřina Pavlíková) José Evangelista (1943): Saxoctet Leoš Janáček (1854-1928): Giusto e semplice Lašské tance / Lachian Dances Giardino No. 6 Scorrévole No. 5 Čeladenský (arr. Kateřina Tenso Pavlíková) Transe

STUDENT CENTER MM Center Krešimir Kottek and Dominik Grgić

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Dominik Grgić, saxophone Krešimir Kottek, saxophone 12:15

Franjo Klinar (1991): Kathartikos ACADEMY OF MUSIC (premiere performance) Svetislav Stančić Hall Simon Širec STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall El Dorado Quartet

Simon Širec (1987): Viva Napoli nummero due for alto and tenor saxophone, loop station and EWI Percussivo Aria Uragano Finale Carlos Canhoto, soprano saxophone José Eduardo Correia Magalhães, alto saxophone 12:30 André Correia, tenor saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Jorge Oliveira, baritone saxophone Fran Lhotka Hall Christopher Bochmann (1950): Scotty Phillips Dance Sketches and Sara Eastwood Christopher Bochmann (1950): Movements Christopher Bochmann (1950): Turning-points (premiere performance)

Scotty Phillips, saxophone Sara Eastwood, clarinet

40 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | Gregory Wanamaker (1968): STUDENT CENTER Ragahoro Breakdown Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Katherine Bergman (1985): Alone Together Damiano Grandesso tuesday IRL, #blessed FOMO Unplugged Infomania

About the Program Ragahoro Breakdown is a virtuosic musical fantasy combining textural and modal elements of North Indian raga with rhythmic and metric characteristics of a Bulgarian Petrunino horo with subtle hints of American folk music. Philippe Hurel (1955): Opcit The piece is a dynamic, temporal, and Luca Francesconi (1956): Tracce textural crescendo to the end. Alone Together takes a look at the social and psychological efects of technology. As we become more and more reliant 12:45 on electronic devices and social networking tools, our real-world lives ACADEMY OF MUSIC and relationships oline have sufered. Vaclav Huml Hall In the oice, in social situations, and even at the dinner table, we might be gathered in a room together, but we’re Nele Tiebout and often tethered to our devices, engaged Bart Van Beneden in other activity. We’re in a semi-alone state—we’re alone, together. Divided into ive short movements, Alone Together examines the myriad dilemmas and phenomena that result from our love of technology, such as our propensity to engage with our devices while “spending time” with others; the fear of missing out on a constant stream of up-to-the-minute information; the curation of artiicial online personas; the lost art of real-time conversation; and our inability to be alone, bored, or unstimulated.

Bart Van Beneden, soprano saxophone Nele Tiebout, alto saxophone

Luciano Berio (1923-2003): 34 duetti per due violini - selection (arr. Bart van Benden)

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Various Composers: New Duetti Bojan Gorišek, piano Wim Hendrickx (1962) Milko Lazar, piano Jan Van Landeghem (1954) Milko Lazar (1965): Obscure Dances Michel Lysight (1958) Jacqueline Fontyn (1930) Philip Glass (1937): Concerto for saxophone quartet

About the Program The duetti of Luciano Berio are the starting point of this program. The 34 Duetti are a STUDENT CENTER series of miniatures dedicated to friends MM Center and composers whom Berio admired. Each piece tells its own story and uses diferent Macunaiming Ensemble techniques; We make a selection of our favourite Duetti and add new compositions especially written for this project. Composers were asked to write new duetti in the same spirit Berio wrote his and this resulted in the creation of some very ine new duets for saxophone.

13:00 Olivier Duverger, saxophone Andres Castellani, saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fábio Godoi, piano Blagoje Bersa Hall Zagreb Saxophone Quartet Macunaiming Ensemble: Metaforma with Bojan Gorišek About the Program Metaforma, an audiovisual performance, & Milko Lazar is the most recent project of the French Macunaiming Ensemble and the visual artist Marina Takami. This performance is based in the idea of transformation and mutation of matter including sound and video. The project does not include conventional repertory but three improvisations based on diferent moments of the spectacle: improvisation I - Raw matter, improvisation II - In motion, Improvisation III - Processed matter. There are two axes of exploring this metamorphosis: the irst one is the transformation of sound and video using diferent ways to play the instruments and the video projector (special video installation); the second is the dialectic interaction between both elements Dragan Sremec, soprano saxophone taking the spectator to a new concept of Goran Merčep, alto saxophone time and space. Metaforma is the result of an artistic research of audiovisual Saša Nestorović, tenor saxophone transformations and their interactions Matjaž Drevenšek, baritone obtaining a sound it could be seen and an saxophone image that could be heard.

42 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall 13:30 Athens Saxophone Quartet ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall tuesday Gerard MCChrystal

Athanasios Zervas, soprano saxophone Gerard McChrystal: Mid Term Break Dionisis Roussos, alto saxophone for alto and sopranino saxophones Leo Saguiguit, tenor saxophone and loop station Eric Honour, baritone saxophone Joe Cutler (1968): Loopable Music for alto sax and loop station Dinos Constantinides (1929): Music for Saxophone Quartet Barry Cockcroft (1972): Kuku Prologue for soprano saxophones Tetralogue Monologue I & II (for Mozart), ACADEMY OF MUSIC Epilogue Nickitas Demos (1962): Fran Lhotka Hall Wandering Into Myth John Hallberg and Wenjing Liu-Hallberg

John Hallberg, saxophone Wenjing Liu-Hallberg, piano

43 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | Adrienne Albert (1941): CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Circadia for alto saxophone and piano Cycles, F. Salime Saxophone Nightfall, Ensemble Spring Ahead (European premiere)

About the Program Circadia for alto saxophone and piano by Adrienne Albert was originally composed for bassoon and piano, and was recently arranged for alto saxophone and piano by the composer. ‘’Circadia’’ refers to the daily pulse, rhythms and cycles of activities observed in many Sergei Rachmaninof (1873-1943): living organisms. The piece, in three Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 movements, begins with Cycles, a wild Non allegro and disjointed irst movement that is a chase between the saxophone and Andante con moto - Tempo di valse piano. The cyclic rhythms vary between Lento assai - Allegro vivace a triplet motif with the saxophone both chasing and being chased by the piano, and a more jazzy section with the two instruments iguratively and literally STUDENT CENTER playing with one another. Movement Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall two, Nightfall, is inspired by the events of 9/11 and is a relective, melancholy and brooding piece which mirrors the Nitchan Pitayathorn descent from day into night. Lastly, movement three, Spring Ahead, refers to the change to daylight savings time in spring, and showcases a more playful character between the saxophone and piano. The entire piece is harmonically and melodically rich with ideas, and is a moving, impressive, and substantial work by the composer. It is important for this piece to be heard in order to continually introduce her music to others unfamiliar with her beautiful and exciting compositions. Rarely performed on either the bassoon or saxophone, this piece is a wonderful work that its the saxophone well, and is a soon to be standard in our repertoire.

Chawin Temsittichok (1996): The Chasing of Supanmacha for alto saxophone solo (premiere performance) Attakorn Sookjaeng (1990): Sadayu for soprano saxophone solo (premiere performance)

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About the Program Suphannamatcha is a character from 13:45 Ramakien, Thailand’s national epic based on Indian epic called Ramayana. She is the ACADEMY OF MUSIC daughter of Tossakan, the main antagonist Vaclav Huml Hall tuesday in the story. In one scene she was ordered by her father to prevent Rama, the main protagonist, by destroying the stone Du Hanfeng and bridge while Rama’s army build it to across the ocean. Hanuman, one of Rama’s chiefs, Anna Stepanova found out her and chased her into the depth of ocean. Finally, they fell in love together an she gives birth to her son Machanu. Sadayu is a large bird in the epic tale of Ramayana (Ramakien). He’s a son of Garuda and a brother to another great bird, Nok Sumpatee. The bird played an important role in the story as it’s a great allie to the kingdom of Ayotthaya and prince Rama. In the tale, Sadayu is a large bird with greenish body color. One day he witnesses Tossakan (Ravana, the main villian in the story) kidnapping Sida (Sita), the wife of prince Rama. The courageous bird intervened and fought bravely with Du Hanfeng, saxophone the giant. The giant was unable to defeat Anna Stepanova, saxophone the bird. Sadayu made a mistake by telling the giant that he’s afraid of nothing Ivan Olenchik (1952): besides Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, and Spanish Sketches the great ring which Sita’s wearing. The giant heard that and realized the bird’s Volodymyr Runchak (1960): weakness, he immediately slipped the ring Tet-a-tet for two saxophones out of his inger and threw it at Sadayu. One of Sadayu’s wings was broken due to the giant’s action. The giant then took Sida away. Defeated, the bird carried the ring and went to report the incident to prince Rama before he passed away.

45 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | 14:00 14:30 STUDENT CENTER ACADEMY OF MUSIC Theatre &TD Big Hall Fran Lhotka Hall Kugel Saxophone ensemble Duonarchie

Gerald Preinfalk, saxophone Iren Seleljo, piano Bernhard Lang (1957): Ding Zhang, soprano saxophone Loops for Gerry Carlos Tena González, alto saxophone Monkey chant Iñigo Setuaín Antoñanzas, tenor After Math saxophone Green Dolphy Street Cristina Arcos, baritone saxophone R&R Dreamtime Jesús Torres (1965): Tenebrae Dreamtheme Mannheim Robin Hofmann (1970): Der blutige Schafner About the Program Duonarchie is a special word-creation which describes our origin with winking. About the Program The History of K&K Monarchie which This is the presentation concert of connected Austria and Hungary politically, the Kugel Ensemble with some of the we want to transform in a way of repertory they have been working on combining the sounds of our instruments. during 2018. They have chosen interesting The very common form of ensemble piece from the Spanish composer Jesús playing saxophone and piano together Torres and the German composer Robin gets more and more challenging if one Hofmann. The reason for grouping these considers merging the sounds of ringing two pieces is that three members of the strings versus ringing reeds. That's why the ensemble are Spanish, and all four are major goal for this Duo is to get original studying in the Swiss-German Corner. music written especially for us. Simone Movio, one of the Italien "newcomers" of composition, and the Austrian "living legend" of composition Bernhard Lang already took this challenge. With the help of the Composers and our own way of writing music we follow the path of searching for homogenity and variation, creating maybe even new soundscapes.

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The Inluences of Jazz and free improvised About the Program music complete the term "Pulse" also The Forbidden Languages suite, a meaning "Pulse in time". new set of compositions for solo SATB saxophones, is vividly informed by symbolism and mythology, and the concept of abstract, imaginary, irrational, tuesday ACADEMY OF MUSIC or ephemeral language. Every stand-alone Room 339 movement pushes the capabilities of the performer, and challenges the technical Clifford Leaman and expressive limits of the instrument: utilizing multi-layered textures, extended techniques, and physical preparations with tubes. The music is an abstraction of language, containing the echo of narrative, inlection and syntax. Each piece’s micro- structural devices and gestural character are inherently linked with the mechanical and acoustic idiosyncrasies of the saxophone. A variety of energetic folk, jazz and electronic music inluences combine with notated and improvised new music to expand the possibilities of the instrument. Forbidden Languages will inspire an audience to completely reimagine their concept of the saxophone’s sound and function, and is accessible enough to ind one’s own meaning within the music. 14:45 ACADEMY OF MUSIC MASTERCLASS Svetislav Stančić Hall Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Andrew Ball

Andrew Ball (1991): Forbidden Languages suite for solo saxophones (premiere performance) Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos (1994): Kunststücke for soprano saxophone and tape (premiere performance)

47 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos (1994): ACADEMY OF MUSIC Breathe for alto saxophone without Vaclav Huml Hall mouthpiece and live electronics (premiere performance) Hermes Duo Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos (1994): A self-portrait on glitch for soprano saxophone, motion sensor, live electronics and live video (premiere performance)

About the Program The technological revolution of the past decades, which keeps growing without any limits or horizons, has resulted in a palpable alteration of the perception of ourselves, of the social collective and of the way we simply live. The possibility of creating an avatar, a fully customizable digital proile to be presented in a likewise human-created virtual agora, is blurring more and more the line that divides physical body, soul and digital self- representation.Who are we? And which of these proiles better represents our more authentic identity? Can we talk about a single identity or are we forced to accept the multiple faces of a single individual? The recital Identities presents a group of Georgios Lygeridis, saxophone pieces by Joan Jordi Oliver which relect and explore the relationship between Eftihia Veniota, piano the instrument, body and technological devices. The use of the electronic sounds Paris Paraschopoulos (1965): pretends not just to blurry but to extend Amphipolis suite for saxophone and the voice of the saxophone, an already piano soundwise rich instrument, and amplify all its possibilities to generate a new identity Yiannis Konstantinidis (1903- of the instrument. In addition, the use of 1984): Small suite on themes from the video on stage pretends to re-imagine Dodecanese (arr. Th. Sotiriades) and re-create the space and the presence of the performer’s body. Menelaos Peistikos (1995): Vagues (premiere performance) Savvas Tsiligiridis (1977): PS for piano and saxophone with reverb (premiere performance)

48 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER 15:00 MM Center ACADEMY OF MUSIC Bohemia Saxophone Blagoje Bersa Hal Quartet tuesday YAMAHA TIME - Nobuya Sugawa and Minako Koyanagi

Pavel Fiedler, soprano saxophone Antonín Mühlhansl, alto saxophone Pavel Škrna, tenor saxophone Kateřina Pavlíková, baritone Nobuya Sugawa, saxophone* saxophone Minako Koyanagi, piano Michael Nyman (1944): Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952): Fantasia 24 Hours Saxophone Quartet for alto saxophone and piano (premiere performance) (European premiere) Michael Nyman (1944): Fazil Say (1970): Suite Out of the Ruins for saxophone (European premiere) quartet (premiere performance) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Michael Nyman (1944): Chaconne from Partita No.2 for violin Miniatures I, II, III for saxophone solo, BWV 1004 (arr. Nobuya Sugawa) quartet (premiere performance) Chick Correa (1941): Florida to Tokyo sonata for alto saxophone and piano (European premiere) STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall George Gershwin (1898-1937): From the Place Where Knows Everything NAFA Saxophone Quartet (arr. Miho Hazama)

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Johann Koh En Kai, soprano saxophone 15:15 Breyann Lennard Taganahan Bantoc, alto saxophone CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Luo Tianze, tenor saxophone Ukrainian Saxophone Danielle Ong Min Lee, baritone saxophone Ensemble

Chung Ee Yong (1999): Surge (premiere performance) Zechariah Goh (1970): Homage Li Kai Han Jeremiah (1980): Saxophone Quartet No. 1 Around the Bend What? What? What?! Who’s There?! Wahahahaha!!! Artem Holodniuk, Danylo Dovbysh, Emily Koh (1980): Homonym Illia Vasiachkin, Juliia Zhytnukhina, Kateryna Ternova, Yevheniia About the Program Zinenko, Oleksandr Sharavara, “Singaporean Voices” is a special repertoire put together consisting of Viacheslav Kryzhanovskyi, Roman works by Singaporean composers. Our Fotuima, Stanislav Nidzelskyi, Pavlo composers come from drastically diferent Barabashchuk, Yevhen Popel, Valeria backgrounds and compositional styles, Vinogradova drawing inspiration from old folk tunes to that of great European traditions, tipped Valeriia Vinogradova (1998): of with a unique Singaporean twist. Their Kolo, folk ritual cycle in Ukraine for varying styles provide a comprehensive 12 saxophones description of our country in their own distinct voices. We hope to share our Revival music and let the voices of the people Kupalo from the little red dot be heard on a global scale. Zhnyva Aurora in the Sunset Vesillya. Holosinnya Dance Ancestors Schedrik (premiere performance)

About the Program Kolo is a circle in Ukrainian language, a symbol of eternity for the ancestors of the Ukrainian people. In the world of ancient Ukrainians, the year began in the spring - from the birth of nature and ended in the winter - with death. This process marked a circle as the ininity of life and death. It was the symbol of

50 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | the circle that marked the way of life of STUDENT CENTER our ancestors. The music was special for Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall them - the songs had a magical meaning. They could call the spring, communicate with the dead ancestors, ask nature for Momentum Quartet a generous harvest and rain, and much tuesday more. In this project diferent rituals are realized through the main circle of life - four seasons. Each of them is a new stage, which is full of traditions and songs. The project uses songs of Ukrainian people, which have been collected and recorded from still existing Ukrainian population with such traditions and customs. The piece is prepared and written for the XVIII WSC in Zagreb. Wayne Hau, soprano saxophone Hannah Brierley, alto saxophone 15:30 Emily Cox, tenor saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Laurence Astill, baritone saxophone Fran Lhotka Hall Guillermo Lago (1960): Ciudades Quirk Quartet Córdoba and Richard Ingham Sarajevo Addis Abeba Montevideo Köln Tokyo 15:45 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Duo Azar Sarah Markham, soprano saxophone Kenneth Wilkinson, alto saxophone Chris Jolly, tenor saxophone Sarah Hind, baritone saxophone Richard Ingham, guest artist, saxophone

Richard Ingham (1954): Fanfare Chris Jolly (1986): Smudge Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach, saxophone Richard Ingham (1954): Pieces for 5 Players Wang Wenjiao, piano

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Benjamin Attahir (1989): Coincidence Alicia Hillman, Chloe Percy Smith, (dedicated to Duo Azar) Cameron Woodhead Yumiko Yokoi (1982): act V Clare Loveday (1978): Octet 3 (dedicated to Duo Azar) Rob Jones: My Plants think I’m one About the Program of them (premiere performance) Coincidence, the title of which is a nod to the name of the dedicatees (the Duo Ivor McGregor (1962): Film Noir Azar), symbolizes in a way its own formal journey, marked by the meetings of the musical lines of the two protagonists. STUDENT CENTER Despite the completely antinomic character of the soprano saxophone and MM Center the piano, both instruments try to reach out to various common goals but also Avena Saxophone Quartet to a timbric fusion. Instead of facing an instrument accompanied by the other, the audience faces a real duo dialectic. The aim of the composer is to give the two musicians the same importance in dramaturgy. act V is the culmination of several research sessions with the Japanese composer Yumiko Yokoi. In this score, the composer highlights several techniques including those of the harmonics and resonances of the saxophone and the piano, in a frame driven mainly by rhythm and many rhythmic modulations. Nicolas Allard, soprano saxophone Fabio Cesare, alto saxophone 16:00 Sumika Tsujimoto, tenor saxophone STUDENT CENTER Adam Campbell, baritone saxophone Theatre &TD Big Hall Guillermo Lago (1960): Ciudades Saxophone Octet of Córdoba the Royal Birmingham Sarajevo Addis Abeba Conservatoire Montevideo Köln Tokyo

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52 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall 16:30 Łukasz Wójcicki and ACADEMY OF MUSIC Robert Stefański Fran Lhotka Hall tuesday Andrew Allen

Łukasz Wójcicki, saxophone François Rossé (1945): Olassimo Robert Stefański, clarinet for solo soprano saxophone (European premiere) Michał Kawecki (1983): Oniric Robert Lemay (1960): Into Thin Air visions no. 2 for alto saxophone and (premiere performance) clarinet (premiere performance) Fang Man (1977): Spring Bliss Michał Kawecki (1983): Scherzo (premiere performance) for alto saxophone and clarinet (premiere performance) About the Program Robert Steńański (1981): This program represents three new works by established and emerging composers Kalejdoskop for saxophone, for the saxophone. François Rossé is a clarinet and electronics (premiere name that is known to most saxophonists. performance) His ground-breaking La Frene Egare, in part, created the modern approach to the Łukasz Wójcicki (1981): Ilussions, and expressive limits of the instrument: duo for saxophone and clarinet utilizing multi-layered textures, extended (premiere performance) techniques, and physical preparations with tubes. The music is an abstraction of language, containing the echo of narrative, inlection and syntax. Each piece’s micro- structural devices and gestural character are inherently linked with the mechanical and acoustic idiosyncrasies of the saxophone. A variety of energetic folk, jazz and electronic music inluences combine with notated and improvised new music to expand the possibilities of the instrument. Forbidden Languages will inspire an audience to completely reimagine their concept of the saxophone’s sound and function, and is accessible enough to ind one’s own meaning within the music.

53 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall 16:45 Nelligan Saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Quartet Vaclav Huml Hall Young Wook Yang and I-An Chen

Jean-François Guay, soprano saxophone Corinne Lanthier, alto saxophone Alfredo Mendoza Ahuatzin, tenor saxophone Michel Éthier, bariton saxophone

Claude Vivier (1948-1983): Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Pulau Dewata Sonata No. 2 (arr. Peter Saiano) Chan Ka Nin (1949): Allegro amabile Saxophone Quartet Allegro appassionato Georg Friedrich Haas (1953): Andante con moto Saxophone Quartet Allegro

About the Program A voyage into similarities and contrasts, using traditional musical language and contemporary harmony, textures & ambiances.

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Pablo De la Fuente Pastor, Javier Bermúdez Sogorb, Juan Carlos Sempere Jaén, Claudia Delgado Mira, Juan Antonio Payá Pérez, Jorge Martín Manzanaro, Maria José Ian Wilson (1964): Bautista Sáez, Isaac Verdú López, I Sleep at Waking Florentino Mateos Persona, David John Buckley (1951): Arabesque Castelló Silvestre, José Antonio Antón Suay, Javier Carrillos Cantó Ian Wilson (1964): Between Stone and Sun for alto José Del Valle (1976): Oxymoron 3 saxophone and tape, after Newgrange for saxophone ensemble (premiere performance) Ximo Cano (1963): Rajaploma for saxophone ensemble Dinàmica Estàtica Mecànica Volada (premiere performance) Sixto Herrero (1965): Sureste for saxophone ensemble (premiere performance)

55 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Jean-Denis Michat (1971): Pasta Blagoje17:30 Bersa Hall Concerto for soprano saxophone, saxophone ensemble and el. guitar* SOS Junior Saxophone (Spaghetti, Farfalle, Cellentani, Orchestra Tagliatelle) Tia Ivajnšič, soprano saxophone Gerald Preinfalk, conductor Mentor: Dejan Prešiček, prof. Miha Meglič, el. guitar SAXPLODE ensemble

Gerald Preinfalk (1971): Ona Schoolday for saxophone orchestra* Luka Petrovčič, drums

Philippe Geiss (1961): Kyddo for saxophone orchestra* Luka Petrovčič, drums

About the Program The SOS Gang ‘n Stars project is the Jovana Joka, leader of the orchestra fruit of collaboration between ive top Neja Anderle, Jurij Bregar, Žan saxophonists/composers (Alain Crepin, Gazvoda, Enja Golob, David Gosar Philippe Geiss, Jean-Denis Michat, Gerald Colner, Eva Hanžeković, Tia Ivajnšič, Preinfalk, Gordan Tudor) and the SOS Mia Ivančič, Tinkara Kelenc, Anže Junior orchestra – a 45-member junior Klančar Juravčić, Matež Klavžar, saxophone orchestra from Slovenia. The driving leitmotif of the project is the Iza Klemenc, Brina Kren, Tjaša motto “the future is our artist”, which is Kuharič, Valeria Kučan, Lucija Mlakar, at the same time the guiding principle Anže Namestnik, Jure Pahor, Tadej of the Sekvoja Cultural Association, Pance, Marko Petek, Nejc Razponik, under whose auspices the SOS Junior Sandra Rijavec, Zala Rogelj, Jurij orchestra operates. Gang ‘n Stars enables Smrečnik, Matic Ulaga, Vesna Vavtar, young musicians to work with top artists, Nejc Zavratnik, Jaš Završnik, Jurij drawing on their knowledge, inspiration Zdolšek, Matevž Zupančič and motivation for further work and progress on their creative path. The Gordan Tudor (1982): Come out to artistic direction of this unique artistic- play-ay for saxophone orchestra* educational project has been entrusted to the multifaceted saxophonist, Luka Petrovčič, drums professor and composer, Gerald Preinfalk, with whom the SOS Junior orchestra will premiere ive new compositions, written Alain Crepin (1954): Bled, a piece for the occasion of the World Saxophone of heaven on earth for saxophone Congress in Zagreb. quartet and saxophone orchestra* Dragan Sremec, soprano saxophone Barry Cockcroft, alto saxophone Javier Valerio, tenor saxophone Kenneth Tse, baritone saxophone

56 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER ACADEMY OF MUSIC Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Fran Lhotka Hall RE/SONO Saxophone João Pedro Silva and Quartet Pedro Vieira de Almeida tuesday

Romain Chaumont, soprano saxophone Yanir Ritter, alto saxophone João Pedro Silva, saxophone Olivier Duverger, tenor saxophone Pedro Vieira de Almeida, piano Alexendre Galvane, baritone & guest musician saxophone Gerard McChrystal, saxophone Jorge Salgueiro (1969): Matias Couriel (1986): Aljamia Danças do Cão Sergio Nunez Meneses (1989): Voix I. movement perdues qui rament Lino Guerreiro (1977): Ostinatus Mathias Berthod (1987): Aube II. movement

About the Program Daniel Bernardes (1986): In 2011 a terrible conlict emerged in Movimento Perpétuo Syria, which set the Middle East on ire. Interlúdio e Canção Thousands of people had to lee from (premiere performance) their homes, in a quest to rebuild their lives in other countries, with a long and John Costa (1922-1996): Firebrand dangerous journey, a modern exodus. With the desire to pay homage to these Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): courageous men, women and children Close your Eyes and Listen RE/SONO commissioned EXODUS (arr. José Condinho) a three-part piece by three young composers. It is the result of a collective work between the saxophone quartet and the composers: Matías Couriel (Argentina), Sergio Núñez Meneses (Chili) and Mathias Berthod (France). Each composer deals with a diferent aspect of this exodus : The war, Crossing the sea, The exile. All three composers have constructed their musical syntax from the maqâm, the traditional Arabic modal scale system, though diferently treated - with each composer’s personal style. 57 tuesday | 10/07 /2018 | 17:45 18:00

ACADEMY OF MUSIC ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Svetislav Stančić Hall Adam McCord and Nicolas Arsenijevic Paul Tucker and Ivan Batoš

Nicolas Arsenijevic, saxophone Ivan Batoš, piano

Adam McCord, saxophone Guillaume Hermen (1983): Paul Tucker, saxophone Elastic Circles of Meditation Orlando Bass (1994): Marc Satterwhite (1954): Veränderungen (premiere Amentecáyatl for alto saxophone, performance) tenor saxophone and piano Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (1992): Don Freund (1947): Louder than Nocturne (premiere performance) Words for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and piano Riccardo Nillni (1960): Hush (premiere performance) 18:30 CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Cortona Session Saxophone Collective

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Jared Waters, Jefrey Loefert, 19:00 Christopher Creviston, Damian Cheek, Jefrey Allardyce, Caroline ACADEMY OF MUSIC Halleck, Claire Salli, Jacob Nance, Blagoje Bersa Hall tuesday Goefrey Deibel, Joseph Lullof, Nate Soules, Kaylee Bernard, Drew Hosler, Papandopulo Connor Pratt, Eric Zheng, Matthias Kowol, Leonardo Aguilar, Grace Saxophone Quartet Pawluszka, Abby Shepard, Abraham Nunez, Dylan Matheny, Matthew Hartson, Jonathan Nichol, Evan Harris, Sean Bradley, Ben Macdonald, Kyle Mikat, Robert Alm, Alexander Nguyen, Kimberley Goddard Loefert, Spiro Nicolas, Matthew Floeter, Jaymee Lamprecht John Nicol, conductor Roger Zare (1985): Mare Tranquillitatis Karalyn Schubring (1999): Sunburst Masamicz Amano (1957): Nikola Fabijanić, soprano saxophone Deux Danses (arr. Jared Waters) Gordan Tudor, alto saxophone Danse Melancholique Goran Jurković, tenor saxophone Danse Antipathetique Tomislav Žužak, baritone saxophone

Boris Papandopulo (1906-1911): About the Program Mare Tranquillitatis is a composer Four piano studies created transcription of a band work Con brio inspired by the beautiful lunar basin Allegro vivace sharing the same name. Sunburst is a geometric pattern that is Tempo di tango characterized by multiple rays radiating Vivacissimo outward from a single, central point. A common character in optical illusions, I Davor Bobić (1968): ind it fascinating that a 2- dimensional Chorale and scherzando design pattern can simultaneously seem so full of energy and movement. My Julian Gamisch (1990): goal in writing this piece was to mirror Elemental Flashes (premiere the accomplishments of the sunburst: performance) harnessing the raw energy and power of the saxophone ensemble through sound. Deux Dances was originally composed for clarinet octet and arranged by Jared Waters, a University of Oklahoma graduate student. This high-energy work translates well to the saxophone.

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Philippe Leroux (1959): L’Unique 20:00 trait de Pinceau soloist: Claude Delangle* VATROSLAV LISINSKI CONCERT HALL Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra Pierre André Valade, conductor

Guillermo Lago (1960): Leyendas / Legends for alto saxophone and orchestra - Andante-Allegro, Adagio molto melanconico, Presto energico soloist: Arno Bornkamp

Pierre-André Valade John Adams (1947): Saxophone Concerto Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991): Animato-moderato-tranquillo, suave Koncert za saksofon i veliki orkestar / Concerto for Saxophone and Big Molto Vivo-A Hard Driving Pulse Orchestra soloist: Timothy McAllister* soloist: Antonio Garcia Jorge*

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12:00 Teleion Trio GIG M/W duo Zhao Jiaqi Ensemble Diago 12:15 Neal Delian Duo José- Postma 12:30 Prism Modesto Carrie Lecture Quartet Lecture Kofman and Casey 12:45 Dierlam

13:00 Eric Nestler SaxIbe- 13:15 Farrell Ver- and Mark Joel SAXO- Carolyn rian duo Sigma non 21st Ford Jason Kush Diegert PHOBIA, Bryan and Sax Project Century Lecture and Adriàn guided Lecture Ansamble 13:30 Sopranino Artacho tour Frank Quartet Lunte 13:45 Lecture 14:00 SELMER Luka TIME Prelas and Bangkok Nicolas Tong Yang Katrin K. Saxophone Arsenijević & Guests Radovani, 14:15 Vita Duo Chris- Ensemble Erin Royer Vincent and Artiom topher Jay Byrnes YMD Duo and Jenni sound- David Shiskov Brellochs Lecture Watson painter Claude Joseph Lecture 14:30 and Odile Lullof and Delangle Yu-Lien 14:45 Philippe The Geiss 15:00 Rosario Giuliani Jérôme Laran Hiroshi Hara Detlef Branford Bensmann Marsalis h2/4 Duo Lecture Ensemble and Ryan and Recital 15:15 Jean-Denis Rayuela Gardner Adrianne Alastair Joonatan HD Duo Michat SONSAX Honold Penman Rautiola Master- Quartet Lecture Zagreb class Saxophone Quartet Zahir Quartet China Con- 15:30 Andalusian servatory Saxophone Saxophone 15:45 Quintet Ensemble wednesday | 11/07 /2018 |

Wednes- Academy Academy University Theatre Theatre University Jazz & Istituto Academy Academy Academy Croatian Theatre day of Music of Music of Zagreb &TD Semi- &TD MM of Zagreb Cabaret Italiano of Music of Music of Music National &TD Stančić Lhotka Audito- circular Center French Club di Cultura Bersa Hall Huml Hall Room 339 Theatre Big Hall July 11th Hall Hall rium Hall Hall Pavilion Kontesa Zagabria

16:00 Quimera Guided Saxophone Tour Nathan 16:15 Quintet Claude BANNED Mandel Saxo Icarus Duo Delangle BY TNE and Eli Electro 16:30 Fuego Lecture NAZIS: Fieldsteel Saxophone Entartete 16:45 Quartet Musik Krzysztof 17:00 Hayate MIT Urbański Saxophone Saxophone Master- 17:15 Quartet Ensemble class & guest Chi Him Debra Jorge Sou- Polaris Chik and Jefrey Richtmeyer sa and Duo Ying-Ting 17:30 Vickers Conduc- Ensemble I-An Chen Lin and tor: Lars du Bout du Hannah Mlekusch Monde Creviston 17:45

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23:45 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 9:00 Blagoje Bersa Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Trans-Tasman Saxophone Fran Lhotka Hall Orchestra Andy Wen and John Krebs

Martin Kay, Andy Ball, Ashleigh Porter, Jay Byrnes, Joseph Lallo, Diana Tolmie, Mark Hobson, Mary Osborn, Emma Di Marco, Nic Russionello, Michael Duke, Samantha Andy Wen, saxophone Mason, Michael Jaimeson, Nathan John Krebs, piano Henshaw

Sy Brandon (1945): Suite for two Martin Kay, Andy Ball, Ashleigh saxophones Porter, Jay Byrnes, Joseph Lallo, Prelude Diana Tolmie, Mark Hobson, Mary Allemande Osborn, Emma Di Marco, Nic Russionello, Michael Duke, Samantha Courante Mason, Michael Jaimeson, Nathan Sarabande Henshaw Gigue Martin Kay (1972): superimpOsition Robert Boury (1946): Dialogue for for saxophone Orchestra (premiere sopranino saxophone performance) Neil Flory (1970): Apparitions of deep memory for sopranino saxophone and About the Program piano (premiere performance) SuperimpOsition is a kaleidoscopic, microscopic exploration of improvised sound intertwining with experimental video. Gradual transformations and rupture translate, echo, amplify and morph across art forms, using improvisation as a medium. SuperimpOsition is the latest installment in a cycle of works beginning with impOsition, Martin Kay’s work for improvising orchestra.Animator Steve Weymouth’s video is a musical score based on Angela Wagstaf’s innovative Rhizome series of etchings. Rhizome was a response to concepts driving impOsition and these etchings, layered through burning images with acid on

66 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | unprotected metal, create an analogy to Kay’s compositional technique of layering 9:15 new material on top of the old, never entirely eradicating previous drafts, like a ACADEMY OF MUSIC palimpsest. Weymouth’s score continues this process, layering and animating the Vaclav Huml Hall twelve etchings, bringing out extraordinary details, invoking a strange world, a Junichi Sato recently discovered underwater universe. Kay is an improviser fascinated by the liminality of the moment and memory. His musical score sets improvisers problems to solve and games to play, encouraging spontaneous responses and an empathetic temporality. This approach is embedded in the Weymouth’s video score and Wagstaf’s etchings. wednesday

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Tre Pezzi ACADEMY OF MUSIC Masamazu Natsuda (1968): Appel Svetislav Stančić Hall (premiere performance) istván Szaller and Irén 9:30 Seleljo STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Zhe Wang and Marco Bidin

István Szaller, saxophone Irén Seleljo, piano Zhe Wang, saxophone

Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960): Marco Bidin, electronics Sonata op. 21 Marco Bidin (1976): Allegro appassionato Ricercare 2 for alto saxophone and Allegro ma non tenerezza electronics (arr. István Szaller) Marco Bidin (1976): Miklós Maros (1943): Rabescatura Studio Sincretico 4 for alto saxophone and electronics Marco Bidin (1976): Metamorfosi 2 for alto saxophone and electronics

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holiday villa, which was situated on top of 10:00 a high mountain range. The stunning views provided inspiration for my musical ideas STUDENT CENTRE — hence Serendip.’ Theatre &TD Big Hall The Birmingham Suite - Paradise Circus was, until recent redevelopment consigned it to history, a large roundabout right in the Equinox Saxophone middle of Birmingham city centre in the Ensemble UK. As composer Andy Tweed explains: ‘The piece should sound at times like traic churning mindlessly around and around. I have tried to create a strong element of circus music, which helps to accomplish an intended element of craziness.’ The original quartet version was composed in the early 1990s, but was later arranged for saxophone ensemble by Nigel Wood and renamed ‘Paradise Circus Maximus’ to relect the expanded forces involved. Rotunda was among composer Nigel Wood’s early works and Alistair Parnell, Nicola Pennill, written for the saxophone quartet ‘Saxtet’. The saxophone ensemble version was Claire Tomsett-Rowe, Keri Degg, arranged by the composer speciically Chris Jolly, Lindsey Smith, Michelle for Equinox. The piece was inspired by a Phillips, Deborah Hutt, Chloe Percy- rather uninspiring building in the centre Smith, Nigel Wood of Birmingham. This cylindrical landmark was a legacy of the 1960s concrete jungle, Nigel Wood (1960): Serendip for much maligned — and the composition aerophone and saxophone ensemble is an attempt to convey its form in (premiere performance) musical terms. Its melancholic character relects the fact that, at that time, it was Nigel Wood (1960), Andy Tweed condemned to demolition. This lament (1963): Birmingham Suite for the Rotunda was premature as it still stands. Birmingham Suite’ will conclude Paradise Circus Maximus with a premiere performance of Bull Ring Rotunda by Nigel Wood. Named for the bull baiting that took place on the site, the Bull Ring Bull Ring has been a central feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages. By the 1960s, it was About the Program home to an infamous shopping centre. In Equinox’s programme will commence 2003 it was completely rebuilt to become with the irst appearance of the new the Bullring — now the glamorous and Roland aerophone at a World Saxophone vibrant heart of Birmingham and one of Congress played by Alistair Parnell. This the most popular destinations for retail new commission celebrates the expressive therapy in the UK. ‘Bullring’ incorporates qualities of the electronic wind instrument several themes from ‘Rotunda’ and and its ability to blend with saxophones ‘Paradise Circus’, as well as featuring to create a captivating soundscape in themes relecting the past and present Nigel Wood's world premiere Serendip. aspects of Birmingham’s ever-changing Composer Nigel Wood says of the cityscape. piece: ‘Serendip is an old Persian name for the country we now know as Sri Lanka. Serendipity means an unplanned, fortuitous discovery, which turned out to be my approach to writing the piece. To my delight there was a piano in my

68 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Andrew Sigler (1973): Through All Fran Lhotka Hall Panics (premiere performance) Bruno Camargo About the Program Both pieces on the program are and I-An Chen tenor saxophone pieces with piano accompaniment, written speciically for Dr. Adams. Andrew Sigler’s piece Through All Panics is a world premiere. With a relentless rhythmic drive throughout, this piece features complex conversational interplay between the pianist and saxophonist. It lows from tense, chase-like sections, to blazing jazz-tinted passages, to sparser, more introspective moments. Keane Southard’s piece Rumination and wednesday Manifestation is a European premiere. It is in two distinct parts that are played without a break between them. The Bruno Camargo, saxophone irst, Rumination, is a gradual, lyrical, I-An Chen, piano and introverted unfolding that explores smooth, soft, scalar melodies. This section Marlos Nobre (1939): Desaio VIII for continually builds, leading directly to the alto saxophone and piano second part, Manifestation, which is an aggressive and outwardly-looking romp Rodrigo Lima (1976): Paisagem that explores loud, aggressive melodies Sonora No. 6 for alto saxophone solo full of large leaps. The entire piece Hector Villa-Lobos (1887-1959): explores many of the possibilities of the tenor saxophone, and requires substantial Fantasia for soprano saxophone and virtuosity on the part of the saxophonist. orchestra STUDENT CENTRE ACADEMY OF MUSIC Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Svetislav Stančić Hall Wilson Poffenberger Allison Adams and Casey Dierlam

Wilson Pofenberger (1991): Improvised Prologue (premiere Allison Adams, saxophone performance) Casey Dierlam, piano Vahid Jahandari (1992):There Was Yet Keane Southard (1987): Rumination No Heaven for soprano saxophone and Manifestation and live electronics

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About the Program traditionalist,” and was honored for his The improvisational prologue is a composition style and teaching method mediation that introduces the atmosphere by major institutions in the USA – he was and theme for There was yet no heaven. a recipient of genius award! Concertante The journey begins in a cloudy place No 2 is a three movement work based that is completely empty. Slowly the on Shapey’s 12-tone row, simultaneities, improvisation unfolds, introducing and ‘cantus rhythm,’ all deriving out of the material to come, a soundscape his composition tabulature that he called integrating styles from Iran, Italy, and “mother lode.” It is an intense composition the United States. The goal is to create of thick textures and an unfolding interplay an international style that speaks one between dramatic and lyric subsections. language. There was yet no heaven is The saxophone part is extremely resembling the creation of the world, demanding, it requires superb virtuosity based on the biblical account of creation. for efective interpretation. There have It is a conlict between an angel/good and been only few performances in the US satan/evil. and Europe since the creation of the sonorous composition, partly because of the technical challenges in the solo and in the other instrumental parts. However, the UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB composition has drawn the attention of Auditorium theorists and composers; there have been written several articles and analysis papers, Athanasios Zervas including two dissertations, about the speciic composition. In my lecture I will try to highlight and analyze aspects that have not been analyzed yet by scholars, regarding composition and orchestration procedures employed in Concertante No 2. In addition, I will attempt to propose approaches for efective interpretation of the solo saxophone part.

LECTURE An Analysis of the Concertante No 2 for Alto Saxophone and Fourteen Players by Ralph Shapey

About the Lecture Concertante No 2 was composed in 1987 by the proliic composer Ralph Shapey (1921-2002), professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Contemporary Players between 1964 to 1991. Shapey was characterized by musicologists and critics as “radical

70 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 10:30 Blagoje Bersa Hall STUDENT CENTRE Strasbourg Saxophone MM Center Ensemble Jonathan Hulting-Cohen wednesday

Salvatore Macchia (1947): Spira B for alto saxophone and live electronics (European premiere) Philippe Geiss, Nicolas Allard, Yui Felipe Salles (1973): Uirapuru for Sakagoshi, Pauline Rougier, Fabio soprano saxophone and live Cesare, Marta Gzubicka, Sylvia electronics (European premiere ) Toumaian, Sumika Tsujimoto, Leonardo Davin Rojas Rodriguez, Ingrid Arauco (1957): Piece for alto saxophone solo (European premiere) Wychariy Cruz, Laure Fischer, Mireia Pellisa Martin, Adam Campbell Philippe Geiss, artistic director Branford Marsalis, saxaphone, guest Jean-François Zygel (1960), Thierry De Mey (1956), Philippe Geiss (1961): Crosslines, crossover repertoire by...

71 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 11:00 Fran Lhotka Hall STUDENT CENTRE Hétéroclite Ensemble Theatre &TD Big Hall Michele Bianchini

Enrica Birsa, soprano saxophone Nicolas Tzortzis (1978): Luminoso for Alberto Cavallaro, alto saxophone tenor and soprano saxophones with live electronics (premiere Natsuki Ishikawa, tenor saxophone performance) Yohan Laite, baritone saxophone Theocharis Papatrechas (1988): yet Derlis Duarte Nuñes, percussion so terribly afraid of its Julie Duarte Nuñes, percussion endlessness for tenor saxophone and live electronics (premiere Mark Ford (1958): Pivot Point performance) for saxophone quartet and marimba Giovanni Santini (1986): Another David Kechley (1947): elusive place for saxoschlauch and VALENCIA: Iberian musings live electronics for marimba and saxophone quartet On the edge Prayer and Lament with Interjections Please refrain

72 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Svetislav Stančić Hall Palermo Contemporary Saxo Clone Quartet & 100 saxophonists from around the world wednesday

Ghehanghir Baghchighi, soprano saxophone Nicola Mogavero, alto saxophone Frédéric Basquin, saxophone Francesco Italiano, tenor saxophone Gino Samyn, saxophone Giuseppe Mario Caccamisi, baritone Pascal Thibaux, piano saxophone

Gino Samyn (1974): Contre la montre Sciarrino Salvatore (1947): La bocca, i piedi, il suono for 4 alto Claude Debussy (1862-1918): saxophones and 100 saxophones in Premier Trio en Sol movement Henri Tomasi (1901-1971): Ballade for two saxophones and About the Program piano La bocca, i piedi, il suono with 4 alto saxophone soloists and 100 saxophones Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): from all around Sicily was born from Pavane Op. 50 the Contemporary Music Department of Palermo Conservatory in occasion of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Trio the 70th birthday of Salvatore Sciarrino, a famous composer from Palermo, in Jean-Phillipe Vanbeselaere (1969): November 2017 and was performed in Le il d’ariane cooperation of Fondazione Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Conservatorio di Musica di Stato “V.Bellini” di Palermo and Musical Association Amici della Musica di Palermo.

73 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB About the Program Auditorium This lecture will present a performance guide and analysis of Bruno Mantovani’s Bug for solo Bb clarinet, which I have Nicki Roman adapted for alto saxophone. This presentation will discuss the following questions: What is the story of this piece? How does the composer portray this in his use of compositional techniques and how he wrote for the instrument? Speciically, how does Mantovani’s use of pitch collections, timbre and articulation inluence the programmatic aspect of the work? My aim to present an in-depth view of the piece as it makes it’s way into our repertoire with other pieces like L’Incandescence de la Bruine. 11:15 ACADEMY OF MUSIC LECTURE Vaclav Huml Hall A performance guide and analysis of Bruno Mantovani’s Bug for solo Bb Three Reeds Duo clarinet (adapted for alto saxophone)

STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Michael Christensen

Leah Forsyth, oboe Paul Forsyth, saxophone

Peter Lieuwen (1953): Little Rivers (premiere performance)

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Hiroyuki Itoh (1963): The Woods of Labyrinth Jonathan Annis (1989): Hari Om (premiere performance)

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Yucong (Zoe) Wang (1993): 11:30 Jigsaw Suite Prelude STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Allemande Minuet SiKé Duo Gavotte Gigue Sarabande Toccata (premiere performance)

ACADEMY OF MUSIC wednesday Fran Lhotka Hall Teleion Sax Ensemble Basilio Merlino, saxophone Francesco Paolo Barbaria, saxophone

Stefano Gervasoni (1962): Odoi for two soprano saxophones

Giuseppe Mazzamuto (1988): Quadriphonia for two alto saxophones and electronic system

Daniele Panzitta, Giovanni Luzza, Giovanni Deluca, Federico Limardo, 12:00 Francesco Soldano, Barbalace STUDENT CENTRE Domenico, Daniele Larosa, Antonio Theatre &TD Big Hall Rondinelli Jiaqi Zhao Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): La création du monde Op. 81 Overture Le chaos avant la création La naissance de la lore e de la faune La naissance de l’homme et de la femme Le désir Le printemps ou l’apaisement (arr. Qi Jing (1989): Mercurial for alto Daniele Panzitta) saxophone and stereo fixed media Bobby Timmons (1935-1974): (premiere performance) Moanin (arr. Daniele Panzitta) Qi Jing (1989): Chant for soprano Quincy Jones (1933): saxophone (premiere performance) Soul bossa (arr. Daniele Panzitta)

75 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Interlude: Tempo di Minuetto Room 339 Finale: Allegro moderato ma risoluto Diago José-Modesto (arr. Ivan Batoš) Margareta Ferek Petrić (1982): NothingMoreDangerousThanAnHon- estMan(DrinkingOrangeJuiceWhile- WatchingSextapesOlineWithou- tAKalašnjikovInHisHands)

STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall M/W Duo

LECTURE The most relevant saxophonists of the nineteenth century (Soualle, Wuille, Lefebre and Mayeur): the comparison of their careers.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Matthew McClure, saxophone Trio GIG Lee Weisert, electronics

Matthew McClure (1976), Lee Weisert (1978): Extempore I Clack Resonance Primary Euphony Relex Clinker

Gordan Tudor, soprano and alto saxophone Goran Jurković, tenor saxophone Ivan Batoš, piano

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Sonata for lute, viola, and harp Pastorale: Lento, dolce rubato

76 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Jorge Diego Vázquez (1978): Auditorium Tu m’abandonnes lentement Neal Postma ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall Prism Quartet wednesday

LECTURE The History of Rico International, the Timothy McAllister, soprano largest reed manufacturer in history saxophone Taimur Sullivan, alto saxophone 12:15 Matthew Levy, tenor saxophone Zachary Shemon, baritone saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Roshanne Etezady (1973): KEEN Delian Duo Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Schumann Bouquet (arr. William Bolcom) I. Lieber Mai (The beautiful month of May) II. Knecht Ruprecht (The bogeyman) III. Sheherazade IV. Ländler (a sort of German waltz) V. Sehr langsam (Very slow) VI. Lied italienischer Marinari Bera Romairone, saxophone (Song of the Italian boatmen) Kanae Mizobuchi, soprano Elizabeth Hofman (1961): Alexandros Spyrou (1989): Parcels of clarity (European Amphilogos for saxophone and premiere) soprano voice (premiere performance) Yukari Misawa (1987): Masked Music (premiere performance)

77 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | 12:30 13:00 STUDENT CENTRE ACADEMY OF MUSIC MM Center Fran Lhotka Hall Carrie Koffman ERIC Nestler and Mark Ford

Eric Nestler, saxophone Gilda Lyons (1975): what you want Mark Ford, marimba (substance free) for prerecorded sound (premiere performance) Mark Ford (1953): Wink Gilda Lyons (1975): hush for solo alto for alto saxophone and marimba saxophone (premiere performance) Susan Botti (1962): Propulsion for ACADEMY OF MUSIC alto saxophone and piano (premiere performance) Room 339 About the Program Carolyn Bryan what you want (substance free) “A snapshot of a not-so-gentle inner dialog about the role and perception of a young female voice in American culture, what you want (substance free) circles around a grotesque caricature of the ‘nice girl’ who has softened every edge, hidden any sign of intelligence, and obliterated her own internal ire for the sake of other people’s comfort and acceptance. In this portrait of her, I explore the personal and communal cost of losing oneself to the perceived normalcy of the one-dimensional, the palatable, the unthreatening, and the vacuous.” – Gilda Lyons Cerulean “The musical materials (electroacoustic and for the saxophone) LECTURE are deriving from ield recordings of the Cerulean Warbler. The work celebrates the The Saxophone Music of Katherine ethereal beauty of the warbler’s song even Murdock as it protests the precipitous decline of its population due to habitat loss.” – Tawnie About the Lecture Olson American composer Katherine Ann Murdock’s (1949) body of work includes

78 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | nearly 60 pieces for choir, band, and UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB orchestra as well as chamber and solo Auditorium literature. Among her compositions are more than 45 commissions from numerous individuals, chamber ensembles, and Jason Kush academic institutions. Her music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, on National Public Radio, and on the programs of national and international conferences of professional organizations. Her chamber work "Unquiet Night" was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2008. Among her oeuvre are eleven works for saxophone in an array of genres: unaccompanied solo, solo with piano, duos with piano, quartet, saxophone with woodwind quintet, and quartet with wind wednesday ensemble. LECTURE The Aulochrome: An Exploration of François Louis’ Revolutionary ACADEMY OF MUSIC Invention Svetislav Stančić Hall About the Lecture The Aulochrome, invented by Belgian SIGMA Project craftsman François Louis (b. 1954), was born into the saxophone family at the turn of the second millennium. An intriguing sight, the Aulochrome appears to be a double soprano saxophone, but is capable of much more. Unlike the aulos (of Greek heritage), the Aulochrome is chromatic, and has the keyed range of a typical saxophone. As a modern instrument, it is completely unique in that the performer can play any two notes from its compass simultaneously. However, this new instrument ofers far more than the capability to producing two notes at the time by employing diferential tones (the Andrés Gornis, Josetxo Silguero, virtual note(s) created from the diference Alberto Chaves, Angel Soria Díaz of frequency between two notes). Furthermore, the Aulochrome utilizes a Alberto Posadas (1967): Cycle new mechanism designed by François Poética del Laberinto: Knossos, Louis. This mechanism, patented in 2004, employs a more solid construction yet Klimen en dalen, Senderos que se weighs half the weight of a normal key bifurcan system. The lightness of the mechanism transfers directly to its eiciency, making it function with much greater agility and speed. Since the birth of the Aulochrome, the instrument has taken on a history of its own. T The life of François Louis is of great interest, and bears many peculiar parallels to the life of Adolphe Sax.

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Region V Conference in Fort Wayne, IN. 13:15 Many of the ideas and aesthetic choices that guided the completion of the previous ACADEMY OF MUSIC work are present in this one. That said, there are many diferences and this piece Vaclav Huml Hall stands on its own feet." - Dalen Wuest" The Red Forest Suite for sopranino Farrell Vernon 21st saxophone, guitar, viola da gamba, and piano, was written for Dr. Vernon in Century Sopranino 2016, because he asked for a piece to collaborate with his colleagues. It was an odd combination of instruments: sopranino saxophone, guitar, viola da gamba, and piano. The balance of these dichotomous instruments became one of the major hurdles to address. It was important to allow each instrument to have a strong part sometime during the four movement piece. The name was derived from the forest of the Ukraine close to Chernobyl's nuclear catastrophe." - Tim Reed Farrell Vernon, soprano saxophone Andy Wen, sopranino saxophone STUDENT CENTRE Hamilton Tescarollo, piano Theatre &TD Big Hall John Krebs, piano Saxiberian Duo and Sax FARRELL VERNON 21ST CENTURY Ensemble Quartet SOPRANINO Farrell Vernon (1967): Dance of the Saguaros (premiere performance) Dalen Wuest (1991): Suite for two sopranino saxophones and piano (premiere performance) Tim Reed (1976): Red Forest Suite (premiere performance)

About the Program FARRELL VERNON 21ST CENTURY SOPRANINO Dance of the Saguaros was inspired by Pilar Montejano, soprano saxophone a trip to Phoenix, Arizona for the North American Saxophone Alliance's Biennial Miriam Castellanos, alto saxophone Conference. As the sun moves from dawn Francisco Martínez, tenor saxophone to dusk, the saguaro shadows turn in an intimate dance. This is a tonal painting Henrique Portovedo, baritone of their movements."In a way, Suite for saxophone Two Sopranino Saxophones and Piano commisioned by Farell Vernon for the The project of Saxiberian Duo and Sax Zagreb Congress, is a sequel to December Ensemble Quartet is sponsored by the Sonata, a saxophone duet I wrote in National Institute of the Scenic Arts December 2016 for performance at the and Music of the Ministry of Culture of North American Saxophone Alliance

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Spain, Council of Culture and Tourism of the Community of Madrid and 14:00 SGAE Foundation. ACADEMY OF MUSIC Igor Silva (1989): Numb for solo Blagoje Bersa Hall saxophone and live electronics SELMER TIME - various Eneko Vadillo (1973): Metapoiesis artists Nuno Peixoto de Pinho (1980): Dialogismos for saxophone duo and live electronics (premiere performance) Eneko Vadillo (1973): Murano 2 for

saxophone duo and live electronics wednesday (premiere performance) Dativo Tobarra (1993): En la indei- nicion del camino for saxophone quartet with electronic and live video (premiere performance)

STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Joel Diegert and Adriàn Artacho

The Strasbourg Ensemble (Nicolas Allard, Yui Sakagoshi, Pauline Rougier, Fabio Cesare, Marta Gzubicka, Sylvia Toumaian, Sumika Tsujimoto, Leonardo Davin Rojas Rodriguez, Wychariy Cruz, Laure Fischer, Mireia Pellisa Martin, Adam Campbell) Prism Quartet (Timothy McAllister, Joel Diegert, saxophone Taimur Sullivan, Matthew Levy, Adrián Artacho, electronics Zachary Shemon) Ensemble Rayuela (Rui Ozawa, Raquel Paños, Nahikari Oloriz Joel Diegert (1982): Adriàn Maya,Livia Ferrara, Nagai Kishin, piano) Artacho (1980): Aubiome SonSax (Javier Valerio, Pablo Sandi, Harold Guillen, Arturo Castro, Manrique Mendez) Zagreb Saxophone Quartet (Dragan Sremec, Goran Merčep, Saša Nestorović, Matjaž Drevenšek)

81 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | Quatour Zahir (Guillaume Berceau, Sandro ACADEMY OF MUSIC Compagnon, Florent Louman, Joakim Ciesla) Fran Lhotka Hall Tong Yang ENSEMBLE STUDENT CENTRE French Pavilion Luka Prelas and Katrin K. Radovani

Tong Yang, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone Ivan Batoš, piano Pei Li, alto saxophone Yusheng Chen, erhu Luka Prelas, saxophone Xigongzhu Wen, zheng Katrin K. Radovani, visual artist John M. Kennedy: Breath, Smoke, Crystals for alto saxophone (premiere Luciano Berio (1925-2003): performance) Sequenza IXb for alto saxophone solo Bruno Vlahek (1988): HR Suita / Krešimir Seletković (1974): Portreti CRO Suite for alto saxophone and Gordan Tudor (1982): piano (premiere performance) Quartertone Waltz Yusheng Chen (1996): The Red Lotus Lantern for soprano saxophone with About the Program alto saxophone, erhu and Chinese Berio, In Colour is an interdisciplinary art zheng performance. The artists try to emulate an atelier by performing their respective art and examining how saxophone music and action paintin interact in a simulated women's creative space. While Luka will be playing pieces by Berio, Seletković and Tudor, Katrin will be painting in her signature painting style “in a room of one's own”.

82 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Room 339 BANGKOK Saxophone Christopher Brellochs Ensemble SUPAT HANPATANACHAI, conductor

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LECTURE Gilded Age America (1870-1900): Caryl Florio and the Vanderbilts Anuwat Benjachart, Pogpak Werachattawatchai, Nattanicha About the Lecture Tiam-Utai, Udomporn Samranjit, This lecture will be a discussion on the 19th Sasithorn Suebsuksakulwong, century saxophone compositions of Caryl Chanika Suttipituk, Wannakorn Florio and their place in the larger social Uengwiriyasakun, Kun Yothaprasert, fabric of the United States. “The prosperity Suphachai Klinchaona, Natchanon in America created by newfound freedoms Jantanom, Phetcharat Janphila encouraged immigrants to come to the country for the opportunity to improve Supat Hanpatanachai, conductor their quality of life. Within a single generation, families could go from poverty Siraseth Pantura-umporn (1982): to plenty. Caryl Florio came to America Shade / Shadow for double as a teenager and became the irst boy saxophone quartet (premiere soloist at Trinity Church in New York; as a mature composer he spent many years in performance) charge of music for the estate of another family – the Vanderbilts. Although a name still associated with wealth, Cornelius Vanderbilt was born poor and received little education; he went on to transform America by creating the New York Central Railroad. The Vanderbilt family created jobs for countless families and the Florio’s were one of them.” The lecture will culminate in a live performance of Caryl Florio (1843-1920) Introduction, Theme, and Variations (1879).

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Yos Vaneesorn: Vilanda-Oad for saxophone ensemble 14:15 (premiere performance) ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Auditorium VitaDuo Jay Byrnes

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About the Lecture When adapting music from another time or culture we are in essence changing the context of the music by arranging it for another instrument. Therefore, a fervent discussion of the issues surrounding the VITADUO idea of schizophonic mimesis is needed Vitaly Vatulya, saxophone, in an efort to maintain due respect for the original composition while bringing Maria Nemtsova, piano something new to it. The impact of & Artiom Shiskov, violin schizophonic mimesis on our audience’s expectations, the stylisation of music, Lera Auerbach (1973): Trio for violin, and the respect to the tradition of the tenor saxophone and piano other culture will be discussed in this presentation. The concept of schizophonic Libero mimesis speaks directly about the Pesante concerns of removing a culture’s music from its local context. This term refers Toccata to the act of altering the context of Adagio music through cultural displacement. While schizophonic mimesis has led to awareness of other cultures and can serve as a broader fountain of musical inspiration, it can also challenge the ideals of authentic performance, resulting in music that is stylised and approximated. This characterisation of a culture’s music can create suspicious attitudes towards processes of adaptation. Generalising and approximating the music de-intensiies its characteristics, and does not value the music’s cultural strengths. These issues are profoundly pertinent to saxophonists whose repertoire is either from other instruments or inluenced outside of the classical canon.

84 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Big Hall Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Erin Royer and YMD Duo Jenni Watson wednesday

Erin Royer, saxophone Yoshihiro Egawa, saxophone Jenni Watson, saxophone Makoto Asari, saxophone AROUND SOUND Johnny Dankworth (1927-2010): Shin-ichiro Ikebe (1943): Bivalence V Waiting for Something to Turn Up Daisuke Shimizu (1980): Balmy Wind Marc Mellits (1966): Black Tokuhide Niimi (1947): Erin Royer (1990), Jenni Saxophone Spiral Watson (1985): 7 Hours II. Agony (premiere performance) About the Program Erin Royer (1990), Jenni Piece Bivalence V is originally composed Watson (1985), Martin Jacoby (1988): for two oboes. Balmy Wind [Kumpû Around Sound in Japanese], written in 2003, has the (premiere performance) meaning of a south wind or a mild wind or a breeze in early summer that blows Marius Neset (1985): Spring Dance the scent of green leaves. Saxophone Spiral has two movements, Torrent and About the Program Agony, but only the 2nd movement will be Living on opposite sides of the world, performed. Tokuhide Niimi noted “Since two friends from the UK & Australia join 11 March 2011 (Japan's Tohoku Earthquake forces in a collaborative programme and Tsunami), something weighty has of high energy duo works, and original been hanging around my mind and it compositions with piano & electronics, never disappears. It may be a mixture using the sounds around them in their of sadness, grief, anger, disapproval, a diferent cities as a basis for composition & feeling of powerlessness and so on. In this improvisation. piece, these emotions burst out in various appearances. I wrote this work as an ofering to Stormy God and Calmly God.”

85 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | 14:30 15:00 ACADEMY OF MUSIC ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Fran Lhotka Hall Joseph Lulloff and h2/4 Duo and Yu-Lien The Ryan Gardner

Joseph Lullof, saxophone Jefrey Loefert, saxophone Yu-Lien The, piano Jonathan Nichol, saxophone David Biedenbender (1984): Detroit Ryan Gardner, trumpet Steel (European premiere) Forrest Pierce (1972): Prima Materia Carter Pann (1972): Sonata for alto saxophone and piano - This Black Cat, Takuma Itoh (1984): Snapshots Three Songs Without Words: Reverie, Grotesque Soaring, Consolation, Cuppa Joe, Ep- Chain, Haunted ilogue: Lacrimosa in memory of Joel Early Bird Special Hastings (European premiere) Igor Karača (1974): Echo Caves II for soprano saxophone, trumpet and prerecorded piano and electronic sounds (premiere performance)

86 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Ten songs since 2010 including Jason Room 339 DeRulo’s “Talk Dirty to Me,” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” M83’s “Midnight City”, and Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night.” Who Jean-Denis Michat played these saxophone solos? What does it mean to have a saxophone solo in a popular song? This project aims to answer the question of how the saxophone, a polysemous object with cultural relevance and import, has become ubiquitous in our culture and how the popularity of the instrument itself can be drawn into the fold of mass culture theory. This will be achieved by investigating the cultural signiicance of the saxophone in (mostly) American popular music. The saxophone MASTERCLASS was born in Europe but didn’t ind a true wednesday home until it was adopted by American About the Program jazz musicians in the 1920s, rendering it The masterclass will be around the synonymous with the genre and in some following pieces, regarding to the choices ways, with America itself in the twentieth of the participants: Shams, Clos guinguet, century. However, in the grand scheme Kokoro, The Dark Side, Back to Bach. of musical genres, the saxophone and its performers have been considered “less than” other musical instruments or middlebrow, at best. This is seen in UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB several examples, from the ban of the Auditorium instrument from the church by Pope Pius X in 1903 because of its potential to “give Adrianne Honnold reasonable cause for disgust or scandal”, or the poor treatment by Claude Debussy of the “Saxophone Lady”, Elise Hall. It seems that the instrument, its inventor, and its performers have continually striven for respect and acknowledgement. Is this invisibility tied to the instrument’s association with the African American community, its intrinsic sexiness, gender biases, or class constructs? This lecture is based on research conducted for my dissertation, ‘Unacknowledged Ubiquity’: the saxophone in popular music, and will include the historical and cultural highlights of the discourse surrounding the instrument as it relates to race, gender, class and cultural prestige, and the concept of “cool”.

LECTURE ‘Unacknowledged Ubiquity’: The Saxophone in Popular Music

About the Lecture Saxophone solos have been featured prominently on several Billboard Top

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Alastair Penman (1988): Ignorant 15:15 Complicity ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall STUDENT CENTRE HD Duo Theatre &TD Big Hall Joonatan Rautiola

Michael Duke, saxophone Mina Leinonen (1977): David Howie, piano My Personal Space for baritone saxophone Brenton Broadstock (1952): Rage and Throes for alto saxophone and piano Lauri Supponen (1988): Opus nen for baritone saxophone and Timothy Dargaville (1962): electronics TBC for alto saxophone and piano Gabriel Ortiz (1964): Mambo 15:30 Ninon for alto saxophone and piano ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Andalusian Saxophone Alastair Penman Quintet

José-Modesto Diago, soprano Alastair Penman (1988): Sandbox saxophone Alastair Penman (1988): *** Alejandro Rey, alto saxophone (premiere performance) Juan Manuel Arrazola, tenor Geof Sheil (1987): Hail saxophone

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José-Luis García, baritone saxophone (Jesús Núñez) 16:00

Armand-Marie Ghislain Limnander ACADEMY OF MUSIC van Nieuwenhove (1814-1892): Fran Lhotka Hall Quintette pour saxophones Quimera Quintet

CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE China Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble wednesday

Luís Salomé, soprano saxophone Pedro Rebelo, alto saxophone Gonçalo Vieira, tenor saxophone Manuel Ferreira, baritone saxophone Catarina Trindade, piano

Bin Wang, Jia-nian Wang, Jie Huo, César Franck (1822-1890): Meng Ke Yan, An-Hao Yin, Hui Li, Jia- Piano Quintet in F minor Ru Chi, Zi Zheng Xu, Yu Tian Shang Molto moderato quasi lento/Allegro Guan, Yijun Ning, Yue Lu, Jing Zhang, Lento con molto sentimento Zhe Han Liu, Shang Zhen Yang, Yifei Wu, Zhihao Li Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco (arr. Quimera Quintet) Zang Dongsheng: (premiere performance) Qing Yi Shen Chang (Deep Afection) (arr. Manlong Li) JAZZ & CABARET Mao Ruan (1926), Liu Tieshan: Dance CLUB KONTESA of the Yao tribe (arr. Manlong Li) Ma Ke (1918-1976): The White Haired Krzystof Urbanski Girl (arr. Manlong Li) Anonymous: Variations on the theme of Chinese Opera (arr. Manlong Li) Anonymous: Bu Yi Hua Hao Hong (arr. Manlong Li)

About the Program All of the music performed will be Chinese works inspired by traditional songs, traditional Chinese opera, as well as works originally composed for Chinese traditional Chinese instruments. All the works were arranged by Mr. Manlong Li.

89 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Ramón Humet (1960): Poetic Auditorium pieces for soprano saxophone and guitar Claude Delangle A night piece Devil's song L'hora de mel de mitjanit

STUDENT CENTRE MM Center SaxoElectro

LECTURE Etude and Solos, from Studio to Stage 16:15

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Yin Tak Au, saxophone Vaclav Huml Hall Lena Cuglietta, saxophone

Icarus Duo Jay Chattaway (1946): Double Stars Frank C.S. Nawrot (1989): Evo Ritmatic

Alfonso Padilla López, saxophone Alberto Plaza Fernández, guitar

Damien Charron (1957): En éventail for saxophone and guitar (premiere performance)

90 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Big Hall 16:30

Sébastien Tremblay ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Fuego Quartet cancelled wednesday

Sébastien Tremblay (1981): Concerto en Lagnelet for alto saxophone and orchestra Nicki Roman, soprano saxophone Erik Elmgren, alto saxophone Harrison Clarke, tenor saxophone STUDENT CENTRE Gabriel Piqué, baritone saxophone Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Nathan Mandel Clay Mettens (1990): and Eli Fieldsteel Ornithology S (premiere performance)

Nathan Mandel, saxophone Eli Fieldsteel, electronics

Scott Alan Wyatt (1951): A Road Beyond for soprano saxophone and ixed media (premiere performance) Eli Fildsteel (1986): Nose Dive for saxophone and live electronics (European premiere)

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the irst movement at a medium tempo in 17:00 sonata form, the slow second movement in sonata form without development, and the cheerful third movement in a rondo sonata ACADEMY OF MUSIC form. The main inspiration was Sonatine by Fran Lhotka Hall M. Ravel, which was written in a traditional style but with new musical sense – and Quartet Hayate that is where the name Sonatine for the new piece comes from. The composer tried to highlight the attractions of each diferent saxophone and the sound of unity of the saxophone family. Prometheus is a male God appearing in Greek Mythology. He gave ire to people who had diiculties because of coldness or darkness of nature The name Prometheus is sometimes thought to derive from Pro (= Forward) and Metheus (= The thinker). In this view, he has been thought of as a God with Foresight or Wisdom. The music expresses the original spirit of Prometheus Norihiko Takiue, soprano saxophone who created ire for the right purposes, not forgetting the negative connotations Sayaka Takeuchi, alto saxophone the ire may have destroying the world Hisashi Onuki, tenor saxophone around us. The composer tried to complete his work “with an eye to the very Hirotoshi Sato, baritone saxophon inner spirit of Prometheus”. The formation in Saxophone Quartet No. 2 consists of six Itaru Sakai (1970): Sonatine No. 2 movements including short irst and sixth for saxophone quartet Op. 167 movements. The movements from second Allegro to ifth are named as for baritone, tenor, soprano and alto saxophone respectively, Andante and they show each instrument’s technical Vivace performance. The structure of the Quartet (premiere performance) is not only based on the tradition, but also breaking and contorting it. Shuhei Tamura (1986): The Night of Prometheus for saxophone quartet (premiere performance) Yasuhide Ito (1960): Saxophone Quartet No. 2 Allegro molto, Adagio (for baritone saxophone) Moderato (for tenor saxophone) Allegretto (for soprano saxophone) Lento (for alto saxophone) Allegro molto (European premiere)

About the Program Sonatine No. 2 for saxophone quartet Op. 167 was commissioned by Quartet Hayate and is the irst composition for saxophone quartet by Itaru Sakai. He uses the traditional style of classicism, consisting of

92 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE 17:15 Debra Richtmeyer and the MIT Saxophone Ensemble STUDENT CENTRE MM Center LARS MLEKUSCH, CONDUCTOR Jorge Sousa and I-An Chen wednesday

Jorge Sousa, saxophone I-An Chen, piano

Li-Fong Chen, Pin-Hua Chen, Charles Jacob Ter Veldhuis (1951): May this Hon Sun Ng, Wei-Hsi Chen, Meng- bliss never end for tenor saxophone, Shuan Lin, Tzu-Yun Huang, Tsung- piano and soundtrack Tzu Lee, Pai-Haw Huang, Cheng-Yen Jacob Ter Veldhuis (1951): Grab it! Chang, Po-Fang Chang, Chih-Yu for tenor saxophone and soundtrack Chang, Kuan-Wen Chen Debra Richtmeyer, saxophone Jacob Ter Veldhuis (1951): Ticking Lars Mlekusch, conductor ime for tenor saxophone, soundtrack and video Hao-Yuan Chiu (1981): Benedictus (premiere performance) Alexander Glazounov (1865-1936): Concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra, Op. 109 (arr. Mi-Bémol Saxophone Ensemble)

93 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall 17:30

Chi Him Chik and ACADEMY OF MUSIC Ying-Ting Lin Room 339 Henrique Portovedo

Chi Him Chik, saxophone Ying-Ting Lin, electronics

Ying-Ting Lin (1986): New York (premiere performance)

ACADEMY OF MUSIC MASTERCLASS Vaclav Huml Hall Augmented Saxophone Performance: polaris duo Mixed music for Saxophone About the Masterclass Taking in consideration the new audio culture that emerged in the late 20th century calling attention to the potential of all sounds to be musical material, the phenomenon of interaction between instrumental and electroacoustic sounds became a fundamental point of interest of contemporary music. While the aesthetics of acoustic and electronic sounds are creating mutual inluences, composers and sound designers develop new languages, new gestural attitudes, new extended techniques, new notation methods and inclusively new instrumental Gillian Blair, saxophone developments. Elinor Nicholson, harp Melissa Douglas (1992): Spheres (premiere performance) Gustav Bumcke (1876-1963): Notturno Paul Mitchell-Davidson (1990): Polaris (premiere performance)

94 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB in his language, music and in particular Auditorium contemporary music. In Stromatesis the composer refers to patchwork rather than its religious association in the English Ensemble du Bout du language. The composer uses it in music Monde by taking simple interactions of sound, resulting from simple patterns or igures constantly create additional layers o f sensory perception, a s contrapuntal layers to the sound. We hear lines, melodies or passages that nobody plays, but are resulting from the interferences. He uses the acoustical means in conjunction with cognition and psychoacoustical pertinent of sound, in order to use a s basis of emergence. In philosophy, science and art, emergence is used to describe the wednesday phenomena of creating entities out of interactions of smaller entities. Noa Mick, soprano saxophone Kay Zhang, alto saxophone Qeuntin Darricau, tenor saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Don-Paul Kahl, baritone saxophone Svetislav Stančić Hall

Qālī - Iranian Rugs Jeffrey Vickers and Sina Fallahzadeh (1981): Pazyryk Hannah Creviston Arash Yazdani (1984): Stromatesis

About the Program Qālī is the Persian word for rug or carpet. It refers both to the composers' cultural background which brought us to create this collaboration. It features two young Iranian composers. Despite displaying two very distinct and personal aesthetics, they both share a common compositional process.“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. This quote by Aristotle could be the motto of the two pieces. Each piece takes raw elements and throughout the piece they come together and form a new outcome. In Pazyryk the composer uses warps and wefts: Warps are strong, thick threads of cotton, wool or silk which run through the length of the rug. Similar threads which pass under and over the Jefrey E. Vickers, saxophone warps from one side to the other are Hannah Creviston, piano called wefts. On this foundation he creates a Pazyryk carpet which is probably the Mikel Kuehn (1967): Karikatur oldest surviving pile carpet in the world. The composer uses ancient basic materials (premiere performance) to in fact bring an old legendary carpet as Camille Kerger (1957): Very Busy reference for his composition to and show (premiere performance) his way of seeing its creating and process

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Edward Green (1951): Concerto for 18:00 saxophone and strings ACADEMY OF MUSIC soloist: Robert Young* Blagoje Bersa Hall ZAGREB SOLOISTS AND GUEST ARTISTS:

Ante Knešaurek (1978): Concertino for saxophone quartet and strings Maestoso Adagissimo PROGRAM Allegro Pavle Dešpalj (1934): Concerto for soloist: Papandopulo Quartet* alto saxophone and string orchestra soloist: Sergey Kolesov

Vincent David (1974): Creation for saxophone and string orchestra (premiere performance) soloist: Vincent David*

Anđelko Igrec (1969): Saxophone Concerto (premiere performance) soloist: Miha Rogina*

* Selmer performing artist

96 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC STUDENT CENTRE Fran Lhotka Hall French Pavilion Ninoslav Dimov Michele Bianchini wednesday

Itzam Zapata (1989): Danza for sax Ninoslav Dimov, saxophone alto solo (premiere performance) Bensmann Saxophone Quartet Wei-Chieh Lin (1982): Grido for sax Tomislav Zografski (1934-2000): tenor solo (premiere performance) 5 pieces for Clarinet Alexander Khubeev (1986): Largo Magenta for solo alto sax (premiere Allegro moderato performance) Largo Fabrizio Volpi (1976): Step Spets Allegro for solo tenor sax (premiere performance) Allegretto Scherzando (arr. Ninoslav Dimov) Malcolm Dedman (1948): Joy of Union for solo alto saxophone Vanja Nikolovski Gjumar (1962): The Crowd for saxophone quartet

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STUDENT CENTRE ACADEMY OF MUSIC Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Svetislav Stančić Hall Nathan Jorgensen Connie Frigo, Branford Marsalis and Casey Dierlam

Brian Egan (1978): Goodnight Noises Everywhere

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Connie Frigo, saxophone Ensemble Rayuela Branford Marsalis, soprano saxophone Casey Dierlam, piano

Art Songs and Improvisation Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): Apres un reve (arr. Scott Silbert) Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Dido's Lament (arr. Scott Silbert) Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Rui Ozawa, soprano saxophone Long Time Ago (arr. Scott Silbert) Raquel Paños, alto saxophone John Frederick Coots (1897-1985), Nahikari Oloriz Maya, tenor Sam Lewis (1885-1959): For All We saxophone Know (arr. Scott Silbert) Livia Ferrara, baritone saxophone Richard Rogers (1901-1979), Lorenz Nagai Kishin, piano Hart (1895-1943): Little Girl Blue (arr. Scott Silbert) Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Stephen Sondheim (1930): Send in Sérénade en La mineur for saxophone the Clowns (arr. Scott Silbert) quartet and piano Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Quintet No. 2, Op. 81 I. Allegro, ma non tanto III. Scherzo (furiant), Molto vivace (arr. Nahikari Oloriz Maya)

98 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC JAZZ & CABARET Svetislav Stančić Hall CLUB KONTESA SIGMA Project* Sue McKenzie, Paul Elwood and Susan Mayo wednesday

Andrés Gornis, Josetxo Silguero, Alberto Chaves, Angel Soria Díaz, Coro Bonson Alberto Arroyo, electronics

Francisco J. Domínguez (1988):

Mansha for baritone saxophone Sue McKenzie, saxophone Alberto Arroyo (1989): Kitra, music Paul Elwood, banjo for bass saxophone with mute and Susan Mayo, cello electronics after paintings by Goya Gonzalo Navarro (1981): Morfología Free improvisation de un latido contenido for baritone saxophone and electronics Alberto Bernal (1978): numbers #1 “post truth“ for tenor saxophone and recursive mp3-compression

* This program is supported by INAEM and Etxepare Institute

99 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Sally MacTaggart, soprano saxophone Auditorium Guy Passey, alto saxophone Zahir Quartet Jenni Watson, tenor saxophone Alastair Penman, baritone saxophone

Oliver Christophe Leith (1991): A Day at the Spa Jennifer Watson (1985): Tinged

Mark Bowler (1980): Puzzle Book

Alastair Penman (1988): TBC (premiere performance)

Guillaume Berceau, soprano About the Program saxophone I can't go back to yesterday because I Sandro Compagnon, alto saxophone was a diferent person then". Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Kaleidoscope Florent Louman, tenor saxophone is an award-winning chamber ensemble of Joakim Ciesla, baritone saxophone young professional musicians passionate about contemporary music. “We Can’t Go Back to Yesterday” is a collaboration Alexander Borodine (1833-1887): with the inest young British composers String Quartet No. 2 of today, showcasing some of the most Allegro moderato innovative works for saxophone quartet written in recent years. The project Scherzo includes A Day at the Spa by Oliver Notturno Christophe Leith, which was awarded the Finale 2016 British Composer Award for best small chamber piece, and a new work (arr. Guillaume Berceau) by Mark Bowler, who recently won the prestigious Britten Sinfonia OPUS2017 award. These works are combined with a 19:00 superb composition by ensemble member Jenni Watson, and the world premiere ACADEMY OF MUSIC of a new piece by ensemble member Fran Lhotka Hall Alastair Penman. All of the works in the programme have been commissioned by Kaleidoscope and composed in Kaleidoscope Saxophone collaboration with the group. "We Can’t Quartet Go Back to Yesterday” is a bold look at the saxophone music of the present day.

100 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | 19:15 19:30 ACADEMY OF MUSIC JAZZ & CABARET Vaclav Huml Hall CLUB KONTESA Sea and Sky Collective Koplant No Ensemble wednesday

Joan Blackman, violin Joel Vanderheyden, tenor saxophone Julia Nolan, saxophone Brian Lewis Smith, trumpet, laptop, Jane Hayes, piano keys Drew Morton, bass, synth Dorothy Chang (1970): Rob Baner, drums, loops, vibes Four Bagatelles Eileen Padgett (1987): In Praise of Joel Vanderheyden (1980): Noir Women (premiere performance) Jean-Luc Defontains (1971): Couleurs d'un Reve for alto ACADEMY OF MUSIC saxophone, violin and piano Auditorium Marc Eychenne (1952): Yendo Quartet Cantilène et Danse trio for violin, alto saxophone and piano

Antonio Garcia Jorge, soprano saxophone Jonathan Radford, alto saxophone Antonin Pommel, tenor saxophone Martin Trillaud, baritone saxophone

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Claude Debussy (1862-1912): Quatuor à cordes en sol mineur, Op. 10 20:00 Animé et très décidé STUDENT CENTRE Assez vif et bien rythmé Theatre &TD Big Hall Andantino, doucement expressif Très modéré Loopissimo (arr. Vincent David) Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato Romanze: Andantino Intermezzo: Allegro molto marcato - Più vivo e scherzando Finale: Lento-Presto al saltarello (arr. Antonio García Jorge) Arne Marsel, saxophone Christian Eder, saxophone About the Program 15 years after hearing Grieg's only mature Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder and complete string quartet, Debussy (1966): B in P produced his only string quartet in the same tonality of G minor with many Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder striking similarities. Whether consciously (1966): Myrocc or subconsciously modelled on Grieg's quartet, it is clear that both composers' Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder deined what has become a clear national (1966), Gabriele Riegler: Laos identity in their musical language. Both works have played an important part in Arne Marsel (1963): Kryll shaping our conception of chamber music Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder as a saxophone quartet. (1966): Zen Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder ACADEMY OF MUSIC (1966): Pontem in futurum Svetislav Stančić Hall Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder Don-Paul Kahl and Guests (1966): India koromandia Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder Jackie Glazer and (1966): Dulpe Dulpe Ensemble du Bout du Arne Marsel (1963), Christian Eder Monde (1966): Piper E Henry Lodge (1885): Temptation Rag (arr. Arne Marsel, Christian Eder) Sidney Bechet (1897-1959): Egyptian fantasy (arr. Arne Marsel, Chris Dench (1953): Christian Eder) poly(m)metric threads John Surman (1944): Edges of illusions Stratis Minakakis (1979): Ta Entos (arr. Arne Marsel, Christian Eder)

102 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Felipe Salles (1973): Gaudí Sketches No. 2 for alto saxophone and piano Rudi Katholnig and Casa Milá (premiere performance) Hans-Peter Steiner Piet Swerts (1960): Horta Suite for alto saxophone and piano (premiere performance) 20:30 JAZZ & CABARET CLUB KONTESA

Andy Sugg and wednesday Arun Luthra

Hans-Peter Steiner, saxophone Rudi Katholnig, accordion Rudi Katholnig (1967): The other Chocheck Rudi Katholnig (1967): First Inspiration Rudi Katholnig (1967): Teej

Rudi Katholnig (1967): French Walk Andy Sugg, saxophone Astor Piazolla (1921-1992): Arun Luthra, saxophone Vuelvo al sur Igor's Groove: The Rite of Spring Gerald Preinfalk (1971): meets Jazz Saxophone: Schotti beam me up Andy Sugg (1956), Arun Luthra (1971): Jazz compositions inspired 20:15 by the Rite of Spring and featuring ACADEMY OF MUSIC improvised solos (premiere Blagoje Bersa Hall performance) Arno Bornkamp

103 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ZRINJEVAC PARK Pavilion Zagreb outdoor 21:00 Luis Federico MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Jaureguiberry and Manuel Atrium González SaxQuartet Mainz 04

Johannes Lind, soprano and alto saxophone Kerstin Haberecht, alto saxophone Alex Jung, tenor saxophone Luis Federico Jaureguiberry, Steph Winzen, baritone saxophone saxophone Manuel González, saxophone Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice: Luis Federico Jaureguiberry (1971): Smoke on the water Mañana del 13-descandombe para (arr. Christian Kowollik) Mercedes Mars Bonire: Born to be wild Luis Federico Jaureguiberry (1971): (arr. Johannes Lind) Los que se caen-destango Lennie Kravitz: It ain´t over till its over (arr. Alexander Jung) Metallica: Enter Sandman (arr. Johannes Lind) Dolores O'Riordan: Zombie-Tango (arr. Christian Kowollik) Survivor (Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan): Eye Of The Tiger (arr. Steph Winzen) Eddie Van Halen: Jump (arr. Johannes Lind) Angus & Malcolm Young, Bon Scott: Highway to hell (arr. Johannes Lind)

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CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Aaron Perrine (1979): It has to be beautiful Symphonic Wind Orchestra Screaming at the Sky, of Croatian Armed Forces It Has to Be Beautiful Alain Crepin, conductor Illumine (PREMIERE PERFORMANCE) soloist: Kenneth Tse* The performance of It Has to be Beautiful is dedicated to the memory of Jennifer Klauda Anderson wednesday

PROGRAM Alain Crepin (1954): Complicities soloists: Jovana Joka, Lev Pupis

Olivier Calmel (1974): Manhattan Skyline I 5th Avenue II Timesquare III Terminal Central David DeBoor Canield (1950): Concerto after Dvořák for Saxophone VI Big Central Park Quartet and Wind Ensemble VII Financial District soloist: The US Navy Band Quartet soloist: Philippe Portejoie

* Yamaha performing artist

105 wednesday | 11/07 /2018 | ZRINJEVAC PARK 21:30 Pavilion Zagreb outdoor JAZZ & CABARET Saxolosax, “White CLUB KONTESA Clowns” Ensemble, Saxitude Quartet Benjamin Nid, soundpainter

Pierre Cocq-Amann, soprano saxophone Oliver Urbano (1972): Patterns 1 et 2 Dominique Gatto, alto saxophone Luc Bartoli (1975): Rêve Robi Arend, tenor saxophone Francine Bérogin (1965): Sur le Fil Thomas Diemert, baritone saxophone Cyprien Maurice (2003): Robi Arend (1969): Street Party Boulet de Canon Pierre Cocq-Amann (1981): Saxitube Youssef Essawabi (1984): Vents d’Oeuvres Jim Giufre (1921-1908): Four Brothers

(arr. Robi Arend) Geofroy la Mancusa (1981): Départ Mark Ronson (1975): Uptown Funk (arr. Robi Arend) 22:00 Robi Arend (1969): So funny MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Robi Arend (1969): Mega Bossa Atrium Macondo Ensemble

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Eduardo Rincón, soprano saxophone Karen Barreto, alto saxophone 23:00 Daniel Lopez, tenor saxophone MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS León Calderón, baritone saxophone / Atrium vocals Andrés Correa, percussion SONSAX Maria Alejandra Hoyos, lead vocals Leandro Díaz (1928-2013): EL Verano - Vallenato for saxophone quartet, percussion and voice (arr. Eduardo Rincón) Jorge Luis Velosa Ruiz (1949): Las diabluras - Carranga for saxophone wednesday quartet, percussion and voice (arr. Carlos Andrés Restrepo) José Barros (1915-2007): La piragua - Cumbia for saxophone quartet (arr. Julio Castillo)

César Medina (1978): Y no vuelvo ma’ Javier Valerio, soprano saxophone - Abozao (arr. César Medina) Pablo Sandi, alto saxophone Aries Vigoth (1957-2009): Harold Guillen, tenor saxophone Predestinación - Joropo for Arturo Castro, baritone saxophone saxophone quartet, percussion and voice (arr. Wolfang David Ordoñez) Manrique Mendez, percussion Pablo Flores (1926-2011): Los Sabores An homage to Latin_American music del Porro for saxophone quartet, About the Program percussion and voice (arr. Eduardo The show Latinos SONSAX is an Rincón) homage to Latin-American music. Based on research and the rescue of this César Medina (1978): Al son que me musical identity, SONSAX seeks out to bailen tocó (arr. César Medina) communicate the magic of this music, where diferent musical genres are blend in their most traditional form, transporting us to the rich and exuberant nature of JAZZ & CABARET these regions. From the Caribbean coasts CLUB KONTESA with its calypsos, bombas and merengues to its mambos, boleros and cha-cha- JAM SESSION cha, bringing within it the traditional mixture of Latin American cultures from which are distinguish of. SONSAX directs this production, for the delight of all generation’s without distinction. In this way it rejoices the invaluable work of composers that make their music very popular around the world like Moisés Simons with “El Manisero”, Pérez Prado with “Mambo en Sax” y “Frenesí”, Tito Puente with “Oye como va” y Dizzie Gillespie with “Manteca”.

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Thursday Academy Academy Theatre Theatre University Jazz & Academy Academy Academy Croatian Theatre Zrinjevac of Music of Music &TD Semi- &TD MM of Zagreb Cabaret Church of of Music of Music of Music National &TD Park Stančić Lhotka circular Center French Club Saint Mark July 12th Bersa Hall Huml Hall Room 339 Theatre Big Hall Pavilion Hall Hall Hall Hall Pavilion Kontesa

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13:00 David Naab Connor and Sae Mikula and 13:15 Lee Stephen Will Healy ROYA Fischer Saxophone 13:30 and Rachel Quartet Fischer Chi Him and Chik Zvezdana Salaya/ 13:45 Novaković Otis Mur- NAFA Wojciech Five by phy Master- Saxophone 14:00 Chałupka Five class Ensemble and Paweł Saxophone 14:15 Gusnar Ziryab Quintet Saxophone 14:30 Quartet Erin Royer, Tim Shyen Lee Ensemble Newhouse and I-An du Bout du 14:45 and Leah Chen Monde Guelfi THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 |

Thursday Academy Academy Vatroslav Theatre Theatre University Jazz & Academy Academy Academy Croatian Theatre Zrinjevac of Music of Music Lisinski &TD Semi- &TD MM of Zagreb Cabaret of Music of Music of Music National &TD Park Stančić Lhotka Concert circular Center French Club July 12th Bersa Hall Huml Hall Room 339 Theatre Big Hall Pavilion Hall Hall Hall Hall Hall Pavilion Kontesa 15:00 Iberian Xin Guided Saxophone Saxophone Tour 15:15 Quartet Saxophone Quartet BANNED Revolution Japan BY TNE 15:30 Domen Trio Saxophone Jeroen Gordan NAZIS: Koren and Orchestra Vanbever Tudor Entartete 15:45 Sae Lee Musik Kenneth Austral- 16:00 Tse Master- asian Trio Se- class Saxophone Neal quenza 16:15 Leaman, Quartet Andrey Cliford ASAX-Q Turigin Postma and Lecture 16:30 Hannah Creviston 16:45 Sue Frank McKenzie The Arkan- Yui Lunte and Guests CANTUS & sas Sax- Sakagoshi Lecture Philippe SAX MARA- ophones and Iván Geiss, Paul 17:00 O’Connor THON Montag- - Netzer Choir Solano Elwood nard Duo Duo Jennifer and Susan CANTUS Lachaine Mayo ENSEM- Lecture 17:15 BLE MAC Henning Saxophone Schröder 17:30 Conduc- Quartet Lecture Four tors: Saxophone 17:45 Lars Katherine Andrea Quartet 18:00 Mlekusch, Quatour In- Weintraub Carrozzo Berislav ternational Fernando Šipuš de Saxo- Lerman phones, David and Sae 18:15 Soloists: Shyen Lee Stambler Lee Marie Ber- and I-An and nardette Chen Hannah Charrier Creviston 18:30 Asya United Fateyeva Saxophone Joonatan Ensemble Rautiola of Univer- Andrey sities and Glen Gillis Enzo Turygin 18:45 Henrique Portovedo Music Con- and James Favata Evgeny servatories E. Cunning- Novikov in China ham 19:00 Clement Bensmann Sumika Himbert Saxophone Tsujimoto 19:15 Tomislav Quartet Taimur Žužak Sullivan Whekau Ardemus Croatian 19:30 and Zach Trio kvartet Shemon Radiotele- Jan Gričar vision Jazz 19:45 Orchestra Walter 20:00 Conductor: Jonathan Geromet Andreas 20:15 Nichol Lecture Marinello and Recital 20:30 Soloists: Branford Marsalis Saxolosax, Victor White Goines Clowns 20:45 Perico Ensemble Sambeat Krysztof Urbanski Rosario Gi

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Shinichi Miyazaki, Megumu Onokawa 9:00 Miyazaki, Hideki Nomura, Yoshiharu Sato, Junko Saito Bando, Yoko ACADEMY OF MUSIC Shimizu Ando, Kanako Miura, Mizuki Svetislav Stančić Hall Iwabuchi

Duo Sakaki Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Chant Sacré Jérôme Savari (1819-1870): Octuor Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Le Carnaval Romain

About the Program The concert at Salle Herz of Paris on February 3, 1844 was historically memorable due to two reasons. One, quite obviously, is because it was the Yuya Sakai, saxophone debut concert of the globally loved “saxophone”. Composer Hector Berlioz Shunsuke Akaki, saxophone (1803-1869) arranged and conducted his own chorus music, Chant Sacré for 6 Nobuhito Sato (1990): instruments. Belgian born Adolphe Sax Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga relude (1814-1894) was an instrument maker and Kounomaki inventor whose new instrument was used Otsunomaki at this concert. The ensemble consists of the Trompette, Cornet, Clarinette, Heinomaki Clarinette Basse, which he had modiied, Teinomaki the Saxhorn, and Saxophone Basse en Ut Tamezo Narita (1893-1945): (in C). Adolphe Sax himself undertook Hamabe no uta (arr. Takashi Haga) the Saxophone part. Another historical signiicance of this concert, although not widely known, is very important. The ACADEMY OF MUSIC concert was the premiere performance of Berlioz’s well-known Le Carnaval Romain Fran Lhotka Hall overture Op. 9. 174. Zagreb Congress performance takes one back to those Traction Avant Period times, through Period Saxophones, Saxophone Consort which were produced during those days. The Saxophone during the 19th century consist of 2 octave keys, a short and slender body, and wooden large bore mouthpiece: totally diferent from what you may see today. All of the instruments for this performance were made about 150 years ago, including the Adolphe Sax original from 1861, and their sound is unique. Although the ensemble version music of Chant Sacré was unfortunately lost, today’s performance is rearranged for the saxophone ensemble. Le Carnaval

112 Thomas Dempster for saxophone quartet Thomas Dempster (premiere performance) saxophone andelectronics for soprano saxophone, alto Thomas Dempster Yi-Chia Tu Brian Bethea THE PRAENIMIDUO Neal Postma Yi-Chia Tu Jonathan Kierspe Brian Bethea THE PRAENIMISQUARTET Praenimis Quartet Praenimi Duoand MM Center STUDENT CENTRE famous orchestral works ofBerlioz. Hence, thisisknown asoneofthemost performed work outofhisovertures. Berlioz in1844.Itisthemost frequently Romain op. 9was composed by Hector , tenor saxophone , baritone saxophone , soprano saxophone , alto saxophone (1980):*** (1980): (1980):

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113 Baby Bumblebees Stephen David Beck Carousel instruments. rhythmic conversation between the complex and interesting bursts of Sunburst Carousel yet contemporary works for quartet. performance features two contrasting, Beck, was written in1997. This Bumblebees The second work, Louisiana MusicTeacher's Association. Obrigado andcommissioned by the is anew work written in2017 for Sunburst Carousel About theProgram Philip Schuessler saxophone Brina BourlieaFaciane Jennifer C.Foret Taylor Barbay Assad Griin Campbell Quartetto Obrigado Vaclav Huml ACADEMY OFMUSIC 9:15 THURSDAY , by Stephen David Hall Chasing Baby , by PhilipSchuessler, , soprano saxophone is anew work with , tenor saxophone (1976): (1959): , alto saxophone | , baritone 12/07 /2018 Sunburst Chasing |

THURSDAY THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE 9:30 Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall STUDENT CENTRE Barega Saxophone Quartet Theatre &TD Big Hall New Jersey Saxophone Quartet with the University of Delaware Percussion Ensemble - Harvey Price, conductor

Emma Di Marco, soprano saxophone Samantha Mason, alto saxophone Andrew Ball, tenor saxophone Ashleigh Porter, baritone saxophone

Andrew Ball (1991): Artefacts of an Ancient Future (premiere performance) Angus Davison (1989): Diptych (premiere performance)

About the Program Frank Mazzeo, soprano saxophone Barega Sax Quartet presents a Jason O'Mara, alto saxophone program of world premiere Australian Todd Groves, tenor saxophone compositions which breathe new energy into the sax quartet tradition, yet also Greg Riley, baritone saxophone challenge and transmute the concept Harvey Price, conductor entirely. The movements of Angus Davison’s work Diptych juxtapose Phil Woods (1931-2015): Requiem two uniquely colourful approaches to Arturo Stable (1975): Saxophone the interplay of rhythm and structure. Quartet No. 1 (premiere performance) Davison’s language expands on the textural capabilities of the traditional Todd Groves (1977): Chase, Lullaby sax quartet medium. Andrew Ball’s and Funk (premiere performance) work Artefacts of an Ancient Future reimagines the sax quartet as an ensemble of ‘found objects’. By exploiting idiomatic sonic and physical “artifacts” resulting from investigative and experimental procedure, the saxophones are variously prepared and extended beyond any existing tonal

114 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | concept. With an almost occult, ritualistic STUDENT CENTRE sense of melody and rhythm, this work MM Center tells the story of a compositional process where the saxophone’s function is Binary Canary anachronistically redeined. 10:00 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall h2 Quartet

Kyle Hutchins, saxophone Ted Moore, electronics

Kyle Hutchins (1988), Ted Moore (1987): feedback for feedback saxophone and laptop (premiere performance) THURSDAY

Geofrey Deibel, soprano saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Jefrey Loefert, alto saxophone Kimberly Goddard Loefert, tenor Texas A&M University- saxophone Commerce Faculty Jonathan Nichol, baritone saxophone Woodwind Trio Armando Bayolo (1973): A Play of Mirrors Flight/Undercover ...a machine to(o)...(pasteurize mental disorders)... Nightield with Ashes Miss Him, Mis Him...(Turn M On) Hocket to Me (premiere performance)

Igor Karača (1974), Jefrey Loefert Chris Beaty, saxophone (1982): Tomorrow Will Not Be Enjoy (premiere performance) Julee Kim Walker, lute Mary Alice Druhan, piano

James Syler (1951): Scintilla (premiere performance) Theodore Hanson (1935): Triglyphs (premiere performance)

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Kenneth Tse, saxophone 10:15 Casey Dierlam, piano

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Jean-Denis Michat (1971): Back to Vaclav Huml Hall Bach (Chromatic Fantasy by J. S. Trio Morum Bach) Allegro Adagio Dolcissimo 10:30 CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Soai Saxophone Ensemble - Masahiro Maeda, conductor

Krešimir Kottek, saxophone Dominik Grgić, saxophone Petra Kukavica, piano

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Piano Trio in G Major Andantino con moto allegro Scherzo: Moderato con allegro Andante espressivo Finale: Appassionato

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Soai Saxophone Ensemble Blagoje Bersa Hall Masahiro Maeda, conductor Kenneth Tse and Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Deux Arabesques Casey Dierlam (arr. Mi-Bémol Saxophone Ensemble) Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Nocturnes Fêtes (arr. Mi-Bémol Saxophone Ensemble) Satoshi Omae (1943): Cosmo Immaginario (premiere performance) Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (arr. Mi-Bémol Saxophone Ensemble)

116 performance) A view from themountains Maurizio Bignone Perugia Saxophone Quintet Theatre &TD STUDENT CENTRE Vladimír Wimmer Michal Hanuš Roman Fojtíček Michal Hanuš Roman Fojtíčekand SAINT MARK'SCHURCH organ for soprano andalto saxophone and , organ BigHall , saxophone (1968): (1960): Two Songs

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THURSDAY THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 11:00 Fran Lhotka Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Dionisios Roussos Svetislav Stančić Hall and Sae Lee Gillian Blair, Nathan Mertens and Rie Yokota

Dionisios Roussos, saxophone Sae Lee, piano

John M. Kennedy (1958): Lamentations: Hayasdan for alto and soprano saxophone and piano Gillian Blair, soprano / alto saxophone Nathan Mertens, alto / tenor ACADEMY OF MUSIC saxophone Room 339 Rie Yokota, piano SYOS «shape your Zack Browning (1953): Right at the own sound» Dead End for 2 Saxophones and piano (European premiere) PAULINE EVENO Andrew Boss (1988): Ininites Untold (premiere performance) Andy Scott (1966): Tjuonavagge for soprano and tenor saxophones and piano (premiere performance) Lucy Armstrong (1991): The Other Dust for 2 saxophones and piano (European premiere)

LECTURE From the mouthpiece to your ears; the long journey of the saxophone sound

118 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE Gyeon Woo Lee (1975): Duo MM Center for soprano saxophone and alto saxophone (premiere performance) Thomas Plater and Joseph Young Jo Lee (1945): Sesi Nori Shaw for two saxophones and piano (premiere performance) 11:30 SAINT MARK'S CHURCH Allen Harrington and Lottie Enns-Braun

Thomas Plater, saxophone Joseph Shaw, electronics

Roy Powell (1965): Towards the Light THURSDAY Joseph Shaw (1994): Medicine of Fire (European premiere) Will Gregory (1959): Interference 11:15

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Allen Harrington, saxophone Vaclav Huml Hall Korsax Duo Lottie Enns-Braun, organ Leonard Enns (1948): Vanishing Point Con vivo Slow, peaceful Adagio

Young Wook Yang, saxophone Yeomin Yun, saxophone

Seung-hu Lee (1973): Nori for two alto saxophones and piano

119 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall 12:00 Palm Duo ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 Arno Bornkamp

Alastair Penman, saxophone Matthew Lombard, saxophone LECTURE Guy Lacour (1932-2013): Suite en Duo How to make using Légère reeds the for saxophone duo 'Signature' of your sound Allegro Aria ACADEMY OF MUSIC Petite Fugue Svetislav Stančić Hall Largo puis Scherzetto Gordan Tudor and William Haubrich (1960): A Suite for Ivan Batoš two saxophones and pre-recorded electronics Intlombe Thulani Thulile Umtshato Alastair Penman (1988): Duo for two saxophones and live electronics (premiere performance)

Gordan Tudor, saxophone Ivan Batoš, piano

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Matthias Kranebitter (1980): Drew Crawford (1974): Sonata for Ringelreigen 18,4g CO2 for tenor tenor saxophone and piano (premiere saxophone and piano performance) Frano Đurović (1971): Black Sonata for alto saxophone and piano STUDENT CENTRE Andante agitato MM Center Largo assai Allegro moderato Suspirium Duo (premiere performance) Dubravko Detoni (1937): Eppur si muove for alto saxophone and piano

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Nathan Henshaw and Martin Jacoby THURSDAY

Kendra Wheeler, saxophone Kyriaki Gkoudina, electronics

Kyriaki Gkoudina (1990): Lament for alto saxophone and electronics

Nathan Henshaw, saxophone Martin Jacoby, piano

Andrián Pertout (1963): Digressioni modali for tenor saxophone and piano Jenni Watson (1985): Steam for tenor saxophone and piano (premiere performance) Nick Russoniello (1984): As the Crowie Flies for solo tenor saxophone

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commercial song in Japan composed by 12:15 Koji Ueno, Tarako, Tarako, Tarako . Ueno re-constructed the work for big band ACADEMY OF MUSIC and Sparks added some lyrics to the Vaclav Huml Hall music. This arrangement for saxophone quartet and piano is a reduction version Guernica Saxophone of the work and arranged for Guernica Ensemble Saxophone Ensemble. CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE 2.13 Sax Ensemble - Ángel Soria, conductor

Koji Yamamoto, soprano saxophone Daisuke Namiki, alto saxophone Hajime Kuribayashi, tenor saxophone Yuka Yoshikawa, baritone saxophone Kishin Nagai, piano

Koji Ueno (1960): Euforbia for saxophone quartet and piano (premiere performance) Pedro Caballero, Juan Carlos Koji Ueno (1960): Volga Nights for Entrambasaguas, Alejandro saxophone quartet and piano Fenollosa, Bienvenido Centeno, Gemma Galeano, Rocío Sánchez, About the Program Ángela Romera, Javier Valero, Koji Ueno is a Japanese composer, pianist David García, Teresa Lufuluabo, and keyboardist. He studied composition Ismael Arroyo, Celia Torres, Diego at Nihon University College of Art. He Hernández, Raúl Flox joined and created several music groups, such as 8 1/2, Halmens and Guernica in Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): the 1970ies and 1980ies. Euforbia for Kammermusik No. 1 Sehr schnell und saxophone quartet and piano is inspired wild by saw-like processes that we can see Mässig schnelle Halbe when we look at the natural patterns on leaves. These same processes may Quartett, Finale Lebhaft be seen on fruit but they look "warty." (arr. Teresa Lufuluabo We can see this particularly on large Gemma Galeano) plants like the tall cactus. The composer Félix Ibarrondo (1943): Akaitz wanted to show plants starting to walk like triids - just like in the SF novel...This About the Program work is arranged for Guernica Saxophone The Ensemble 2.13 Sax wants to share Ensemble. Volga Nights for saxophone with the saxophone community two quartet and piano is based on a popular works: Kammermusik No. 1 Op. 24 by

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Paul Hindemith and Akaitz by Felix Ibarrondo. The piece by Hindemith is 12:30 originally written for twelve voices (string and wind instruments) and is a new STUDENT CENTRE transcription for saxophone ensemble. Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall The 2.13 Sax Ensemble wants to share with the sax-community this neoclassical Chun-Hao Ku work by one of the most important composers of the Germany from 20st Century. The piece by Ibarrondo has been considered in the last years as a classic in the repertory for saxophone ensemble from Spain. The basque composer has written an amazing piece that works deeply with diferent types of rhythm, bars and articulation.

New Sounds in Taiwan THURSDAY Yi-Cheng Lin: Journey into the World of Dimensions for solo alto saxophone and electronics The Earth Start the Journey A World of Metal A Violent World with Fire A World composed with Spirits Back to the Earth The Parallel Universe

About the Program Quantum physics dictates the existence of 10 dimensions, which are all shared by diferent universes. However, each universe has its own progression of dimensional reality. For Earth and its universe, only the irst four dimensions are perceived: length, width, depth, and time are tangible. The remaining rest six dimensions are not. However, these other dimensions may be perceived in other universes. In this work, divided into six pieces, the audience will be led through a myriad of universes, beginning and ending with Earth’s. The

123 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | four middle pieces are interpretations SAINT MARK'S CHURCH of universes with diferent dimensions. Since quantum physics dictates Paul Lessard certain dimension’s properties, which are theoretically transformed and perceived across universes, the order of particular musical elements in one piece will always appear in another form in the following piece. For example, the order of the dynamics in one piece serves as the order of intervals in the following piece; the order of intervals of the following piece will serve as the order of note value of the next piece, and so on. Thus, almost every musical element is associated with another in the succeeding piece; as such, this composition is governed by a mutation system, which is a representation of the invisible universal rule that dominates the dimensions of the world. The last Avner Dorman (1975): Suite for solo composition is diferent from the irst saxophone because of the change in perception Prelude of the universe presented throughout Gigue the performance. Since the work is about various unknown and strange Sarabande universes, the saxophone is a prime Canon piece for performance. The saxophone’s (European premiere) attributes are complimentary to the topic Raaf Hekkema (1968): Suite for solo of dimensions and will freshly delineate saxophone a colorful and remote world without ascribing too many traditional musical Prelude: to (day)dream styles and meanings to the experience. Allemande: to learn Courante: to work Sarabande: to think Menuet: to talk Gigue: to dance

About the Program This program presents two works composed as contemporary takes on the Baroque suite forms. Raaf Hekkema, saxophonist with the reed quintet Calefax and professor at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague, has worked extensively with adapting suites and partitas by J. S. Bach for the saxophone. In creating his own suite, he used movements common in Baroque suites and gave them each their own modern character. For

124 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | example, the closing dance movement ACADEMY OF MUSIC "turns out to be really 'funky'. "Israeli- Svetislav Stančić Hall born composer Avner Dorman draws on a variety of cultural and historical David Nabb and inluences in his compositions, which results in music that brings about an Sae Lee emotional impact whilst exploring new musical territories. His works have been championed by such renowned musicians and conductors as Hillary Hahn and Zubin Mehta. About his Suite for solo saxophone, he writes: "My irst work for an unaccompanied melody instrument, I structured this suite in a quasi- Baroque style. Each movement marries intellectual, mathematical constructs with strong emotional expressions, stretching and bending time in diferent landscapes while repurposing traditional melodic materials in new ways."

13:00 David Nabb, saxophone THURSDAY Sae Lee, piano ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 Ida Gotkovsky (1933): Brillance Declame Otis Murphy Desinvolte Dolcissimo Final

SAXOPHONE MASTER CLASS Otis Murphy, Professor of Saxophone, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

125 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall 13:15 Connor Mikula and ACADEMY OF MUSIC Will Healy Vaclav Huml Hall Stephen Fischer and Rachael Fischer

Connor James Mikula, saxophone Will Healy, piano Stephen Fischer, saxophone Will Healy (1990): Sonata for Rachael Fischer, violin saxophone and piano Overture Ashley Floyd (1982): Shadows of Sarabande Former Selves (European premiere) Toccata Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Tre Pezzi (premiere performance)

About the Program STUDENT CENTRE "One thing I love about the saxophone is how fresh and new its concert repertoire Theatre &TD Big Hall is. While some saxophonists bemoan the fact that many of history's great Roya Saxophone Quartet composers never wrote solo pieces and Zvezdana Novaković for their instrument, it allows living composers to leave the weight of certain instrumentations, like the string quartet or the piano concerto, behind when writing for saxophone. For this reason, I decided to focus my Sonata on some of the earliest traditions in instrumental music, forms that created the basis for keyboard and string repertoire, but not for the saxophone. I viewed three baroque forms: the French Overture, Sarabande, and Toccata, through a modern lens, and explored what the spirit of these forms meant as a composer in 2017" - Will Healy.

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Petra Horvat, soprano saxophone they have written compositions that Weronika Partyka, alto saxophone appreciate folk values and are based on select traditional melodies. In addition Betka Bizjak Kotnik, tenor saxophone to the saxophone, other instruments Jovana Joka, baritone saxophone and techniques are interwoven in the Zvezdana Novaković, vocal compositions: electronics, vocals and instruments, such as fujara and baraban Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991): Šest drum. The program is supplemented with krokija / Six Croquis for saxophone original compositions or arrangements quartet by composers who drew their inspiration Andante moderato from traditional music. Both voice and singing have a strong narrative Andante tranquillo power, which is why the versatile Allegro vivace artist, composer and singer Zvezdana Andante sostenuto Novaković was invited to join the project. With her voice, she enriches the project Allegro vivace with sound and brings it closer to the Con brio candid folk messages, emotions and Margareta Ferek-Petrić (1982): Wild narratives. Rose for saxophone quartet Zvezdana Novaković (1985): Lipe bile 13:30 maškere / Beautiful White Mask for THURSDAY saxophone quartet and voice STUDENT CENTRE Traditional: Da sam bistra voda / If I Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Would Be Clear Water for saxophone quartet and voice (arr. Zvezdana Chi Him Chik Novaković) Oliwia Wronikowska (1989): Historie z oddali / Stories From Afar for saxophone quartet, voice, baraban and fujara

About the Program The members of the ROYA Quartet come from diferent countries and cultural backgrounds, which inspired them to research their roots, the traditions and the music of their regions. Saxophone may not be a typical traditional music instrument, but as musicians, they have never avoided cultural heritage. With the help of the composers, they are trying James Mobberley (1954): to include traditional music into the A Plurality of One (European classical saxophone quartet repertoire. premiere) The Village Ladies program was created in cooperation with the composers David P. Landon (1986): from Croatia, Poland and Slovenia. With The Pilgrimage (premiere a modern-day transformation, using performance) modern techniques and structures,

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CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE ACADEMY OF MUSIC Salaya/NAFA Saxophone Svetislav Stančić Hall Ensemble Wojciech Chałupka and Paweł Gusnar Wisuwat Pruksavanich, conductor

Wojciech Chałupka, saxophone Paweł Gusnar, saxophone

Wojciech Chałupka (1999): Mystery' for alto saxophone solo Piyaphon Assawakarnjanakit, Yong Maciej Małecki (1940): Toccata for Hang Cai, Nonthapat Chaiviratnukul, alto saxophone solo Thanaphoom Chinsangthip, Yan-Tong Wojciech Chałupka (1999): Zoroaster Scarlet Gouk, Supat Hanpatanachai, for alto saxophone solo Kittikun Jungate, Johann En Kai Koh, Danielle Ong Min Lee, Heng LI, Wojciech Chałupka (1999): Lin-Han Li, Pisol Manatchinapisit, Sufering in the three scenes for two Methawut Pimphapatang, Nitchan saxophones Pitayathorn, Wisuwat Pruksavanich, Chokwattana Puayuan, Nalin Sae- About the Program Nim, Pulaporn Sreewichian, Bantoc New Polish Saxophone Music-Wojciech Breyann Lennard Taganahan, Zheng Chałupk is a project based on new polish Hong Tham, Norraphat Thanavisuth, saxophone music tied with Warsaw. The Breyann Lennard Taganahan Bantoc, aim is to popularize new contemporary Luo Tianze music created by Wojciech Chałupka.

Steve Reich (1936): Vermont Counterpoint (arr. Jef Heisler) Zechariah Goh (1970): Conluence

128 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall 14:15 Five by Five Saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Quintet Vaclav Huml Hall Ziryâb Saxophone Quartet

Yuki Miyakoshi, soprano saxophone Alfonso Padilla López, soprano Shisou Chei, alto saxophone saxophone

Kenta Saito, alto saxophone Alberto Ureña Delgado, alto THURSDAY Atsushi Miyakoshi, tenor saxophone saxophone Soichiro Tanaka, baritone saxophone Bernardo Zagalaz Lijarcio, tenor saxophone Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Víctor M.Martín López, baritone “Japaldi - Spring” from Le quattro saxophone stagioni / The Four Seasons - Primavera / Soring Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Hommage pour le tombeau de Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792- Debussy (arr. Manuel Ureña) 1868): William Tell Remix from William Tell Claude Debussy (1862-1918): String quartet in G minor Op. 10 Malta (1949): Face to Face Animé et très décidé Malta (1949): Up High Above the Assez vif et bien rythmé Beautiful Rainbow Andantino, doucement expressif Très modéré - En.....peu - Tres... En animant peu à peu, Très mouvementé et avec passion

About the Program Le tombeau de Claude Debussy is a collective work commissioned by Henrui Prunières. It consists of 10 pieces written by composers as Dukas, Schmiit, Roussel, Bartok or Stravinsky, etc. Hommage pour Le tombau de Debussy is one of

129 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | this pieces and was originally written for Pradit Saengkrai (1978): Digital guitar (in fact his only work for guitar). soundscape No. 2 for tenor The String Quartet in G minor op. 10 saxophone and electronics (premiere premiered on December 29, 1893 by the performance) Ysaÿe Quartet at the Société Nationale in *Boonrut Sirirattanapan (1972): Cha Paris to mixed reactions. The work seems Luk Luang / Lullaby for the prince for to be inluenced by the style of César tenor saxophone and electronics, Saw Franck. The result is a cyclic structure Sam Sai (recorded) and Electronics with the four movements connected by thematic material. Other inluences Jiradej Setabundhu (1967): The Devil include Borodin and Javanese gamelan and the Piper for saxophone and music. The quartet is considered to be electronics (premiere performance) a watershed in the history of chamber *This program is made possible through the music. Its sensuality and impressionistic sponsorship from the Oice for Art and Culture, tonal shifts make it a piece absolutely of Thailand its time and place while, with its cyclic structure, it constitutes a inal divorce from the rules of classical harmony and STUDENT CENTRE points the way ahead. “Any sounds in any Theatre &TD Big Hall combination and in any succession are henceforth free to be used in a musical Ensemble du Bout continuity,” Debussy wrote. Pierre Boulez said that Debussy freed chamber music du Monde from “rigid structure, frozen rhetoric and rigid aesthetics.” 14:30

STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Shyen Lee and I-An Chen

Noa Mick, soprano saxophone Kay Zhang, alto saxophone Qeuntin Darricau, tenor saxophone Don-Paul Kahl, baritone saxophone

Isandro Ojeda García (1989): EQUAL No. 1 Daniel Cabanzo (1979): Black under White Brightness

About the Program Fusion~ features two new works for Shyen Lee, saxophone saxophone quartet, live electronics I-An Chen, keyboard and video commissioned by EBM in

130 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | 2017 together with a premiere in Paris STUDENT CENTRE 2018. It is the result of the collaboration Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall between a saxophone quartet specialized in contemporary music and ERIN ROYER, TIM NEWHOUSE transdisciplinary projects, and two young composers with very unique artistic AND LEAH GUELFI personalities: Daniel Cabanzo (Colombia) and Isandro Ojeda García (Spain). Both of them studied in prestigious institutions such as HEM de Genève and IRCAM, and are constantly breaking the barriers of genre, aesthetics and format. The title refers to the fusion (or blending) of instrumental and electronics, acoustic and visual, composers and performers. In essence, both composers are working their way out of the limitations of a typical live electronic music concert. Erin Royer, saxophone Their use of electronic devices aim Tim Newhouse, electronics at changing the dichotomy between instrumental and transformed sound; Leah Gueli, vocal and both of them use visual media, not as an accessory of the music, but as part Tim Newhouse (1995): Golden THURSDAY of the performance itself, rethinking the Coastlines contemporary concert form. EQUAL No. Jarrahdale 1 is intended to be the irst piece of a Coastal Drive cycle for various augmented woodwind Cape Naturaliste instruments. Small speakers are placed (premiere performance) inside the instruments (inwards) playing noise sounds; the saxophone then acts About the Program like an equalizer controlled by diferent Golden Coastlines is a new song ingerings. The interferences happening cycle for saxophone, voice and live between the instrumental and electronic electronics, telling the story of Erin sounds are captured by the computer and Tim's experiences of south-west generating real time video material. Western Australia through new text Black under White Brightness is part of created by local WA writer Maroeska Cabanzo’s research towards the blending Mandl. Both the saxophone and vocalist of instrumental and electronic sounds. (Leah Gueli) have moments of glory, The wide texture pallet of multiphonic but unconventionally, the saxophone, sounds is a very interesting tool to make rather than the vocalist, takes centre this connexion. Speakers are placed stage during the song cycle after the around the audience, playing with their vocal text succinctly tells its story. The perception of acoustic sounds (musicians electronics, controlled by Tim Newhouse, on stage) and transformed sounds mesh together ield recordings from the (spacialized around the audience), and environment with pulsating keyboards placing them inside of an unique sonic and atmospheric efects. structure.

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Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): 15:00 American Quartet I. Allegro ma non troppo ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 II. Lento Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Kenneth Tse Capriccio Op. 81 Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Berceuse

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Xin Saxophone Quartet

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ACADEMY OF MUSIC Michellina Chan, soprano saxophone Svetislav Stančić Hall Alexis Seah, alto saxophone Iberian Quartet Yi Xiang Ang, tenor saxophone Samuel Phua, baritone saxophone

Jay Ong (1995): Transit Sketches II for saxophone quartet (premiere performance) Zechariah Goh (1970): Homage Daniel Yiau (1992): Sax Drive! (premiere performance) Alexander Oon (1992): The Serpent

About the Program One of the very few leading professional saxophone quartets in Singapore, Xin Antoine Flores, soprano saxophone Saxophone Quartet will be featuring 2 World Premieres of Singaporean works. Pedro Melo, alto saxophone As fervent advocates for new music, Luis Coelho, tenor saxophone the quartet has once again looked Patricia Aller, baritone saxophone to their resident composer, Jay Ong,

132 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | for a 3rd piece for saxophone quartet Pedro Iturralde (1929): entitled Transit Sketches II which has Suite Hellenique been inspired by the sounds heard Kalamatianos on Singapore's public transport. They Funky will also be partnering with recent Singaporean RNCM graduate, Daniel Lim Valse for a spirited piece Preta. Alongside, Kritis the quartet will also be performing the popular Homage for saxophone George Metaxa (1899-1950): A song quartet by Dr Zechariah Goh (Head of of Abay (arr. Tatyana Kazmiruk) Composition at the Nanyang Academy of Camille Saint -Saëns (1835-1921): Fine Arts in Singapore) and The Serpent The Swan (arr. Lev Mikhailov) by Alexander Oon (Winner of the Peru Embassy Tumi Award in 2016). CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE 15:15 Japan Saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Orchestra Vaclav Huml Hall - Shinichi Iwamoto, conductor Saxophone Revolution THURSDAY

Yushi Ishiwata, Kazuo Tomioka, Shinichi Iwamoto, Hiroshi Hara, Katrina Sawyer, saxophone Aki Tanaka, Norihiko Takiue, Jun Tatyana Kazmiruk, saxophone Nishimoto, Makoto Asari, Sadahito Tatyana Klushkina, piano Kunisue, Junishi Sato, Tomoyuki Yamashi, Rui Ozawa, Ryo Nakajima, Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Yuiko Ogawa, Toshikazu Nagase, Clair de lune (arr. Tatyana Kazmiruk) Yumi Koike, Yuki Inoue, Mayumi Tsuchida, Mie Yamamoto, Hiroko Ralph Martino: A Gershwin Fantasy Suzuki, Sayaka Takeuchi, Masaya Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Yamaura, Hideki Azuma, Yo Libertango (arr. Tatyana Kazmiruk, V. Mastushita, Nathan Mertens, Yumeko Ivanov) Miura, Chihiro Maruta, Makoto Hondo, Mizuki Iwabuchi, Karin Suwa, André Waignein (1942-2015): Kenta Saito, Kana Watanabe, Ikue Deux Mouvements Hashimoto, Riko

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Sakamoto, Yui Kimura, Yuki Kazami, Domen Koren, saxophone Tadayoshi Kusakab, Taewook Ahn, Sae Lee, piano Miki Isogai, Keiji Munesada, Hisashi Onuki, Miki Yamazaki, Tsurukai Nami, Leon Firšt (1994): Hidden Motives Ryota Nomura, Keito Maruba, Miyu Yokoyama, Natsumi Kumagishi, Matej Bonin (1986): Momentum II Kyo Huruki, Tetta Chino, Sumichika Luka Jamnik (1982): Pena prelom Arimura, Hirotoshi Sato, Ikuya (premiere performance) Mochizuki, Mio Yahisa, Ryuma Kawachi, Nozomi Sakai, Gentaro Koyama, Jun Shiozuka, Tomoki Kaneko STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Big Hall Taruya Masanori (1978): Princess Kaguya (arr. Shinichi Gordan Tudor Iwamoto) Claude Debussy (1862-1918): La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre 3. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (arr. Shinichi Iwamoto)

15:30 STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Domen Koren and Sae Lee

Matthias Kranebitter (1980): Concerto for alto saxophone and MIDI orchestra Ana Horvat (1985): Sax And The Machine for alto saxophone and kyma

Dubravko Detoni (1937): Les messages de Xénia

134 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE Joseph Lallo, soprano saxophone Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Simon Brew, alto saxophone Jeroen Vanbever Michael Jamieson, tenor saxophone Jay Byrnes, baritone saxophone

Gareth Farr (1968): Goa Lawah Keyna Wilkins (1967): Onyx Peter Liley (1994): At Leisure Suite

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Trio Sequenza

Ian Wilson (1964): motherFUNK! THURSDAY Jeroen Vanbever (1990): Vibrant! (premiere performance) 16:00 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Australasian Saxophone Quartet ASAX-Q Marta Šomođi Homan, lute Bernard Homan, saxophone Ivan Batoš, piano

Dubravko Detoni (1937): They call me Tryor for lute, tenor saxophone and piano Guillaume Connesson (1970): Techno-Parade for lute, soprano saxophone and piano

135 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | JAZZ & CABARET Adam Silverman (1973): The Things CLUB KONTESA That Go (premiere performance) Andrey Turygin Carter Pann (1972): Vultures 16:45

CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE The Arkansas Saxophones Choir - Jackie Lamar, conductor LECTURE My approach and methods in teaching of classical and jazz music for saxophone. Some of secrets in repairing of saxophones. 16:15 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Neal Postma, Clifford Christopher J. Barrick, Andy Y. Wen, Caroline Taylor, Chris Beaty, Leaman and Hannah Benjamin Facundo, Druid Wen, Creviston Andrew Allen, Jaren Nickerson, Andy Wright, Shawn O’Kelley Philip Wharton (1969): Phantasms Imps Aparitions Spectre (premiere performance) Craig Wadley (1970): Groovin' Goliath (and the Slingshot of Doom) (premiere performance)

Neal Postma, saxophone Cliford Leaman, saxophone Hannah Creviston, piano

136 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Theatre &TD Big Hall Yui Sakagoshi and Iván Sue McKenzie and Guests Solano Philippe Geiss, Paul Elwood and Susan Mayo

Yui Sakagoshi, soprano saxophone Iván Solano, electronics

Iván Solano (1973): Hana

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About the Program Sue McKenzie, saxophone Hana for female soprano saxophone player and electronics, explores many Philippe Geiss, saxophone of the elements of Nô but not in a Paul Elwood, banjo traditional way as it could have been Susan Mayo, cello done by many composers in and out of Japan. It explores these elements by Paul Elwood (1958): Cuchina trying to imagine their genesis, from the very irst moment of their appearance. Paul Elwood (1958): Incident at Max’s Even if a player is on stage and performs Paul Elwood (1958): Ivaravi the piece – including movements, expressions and gestures – there are no Paul Elwood (1958): Nice Folks roles or characters, nor is there a text, Philippe Geiss (1961): Three High at least not in the body of the score. A Notes for two saxophones poetic and magical music universe that relies feelings to images… A fantasy tale of the imaginary birth or the soul of Nô in it's world premiere at 2018 Zagreb Saxophone Congress.

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CANTUS & SAX MARATHON 17:00 Nina Šenk (1982): Schnitt for alto saxophone and ensemble ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall soloist: Jan Gričar*, alto saxophone (premiere performance) Cantus Ensemble Berislav Šipuš and Lars Mlekusch, conductors

Davorin Kempf (1947): In Modo Classico for saxophone quartet and ensemble soloist: Ardemus Quartet*

Frano Đurović (1971): Check Ignition And May The God’s Love Be With You, concertino for baritone saxophone and ensemble soloist: Tomislav Žužak* (premiere performance)

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Alex Nante (1992): Sol Negro Olli Virtaperko (1973): Multikolor soloist: Evgeny Novikov soloist: Joonatan Rautiola*

Gérard Pesson (1958): Blanc mérité Michael Edwards (1968): Hotpo for saxophone and ensemble for alto saxophone, electronics and contemporary ensemble soloist: Clément Himbert* soloist: Henrique Portovedo* (premiere performance)

Pierre Jodlowski (1971): Coliseum 2 for saxophone soloist, chamber THURSDAY ensemble and electronics soloist: Marie-Bernardette Charrier*

Jean-Denis Michat (1971): Reverie soloist: Asia Fateyeva (premiere performance)

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139 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Dag O'Connor, saxophone Fran Lhotka Hall Osnat Netzer, piano

Duo Montagnard Rodrigo Bussad Cesar (1985): Kundalini Osnat Netzer (1979): Pillars Baljinder Sekhon (1980): Sonata of Puzzles Never-ending Jigsaw Dead End Labyrinth Crossword on Fire

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 Joseph Murphy, saxophone Matthew Slotkin, guitar Jennifer Lachaine

Baljinder Sekhon (1980): Balancing Act Gregory Wanamaker (1968): Taking Turns Wind up, wind down Slowly Turning Spin

LECTURE ACADEMY OF MUSIC New music impacts on ways of Svetislav Stančić Hall teaching saxophone

Doug O'Connor and About the Lecture Osnat Netzer The scale of experimental music, or contemporary music, is increasing within the world of classical saxophone. Nevertheless, composers have only taken an interest in it rather progressively, before ever writing for reputed saxophonists. Thanks to the relentless, pioneering works of Marcel Mule (France), Sigurd Rascher (Germany), and Elise Hall (United States) (Chautemps, Kientzy and Londeix, 1987), many reknown composers have since written ground-breaking works which have lead

140 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | the way to expanding the saxophone repertoire. Nowadays, composers from 17:15 all over write undeniably compelling work for saxophonists of diverse ACADEMY OF MUSIC backgrounds. Although some are less Vaclav Huml Hall well known, amongst the better known, let us mention Claude Delangle, Timothy MAC Saxophone Quartet McAllister, and Jean-François Guay. Interpreting classical saxophone, as well as exploring it and composing for it, are now all greatly inluenced, both in character and mindset, by experimental music. As a result, it goes without saying that teaching methods and techniques for saxophone should integrate the shift afecting how saxophonists are now performing. This proposed lecture describes the saxophone's altisimo register as a recurring script for experimental saxophone music. It articulates the main characteristics used in this register, the generally desired efect and interpretive saxophone Stefano Pecci, soprano saxophone THURSDAY techniques, all necessary to the script. Luis Lanzarini, alto saxophone More precisely, this 'scripted screech' Alex Sebastianutto, tenor saxophone is discussed in three distinct contexts, Valentino Funaro, baritone each representing a diferent use for saxophone this register: Albright's Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Béland's Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra, and Leroux's Un lieu verdoyant; three Simone Movio (1978): Zahir V works composed in three diferent Rafaele de Giacometti (1988): contexts, yet which we may all examine Foglie d'acero from the same angle. Bearing in mind (premiere performance) these works and their contexts, further points for consideration on teaching About the Program techniques, aimed at mastering the Works are dedicated to MAC Saxophone high-pitched register, rest around three Quartet. axes: the complete understanding of teaching techniques (Bart, 1987), physical internalization of these same techniques (Caldwell, 1993), and distinguishing between studying, and progressively moving towards a more self-constructed form of knowing 'the screech' (Shively, 2015). Utimately, the amplitude of experimental music's impact is demonstrated. It is evermore changing and imposing, on the world of classical saxophone. An educational paradigm shift is desirable in order to adapt.

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JAZZ & CABARET STUDENT CENTRE CLUB KONTESA MM Center Four Saxophone Quartet Andrea Carrozzo

Roberto Vetrano (1982): Lanula for Mark Watkins, soprano saxophone alto saxophone Ray Smith, alto saxophone Ivan Fedele (1953): High - In Sandon Mayhew, tenor saxophone memoriam Miles Davis for alto Jon Gudmundson, baritone saxophone saxophone Cesare Saldicco (1976): Spire VII for Mark Watkins (1961): The Wrong Tree soprano saxophone and electronics (premiere performance) (premiere performance) Mark Watkins (1961): I Got Nothin’ but Nothin’ (premiere performance) About the Program Lunula was composed in 2005 by Mark Watkins (1961): Lucy the Dog Roberto Vetrano and it is inspired by a (premiere performance) Paul Klee’s poem. The piece is built on Mark Watkins (1961): Cuidado the continuous alternating and ighting (premiere performance) of two opposite musical elements. One refers to the idea of cyclicity that corresponds to the alternation of morning and night. On the other hand, the other mentions the idea of the arc. High (“in memoriam Miles Davis”) was composed originally for trumpet by Ivan Fedele and transcribed in 2013 for saxophone. The piece is inluenced by the jazz music in diferent perspectives

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and it reminds the listener to the Joshua Keeling (1982): Ñamandú essence of extemporized invention. for saxophone and electronics The piece is divided into three main Joshua Keeling (1982): In Rareied Air sections: "Like a standard" corresponds to the presentation of the theme and its Pierce Gradone (1986): Keep the development; "Song and variation(s)" Balance on the Back Curve in a slower tempo, it is composed of for saxopohone and electronics lyrical and contemplative phrases; "Rif (premiere performance) and special(s)" develops a rhythmic and virtuosity aspect before the return of About the Program the theme. Spire VII by Cesare Saldicco Ñamandú, a newly commissioned work, is the latest work of a big project, which will feature a virtuosic alto saxophone has been worked since 2009, dedicated soloist accompanied by computer. The to solo instruments (with or without interactive electronics follow and react electronics) and inspired by the concept to the performer in real time without the of spiral. The spiral, a universal symbol need for a click track or an additional found in nature and art, can be found in performer or computer operator. many situations: in the form of galaxies, This performance will be an excellent in the double helix of DNA, the symbol demonstration to the saxophone of the Chinese Yin-Yang. And in still community of electroacoustic concert other forms. In Spire VII the composer music that allows the soloist maximum worked about the idea of repeatability lexibility of timing, expression, and and interpolation of the main diachronic dynamics. The piece is a result of THURSDAY element. In the writing, two gestures collaborative interchange between and two conlicting ideas are compared, composer and performer, and will feature however, they are linked by the same advanced contemporary saxophone harmonic spectrum. performance and compositional style. In Rareied Air revolves around a few contrasting thematic ideas, or STUDENT CENTRE places. One may imagine traversing an environment where beauty, mystery, Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall excitement, and treachery can exist at the same time. Some places are visited Katherine Weintraub and revisited throughout the piece, each time experienced with a new perspective. Others are encountered once and referenced later only indirectly, as a memory. Keep the Balance on the Back Curve is an hommage to the saxophone sounds that early on deined my impression of the instrument - the heavily-chorused, wildly overused sound of rock saxophone of the late 1970s. Instead of reproducing or mimicking this sound, what I’ve attempted is a kind of deconstruction that captures the palpable energy it signiies. The title is drawn from an obscure song from a forgotten Walker Brothers album that features an absolutely unhinged solo by Alan Skidmore which inspired this piece.

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Fernando Lerman (1968): 18:00 Sonata para saxofón Chacareroso ACADEMY OF MUSIC Reo y misterioso Svetislav Stančić Hall Huaino con acelere Quatour International (European premiere) de Saxophones 18:15

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall David Stambler and Hannah Creviston

Jean-Pierre Baraglioli, soprano saxophone William Street, alto saxophone Keiji Munesada, tenor saxophone Richard Dirlam, baritone saxophone

Andriy Talpash (1974): Widdendream for solo alto saxophone and saxophone quartet (premiere performance) David Stambler, saxophone Chen Yi (1953): Feng 2 (premiere Hannah Creviston, piano performance) Evan Hause (1967): Windy Day Poem David Stambler (1963): Phaedrus ACADEMY OF MUSIC Waking (premiere performance) Fran Lhotka Hall Fernando Lerman

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About the Program 18:30 Xiao Gang was born in Chongqing in 1955, graduated from Si Chuan CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Conservatory of Music in 1982. He is currently professor at the composition The United Saxophone department of Si Chuan Conservatory of Music. His representative works include Ensemble of Universities the symphony Ba Shu Language, the and Music Conservatories orchestral music Dance Suite, the piano suite Childhood. He has been widely in China praised for his numerous compositions for ilms, TV series and stage plays. YUSHENG LEE, CONDUCTOR High as Mountains, Long as Rivers - Introduction: In Ba Shu are the Kaishan and Chuangong Haozi, labor people while working sing songs about the lourishing life in the grand mountains and rivers which nowadays has gradually disappeared. But the raw, desolate voices will remain in music and memory forever.

As a proliic composer who blends

East and West traditions, transcending THURSDAY cultural and musical boundaries, the Chinese-American composer Dr. Chen Yi is the Distinguished Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the recipient of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her music is published Tong Yang, Heng Wang, Zeyu Feng, by Theodore Presser, performed and Hefeng Fan, Yukun Lu, Dayu Gao, recorded worldwide. She holds BA Jian Huang, Shijie Song, Zehao and MA from the Central Conservatory Zhang, Shurui Fan, Ang Li, Pei Li, of Music in Beijing, and DMA from Yafel Lin Columbia University in New York. Major composition teachers were Profs. Wu Xiao Gang (1955): High as Mountains Zu-qiang, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Long as Rivers for saxophone Davidovsky. ensemble (premiere performance)

Chen Yi (1953): Suite From China West for saxophone ensemble Introduction Zang Songs Miao Dance (premiere performance)

145 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE guest musicians: Theatre &TD Big Hall Janko Novoselić, drums Enzo Favata Ivar Roban Križić, doublebass Hrvoje Galler, piano 18:45 STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Glen Gillis and *Enzo Favata (1956): Starship James E. Cunningham *supported by Istituto Italiano di cultura Zagabria

About the Program Enzo Favata once again is able to generate unique emotion in a sound journey without limits, which are shaped archaic landscapes, ancient forgotten sounds and future melodies, an original sound geography of the Earth from a cosmos view, traveling on a Starship full of world lavors, headed for deep space. Enzo Favata plays soprano sax, sopranino sax, bass clarinet, ethnic wind instruments (Sardinia and Armenia) Glen Gillis, saxophone trunfa (wind harp of Sardinia), concertina (small bandoneon), live electronics, loops James E. Cunningham, didgeridoo and pedals laptop. James E. Cunningham (1954), Glen Gillis (1956): Suite for didgeridoo and JAZZ & CABARET saxophone CLUB KONTESA One Pitch Slide Andrey Turygin Multi-Pitch (premiere performance)

About the Program The duo involves the use of real-time captured digital convolution reverb and high-speed computer processing with the goal of integrating acoustic instruments (traditional saxophone and non-traditional didgeridoo), pre-recorded source material, and video in a live Jazz peformance interactive performance environment. TALK IN A WHISPER

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Mark Hobson, saxophone Craig Bradield, bassoon Alison C. Holden, piano THURSDAY Detlef Bensmann, soprano saxophone Philip Norman (1943): Lament Tianhong Wu, alto saxophone Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Four Pai Liu, tenor saxophone Seasons of Buenos Aires Ninoslav Dimov, baritone saxophone Summer Autumn Raymond Moulaert (1875-1962): Andante, Fugue et Final Winter Spring (arr. Jose Bragato; Detlef Bensmann (1958): Two trans. Mark Hobson) Butterlies in Love Philip Norman (1943): Plato's Cave Pande Shahov: Saxophone Quartet Shadows Urban Rains Light November Beyond the Cave Oro Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884): Vltava / Die Moldau Die Quele, kalte und warme Moldau (arr. Detlef Bensmann)

147 THURSDAY | 12/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall 19:15 Sumika Tsujimoto ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Taimur Sullivan and Zach Shemon

Sumika Tsujimoto, aerophone

Sumika Tsujimoto (1991): Amaoto (premiere performance)

Jacob TV (1951): Sho-Myo, spectacle of world famous ilm music (arr. Taimur Sullivan, saxophone Sumika Tsujimoto) Zach Shemon, saxophone

Roberto Molinelli (1963): Four David Biedenbender (1984): Staying pictures from New York for the Night for soprano and alto saxophone and symphony orchestra saxophone (European premiere) I. Dreamy dawn Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Ko-Lho III. Sentimental evening for soprano and alto saxophone (arr. IV. Broadway night T. Sullivan and Z. Shemon) Marcos Balter (1974): Landscape About the Program of Fear for sopranino and soprano "Aerophone" is a new ‘electronic saxophone (European premiere) saxophone’ produced by Roland, which was released last year. The Aerophone has the same ingering system as the saxophone but incorporates the same variety of sounds as one inds on a synthesizer. We can play many sounds of instruments of orchestra like violin, lute, trumpet and traditional instruments like shakuhachi, erhu, bagpipe, etc.

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Dorothy Fields - Jerome Kern: The 19:30 way You Look Tonight solist: Branford Marsalis* VATROSLAV LISINSKI CONCERT HALL Jazz Orchestra of Croatian National Television Andreas Marinello, conductor

Rosario Giuliani - G. Barker: Suite et Poursuite solist: Rosario Giuliani* THURSDAY

Charles Mingus: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Robert Bachner: One More Time solist: Krzysztof Urbansky Ballad MacDonald - James Hanley: (Back Home) Indiana solist: Attilio Berni

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Victor Goines: Crescent City Express solist: Victor Goines 19:45 STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Walter Geromet

Perico Sambeat: Epicuro solist: Perico Sambeat George Gershwin - Perico Sambeat: How long has this been going on solist: Perico Sambeat Walter Geromet (1979): Surprise Walter Geromet (1979): Opacity Walter Geromet (1979): Trieste Walter Geromet (1979): Renacer (premiere performance) Walter Geromet (1979): Music is not a style (premiere performance) 20:00 STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Jonathan Nichol

*Selmer artist ** performance supported Marvin Lamb (1946): HERD! (premiere by Morgan Fry mouthpieces performance)

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SLOVENIAN SAXOPHONE 20:30 ORCHESTRA SOS Lev Pupis, sopranino saxophone ZRINJEVAC PARK (white queen), Rok Volk, soprano Pavilion Zagreb outdoor saxophone 1 (white queen's bishop), Ita Nagode, soprano saxophone saxolosax 2 (white king's bishop), Weronika Partyka, alto saxophone 1 (white A pawn), Joanna Blejwas, alto saxophone 2 (white B pawn), Matjaž Škoberne, alto saxophone 3 (white C pawn), Larisa Marjanovič, alto saxophone 4 (white D pawn), Domen Koren, alto saxophone 5 (white E pawn), Nika Deželak, alto saxophone 6 (white F pawn), Valeria Kučan, alto saxophone 7 (white G pawn), Lan Meden, alto saxophone 8 (white H pawn), Anja Kožuh, tenor Marvin Lamb (1946): HERD! (premiere saxophone 1 (white queen's knight), performance) Irena Šmid, tenor saxophone 2 (white king's knight), Jovana Joka, baritone

saxophone 1 (white queen's rook), THURSDAY 21:00 Timotej Jerman, baritone saxophone 2 (white king's rook), Davor Loštrek, CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE bass saxophone (white king)

SOS Saxophone Orchestra HUNGARIAN SAXOPHONE and Hungarian Saxophone CONSORT Bence Szepesi, sopranino saxophone Consort (black queen), Tamás Szitás, soprano Miha Rogina, conductor saxophone 1 (black queen's bishop), Barna Báni, soprano saxophone 2 (black king's bishop), Zsuzsanna Szendrői, alto saxophone 1 (black A pawn), István Szaller, alto saxophone 2 (black B pawn), Marcell Vincze, alto saxophone 3 (black C pawn), Mónika Soós, alto saxophone 4 (black D pawn), Máté Bencze, alto saxophone 5 (black E pawn), Ferenc Takács, alto saxophone 6 (black F pawn), Noémi Szőke, alto saxophone 7 (black G pawn), Dávid Szabó, alto saxophone 8 (black H pawn), Gergő Lupek, tenor saxophone 1 (black queen's knight), Zsóia Mészáros, tenor saxophone 2 (black king's knight), Marcell Horváth, baritone saxophone 1 (black queen's rook), Eszter Tóth, baritone

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Igor Lunder (1969): Chess Game for two saxophone orchestras (premiere performance)

About the Program The Chess Game for two saxophone orchestras is a musical setting of the chess game, played by Robert James Fischer (USA) and Bent Larsen (Denmark) at the Portorož Interzonal tournament, on 16th August 1958. Each saxophone orchestra represents Esneider Valencia Hernández, one player – the white orchestra a soprano saxophone player with white pieces (Fischer), the Javier Ocampo, alto saxophone black orchestra a player with black pieces (Larsen). Each saxophone in Agustín Castro, tenor saxophone the orchestra represents a certain Cesaar Villamil, baritone saxophone piece: Sopranino – Queen, 2 Sopranos – Bishops, 8 Altos – Pawns, 2 Tenors – The Colombian Saxophone: Two Knights, 2 Baritones – Rooks and Bass Pieces for Saxophone Quartet by – King. Colombian Composers The composition is about 80 minutes long. It consists of 64 short movements, Juan Carlos Valencia (1978): Caovva, each of them representing individual Latin American suite for saxophone moves in the game (2 introductory quartet (premiere performance) movements, 61 moves and the Black’s Carlos Gonzalo Guzmán-Muñoz resignation). Each move(ment) features a (1972): Pecowë, traditional music from soloist within the orchestra – the one that Colombia (premiere performance) represents the piece in question. Each piece has its own characteristic motif, which appears in all of its moves. The 21:30 composition uses complex rhythmics, which emphasizes the dramatic PARK ZRINJEVAC atmosphere of the match, and by using numerous unconventional playing Tokyo Rock'n' Sax techniques, it presents interesting sound efects. King Crimson - 21st century Schizoid Man (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax) Deep purple - Highway Star (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax) Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax)

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Yes - Roundabout Gun's N Roses - Welcome to the (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax) Jungle (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax) Queen - Bohemin Rhapsody (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax- Over Drive Tokyo Rock'n' Sax) Tokyo Rock'n' Sax - Drift Metallica - Battery Tokyo Rock'n' Sax - B (arr. Tokyo Rock'n' Sax)

THE NIGHT OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY – A TRiPTyH WITH MUSIC AND ABOUT MUSIC

22:30 Jérémy Hudry: Vérités Imaginaires 2 for saxophone trio ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall Lucas Fagin (1980): Ilusionario for 9 saxophones

Jean-Michel Goury & a) Pipe Dream (chimères, illusion) THURSDAY Friends Sax Ensemble b) Le Marchand d’Etoiles (rêves,émotion) / The Merchant of Stars (dreams, emotions) 00:00 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall Jean-Marie Londeix Quentin Darricau, Thomas Gauthier, Yoann Hameon, Don-Paul Kahl, Laurent Matheron, Noa Mick, Yuka Nojima, Wilson Pofenberger, Saki Tanaka, Fabien Vergez, Cheng Yyang, Shiho Yoshinari, Kay Zang

Gregory Wanamaker (1968): Still Life: Loïe Dances for 12 saxophones

Jérémy Hudry(1986): Vérités Imag- inaires 1 for a saxophone trio LECTURE Etienne Rolin (1952): Airs de Famille About “Rapsodie pour saxophone et – sax - minute - opera - for 9 saxo- orchestre” of Claude Debussy phones and declaimer. (translation by William Street)

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François Rosse (1945): Psapph – 48th 1:30 chanson) André Hamel (1955): Le Tombeau ACADEMY OF MUSIC sans nom (Nameless Grave – 59th Blagoje Bersa Hall chanson) Quatuor Apollinaire Pierre Grouvel (1939): La Rivière de la forêt (Forest River – 13th chanson from Bucoliques en Pamphylie, 1st chapter) Epigrammes dans l’île de Chypre– excerpts (3rd chapter) Mark Engebretson (1964): La Pluie au matin (Morning Rain – 154th chanson) Thierry Alla (1955): L’ Eau pure du bassin (Clear Water from Pool – 112th chanson) Simone Movio (1978): La Métamorphose (Metamorphosis – 58th chanson from Elégies a Mytilene, 2nd Jean-Michel Goury, saxophone chapter) Sophie Goury, lute Bernard Carlosema (1949): Premiere Yves Josset, piano épitaphe (First epitaph – 156th Marie-Christine Josset, piano/celesta chanson from Tombeau de Bilitis (Bilitis’ Grave) Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Chansons de Bilitis from Pierre Rodrigo Lima (1976): Chant pastoral Louys’ 7 Epigrammes antiques for (Pastoral Chant, 2nd chanson from celesta, lute, alto saxophone and Bucoliques en Pamphylie, 1st chapter) piano (arr. Y. Josset) Bahaa el Ansary (1991): Les Bilitis et Mnasidika (premier Courtisanes égyptiennes (Egyptian performance) Courtesans – 105th chanson from Epigrammes dans l’île de Chypre, 3rd - suite of new chansons for lute chapter) (transverse, alto-lute and piccolo), piano (and prepared), saxophone (soprano, alto and tenor), celesta and declaimer Bucoliques en Pamphylie – excepts (1st chapter): Jean-Luc Hervé (1960): La Pluie (Rain – 9th chanson) Mike Kuehn (1967): Le Tombeau des Naïades (Naïades Tomb – 46th chanson) Elégies a Mytilene – excerpts (2nd chapter):

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Kuninobu Bando, soprano saxophone Naoto Bando, alto saxophone Junko Saito Bando, tenor saxophone Tereza Novotná, saxophone Rie Yokota, piano Alice Lin, piano Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Erwin Schulhof (1894-1942): Le carnaval des animaux Hot Sonate (arr. Junko Saito Bando) Karel Husa (1921-2016): Introduction et Marche royal du Lion Elégie et Rondeau Poules et Coqs

About the Program Hémiones Karel Husa's Elégie et Rondeau was Tortues composed in 1960 and published in 1961 L'Eléphqnt by Leduc. It is inspired by playing of Kangourous Sigurd Rasher. The piece was meant to be a solo piece for piano, but in short Aquarium time he rewrote it for saxophone and Personnages à longues oreilles piano and for saxophone and orchestra. Le Coucou au fond des bois The irst part Elégie seems mournfull and Voliére the melody slowly moves, but suddenly its destructed by jarring thrills and Pianistes agitation to calm again few bars before Fossiles Rondeau begins. The second movement Le Cygne begins with pointed notes in piano and a Final three-note cell from saxophone which are the base for longer melodies. The second movement develops with obsessive ostinating rhythm in very passionate and iercer movement.

160 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Auditorium 9:15 Elizabeth Rosinbum ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Merism Duo

Michellina Chan, saxophone LECTURE Mary Osborn, saxophone The Critical Inner Voice: Overcoming Performance Anxiety Kezia Yap (1993): The Plains-Wanderer (premiere About the Lecture performance) I will discuss how to channel nervousness into an asset instead of a liability. This Jay Ong (1995): Transit Sketches lecture will deine, examine, and debunk III for saxophone duo (premiere the negative thoughts that lead to panic, performance) FRIDAY discuss how to silence the critical inner Michael Jamieson (1981): Nga Manu voice that leads to stage fright, and / Bird Song Suite for two soprano explain how to get into "the zone" and saxophones achieve low (the relaxed state of mind Kea where the performer is energized and deeply involved in the music while skills Tui are executed automatically). The end Ruru of the lecture will include a relaxation Piwakawaka exercise and Q&A session. Jinjun Lee (1990): Chasing (premiere performance)

About the Program Merism Duo takes the audience on a musical voyage between Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. The music is drawn together by an underlying theme of light, linked further by the representation of birds and the composers' personal relection of their

161 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | respective regions. The three world premieres in this program have been 9:30 speciically written to be performed at the World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb STUDENT CENTRE 2018 by Merism Duo, and as part of their Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall proceeding international tour. Kezia Yap's The Plains-Wanderer explores Australian Misstiq Duo landscapes and culture, and the strong sense of wanderlust many Australians carry. Jay Ong's Transit Sketches III is the third in a series of works evoking Singaporean culture. Jinjun Lee's Chasing explores the interplay of the two saxophone's in a playful, bird-like chase. Michael Jamieson's Nga Manu depicts four typical native New Zealand birds and their habitats. Kea - a large, curious and sometimes destructive parrot found in the mountain ranges; Tui - the native songbird whose beautiful virtuosic melodies are interrupted with deep, guttural groans; Ruru - the tiny native owl who inhabits the nocturnal landscape; Noemi Szoke, saxophone and the cheeky, acrobatic Piwakawaka, Hilda Szecsenyi, cello or fantail, that darts through the air changing direction in a split-second as it Máté Balogh (1990): Rubáiyát snaps up tiny insects in mid-light. of Omar Khayyám (premiere performance) Stanislava Gajić (1980): Echoes of ACADEMY OF MUSIC Goldenpine Woods Blagoje Bersa Hall DIVA Dance of the Nymphs Frederick Hemke Stanislava Gajić (1980): Night tranis (premiere performance)

MASTERCLASS

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About the Program 10:00 This one-hour clinic is designed as an investigation into yoga practice ACADEMY OF MUSIC and philosophy as a technique to Svetislav Stančić Hall enhance music performance, cultivate concentration and focus, achieve Tyler Flowers and low states, and attain optimal engagement for peak performance Hannah Creviston and anxiety reduction. The workshop is approximately divided into thirds: 1/3 philosophy, 1/3 breathing and meditation, and 1/3 movement and postures. It is designed for musicians with all levels of yoga experience - including none at all. No special equipment is needed, although comfortable clothing is helpful. It does not need to be speciic “yoga” or exercise clothing. Please bring a towel to sit, lie and stand on. If you have a yoga mat, you are welcome to bring that instead. We will include a series of yoga Tyler Flowers, saxophone practices involving movement, postures, Hannah Creviston, piano and meditation with an emphasis on breath work, which is designed based Dorothy Chang (1970): Afterlight upon recent research involving the for soprano saxophone and piano Tanglewood Music Center, Harvard (premiere performance) Medical School, and the Kripalu Yoga Christopher Mitchell (1983): Quiver Center. for soprano saxophone and piano (European premiere)

ACADEMY OF MUSIC FRIDAY Fran Lhotka Hall STUDENT CENTER French Pavilion Po-Yuan Ku and I-An Chen Carrie Koffman

Po-Yuan Ku, saxophone I-An Chen, piano Michael Sidney Timpson (1970): Past MASTERCLASS Presents for alto saxophone and Know Flow, Optimize Performance: piano (premiere performance) Yoga for the Saxophonist

163 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | Michael Sidney Timpson (1970): STUDENT CENTRE Petite-Partita for solo saxophone MM Center (premiere performance) Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee (1970): Anja Nedremo and Anders Cosmos for soprano/alto saxophones Abelseth and piano (premiere performance)

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 Daniele Panzitta

Anja Nedremo, saxophone Anders Abelseth, saxophone

Jesper Nordin (1971): El pajaro con la quijada de burro for two saxophones and tape

STUDENT CENTRE Theatre &TD Big Hall UTRGV Saxophone

LECTURE: Ensemble Circular Breathing in Daily Practice

About the Lecture We shell discuss: 1. Achievement of technical standards 2. Acting the circular breathing on saxophone 3. Particular aspects and strategies 4. Tunes and excercises

Marcos Cabrera - saxophonist - university student Andrea Garcia - saxophonist - university student

164 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | Azael Garza - saxophonist - university UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB student Auditorium Gerardo Garza - saxophonist - university student Eric Nestler Cristina Gauna - saxophonist - university student Joe Guerra III - saxophonist - university student Marco Guzman - saxophonist - university student Andrew Olivarez - saxophonist - university student Fausto Reta - saxophonist - university student Brandon Trevino - saxophonist - university student Joseph Valdez - saxophonist - university student Juan Zamarripa - saxophonist - LECTURE university student The Nightmare of Musician's Dystonia: A New Hope for Treatment Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Pavane Op. 50 (arr. Eddie Jennings) Charles Ives (1874-1954): Variations 10:15 on America (arr. Audrey Cupples) ACADEMY OF MUSIC Richard Ingham (1954): Mrs. Malcolm, Vaclav Huml Hall her Reel (Funky Freuchie) - Irish Tune from County Derry Percy Grainger FRIDAY (arr. Brian Sparks) Lien Saxophone Duo Ulrich Schultheiss (1956): Witch Hunt (arr. Nigel Wood) Justin Writer: Splinter (premiere performance) Steven Verhelst (1981): Song for Japan (arr. Brian Herald) Roger May (1974): Sax Circus Rick Lopez: Cantico del Alma (arr. Rick Lopez)

Sakura Endo, saxophone Ikumi Furubajashi, saxophone

Aoba Nakanishi (1966): Japan, Four Seasons

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Kazuma Suzuki (1968): Quatre Scènes 10:30 sur la Musique du Japon (premiere performance) CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE About the Program International Youth Saxophone Spiral for two alto saxophones (A.E.9) ''Here are two spirals Saxophone Orchestra produced by two alto saxophones. This work follows Clarinet Spiral written in 2002. Since March 11, something weighty has been hanging around my mind and it never disappears. It may be a mixture of sadness, grief, anger, disapproval, a feeling of powerlessness and so on. In this piece, these emotions burst out in various appearances. I wrote this work as an ofering to Stormy Got and Calmy God. (A.E. is an abbreviation for After the Earthquake. I will use the preix for my work’s number until Japan’s recovery from the earthquake will be realized in Juan Pedro Luna Agudo, conductor all aspects)'' - Tokuhide Niimi. Kazuma Suzuki is a Japanese composer also a chief priest at Buddhist temple. STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall 11:00 Windgauge Duo ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 PEPITO Ros

Kuninobu Bando, saxophone Taku Ueda, saxophone

Tokuhide Niimi (1947): Saxophone Spiral for two alto saxophones (A.E.9) Torrent Agony LECTURE Pepito Ros: The Ros Method

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About the Lecture Neuroscience has recently shown clearly how diferent areas of the brain are specialized in speciic activities, yet interact. This method was born from the realization that by reading music in an unconventional manner, diferent areas of the brain are stimulated and Catherine McMichael (1954): Duality harmonized. Speciic training of these areas means their connection remains for tenor saxophone and piano active. Through this procedure, with only Polarity 15 minutes training per day, the player Linearity will beneit from improved sight reading, and will shorten the time needed for the Circularity (premiere performance) preparation of new pieces. Attention and concentration skills, as well as Ronald Caravan (1946): Soliloquy and open-mindedness will be reined. The Celebration: A tribute to the classic player will connect and tune in more jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond (1925- easily with the other members of an 1977) ensemble or orchestra. The beneits of this method will bring the ensemble to About the Program express itself at its best. What's more the * Because of my interest in building harmonization of diferent areas of the the tenor saxophone repertoire, I brain allows its expansion of creativity, commissioned McMichael to write a which can be used according to where 10-minute work for tenor saxophone.* interests lie (performance, improvisation (S.S) and composing). We could say that this is a method for learning to read music in a global, holistic and enjoyable way. As it STUDENT CENTRE has no musical boundaries this method MM Center can be enjoyed by any type of musician. Palm Trio FRIDAY

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Scott Sandberg and Matthew Sebald

Angela Space, saxophone George Weremchuk, saxophone Carolyn J. Bryan, saxophone

Philip Parker (1953): Merry Music (premiere performance)

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Angela Space (1976): Body Bagatelle Yuan-Chen Li (1980): Tell (premire performance) Gregory Wanamaker (1968): Of Light and Shadows About the Program Body Bagatelle is a relection on the Luminant Shadows minimisation/normalisation of violence. Flickering Beams - Perpetual Wind

STUDENT CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Theatre &TD Big Hall Auditorium Saxophonensemble Berlin Mark Watkins and Ray Smith

Taixiang Wang, Adrien Liebermann, Shiqi Zhang, Anna C. Eckhardt, Chen Mark Watkins, saxophone Cheng, Tina Tepper, Sebastian Lange, Raymond Smith, saxophone Xi Chen Johannes Ernst, musical director LECTURE From the Inside Out: An In-Depth Ulrich Krieger (1962): Janus Resource for the Development of Saxophone Sound Sergei Prokoiev (1891-1953): Peter and the Wolf, excerpts About the Lecture (arr. Christoph Enzel) One of the most diicult challenges in Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): wind instrument pedagogy is teaching Flora's Game (arr. Christoph Enzel) what can’t be seen. The external embouchure, hand positions, ingerings, posture, etc., are easy enough, but much ACADEMY OF MUSIC of what happens to create saxophone Fran Lhotka Hall tone is in the vocal tract (from the vocal folds to the embouchure). Through Jessica Maxfield luoroscopy (x-ray), endoscopy (probe camera), and other means, Dr. Watkins has revealed secrets invaluable to the serious teacher and student. His research into the saxophonist’s vocal tract and resultant tried and true application has spanned over twenty years. This book is marvellously laid out with explanations, exercises, illustrations, and over 100 video clips allowing the saxophonist a deeper understanding and greater lexibility.

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Roberto Todini, saxophone 11:15 Michele Bianchini, saxophone

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Antonio Rossi (1962): Concerto Vaclav Huml Hall Allegro Logan Banister and Adagio Allegro (Fuga) Casey Dierlam (premiere performance) Maurizio Borgioni (1956): Stand in! (premiere performance) 12:00 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Tomislav Žužak, Jasen Chelfi and Filip Fak

Robert Muczynski (1929-2010): Sonata Andante Maestoso Allegro Energico FRIDAY 11:30 STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Ignite Duo Tomislav Žužak, saxophone Jasen Cheli, cello Filip Fak, piano

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): Scaramouche suite (arr. Filip Fak - transcription based on the version for two pianos) Vif Modéré Brazileira

169 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | Svante Henryson (1963): Of pist STUDENT CENTRE for soprano saxophone and cello MM Center Filip Fak (1983): Invencija for piano, cello and saxophone (premiere Duo Novum performance)

STUDENT CENTER French Pavilion Alfonso Padilla

Jan Gričar, saxophone Nejc Grm, accordion

Matej Bonin (1986): Dialog for alto saxophone and accordion Naoki Sakata (1981): Between for saxophone and accordion Krzysztof Penderecki (1933): Three Miniatures Allegro Andante cantabile Allegro ma non troppo Alex Nante (1992): Retour du rite for (arr. Duo Novum) solo soprano saxophone Fabian Svensson (1980): Själv I for solo tenor saxophone (premiere performance) Alberto Carrerteto (1985): Qubba for solo alto saxophone

170 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC STUDENT CENTRE Fran Lhotka Hall Theatre &TD Big Hall Quartet Jeroen Vanbever & Iberosudamericano Zerkalo Quartet

Jerone Vanbever, saxophone Paul Serri, violin Joris Decolvenaer, violin Victor Guaita Igual, viola Gauthier Broutin, violoncello

Chick Correa (1941): Children's Songs No. 7, 6, 19, 18 (arr. Ian Stewart) Sara Zazo Romero, saxophonist Moulin Andreas (1994): One More Bera Romairone, saxophonist Time (premiere performance) Diego Carretero Menayo, saxophonist Andrés Castellani, saxophonist

12:15 FRIDAY Stylianos Dimou (1988): Drops (premiere performance) ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Matías Ramisch (1983): La jaula de Oro (premiere performance) Hanno-LeMoine Duo

Ryan LeMoine, saxophone Kristi Hanno, clarinet

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Yann Robin (1974): Schizophrenia Bianca Bongers (1987): Duo/Om twee 12:30 te zijn CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Saxo Voce Ensemble ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall Jean-Pierre Ballon, conductor SOS Saxophone Orchestra Kenneth Tse, soloist Alain Crepin, conductor Barry Cockcroft, soloist

Jean-Pierre Ballon, conductor Thibaut Canaval, artistic direction

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962): Capriccio

Maurice Ravel (1875-1935): Excerpts from Le Tombeau de Couperin Prélude-lively Fugue-allegro moderato Toccata-lively

Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Concerto for Clarinet soloist: Kenneth Tse, saxophone

Barry Cockcroft (1972): Melbourne Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Concerto for soprano saxophone & Sinfonietta orchestra I movement Go Slow Blow

172 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER Yun Isang (1917-1995): Piri for Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall saxophone solo (orig. for oboe solo) (arr. Yeomin Yun) (arr. Yeomin Yun) Jeffrey Vickers and

Henrique Portovedo STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall Jonathan Hulting-Cohen

Jefrey Vickers, saxophone Henrique Portovedo, saxophone Robert Lemay (1960): Deuce 4 (premiere performance) 13:00 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall About the Masterclass The concept of the masterclass is that interested participants form an

Yeomin Yun and I-An Chen FRIDAY ensemble and rehearse for 90 minutes for two to three days of the conference, and then perform a 20-minute recital on one of the last days. It should be made up of community members, saxophone students of all ages, and any professionals interested in participating. The focus of the master class is the mastery and performance of a selection from the diverse and dynamic saxophone repertoire of the popular American saxophone sextet, The Moanin' Frogs. In the process, participants will receive instruction on saxophone fundamentals, intonation, group sound, and musicianship.

Kim Sun Nam (1917-1983): Early Spring for saxophone (orig. for violin and piano) (arr. Yeomin Yun)

173 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC ACADEMY OF MUSIC Room 339 Svetislav Stančić Hall Aleksandar Šarović Abliage Duo and Virna Kljaković

Aljaž Razdevšek, saxophone Abdul-Aziz Hussein, clarinet Virna Kljaković, piano

Veronika Drobnić (1999): Les Autres, LECTURE duo for saxophone and clarinet with The role of the saxophone in the electronics (premiere performance) popular electronic music Mihael Paar (1980): Duo Concertant for saxophone and clarinet (premiere About the Lecture performance) The lecture will begin with a brief summary of the basic characteristics and Helena Skljarov (1993): Bergmál for history of popular electronic music, a saxophone and clarinet (premiere music genre with the highest growth in performance) popularity in the world today. Among the Tilen Lebar (1993): Ekyo kihikire for (sub)genres of this music, the saxophone clarinet, alto saxophone and piano has the most signiicant role in deep house, lounge and chill-out music. It is Kabale the music that often uses samples of Kitanga other compositions in its tracks, and Bunyonyi (premiere performance) leaves a strong impression and inluence on the soul and emotions of listeners, which makes its fans feel it as magical and divine. Such qualities of this kind of music, in which the saxophone plays an important role, can be explained by some semiotic ideas and doctrines of thinkers such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Umberto Ecco and Roland Barthes. At the end, the lecturer will perform one track on the saxophone, 5-10 minutes, in order to directly illustrate the theses presented in the lecture.

174 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER ancient Greece when Homer used them French Pavilion in Iliad and Odyssey. Some of the piece’s technical characteristics are the long- Panagiotis Skyftas notation notes, the persistence over speciic notes, and the drastic dynamics alteration. Devil’s Branch is the name of a small stream near the town I work. Each day, when I drive to work, I cross a bridge over Devil’s Branch just before I exit the highway and enter the town. In some ways, it reminds me Orpheus crossing the river Styx to enter the realm of Hades. The music in Devil’s Branch plays of this trope, beginning mysteriously and then spinning beyond control into a furious roar before fading away.

Dinos Constantinides (1929): STUDENT CENTRE Recollections MM Center Athanasios Zervas (1959): Chrismos / Oracle (premiere Fragments Duo performance) Eric Honour (1970): Devil’s Branch George Kotrokoes (1974): Moiroloi / Elegy

About the Program Recollections for solo saxophone, any saxophone. As the title indicates, the FRIDAY piece deals with remembrances from the past. It basically comprises two ideas 1) Slow and Meditative, 2) a folk dance. The entire composition is based on the composer’s Greek heritage. Oracle is a composition for solo saxophone (any saxophone) written in 2018 for Panos Skyftas. It can be understood as an interplay between two musical ideas: the Vanja Ileković, saxophone one that has an “atonal” character and Rich Patittuci, guitar the other that has a “tonal.” Symbolically, Rich Patitucci (1974): Hymna the ambiguity in the meaning of oracles given in divinations of ancient Greece Rich Patitucci (1974): Shorter Stack relexes the two contrasting musical Rich Patitucci (1974): Pop Tune characters throughout the composition. Dirge is inspired from the plaintive and Rich Patitucci (1974): Alloy sad songs that are encountered in Epirus Rich Patitucci (1974): Hall Tone Blues and Macedonia, West and Northern Greece. Their origin comes from the Rich Patitucci (1974): Ivona

175 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Auditorium 13:15 Alex Bradbury ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall The Household Division Saxophone Quartet of the British Army

LECTURE Understanding Copyright: a Practical overview for Musicians

About the Lecture ''To date my experience is that many musicians have a supericial understanding of copyright; they Lance Corporal Andy Braet, Soprano understand that it exists and that it ofers Saxophone protections, but they don’t know exactly , what it is or how it applies in its diferent Colour Sergeant Wen Gregson Alto forms. Typically, much of a musician’s Saxophone knowledge of copyright is obtained Lance Corporal Stephen Shepherd, through word of mouth and personal Tenor Saxophone experience rather than legal advice. What Lance Corporal Kim Cochrane, I want to do is present a short lecture Baritone Saxophone outlining some of the key aspects that musicians should know about copyright, Caryl Florio (1843-1920): Quartette and to deal with some topics that are speciic to music; arranging is a prime Allegro example of this. While the participants Guillermo Lago (1960): Sarajevo at the WSC are from a wide range (Bosnia and Herzegovina) of countries and legal systems, there are international treaties in place that Adam Gorb (1958): Saxophone provide the fundamentals of copyright. Quartet (premiere performance) My intention is to present a lecture that revolves around these fundamentals so that the material presented is relevant to a broad range of people.’’ - Alex Bradbury

176 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | 13:30 13:45 STUDENT CENTER STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall MM Center Quattro Temperamenti José-Modesto Diago Saxophone Quartet

DOCUMENTARY FILM Srđan Paunović, soprano saxophone by José-Modesto Diago Nikola Macura, alto saxophone Revisited SaxResurrecition: Adolphe Sax’s life Lovro Livajić, tenor saxophone Filip Orlović, baritone saxophone 14:00 Ivan Brkljačić (1977): SaxKolo ACADEMY OF MUSIC FRIDAY Vladimir Korač (1986): Fragments of Room 339 Green Gordan Tudor (1982): Nekoliko Andy Wright minijatura za kvartet saksofona / A Few Miniatures for Saxophone Quartet

LECTURE Listen and Learn: Creating a solid foundation for your jazz saxophone student

177 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | About the Lecture ACADEMY OF MUSIC In the initial stages of studying jazz, Svetislav Stančić Hall many teachers will suggest that students spend time listening to jazz as a means Ryo Nakajima and Yuto of assimilating correct jazz style and interpretation. As jazz can be understood Kiguchi as an oral tradition, this direction can be vague and unhelpful for aspiring musicians. This lecture will provide detailed instructions regarding the elementary production of an idiomatic jazz saxophone tone and articulation. This presentation is designed for saxophone teachers and professional musicians with limited knowledge of proper pedagogical techniques for jazz style. The session will begin with a discussion on guided listening including a catalog of inluential saxophonists to focus the student's search within a wide spectrum of jazz artists. This topic will be followed by a Ryo Nakajima, saxophone brief examination of the jazz equipment Yuto Kiguchi, piano available which is suitable for a jazz novice, narrowing the broad ield of available Tomoaki Akiyama (1992): Fioritura I products. To establish the appropriate Christian Lauba (1952): Kabuki, tone, the diferences between the 16e étude for soprano saxophone embouchure of a classical saxophonist and that of a jazz saxophonist will be analyzed. Christian Lauba (1952): Samba, This investigation will include pertinent 31ème étude for alto saxophone lip and jaw placement, correct use of air stream along with a guide to accurate mouthpiece pitch production. The lecture will conclude by considering the pedagogy of swing articulation through an annotated version of Charlie Parker's Au Privave from the jazz saxophone text, the Charlie Parker Omnibook.

178 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER ACADEMY OF MUSIC French Pavilion Fran Lhotka Hall Geoffrey Deibel Cuarteto Itálica

Lidia Muñoz Mora, soprano saxophone José Manuel García Martínez, alto Robert Lemay (1960): Bas-relief saxophone (premiere performance) Antonio Domínguez Fernández, tenor saxophone Jesús Núñez González, baritone STUDENT CENTRE saxophone Theatre &TD Big Hall María José Arenas (1983): Babaluayé Dirk Zygar (premiere performance) Fernando Villanueva (1976):

About the State of Matter FRIDAY Violeta Cruz (1986): El pudor de lo falsiicado (premiere performance)

About the Program Babaluayé is one of the characters belonging to the deities of African slaves. He is represented as the father of the diseases of the world, especially those related to skin conditions. Among the rituals that celebrate in his honor stands out a dance characterized by circle dancers, who dance bent and limping, in honor of the igure of the old and sick god. From this dance originates the idea for this work, whose rhythmic motor is characterized by the use of disparate Dirk Zygar (1964): The Nearness of pulses, in complementary combinatorics the Baritone Sax, a little suite in three -regular and irregular- that provide the movements for baritone solo piece with a continuous movement.

179 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | About the state of matter opposes two UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB textures with each other (I like to think Auditorium of them as a sort of modes of behavior), in which the material is not a deined set Nathan Mertens, of pitches, intervals, rhythms, etc., but the way the sound is conigured and the Elizabeth Rosinbum and way it evolves over time. Of course, we Jessica Voigt-Page can see some igures arising from these modes of behavior, and the way they change over time is a matter of capital importance to formal thinking in the work. At one point, the materials collapse and we have a dissolution of the sound matter itself into almost nothing. El pudor de lo falsiicado deals with the contrast between the clear and the blurred, the imposing and the overwhelmed, the legitimate and the false. In musical terms, the clear, imposing and legitimate can be identiied with a powerful sound, which emerges from silence with determination thanks to a clear attack. It can also be identiied with a compact block of instruments that play the same rhythm. The blurred, overwhelmed and false is evoked by The Entrepreneurial Musician wind sounds, in which the noise of the air ilters. It is also evoked by microtonal About the Program harmonies and desynchronized entries "The Entrepreneurial Musician" is a panel of a group of instruments that inally discussion with American and Japanese manages to unify after a failed attempt. saxophonists. These three saxophonists, The dramatic tension between the two all with graduate degrees, lead diverse characters reveals recognizable igures careers as private teachers, performers, and emotions within a music that is not lecturers, researchers, event coordinators, igurative but not completely abstract. and business owners. The panel will El pudor de lo falsiicado pays tribute to speak about their individual experiences failed and defective copies of registered in creating their own businesses outside trademark objects. of the traditional path of becoming university professor, and give insight to young musicians on how to build their own unique careers.

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Shu Wenxuan, Fang Yichen, Zhang 14:15 Yisong, Xie Weijie, Chen Yuxuan, Chu Yixiang, Sun Kaiwen, Li Zida, Tan ACADEMY OF MUSIC Ziwei, Wu Yifan, Jiang Han Vaclav Huml Hall Yu Xin, solo saxophone MATTHEW YOUNGLOVE AND Xue Yusheng, conductor MARILYN SHRUDE Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Golliwogg's Cakewalk (arr. Matt Evans) Hesheng Wang (1955): Sacred Moment (premiere performance ) Arturo Marquez (1950): Danzon No. 2 (arr. Sean Xue) Jean Matitia (1952): Devil's Rag Xiaolu Zhang (1976): East Cool Phillippe Geiss (1961): Sir Patrick Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840): Caprice No. 24 (arr. Jamal Rossi) Marilyn Shrude (1946): Renewing the STUDENT CENTER Myth for alto saxophone and piano Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall 14:30 Duo Antipodes CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Shanghai Conservatory Funote Saxophone FRIDAY Ensemble

Sarah Byron, saxophone Sam Rodwell, guitar

Andy Scott (1966): Nemesis I II III Zhang Xiaolu, Zhang Xuru, Wang Carmel Smickersgill (1996): Hush Chengyue, Chen Gongyong, Liu Fulu, (premiere performance) Zhi Yufan, Zhang Quianyi,

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Ko Sahara (1989): 3 études for 15:00 baritone saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Naoki Sakata (1981): Liquid Life for baritone saxophone (premiere Room 339 performance) Heath Jones assisted by MICHAEL POTTS ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Adam Quartet

LECTURE Jazz Etudes based on Andy Middleton’s book Melodic Improvising

About the Lecture This lecture will discuss newly composed jazz etudes over practices taught in Tomoyuki Yamashita, soprano Melodic Improvising by Andy Middleton. saxophone Topics discussed will include: Melodic Techniques in Jazz Improvisation, Yuta Taguchi, alto saxophone Materials of Melody, Techniques of Melodic Tomotaka Sisa Nohara, tenor Development, Thinking Compositionally, saxophone Complex Chord Changes, Modal Yuki Okuno, baritone saxophone Improvising, and Emotional Delivery. Leroy Anderson (1908-1975): Bugler's ACADEMY OF MUSIC Holiday Svetislav Stančić Hall Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Makoto Hondo Michelangelo 70 Ennio Moricone (1928): New Cinema Paradiso (arr. Steven Verhaert) David Maslanka (1943): Recitation Book for saxophone quartet V. Fanfare - Variations on the choral melody Durch Adams Fall

182 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER STUDENT CENTRE MM Center Theatre &TD Big Hall Frédéric Fiard Meraki Saxophone Quartet

Bridget Cleary, soprano saxophone Mia Vùkovic, alto saxophone Kieran Toye, tenor saxophone Tessa Campbell, baritone saxophone

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): String Quartet No. 1 (arr. Bridget Cleary) III. Très lent IV. Vif et agité Kevin Fenner (1940): The Fugitives, saxophone quartet Kieran Toye (1992): Gambol About the Program (premiere performance) The Genius of Sax is the result of encounters of the saxophone’s planet FRIDAY for some years, from Paris to Brussels or Strasbourg, in 2015 during the previous UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB world saxophone congress. As a red Auditorium thread, I ilmed a quartet “Les Désaxés” who decided to pay tribute to "Mister Fabio Sammarco Sax" (the name of the show) in retracing the epic life of the inventor in an original staging mixing silent ilm, theater and concert in the tone of humor and poetry. An other guided line is the construction of a saxophone, in the Selmer factory. Many saxophonists participate in the ilm. From Claude Delangle to Branford Marsalis, from historians to saxophone makers. This documentary shows, through the tortuous and romantic life of Adolphe Sax, that its most known genius invention continues to participate at the evolution of music in the world and it will never stop!

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LECTURE Camille Saint-Saëns (1875-1921): The History, The Masters and The Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso in Interpreters, The Authors and The A minor (arr. Misato Hanawa) Compositions regarding the ‘Classic’ Saxophone in Italy 15:30 About the Lecture STUDENT CENTER The desire to understand the meaning of the script and the diiculty in Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall transposing the interpretive dictates of his great masters, because the history MA Duo of the instrument was too short to be consolidated over time, brought Fabio Sammarco even before the end of the his studies to research and contact of the Italian authors (about 750 out of 1100) about their works (4500) for Saxophone. The result of this research is the big and unique project of its kind in the world, the online encyclopedia Laurent Matheron, saxophone www.ilsaxofonoitaliano.it that will be soon published on the web and will Sandrine Faucher Matheron, piano be the compendium of his thirty-year research on "The History, The Masters François Rossé (1945): Jonction and The Interpreters, The Authors and Ryo Daïnobu (1982): Spining Tail The Compositions regarding the ‘Classic’ Saxophone in Italy". François Rossé (1945): String' Tube Duett 2 Damien Charron (1957): 15:15 Dédale et Icare ACADEMY OF MUSIC (premiere performance) Vaclav Huml Hall MISATO HANAWA AND SAKI 16:00 NISHIOKA ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Glen Gillis and Bonnie Nicholson

Alexsander Scriabin (1971-1915): Romance (arr. Misato Hanawa) Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941): Fantasie (arr. Misato Hanawa)

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Glen Gillis, saxophone Amílcar Vasques Dias, Eduardo Patriarca Bonnie Nicholson, piano and Jaime Reis were chosen. These works are strikingly contrasting, which makes Glen Gillis (1956): Elegy Cadenza for them even more strikingly representative alto saxophone and piano of the richness of diferent approaches Glen Gillis (1956): Diversion for alto in the current Portuguese contemporary saxophone and piano (premiere music scene. Three diferent composers performance) from diferent generations and with very personal approaches. Amílcar Vasques Dias (1945) gives us a work Bailações sob a olaia which is lyrical, bucolic and, STUDENT CENTER at the same time, subtly humorous. French Pavilion Eduardo Patriarca’s (1971) work, Kwatz!, uses repeating but evolving motives Carlos Canhoto and contrasts, accents, multiphonics and micro-intervals to suggests the sometimes surprisingly abrupt gestures of Buddhist apprenticeship. Jaime Reis (1983) is probably the most active young Portuguese composer. Work Inverso Sangue: Mármore is part of a 7-piece long work for diferent instrumentations, each one with a correspondent, inverted piece with diferent tempi.

STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall Amílcar Vasques Dias (1945): NEW AGE SAX QUARTET Bailações sob a olaia FRIDAY Eduardo Patriarca (1971): Kwatz! About the Program The SOLI recital includes the most meaningful pieces of the SOLI CD by Carlos Canhoto, with new original solo works by Portuguese composers. The CD has been funded by the Portuguese Government who recognized the work Artem Holodniuk, soprano saxophone of the saxophonist as one of the most Danylo Dovbysh, alto saxophone outstanding Portuguese saxophonists, Pavlo Barabashchuk, tenor saxophone and also the fact that the recorded composers are representative of the Roman Fotuima, baritone saxophone current Portuguese contemporary music Volodymyr Runchak (1960): Morse scene. The recording includes works Code for saxophone quartet by Jaime Reis, Amílcar Vasques Dias, Eduardo Patriarca, José Carlos Sousa and Volodymyr Runchak (1960): Contra Sara Carvaho, speciically commissioned Spem Spero for saxophone quartet for this CD. For this recital in the Zagreb Oleksander Kozarenko (1963): World Saxophone Congress the works by Inventions for saxophone quartet

185 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Fran Lhotka Hall Auditorium Capitol Quartet Iván Solano and Yui Sakagoshi

Christopher Creviston, soprano saxophone Yui Sakagoshi, saxophone Joseph Lullof, alto saxophone Iván Solano, saxophone David Stambler, tenor saxophone Phillipe Geiss, saxophone Henning Schroeder, baritone saxophone About the Musical Gesture About the Program David Biedenbender (1984): Iván Solano, researcher of Labex GREAM, Anaphora University of Strasbourg, will give a lecture Carter Pann (1972): The Mechanics: about musical gesture of saxophonists Six from the Shop Floor from the point of view of a composer, that is about the relationship between the Hoist Composing Gesture and the Interpretation Drive Train Gesture, directly referring to the process Belt of composing and playing Hana a pièce Flywheel for soprano saxophone and electronics to be world premiered at the WSC. Focusing Balance on the score, the information left on it and Trash the working process with the player until Stacy Garrop (1969): Hell Hath No the very day of the irst performance, Ivan Fury Solano will talk about his aim to resonate with the musical gesture of the performer Carter Pann (1972): Capitol to whom he writes his music, explaining Punishment his method to give as much information and liberty to the player as possible, to let this last one to resonate at the same time with the musical gesture of the listener. The second part of the lecture will be held by Yui Sakagoshi, Japanese saxophonist in Strasbourg. It will deal with understanding and playing contemporary scene musical pieces as a performer. Focusing on the role of gesture in music for/with

186 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | saxophone by Karlheinz Stockhausen, ACADEMY OF MUSIC she will talk about categorisation of Blagoje Bersa Hall the pieces, theatrical gestures, musical gestures, and organic mouvements, and Claude and will, together with Phillipe Geiss, conclude with a demonstration of In Freundschaft Odile Delangle Duo by Karlheinz Stockhausen with a capture electronic HotHand. 16:15 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall stacy Maugans and Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Syrinx Carolyn J. Bryan Philippe Leroux (1959): Conca Reatina Alex Nante (1992): Trois Nocturnes (Hommage à Debussy) Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Australian Saxophone Orchestra Diana Tolmie, conductor FRIDAY Stacy Maugans, saxophone Carolyn J. Bryan, saxophone

Benjamin Krause (1985): Variations for two saxophones (premiere performance)

Diana Tolmie, Martin Kay, Andrew

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Ball, Katia Beaugeais, Sarah Byron, Guido Donati (1949): Saxcelle Tessa Campbell, Bridget Cleary, Danse Lente Barry Cockcroft, Michael Duke, Solioque Matilda Grieve, Nathan Henshaw, Joseph Lallo, Samantha Mason, Final Cameron Millar, Mary Osborn, Erin (premiere performance) Royer, Yo Yo Su, Kieran Toye, Mia Vukovic, Kay Zhang Guido Donati (1949): Quando i due iumi s'incontrano Thomas Green (1975): Aurora Introduzione Martin Kay (1972): Thrice Mice Ostinato (premiere performance) Allegro (premiere performance) Louise Denson (1965): Eucalyptus Regnans (premiere performance) Katia Beaugeais (1976): Last Flight of Saint-Ex (premiere performance) 16:30 Andrew Ball (1996): Chimera STUDENT CENTER (premiere performance) Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Matilda Grieve (1994): Little Cove (premiere performance) Silver Reed Duo

STUDENT CENTER MM Center Diego Vergari and Antonio Aprile

Jennifer Lau, lutist Eric Lau, saxophonist

Peter Gilbert (1975): Out of Line (European premiere) Karola Obermüller (1977): TBA (European premiere)

Stefano Pelagatti (1961): Invenzione capricciosa (premiere performance)

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out of context single harmony chords, 17:00 this clinic will also deine in context linear resolutions to the downbeat, and ACADEMY OF MUSIC linear resolutions that occur over and Room 339 beyond the bar line. Through the use of practical harmonic considerations on jazz Michael Chamberlin standards, this lecture will encourage each participant to develop a personalized approach to jazz improvisation by establishing multiple ways to approach the concept of line resolution. Regarding chord/scale choices, substitutions, and superimpositions, a signiicant amount of time is aforded to the process of replacing one inside sound with a diferent inside sound.Speciically, this lecture will cover several options on the following static chords: Major, Dominant, Minor, Minor- Major, Half-Diminished, and variations of Altered Dominant, while progressing to show how those sounds typically resolve in the context of jazz standards, both vertically and within an improvised line. This method goes far beyond the basic LECTURE ii-V progression and outlines all signiicant Developing a Scale-Based Approach variations on the Dominant Seventh to Jazz Improvisation with Diatonic chord. The harmonic knowledge needed Chromaticism to appreciate this lecture is common to improvising musicians, and this topic is About the Lecture suitable for any performer interested in The goal of this lecture is to present a developing stronger melodic connections FRIDAY method of linear-based jazz improvisation in their improvised solos. Each participant that combines bebop scale concepts with will receive a handout of examples that the implementation of diatonic chord/scale highlights many of the stated concepts substitutions and superimpositions. This is and is meant to act as a lasting tool that accomplished by linking scale fragments will enable learning to continue after the and chromatic passing tones to encourage presentation. The musical sounds and continuous resolution of musical phrases. ideas will be demonstrated on the tenor By focusing on chord movement common saxophone, with play-a-long tracks as to jazz standards, this presentation will needed. The written examples will be demonstrate how to capture the sound of displayed on a screen using Prezi, a non- a vertical harmony within a linear line while linear presentation program. also explaining how best to resolve from one harmony to the next. Musical examples will include a wide variety of harmonic sequences and numerous options for scale substitutions. The underlying approach relies on diatonic chromaticism, or, the placement chord tones on downbeats despite chromatic passing tones.After covering bebop scale options on static,

189 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Fran Lhotka Hall Duo Entre-Nous Zeyu Feng

Don-Paul Kahl, saxophone Jackie Glazier, clarinet Zou Xiangping (1951): Yalong river for alto saxophone and piano (premiere Chris Dench (1953): Polyme(t)ric performance) Threads (premiere performance) María Eugenia Luc (1958): *** (premiere performance) STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall About the Program Threads is a program detailing the unique Rev Saxophone Quartet sound worlds between saxophone and clarinet. While the two instruments are commonly referred to as siblings, they can interact or ight each other in diferent ways. In this way, two new works for the duo have been commissioned with this speciic function in mind. The irst work, polymer(t)ric threads explores not only the interaction between these two instruments but also the interaction that melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements have with each other. Speciically written for Eb clarinet and Bb soprano saxophone this is a unique addition to the repertoire. The work still without a title is decidedly diferent in its approach to the sound world of this duo. While experimenting with various elements, Luc weaves a Kohei Ueno, soprano saxophone dream-like world with melodic material coming out of dense multiphonics. Yuki Miyakoshi, alto saxophone Extended techniques sound as if they Jun Tsuzuki, tenor saxophone are not extensions of the instruments, Souichiro Tanaka, baritone saxophone instead they create a discourse of narrative progression.

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Nikolai Kapustin (1937): 24 Preludes About the Program Op. 43 Our concerts are diferent for every No. 17, No.9 listener, depending very much on the speciic Location and e.g. also on the No 24 Position and perspective of the listener. (arr. Youki Miyakoshi) Our concerts are far from a typical Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Performance on stage; Players and Le Tombeau de Couperin audience typically are supposed to move Prelude around during a concert. Typical examples for venues are art museums, churches, Fugue public Swimming baths, water reservoirs, Menuet factories, Gasometers, Underground Toccata garages and the like. Each space conveys (arr. Shoichi Asai) its unique concept, inspires Improvisation and does not act merely as an immovable parameter, but actually comes into play as a partner through the musical action. STUDENT CENTER French Pavilion Raum-Musik für 17:15 Saxophone ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Gabriel Piqué and Casey Dierlam FRIDAY

Gabriel Piqué, saxophone Christof Zürn, sopranino, alto Casey Dierlam, piano saxophone Rolf Schindler, soprano saxophone Philip Glass (1937): Birgit Spahlinger, alto saxophone Violin Concerto No. 1. Hannes Jung, alto saxophone I. ♪=104-♪=120 Markus Grüninger, alto saxophone III. ♪=ca. 150 Ingrid Hartert Müller, tenor Coda: Poco Meno ♪=104 saxophone (arr. Gabriel Pique) Benno Müller, tenor saxophone Dietrich Foth, baritone saxophone Helmut Wetter, baritone saxophone

191 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER 17:30 MM Center STUDENT CENTER Christopher DeLouis Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Angela Space, Ian Hargest and Nadine Shank

Jean-Patrick Besingrand (1985): Izanami Anthony Donofrio (1981): Interfere David Reminick (1979): Gray Faces Angela Space, saxophone About the Program Ian Hargest, electric guitar Izanami is a piece inspired by the Shinto Nadine Shank, piano creation myth. Izanagi and Izanami are the ones who create the many Islands Angela Space (1976): Precious Metal of Japan. From the loating bridge of Head for alto saxophone and electric heaven they stirred the primeval ocean guitar (premiere performance) with a jeweled spear until these islands Angela Space (1976): Evil Things for appeared. From their union, Izanami alto saxophone and piano (European gave birth to several other gods but she premiere) died while giving birth. Izanagi decided to go to Yomi-tsu Kuni, the land of the Angela Space (1976): dead, to bring his wife back from this Tourists are Money! for alto land of darkness. Before he could reach saxophone, piano and electric guitar her, Izanami ate the food of the dead. (premiere performance) Horriied to see that Izanami was a rotting corpse, Izanagi led. Izanami sent hideous female spirits, eight thunder gods, and an army of ierce warriors to chase him. Izanagi managed to escape and blocked the passage between Yomi and the land of the living with a huge boulder. The three diferent states (heaven, land of the living, Yomi) are represented in the three registers of the saxophone. Each register has its own characteristics. The high register is calm and observes the scene. The medium register is agitated like

192 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | the life it is supposed to represent. The STUDENT CENTRE chalumeau is dark and windy. Throughout Theatre &TD Big Hall the piece, the registers dialog and evolve. Some characteristics inherent to one Cascatelle Saxophone register contaminate another, following the journey Izanagi and Izanami experienced. – Quartet Anthony Donofrio Years ago, I stumbled across a recording of Brahms performing one of his own works at the piano. The recording was from 1889 (during the infancy of recording technology) and the sound quality was abysmal. Listening to this Brahms-lavored white noise, I was at a loss: why would anybody, no matter how much they loved Brahms, invest their time and money in this? Was there really something to be gleaned from it? I listened intently for about two minutes, inally turning Paulina Pitenko, soprano saxophone it of in frustration. I’ve always enjoyed Faustyna Szudra, alto saxophone Brahms’s music, but I couldn’t help but think that I might feel diferently if this Vincent Magnin, tenor saxophone were a composer whose music I knew Pisol Manatchinapisit, baritone better - that I would gladly sufer through saxophone the crackles and hisses to steal an aural glimpse of one of my idols. Come to Daniel Schnyder (1961): Saxophone think of it, I’d probably go further – much Quartet further. Even if that recording were crystal clear, even if I witnessed it live, even if it Vivace were performed in my own home, it would Scherzo never be enough; a part of me would

Lento/tempo rubato FRIDAY always want to get closer. Gray Faces is about that desire: a longing to know Presto/Finale something, somebody completely – an Epilog urge can (thankfully) never be satisied. I Rudolf Kelterborn (1931): never did inish listening to that Brahms Saxophone Quartet recording (and I may not ever do so), but my experience trying to listen to it pervades every element of Gray Faces. And although there’s no Brahms in here, the music of one of my longtime musical heroes lingers perpetually below the musical surface, struggling in vain to make itself known.

193 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 18:00 Room 339 STUDENT CENTRE Mark Kraszewski Theatre &TD Big Hall Ra+ Trio

LECTURE Style in Coltrane’s Modal Period

About the Lecture This presentation will focus on the stylistic Yui Sakagoshi, saxophone features of John Coltrane’s modal period (1961-1965). Particular attention will Kanae Mizobuchi, soprano be paid to Coltrane’s use of alternate Noriko Kawamura, percussion ingerings as a timbral device. I will discuss the roots of alternate ingering Georges Aperghis (1945): Sept techniques in swing era and rhythm and Crimes de l’Amour for soprano, blues saxophone, how Coltrane used soprano saxophone and percussion them and how later players have used them. I will also discuss Coltrane’s post Thomas Kessler (1937): Is it? bop vocabulary during this period and its for soprano and soprano saxophone inluence on later players. A powerpoint Thierry de Mey (1956): presentation will help to illustrate the Silence must be! topic. I have transcribed three Coltrane solos from this period: “Take the Coltrane” from John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, “Impressions” from Coltrane (Deluxe Edition) and “I Want to Talk About You” from Newport ’63. I will use excerpts from these solos as examples and will perform them from memory at appropriate points during the presentation.

194 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Elliott Carter (1908-2012): Canonic Svetislav Stančić Hall Suite for four alto saxophones Santiago J. Baez (1982): John Nichol and Cuatro Microestudios (premiere Hannah Creviston performance) David Garner (1941): Canon Móvil (premiere performance) 18:15 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall William Street and Viktoria Reiswich-Dappis

John Nichol, saxophone Hannah Creviston, piano

Robbie Malcolm Smith (1963): Blues Hypothesis for tenor saxophone and piano

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall William Street, saxophone

Spanish-American FRIDAY Saxophone Quartet Viktoria Reiswich-Dappis, piano Andriy Talpash (1974): Nekrotzar’s Answer for alto saxophone and piano About the Program "This piece was inspired by the character Nekrotzar in György Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, rev. 1996). The character is the personiication of death, who threatens apocalypse on Breughelland in the form of a comet set to crash atmidnight. Nekrotzar’s Answer uses a few of Ligeti’s motives associated with Nacho Gascon, soprano saxophone the character, but spins out a new version of the eventual demise of Breughelland Alfonso Padilla, alto saxophone and Nekrotzar’s eventual fate." - Andriy Cliford Leaman, tenor saxophone Talpash Timothy Roberts, baritone saxophone

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some techniques that become second 18:30 nature to him or her. With the advent of contemporary music and associated STUDENT CENTER new extended techniques, the musician MM Center has to learn new ways of playing his or her instrument, which includes amateur’s Jennifer Lachaine sounds. To be able to perform these techniques, the performer needs to set aside his conditioning to relearn the instrument, which leads to interesting questions: should we rethink contemporary musical training to include extended techniques in this conditioning? This project explores some aspects of the most common conditioning for saxophonist. The piece allows the listener, composer, and saxophonist to discover the instrument outside of the traditional thinking and playing. The main purpose of the piece is to explore the sustained sound with all the weaknesses that might be caused by a failed technique, according to classical training. In doing so, the saxophonist will have to isolate and recombine in a new way the diferent factors of the production Philippe Béland (1987), Jennifer of sounds (tongue, larynx, ingers, and Lachaine (1988): even voice). The piece will be the result Unconditioning the Sax (premiere of a new approach to commissioning an performance) original composition, a diferent way of conceiving the relationship between a About the Program performer and a composer and, inally, a The music programme to be performed new approach to the sound production. will contain only one piece, which is a irst performance. Canadian saxophonist Jennifer Lachaine will perform the piece composed by both herself and the Canadian composer Philippe Béland. The piece will be the result of an on-going process of co-writing, which will explore an equal relationship between the performer and composer as they work together side by side during the entirety of the writing process. The main purpose of this project is to explore diferent aspects of the mental and physical conditioning caused by the rigor of the musical training, either jazz or classical. From the beginning of the studies, the saxophonist has to learn to control diferent aspects of the sound production as attack, sustain, and release. The saxophonist develops and integrates

196 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Auditorium 19:00 Niobé Saxophone Quartet ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Carinthia Saxophone Quartet & Gabriel Lipuš

Jan Gričar, soprano saxophone Clément Van Calster, alto saxophone Eudes Bernstein, tenor saxophone Maxime Bazerque, baritone saxophone Gilbert Sabitzer, soprano saxophone Gerhard Lippauer, alto saxophone Georges Bizet (1838-1875): Jeux d'enfants Rudolf Kaimbacher, tenor saxophone II. La toupie Günter Lenart, baritone saxophone III. La Poupée & Gabriel Lipuš, tenor IV. Les Chevaux de bois Franz Schubert (1797-1828): VI. Trompette et Tambour Symphony No. 5 in B lat major D FRIDAY XIII. Les quatre coins 485 X. Saute Mouton I. Allegro - part of the movement XI. Petit Mari Petite Femme (arr. Günther Lenart) XII. Le Bal (arr. Phillipe Portejoie) Franz Schubert (1797-1828): An die Musik D 547 (arr. Günther Lenart) Alain Louvier (1945): Le Jeu des 7 musique Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Moment Musical No. 3 D 780 (arr. Günther Lenart)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Die Winterreise D 911 XII. Einsamkeit XIII. Die Post (arr. Günther Lenart)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Divertissement á la hongroise D 818 (arr. Günther Lenart)

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Die Winterreise D 911 - V. Der 19:15 Lindenbaum, XXIV. Der Leiermann (arr. Günther Lenart) ACADEMY OF MUSIC About the Program Vaclav Huml Hall General idea: What might have been the outcome if Schubert had already had Nexas Quartet saxes and turned some of his music into arrangements for saxophone quartet.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Soffer Duo

Michael Duke, soprano saxophone Andrew Smith, alto saxophone Nathan Henshaw, tenor saxophone Jay Byrnes, baritone saxophone

Matthew Hindson (1968): Scenes from Romeo and Juliet Overture Jef Sofer, saxophone Juliet Karalyn Sofer, saxophone Romeo John David Lamb (1935): Barefoot Juliet and Romeo's Love Scene Dances Duel Firm The Death of Romeo and Juliet Swinging (European premiere) Walking Lively Jaunty Brisk Marc Mellits (1966): Tachycardia

198 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall 19:30 Ensemble de Saxophones UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB Bordeaux Nouvelle- Auditorium Aquitaine Impetus Saxophone Ensemble

Emma Benchikh, Alberto Chaves, Kimberly Cruel, Pablo De la Fuente, Sergio Eslava, Carmen Ferrando, Luis Fernando Herrera, Anthony Jacobs- Remacle, Zhongpei Li, Diego Alonso Martinez, Carlos Ordóñez, Carmen Salguero, Adrian Sánchez

Simone Movio (1978): Incanto XIII Haruka Inoue, Nozomi Sakai, Ahn Teawook, Yuki Tanaka, Miki Isogai, Francesco Filidei (1973): Erpice Tomotaka Nohara, Kyoko Nemoto, Ivo Malec (1925): Lumina Hondo Makoto, Mariko Takeshita FRIDAY About the Program Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Danzo The intention of the Ivo Malec, composer ritual del fuego of Lumina, to oppose a live sound source Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): to one which apparently is not live bears Souvenir de Florence no implication of dialogue, but on the contrary, the aim is for them to depend Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Marche upon each other, to collide with, even to écossaise sur un thème populaire assault each other, to inluence each other – in short, to co-exist, to live… A double perception is possible of this ensemble in which the tape, though not always present, is never really absent either. It can easily be perceived as a totality and listened to as one might look at something from above, or alternatively, by going into the mass, one can isolate, perceive and follow the detail: the thousand living details that make up the totality. Lumina accepts the one or the other approach. But it prefers the one and the others.

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Thomas Doss (1966): Spotlights 4 sax 20:00 4 and windband CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE solists: Quartet Mobilis* Slovenian Armed Forces Band Andreja Šolar, conductor

Mladen Tarbuk (1962): Concertino per sassofono in Mib e orchestra da camera Lento – Poco allegro – Tempo I Frank Ticheli (1958): Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble Andante sostenuto, Allegro vivace – Andante sostenuto – Allegro Falcon Fantasy moderato – Moderato mosso – Silver Swan Allegro moderato – Maestoso - Black Raven Vivacissimo soloist: Phil Pierick* soloist: Nicolas Arsenijevic*

Shoichi Asai (1988): Paganini Remix for alto saxophone and wind orchestra soloist: Jérôme Laran*

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Antonio Ruda Peco (1938): Palindomía Flamenca for solo 20:00 soprano saxophone, Spanish guitar, lamenco box and symphonic band MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS soloists: Preston Duncan, Ramonet Arcadia Saxophone Rodriguez Quartet

Gianfranco Brundo, soprano saxophone Giovanni Manganaro, alto saxophone Salvatore Cutrò, tenor saxophone * Selmer artist Carmelo Ricciardi, baritone saxophone

Virginio Zoccatelli (1969): Naufraghi (premiere performance) FRIDAY

201 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | 20:30 21:00 STUDENT CENTER MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Marici Saxes Amphi Duo

Matt London, saxophone Jefery Kyle Hutchins, saxophone Sarah Field, soprano saxophone Fiona Asbury, alto saxophone Matt London (1985): The Urgency Of Now, graphic panels for 2 tenor Hannah Riches, tenor saxophone saxophones (premiere performance) Josie Simmons, baritone saxophone About the Program The Urgency Of Now is an original Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): and imaginative project that takes Libertango traditional performance practice into Stanley Myers (1930-1993): Cavatina the experimental and improvised plains. Built upon a shared passion for Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012): exploring and pushing musical boundaries Four Country Dances outside convention the duo will realise A New Dance a set of graphic panels devised by Lady Day London following in the footsteps of The Mulberry Garden improvisation colossus Wadada Leo Smith's ideal of ‘creative music’. Creative Nobody's Jig music is dedicated to developing a Josie Simmons (1983): Suite of Irish heightened awareness, appreciation and Folk Tunes understanding of free improvisation as an art form alongside classical art towards III. Tune IV. Reel an equality between performance and composition away from the hierarchical precedent of the composer as the sole creator of music. Through this innovative practice of performing music inspired by graphic panels, scripted and pure free improvisation the duo endeavour to create music that is intense, considered, unbound from convention and never the same.

202 friDAY | 13/07 /2018 | 22:00 23:00 MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Escocia Internacional Chris Collins Italian Trio

ESCOCIA INTERNATIONAL Chris Collins, saxophones Sue McKenzie, saxophone Roberto Mattei, bass Julia Nolan, saxophone Nicolai Stranieri, drums LATINO SONSAX Javier Valerio, Manrique Mendez, Chris Collins - The legacy of Detroit Pablo Sandi, Harold Guillén, Arturo Jazz Castro FRIDAY

Sue McKenzie (1972): Faramach (premiere performance)

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Saturday Academy Academy Vatroslav Theatre Theatre Academy Academy Theatre Zrinjevac Church of Music of Music Lisinski &TD Semi- &TD MM Grič Bundek of Music of Music &TD Park of Saint Stančić Lhotka Concert circular Center Tunnel Lake July 14th Bersa Hall Huml Hall Big Hall Pavilion Catherine Hall Hall Hall Hall Hall 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 Sean Mix, Ashley Larry Bell, Kelly and 9:15 Amelia Ashlyn Gould Jesús Harrington Núñez 9:30 9:45 10:00 Paula Van Quartet Goes and Emma Di Vif Duo 10:15 Prélude Casey Marco and Dierlam Catherine 10:30 Likhuta Interna- Justin Ke- Current tional nealy and Interna- Sax’ou Duo Saxophone Youth Friends 10:45 tional Quartet Saxophone Saxophone Saxophone Orchestra Quartet 11:00 Committee Erzsébet ENDeM Kohei Ueno Seleljo and Saxophone 11:15 Sound Irén Seleljo Quartet Afair Duo 11:30 Acrobatic Bron Saxophone Saxophone 11:45 Quartet Quartet

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22:30 Interna- tional Youth Saxophone Orchestra 22:45 WSC Par- ticipants’ Orchestra saturday | 14/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 9:00 Fran Lhotka Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Ashley Kelly and Svetislav Stančić Hall Ashlyn Harrington Sean Mix, Amelia Gould and Larry Bell

Ashley Kelly, saxophone Ashlyn Harrington, piano Sean Mix, saxophone Augusta Read Thomas (1964): Chant Larry Bell, piano Lori Laitman (1955): Journey Amelia Gould, trumpet Ida Gotkovsky (1933): Brilliance Larry Bell (1952): Dazzling Duo Declame for tenor saxophone and piano Desinvolte A little improv Dolcissimo Don't tease me! Final Anna's Song Run With It 9:15 Larry Bell (1952): Serenade No. 3 for tenor saxophone, trumpet and piano ACADEMY OF MUSIC Overture Vaclav Huml Hall Interlude Jesús Núñez Duet Chase

208 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Jordi Orts (1962): Sevilla (premiere saxophone was dedicated to Jesús Núñez, performance) composer's student. Scale in Base Variants. Hexaphone with upper and lower sensitive. Juan de Dios García Aguilera Distribution model (123321). Transpolations (1959): Rebote-Rueda II (premiere between Connective Variants of the performance) essential scale B 6 with three common Alfonso Romero-Ramírez (1968): notes, from the Var. A: Fa #, Mi, Re, Do, Connecting people Si b, Sol #. (completing Cycle) and from the Var. B: Do #, Mi b, Fa, Sol, La, Si About the Program (completing Cycle). Sevilla is a work for alto saxophone, composed in 2017 and dedicated to the composer and saxophonist Alfonso 10:00 Romero-Ramírez. It is written using the notes of the inferred scale B7 of Base CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE Variants, 7b44 / 69, (Lepsis, J. Darias), on several axes: Mi, Fa #, La and Si. It is structured in four main sections, International Youth contrasting by the application of diferent Saxophone Orchestra materials, where continuity control makes the composition evolve through various motivational resources, creating at the same time a continuous dialogue between the registers and a displacement through the whole range. Rebote-Rueda II takes its name from the particular way in which the initial and inal sections are strung together. One is progressively contracted by adopting the natural damping model of a series of rebounds, Juan Pedro Luna Agudo, conductor and the other one expands in the same way imitating the progressive stop of the spin of a roulette wheel. The irst section STUDENT CENTRE MM (rebound) shows a series of bipartite episodes (elongation and fall) that are PAULA VAN GOES reducing their dimensions in such a way AND CASEY DIERLAM that each one becomes 0.55 times smaller than the previous one, until they come to collapse. The second section is the freest in form and content, although its main tonal material comes from a frequency saturday modulation in which the most serious note of the irst sequence acts as a carrier, while the more serious of the second acts as a modulator.The third section (wheel) presents a series of episodes, increasingly dilated, in which the tonic component is deinitively lost, imposing the sonorities of a complex type. The rate of dilation of these episodes is 1.33. Connecting people Marc Mellits (1966): Mara's Lullaby by Alfonso Romero-Ramírez for baritone Ingrid Stölzel (1971): With Eyes Open

209 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Fran Lhotka Hall Quartet Prélude Vif Duo

Brent Weber, saxophone Juan Antonio Martínez Valverde, Mark Gallagher, clarinet soprano saxophone Jose Ramón Olmo Fernández, alto Violet Archer (1913-2000): Moods for saxophone alto saxophone and clarinet Francisco José Sánchez Fernádez, Theme and Variations tenor saxophone Introspective Francisco Javier Nieto Checa, Whimsical baritone saxophone Rhapsodic Juan Antonio Simarro González (1973): Cuarteto de saxos No. 1 Allegretto 10:15 Lento ACADEMY OF MUSIC Andante Vaclav Huml Hall Allegro (premiere performance) Emma Di Marco and

About the Program Catherine Likhuta In Cuarteto de saxos No. 1, composer Juan Antonio Simarro investigates the technical possibilities of saxophone using melodic style without forgetting the rhythmic passages, all while mixing classical and jazz harmonies. All the instruments are of same relevance and they alternate to carry the weight of the work. It is positive and goes through romantic, emotional and even epic moments. The work was composed for its premiere performance at the Congress in Zagreb for the Prélude Saxophones Quartet.

210 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Emma Di Marco, saxophone collective by Current: Current Catherine Likhuta, piano Distractions

Catherine Likhuta (1981): Motions for alto saxophone and piano STUDENT CENTER (European premiere) Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Catherine Likhuta (1981): Stolen Memories (premiere performance) Sax’ou Duo 10:30

STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall Current Saxophone Quartet

Luis Garvía Cabañas, saxophone Cristina Sánchez Martínez, saxophone

Françoise Rossé (1945): Ximix Christian Lauba (1952): Ars Jose Carlos Villena (1989): ...volvía una y otra vez en busca de su nombre... (premiere performance)

SAINT KATHERINE’S CHURCH Justin Kenealy and Friends Saxophone Quartet Anders Abelseth, soprano saxophone Åshild Henriksen, alto saxophone Gudrun FaleideFristad, tenor saxophone

Silje Eckhof Varhaug, baritone saturday saxophone

Klaus Egge (1906-1979): String Quartet Op. 5 Largo Funebre Allegro Andante Fugato Finale: Allegro

211 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Justin Kenealy, soprano saxophone STUDENT CENTER Kathryn Cooper, alto saxophone MM Center Drake Stoughton, tenor saxophone ENDeM kvartet Joey Speranzo, baritone saxophone

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata for Violin and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1023 (arr. Justin Kenealy) Untitled Adagio ma non tanto

Allemande Gigue (premiere performance)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Marko Gerbus, soprano saxophone Fugue in G minor for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1026 (arr. Justin Deni Pjanić, alto saxophone Kenealy) - (premiere performance) Nereo Arbula, tenor saxophone Erna Čizmić Rebić, bariton saxophone

11:00 Dubravko Detoni (1937): Zaboravljene muzike ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Margareta Ferek-Petrić (1982): Melankolija Gegen Rakija Kohei Ueno Deni Pjanić (1990): Fragmenti zavičaja for saxophone quartet (premiere performance)

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fran Lhotka Hall Erzsébet Seleljo and Irén Seleljo

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita in A-minor for solo lute, BWV 1013 (soprano saxophone in G-minor) Yuta Bando (1991): Aerial Dance for alto saxophone solo

212 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Erzsébet Seleljo, saxophone Jenni Watson (1985): Improvisations Irén Seleljo, piano on La cathédrale engloutie / The Submerged Cathedral by Claude Balázs Horváth (1976): La Continuitta Debussy Interrotta András Gábor Virágh (1984): Tryptique 11:30 Zoltán Jeney (1943): STUDENT CENTER Soliloquium Nr. 5 Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Mátyás Wettl (1987): New work (premiere performance) Acrobatic Sax Quartet 11:15 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Vaclav Huml Hall Sound Affair Duo

Giovanni De Luca, soprano saxophone Daniele Panzitta, alto saxophone Francesco Soldano, tenor saxophone Giovanni Luzza, baritone saxophone

Carlo Galante (1959): Metropolitan Toccata (premiere performance) Jenni Watson, saxophone Lodi Luka (1980): A Balkan Night Martin Jacoby, piano (premiere performance)

DEBUSSY 100: REIMAGINED Daniele Panzitta (1928): Jazz Fugue No. 1 for saxophone quartet (premiere Claude Debussy (1862-1918): performance)

Passepied (arr. Jenni Watson) saturday Vincenzo Palermo (1967): Pink Song Jenni Watson (1985): Leaves (premiere performance) Jenni Watson (1985), Martin Jacoby (1988): Arabesque (on a theme by Debussy) Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (arr. Jenni Watson, Martin Jacoby)

213 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall 12:00 Bron Saxophone Quartet SAINT CATHERINE’S CHURCH Three Continent Quartet, Camerata Odak Jasenka Ostojić, conductor

Cameron Millar, soprano saxophone Niek Starmans, alto saxophone Hannah Koob, tenor saxophone Three Continents Sax Quartet Oscar Trompenaars, baritone Alfonso Padilla, tenor saxophone saxophone Fernando Lerman, alto saxophone Samantha Wolf (1990): Echo Jay Byrnes, bariton saxophone Chamber (premiere performance) Camerata Odak Christopher Healey (1990): Jasenka Ostojić, conductor Saxophone Quartet No. 1 Fernando Lerman (1968): Todos los II. Presto Dioses, el Dios / All Gods, the God III. Andante Bautismal V. Allegro La vida rezando Al Paraíso (premiere performance)

214 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC Maria Gmyrek, saxophone Svetislav Stančić Hall Wojciech Trefon, harp

Kalypso Duo Przemysław Scheller (1990): Two Polish Dances Anna Maria Huszcza (1987): SaHarBAD Przemysław Szczotka (1987): Light of the night (premiere performance)

STUDENT CENTER MM Center InSax Quartet Miha Rogina, saxophone Sae Lee, piano

Edison Denisov (1928-1996): Saxophone concerto; presentation, lecture and performance of an arrangement for saxophone and piano (world premiere)

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Maria Gmyrek and José Eduardo Correia Magalhães Wojciech Trefon Dulcineia Guerr Jorge Oliveira Joel Rodrigues

António Pinho Vargas (1951): Cut Inês Badalo (1989): Aleph. Multum in parvo...II (premiere performance) saturday Eurico Carrapatoso (1962): Indiana Tones

215 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER 12:15 Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Caroline Taylor Vaclav Huml Hall Christopher Creviston and Hannah Creviston

Greg Steinke (1942): Espisodes for saxophone and piano Introspection Christopher Creviston, saxophone Ebullience Hannah Creviston, piano Caleb Hugo (1987): Vagrant Contemplation John Anthony Lennon (1950): *** for soprano saxophone and piano Tony Davis (1970): Vaclav’s Dream (premiere performance) 12:30 STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Big Hall GRIČ TUNNEL Parero Saxophone Quartet Raum-Musik für Saxophone

Rui Ozawa, soprano saxophone Aki Tanaka, alto saxophone Miyu Yokoyama, tenor saxophone “Improvisation for Unknown Space” Yumeko Miura, baritone saxophone

216 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Ayumi Matsuba (1990): Quatuor pour About the Program saxophones Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was largely a self-taught composer who considered Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): String Debussy as his main inluence and Quartet No. 4 “teacher.” He wrote extensively for the movie industry as well as commissions for the New York Philharmonic and 12:45 other prestigious orchestras. Distance ACADEMY OF MUSIC was originally a composition for oboe and optional sho and was reworked for Blagoje Bersa Hall soprano saxophone by the composer and by Claude Delangle. Liner notes by Per John Sampen & Saxophone Broman (Bis CD 640/1994) speak of the Ensemble from Bowling incessant line of the Japanese sho (mouth organ) which “continues behind the oboe, Green State University suggesting that nothing can stop the breathing of life. The title refers to the distance between the oboe and sho as well as the extreme distances of interval dynamics and articulation. Distance is performed here with an interactive sho as recorded by David Badagnani. The music of Chicago-born composer Marilyn Shrude is recognized for its “shimmering sounds” and “sensuous beauty.” Shrude's new composition Quietly Revealed for saxophone ensemble follows her established aesthetic when writing for saxophone, building on the unique timbral and expressive qualities of the instrument.

John Sampen, saxophone Saxophone Ensemble from the Bowling Green State University Brianna Buck, Drew Hosler, Jonathan Kierspe, Claire Salli

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996): Distance for alto saxophone and optional sho (arr. Toru Takemitsu and Claude saturday Delangle) Marilyn Shrude (1946): Quietly Revealed for saxophone ensemble (premiere performance)

217 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | 13:00 SAINT CATHERINE’S CHURCH l’Orgue de Sax ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Matthew Lombard and Casey Dierlam

Stef Verpraet (1989), Bram Lamberts (1986): Tempestas Intrada A peaceful day Storm is coming Matthew Lombard, saxophone The Storm Casey Dierlam, piano Consolation Clare Loveday (1967): Displacement Reconstruction Niel van der Watt (1962): Sonata for Consummation Soprano Saxophone and Piano Lontano ACADEMY OF MUSIC Cantabile Fran Lhotka Hall Con spirito (European premiere) Trio Noir

About the Program In Cuarteto de saxos No. 1, composer Juan Antonio Simarro investigates the technical possibilities of saxophone using melodic style without forgetting the rhythmic passages, all while mixing classical and jazz harmonies. All the instruments are of same relevance and they alternate to carry the weight of the work. It is positive and goes through romantic, emotional and even epic moments. The work was

218 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Sebastian Lange, saxophone Catharsis Christoph Lindner, percussion (premiere performance) Zhifeng Hu, piano Timothy Blinko (1965): Sculptures

Mathilde Koeppel (1996): Aions Reise (premiere performance) 13:15 Jörg-Ulrich Krah (1976): Strangeworld ACADEMY OF MUSIC (premiere performance) Vaclav Huml Hall Reinhard Lippert (1951): Steinwasser (premiere performance) Jiang - Molano Duo Fabian Zeidler: West-Ost Trio (premiere performance)

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Hanchao Jiang, saxophone Juan David Molano, piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Sonata for clarinet and piano No. 1 Op. 120 Alžbeta Klasová, soprano saxophone Allegro appasionato Alžbeta Kačmárová, alto saxophone Andante un poco Adagio Tereza Novotná, tenor saxophone Allegretto grazioso Matěj Trojan, baritone saxophone Vivace saturday Petr Wajsar (1978): Folklórní inspirace Marek Pavlíček (1991): Unquartering by sax (premiere performance) Adam Greenwood-Byrne (1980): With These Hands I Surrender My Wounds Prayer Escape

219 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER 13:30 Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall STUDENT CENTER Vagues Saxophone Quartet Theatre &TD Big Hall Elysian Quartet

Andrea Mocci, soprano saxophone ELYSIAN QUARTET Francesco Ronzio, alto saxophone Jared Waters, soprano saxophone Mattia Quirico, tenor saxophone Damian Cheek, alto saxophone Salvatore Castellano, baritone saxophone Evan Harris, tenor saxophone Spiro Nicolas, bariton saxophone IN MEMORIAM BOB BERG Ivan Fedele (1953): Magic Marc Mellits (1966): Red Federico Troncatti (1965): In Moderately funky Memoriam Bob Berg (premiere Fast, aggressive, vicious performance) Moderate, with motion Gabriele Cosmi (1988): KIC Slow, with motion Moderate, with motion About the Program The project In memoriam Bob Berg Fast, obsessive, bombastic, red (arr. proposed by Vagues Saxophone Quartet, Damian Cheek) wants to present the most important (premiere performance) composers that in Italy were inspired Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1841): Trio by the inluence of Jazz and popular Sonata in D minor RV 63 La Follia music. Magic is a brilliant and virtuoso (arr. Evan Harris) composition tending towards jazz and divided into three parts. In the central part, the incandescent material of the opening part crystallizes into suggestive bands of chords, only to spring back to life in the frenetic conclusion. In memoriam Bob Berg is the piece that gives the name to our project. It wants to be a hommage to this contemporary jazz giant, made through a brilliant combination of rhythmic and harmonic elements that create one of the most successful experiment between

220 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | this two musical universes. "In memoriam over the world by soloists and ensembles Bob Berg" performed by VSQ at the including PRISM Quartet, Akropolis Reed Congress wil be a world premiere. KIC uses Quintet, Trujillo Symphony Orchestra, the meeting of diferent musical languages Capitol Quartet, Timothy McAllister, Robert to represent the image of a star, KIC Spring, Christopher Creviston, Oren Fader, 8462852, situated in Cygnus constellation, Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet, and became famous for the irregular conduct many others. of his light emitting. ACADEMY OF MUSIC 14:00 Fran Lhotka Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Duo Breedlove Svetislav Stančić Hall Stephen Page

Marc Mellits (1966): Escape Enter Swerve Cortex Gregory Wanamaker (1968): Escape Night Set for soprano saxophone and Antique piano Pendulum Night Sparks Exit Night Song Jamie Wind Whitmarsh (1988): Night Ride Peridot for alto saxophone and vibraphone / pipeophone About the Program saturday Combining athletic virtuosity and lyrical expressionism, Gregory Wanamaker’s music has been called “pure gold, shot through with tenderness and grace” (San Francisco Chronicle), “achingly beautiful” (Palm Beach Daily News), “compelling” (Audiophile Audition), “outstanding” (American Record Guide), and “a technical tour de force” (Fanfare). His music has been commissioned and performed all

221 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | STUDENT CENTER Honkyoku tradition, reinterpreted for MM Center soprano saxophone as a tribute to one of my mentors—Peter Sculthorpe. The piece Katia Beaugeais begins in the ritualised stillness of crotales ringing, as if being a Buddhist prayer bell, and emerges into glossolalia type chanting from the Judaic Christian tradition with shakuhachi-like explosions of air, panting and arch-like exuberant melodic phrases— peppered with grace-note articulations and lourishes to energize it. The ritualised crotales and chant sounds recur as restful refrains and meditative moments throughout the work, whilst exuberantly free bursts of Gagaku-derived Paciic harmony gradually reveal themselves throughout the piece; this climaxes in an exuberant and liberated athletic section utilising the rich colour range of the soprano saxophone. In quick snatches of Katy Abbott (1971): Multisonics sound, the climactic resonance gradually for alto saxophone (premiere ebbs back to panting, ritualised chant and performance) crotales, and distilled stillness that dies into a sub-tone lourish. Breath by Breath Bruce Crossman (1961): Dying of the (2018) This new soprano saxophone Light: Paciic Resonance for Peter for piece will explore the lyrical, singing soprano saxophone qualities and timbral and textural efects through the use of extended techniques: Katia Beaugeais (1976): Breath slap-tonguing, multiphonics, Australian by Breath for soprano saxophone bird-like sounds and soothing air wind (premiere performance) sound efects. Thick layered textural sound mass passages featuring atmospheric About the Program multiphonic efects together with long MultiSonics (2010) was originally passages of circular breathing will create composed for Australian bassoonist Mark an innovative and unique work showcasing Gaydon in 2009/2010, and has been the technical virtuosic possibilities of the recently arranged for award-winning instrument. saxophonist, Katia Beaugeais. This work uses textural and extended techniques such as timbral and wide trills, circular breathing, multiphonics, slow glissandi, water tonguing and melodies set in the high register of the instrument. The aim of this work was to explore the beauty of the instrument incorporating these techniques. Dying of the Light: Paciic Resonance for Peter (2014) "My purpose in writing this piece was to create a work for my colleague—Katia Beaugeais—that captured the meditative stillness and living colour luctuations of the Japanese

222 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 14:15 Vaclav Huml Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Rhett Bender and Blagoje Bersa Hall Wenjun Qi Generation Saxophone 1987

Rhett Bender, saxophone Wenjun Qi, guitar

Cornelius Boots (1974):Tadpole Brandon Yonwoo Choi, saxophone Nights for alto sax and guitar duo Nikita Zimin, saxophone Pool Wandering Yo Matsushita, saxophone Two Worlds Kishin Nagai, piano Moon Water

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Trio for Derek Keller (1971): Liminal Spaces oboe, bassoon and piano (arr. for two for guitar and saxophone (premiere saxophones and piano Junichi Sato) performance) Jun Nagao (1964): Paganini lost for two saxophones and piano Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Primavera porteña for two saxophones and piano (arr. John Wintringham) Paul-Agricole Génin (1832-1903): Carnaval de Venice for three saxophones and piano (arr. Asai) saturday Alexander Rosenblatt (1956): Kalinka for three saxopohones and piano (arr. Emi Marda)

223 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | for 4 tenor saxophones (premiere 14:30 performance) STUDENT CENTER Matt London: The Shaman for 12 tenor saxophones Theatre &TD Big Hall Rob Buckland: Tenacity for 12 tenor Tenor Saxophone saxophones Collective STUDENT CENTER Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble (Quartet)

Matt London [UK], Jenni Watson [UK], Nathan Henshaw [Australia], João Pedro Silva [Portugal], Kyle Hutchins [USA], Pilar Montejano [Spain], Alfonso Padilla [Spain], Gilly Blair [UK], Erin Royer [Australia], Luis Ribeiro [Portugal], Nathan Calvin Wong Mertens [USA] and Nicki Roman Yin Tak Au [USA] Man Sze Tsang Dennis Tsz Kiu Kwok Matilda Grieve: Inertia for 12 tenor saxophones (premiere performance) Marc Mellits (1966): Tapas No. 3 for Lino Guerreiro (1977): Less but saxophone quartet - 8 movements not Last for 12 tenor saxophones (premiere performance) Erin Royer (1990), Jennifer Watson (1985): 7 hours for 2 tenor saxophones (premiere performance) Andy Scott (1966): Westland for solo tenor saxophone Nathan James Dearden (1992): johannes: canons and transitions

224 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | ACADEMY OF MUSIC 15:00 Fran Lhotka Hall ACADEMY OF MUSIC Rogue Two Svetislav Stančić Hall Pan-American Trio and Sae Lee

Andrew Allen, saxophone Gordon Hicken, percussion

Preston Duncan, saxophone Igor Karača (1974): Mirror Sign Sofía Zumbado, saxophone for soprano saxophone (premiere performance) Ramonet Rodríguez, guitar Sae Lee, piano Jay C. Batzner (1974): Relections on the Nature of Impermanence for Felipe Perez Santiago (1973): tenor saxophone and snare drum Morsecoding for two alto saxophones I. and piano (premiere performance) II. Alvaro Esquivel (1955): Baribustre III. / Bulerias for guitar and soprano IV. saxophone V. (European premiere) Alvaro Esquivel (1955): Bronce y Madera, Tango Argentino for guitar About the Program and soprano saxophone (premiere Mirror Sign by Bosnian composer Igor performance) Karača (2017) for soprano saxophone and

percussion is a musical relection on the saturday Eddie Mora (1965): La Trade y la loss of self associated with dementia in the Montaña for guitar/piano and 2 aged. The work is based on the idea of an saxophones (premiere performance) elderly man who saw the image of himself as a little boy while looking in a mirror. The composer is on faculty at Oklahoma State University in the United States and at the Sarajevo Academy of Music in Bosnia. Jay C. Batzner's Relections on the nature of impermanence (2017) for tenor saxophone and snare drum is

225 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | a sparse, delicate work that presents new possibilities for the saxophone and 15:15 percussion ensemble. Jay C. Batzner is a professor of composition at Central ACADEMY OF MUSIC Michigan University in the United States. Vaclav Huml Hall Both works on this program were written for and dedicated to Rogue Two. Karača Emma McPhilemy and will be receiving its world premiere, while Batzner will be receiving its European Hannah Creviston premiere.

STUDENT CENTER MM Center Anna Stepanova and Irén Seleljo

Emma McPhilemy, saxophone Hannah Creviston, piano

Andy Scott (1966): Three Letter Word Roshanne Etezady (1973): Streetlegal

Anna Stepanova, saxophone Graham Fitkin (1963): Gate Irén Seleljo, piano Piet Swerts (1960): Double Concerto

226 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | William Street, saxophone 15:30 Allison Balcetis, saxophone

STUDENT CENTER François Rossé (1945): ...sur un îlot Theatre &TD Semicircular Hall de la rivière... Sandro Compagnon and Robert Lemay (1960): Fragments Eudes Bernstein Noirs

ACADEMY OF MUSIC Blagoje Bersa Hall SOS Saxophone Orchestra

Vincent David (1974): Onomatopée for baritone and alto saxophones Jonathan Pontier (1977): Terra Incognita for two soprano saxophones Lev Pupis, Rok Volk, Anja Kožuh, Nicolas Fox (1988): Creation for Boštjan Simon, Jovana Joka, Aleš baritone and soprano saxophones Logar, Matjaž Škoberne, Joanna Blejwas, Weronika Partyka, Larisa Marjanović, Irena Šmid, Tim Jerman, 16:00 Ita Nagode Slaven Kulenović, artistic leader ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall Program ANIMA SLAVICA William Street and Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857): Ruslan and Ludmila - overture

Allison Balcetis (arr. Jacques Laroque) saturday Grigory Markovich Kalinkovich (1917-1992): Concerto Capriccio (arr. Alain Crepin) Marjan Kozina (1907-1966): Bela krajina (arr. Miha Ferk) Vid Pupis (1981): Fantazija / Fantasia for alto saxophone and ensemble of saxophones

227 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884): STUDENT CENTER Vltava (arr. Miha Ferk) Theatre &TD Big Hall Igor Lunder (1969): Charleston Siam Saxophone About the Program Quartet (SSQ) Anima Slavica (Slavic Soul) as the SOS Saxophone Orchestra named their programme, is made up of compositions by Slavic authors and includes original music pieces, as well as transcriptions of prominent Slavic classical music. The programme’s journey spans across three centuries, from the modern age all the way back to the romantic age. The compositions share a folk theme and despite their technical complexity and colourfulness of sound retain the feeling of simplicity and familiarity.

STUDENT CENTER MM Center L'ombre Duo Supat Hanpatanachai, soprano saxophone Kittikun Jungate, alto saxophone Methawut Pimphapatang, tenor saxophone Nattakit Thanapoonsawad, baritone saxophone

Viskamol Chaiwanichsiri (1991): Scherzo for saxophone quartet (premiere performance) Taewook Ahn, saxophone Boonrut Sirirattanapan (1972): Miki Isogai, saxophone Pegasus (premiere performance) Polwit Opapant (1971): Dream Girl Satoshi Ohmae (1943): No. 1 No. 1 (premiere performance) (premiere performance) Hideki Kozakura (1970): *** (premiere performance) Naoki Sakata (1981): *** (premiere performance) Masamichi Kinoshita (1969): *** (premiere performance) Dai Fujikura (1977): Dolphins for two saxophones

228 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | III Serenade for the Doll 16:15 IV The Little Shepherd ACADEMY OF MUSIC VI Golliwoggs Cakewalk Vaclav Huml Hall Karol Befa (1973): Octopus TWO for NEW Duo 18:00 VATROSLAV LISINSKI CONCERT HALL Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Quentin Hindley, conductor

Giovannu De Luca, saxophone Francesco Silvestri, piano

Lodi Luka (1980): Changing Carlo Galante (1959): Eumenidum crines (5 frammenti lirici) for soprano saxophone and piano Armando Ghidoni (1959): Flashnotes (premiere performance)

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229 saturday | 14/07 /2018 | Takashi Yoshimatsu (1953): Cyber Bird Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra Op.59 Bird in Colors Bird in Grief Bird in the Wind - soloists: Nobuya Sugawa, saxophone* Minako Koyanagi, piano Takako Yamaguchi, percussion

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Davorin Jenko competition, 1st Varaždin In- 2 ternational Woodwin & Brass competition, The Ensemble 2.13 Sax comes from the etc. He is also winner of multiple honours. Superior Conservatory of Castile and Leon. He attended numerous international sem- The sax class has become a reference inars with world-renowned saxophonists: class in Europe in its more than 10 years of Matjaž Drevenšek, Lev Pupis, Miha Rogina, tradition. Its members understand music Marcus Weiss, Claude Delangle, Jean Denis as a shared experience, where the mix of Michat, Philippe Geiss, etc. diferent instrumental sonorities stands Abdul-Aziz Hussein (Bucharest, 1992) is out above individuality. The concert is un- currently enrolled in doctoral studies at the derstood as a creative space that interacts Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in with the public, fostering relection on cre- Versailles in the class of Philippe Cuper. He ation and current sound art. The relevance has graduated at Zagreb Music Academy and prestige that this chamber group is in the class of Davorin Brozić. He won a acquiring is relected by the awards re- total of 7 1st prizes at Croatian national ceived in diferent contests and prizes, music students competitions. He is also a such as the 1st Prize of the “IX Concurso winner of multiple honours, including the de Jóvenes intérpretes extremeños”, 1st Rector’s award from Zagreb University and Prize of the “V Ramón Guzmán Saxophone the Croatian Composer’s Guild award. He Competition” of Santiago de Compostela, held many recitals in Croatia and abroad, 1st Prize in the “VIII Concurso Nacional de the most important being the one at the Interpretación Intercentros-Melómano” in Osor Musical Evenings and Zagreb Bien- the category of Superior Degree, 1st Prize nale. As a soloist he played with the HRT in the “Concurso de Música de Cámara Symphony Orchestra and the Croatian ciudad de Ávila”, 2nd prize in the “Concur- Armed Forces Wind Orchestra. He worked so de Juventudes Músicales de España”in with eminent world clarinettists such as the category of soloist. This relevance is Guy Deplus, Philippe Cuper, Nicolas Bald- also shown by the presence of its mem- eyrou, Jože Kotar, Radovan Cavallin, Sha- bers in conservatories throughout Europe, ron Kam, Nicholas Cox, Chen Halevi, Nikola such as the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Srdić, Luis Gomes. He is a clarinettist at the the Conservatoire régional CRR Versailles, Croatian Chamber Orchestra and at Zadar the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste or Clarinet Quartet. the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. The conductor of the ensemble is Ángel Soria, Acrobatic Sax Quartet was born in 2016 one of the most eminent musicians of his when four young Calabrian saxophonists generation. He is a soloist and a member joined together to make a new exciting of the renowned saxophone quartet SIG- experience. The aim of the group was clear MA Project. right from the beginning: as an acrobat knows how to move through a lot of trou- bles, the Acrobatic Sax quartet always a tries to juggle in many kinds of music:Clas- Abliage Duo and Virna Kljaković sical, Jazz, Latin, Pop Tunes. Every genre Aljaž Razdevšek (Slovenj Gradec, 1991) of music mixes as in a sort of kaleidoscop- graduated from The Maribor Conservato- ic trip. ry of Music and Ballet under prof. Peter Kruder in 2010 and from Music academy Adam Quartet Zagreb, under prof. Dragan Sremec and The members of Adam Quartet are four assistent Tomislav Žužak in 2016. In the Japanese saxophonists who have gradu- academic year 2013/14 he studied at the ated from Showa University of Music. The Academy of Music in Ljubljana under prof. Quartet was founded in February 2015 Miha Rogina as a part of bilateral exchange in Tokyo. In the same year Adam Quartet programme. From 2015 to 2017 he studied has won 1st prize - “The Grand Prix” at the at Conservatoire à rayonnement régional Mozart International Chamber Music Com- de Lyon under prof. Jean Denis Michat. He petition in Salzburg. attended several competitions: he won 1st prizes at the Woodwind competition in Požarevac , 11th International Competition

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Adams, Allison consists of graduates of professional and Dr. Allison Adams is Assistant Professor superior conservatories. They have per- of Saxophone at the University of Tennes- formed several concerts in Spain: Cloister see-Knoxville in the United States. An avid of the Cortes Valencianas (Valencia), The- performer, Adams is the tenor saxophon- ater of l’Orfeó Maonés and Esglessia des ist in the Estrella Consort, a saxophone Socors (Menorca-Balearic Islands), Capitol quartet devoted to the performance of Theater of Rojales, Houses of Culture of new music. She is also a member of the Xixona, Agost, Castalla, Novelda and El nief-norf contemporary music ensemble. Campello or for audiences of the city of Adams frequently performs with the Knox- Alicante in the ADDA, in Theater Arniches ville Symphony and has been featured in of the Generalitat Valenciana, in the Muse- recitals across the country. Besides her um MUBAG. They performed across Italy study of the saxophone, Adams’ main and in 2017 they participated at the EurSax area of research centers around wellness in Porto (Portugal). The ENSA is impelled for musicians, performance injuries, and by the teachers José A. Antón Suay (saxo- the integration of yoga into music perfor- phone professor, Conservatory “Ana María mance. She was a contributing author for Sánchez” of Elda), Juan C. Sempere (sax- Notes of Hope: Stories of Musicians Cop- ophone professor, Conservatory “Tenor ing with Injuries,as well as the multi-media Cortis” of Denia) and Javier Carrillos (sax- resource Cross Training for Musicians. Her ophone professor, Professional Conserva- main teachers include Timothy McAllister, tory of Elche). Eugene Rousseau, and Steven Mauk. Allen, Andrew Alah Quartet Andrew J. Allen is an assistant professor The Alah Quartet is comprised of four as- of music at Midwestern State University piring saxophonists from Shanghai, China. in Wichita Falls, Texas. Dr. Allen has pre- “Alah” means “we” in Shanghainese dia- miered nearly twenty works for saxophone lect. While the four members have various and has performed and lectured at the education backgrounds, they love to play World Saxophone Congress, the Interna- all kinds of saxophone quartet music and tional Saxophone Symposium, the National strive to deliver exceptional performances. Association of College Wind and Percus- The Alah Quartet performs regularly in sion Instructors Conference, and national concert halls in Shanghai, such as Cadillac and regional gatherings of the North Shanghai Concert Hall, Oriental Arts Cen- American Saxophone Alliance and the Col- ter, Poly Theater, Shanghai Museum, and lege Music Society. He currently performs Parsons Music Hall. In October 2017, they with the Wichita Falls Symphony Orches- performed an entire show on four electric tra, the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, SAGA saxophones made by Roland at Music Chi- Quartet, Rogue Two, and the Allen Duo. In na Exhibition. They continue to discover addition, his writings have appeared in The new works for saxophone and make them Instrumentalist, The Saxophone Sympo- accessible to Chinese audiences. Aside sium, The NACWPI Journal, JazzEd, School from making the China premiere of Patch- Band and Orchestra, Saxophone Today, work by Philippe Geiss, and they worked and the TBA Review, and he has served as closely with Jianqiang Xu, composition a clinician at gatherings of the North Da- professor at Shanghai Conservatory, to kota, South Dakota, and Texas Music Edu- commission and premiere his compositions cation Associations. His debut album with such as Da Hu Shang Shan, and Gui Yuan saxophone/percussion duo Rogue Two TianJu, both of which received numerous is forthcoming on Equilibrium Records. accolades from audiences in Shanghai. Dr. Allen currently serves as editor of The NACWPI Journal and is a member of the Alicante Saxophone Ensemble editorial board of The Saxophone Sympo- The ACMH - Alicante Saxophone Ensem- sium. He holds degrees from Tennessee ble started its activity in 2005. The goal, Technological University, Central Michigan that led to the constitution of this Ensem- University, and the University of South Car- ble, was to ofer young saxophonists the olina where he studied with Phil Barham, possibility of tapping into great training to John Nichol, and Cliford Leaman. He has increase their playing skills. The Ensemble undertaken additional study with Joseph biografIES

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Lullof, Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp Epsilon Foundation, and New Music USA, and Vincent David, among others. among others. Hutchins has participated in the creation of more than 100 new works Altera Duo and regularly performs with diferent Tereza Novotná and Alice Lin both studied groups and ensembles. He received the at Prague conservatory, but inally met in Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music 2015 in the music school where they work. degrees from the University of Minnesota Since their irst performance in 2015, they where he was a recipient of the Berneking knew they belong together. Their favorite Fellowship. He has degrees in Music Edu- music of czech composers of 20th and cation and Saxophone Performance from 21st century. Tereza Novotná studied saxo- the University of North Texas. He teaches phone at Prague conservatory in the class saxophone at Virginia Tech and directs the of Mr. Pavel Fiedler. Now she is continuing VT Jazz Lab Band. her studies at The University of Ostrava in the class of dr. Zbigniew Kaleta. In the Andalusian Saxophone Quintet year 2016 she studied with Pawel Gusnar The Andalusian Saxophone Quintet is one in Warsaw. She is a member of the ATAM of the most relevant chamerisic groups Saxophone Quartet and also cooperates of Spain, being in consideration that they with chamber ensembles and orchestras. bring to light the historical and less known Alice Lin studied piano at the Prague con- repertory of the saxophone. They also servatory in the class of František Maxián could work in quartet or trio, depending on and Eva Boguniová. She is now at the end the original instrumentation. Their players of her studies at The Academy of Per- have been trained in institutions of some forming Arts in Prague in the piano class European countries, and carry on some of František Malý. She has participated researches of the historical performance of and was highly ranked in the several com- the saxophone literature. petitions: Competition of Conservatories (2009) and International competition Antares Saxophone Quartet of Fryderyk Chopin in Mariánské Lázně Four young saxophone students, of eigh- (2013). teen and nineteen years, from Bergen (Norway) formed The Antares Saxophone Amphi Duo Quartet. Some of them have played sax- Matt London aspires to create emotive ophone since they were 5 years old. They music inspired by free improvisation. A have been studying saxophone with Siri graduate of the Royal Northern College Overland (former student of Fredrich of Music and with current doctoral study Hemke). Despite their young age, this is at Brunel University London, he continues a high quality quartet. They play all their to explore and develop a forward looking repertoire with lots of young energy, sensi- approach to his music centered around the tivity and happiness! In Norway, they have impromptu. Today his main musical inlu- won many competitions. The variety and ences as a performer-composer are drawn fun in the program they are playing here, from master improvisers and composers at WSC, is deinitely worth to listen! such as Paul Dunmall, Barry Guy, Brian Irvine and Paul Rogers to name a few. He Antipodes Duo leads Ensemble Entropy, a dynamic new For two years, Royal Northern College of group exploring the space between com- Music postgraduate students Sarah Byron posed contemporary music & improvisa- and Sam Rodwell have been performing tion. and commissioning repertoire for saxo- Dr. Jefery Kyle Hutchins is active as a phone and guitar. This novel pairing of in- soloist, chamber musician, improviser, and struments abandons tradition and explores performance artist. Praised for his “formi- fresh chamber music possibilities for the dable technique” and “enviable uniformity saxophone. of tone” (The Saxophone Symposium), he Australian born saxophonist, Sarah Byron has performed in Asia, Europe and North is an award-winning musician with per- America. He has been awarded grants and formances in Australia, Portugal, and the competition prizes from Downbeat, Music United Kingdom. Sarah has performed as Teacher’s National Association, Mu Phi soloist in John Williams’ Escapades, given

248 biographies | a-a | the Australian premiere of Michael Col- and has recently recorded a CD with cellist grass’ Urban Requiem and the European Luca Fiorentini for the label “RAITRADE” premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s ‘From with music by Andrea Ferrante. Anna Magdalena’s Notebook’ at the 2017 European Saxophone Congress. Current- Arcos, Joan Jordi Oliver ly studying with Rob Buckland at RNCM, Born in 1994 in Mallorca, Joan Jordi Oliver Sarah’s postgraduate studies have been Arcos is a saxophonist based in Zürich. generously supported by the Muriel Berry After receiving a Bachelor degree in Con- and Gyles Thomas Lyth Scholarships. servatorio Superior de Música de Aragón Sam Rodwell completed his undergrad- (CSMA, Zaragoza, Spain), he continued his uate at RNCM with a irst class honours studies with Lars Mlekusch at the Züricher degree under the tutelage of Craig Ogden Hochschule der Künste. Unsatisied with and is currently completing his Masters in the traditional proile of the saxophonist performance. Sam was the irst guitarist and devoted to the music of our time, he in nearly 30 years to win the RNCM String regularly collaborates with emerging and Department ‘Salon Prize and has placed as established composers, as well as with a inalist in the highly prestigious ‘RNCM artists from many diferent ields. His per- Gold Medal’, Ivor Mairants Guitar Com- formances include his own compositions, petition and The Royal Overseas League electroacustic music, audiovisual media strings sectional. and free improvisation. He has performed at festivals such as Radical dB (Zaragoza) Arcadia Saxophone Quartet or Laokoon Festival (Zurich) and partici- Diferent didactic and artistic experiences pated in academies as Impuls International of four saxophonists intermingle in the Academy (Graz) or LAbO #5 (Antwer- Arcadia Saxophone Quartet, created in pen). He has been selected as a fellow 1995 - studies with world famous mae- participant in the Atlantic Music Festival’s stros (D. Defayet, J. M. Londeix, I. Roth), program Future Music Lab (Maine, United performances at important music events States) and in the Lucerne Festival Acade- and cooperation with important orchestras my (Lucerne, Switzerland). and music institutions (“Teatro S. Carlo”, Naples, “Teatro Massimo Bellini”, Palermo, Ardemus Quartet Symphonic Orchestra “Ente Lirico G.P. da Finalist of the prestigious Dutch Classi- Palestrina”, Cagliari, “Teatro Massimo Bel- cal Talent Award 2017-18, the Ardemus lini”, Catania) - led by famous conductors Quartet was forged through a burning including M. Rostropovich, G. Prêtre, D. passion for chamber music (Ardemus, lat.: Oren, G. Ferro, W. Barkymer, N. Carthy, D. we burn). The four young international Garforth, and Y. Talmi. These rich individ- musicians combine seamlessly to create ual experiences have given the group the a refreshing musical experience. Since chance to play in several Italian and foreign its formation in Amsterdam (2014), the cities. Besides having won rewards at nu- Ardemus Quartet has been laureate of merous national and international chamber various national and international compe- and contemporary music competitions, the titions including the Boris Papandopulo Arcadia Saxophone Quartet represented Competition in Zagreb (2015), Storioni Italy during the XI, XII and XIV World Sax- Toonzaal Competitie (2016), Grachten- ophone Congress. Many composers, in- festival Conservatorium Concours (2016), cluding Derek Healey, Ada Gentile, Franco 13th International Competition for Young Oppo, Luca Signorini, Giuseppe Ratti, Da- Musicians Ferdo Livadić Croatia (2016). In vide Summaria, among others, have dedi- 2017, the Ardemus Quartet advanced to cated their work to the Quartet. In 2006, the semi-inal stage for the Wind section the Arcadia Saxophone Quartet recorded of the renowned 9th Osaka International a CD with the title “ XXI-Italian Works from Chamber Music Competition in Japan. As the 21st century”, released under the label the inalist of the Dutch Classical Talent “Spazio Musica” in Cagliari, and in 2008 Award, they will have an extensive concert a CD of sacred music by title “In domum tour of the Netherlands presenting a dy- Domini ibimus”. The Arcadia Saxophone namic program. Active in the Netherlands Quartet collaborated with cellist Luca Si- and in Europe, the Ardemus Quartet has gnorini, with pianist Francesco Nicolosi, been guest artist in numerous festivals biografIES

249 biographies | a-a | including Holland Festival, Grachtenfesti- Ljubljana and with the Chieri Chamber val, Festival Jong Talent Schiermonnikoog, Orchestra in Italy (concertos by Glazunov NJO Muziekzomer, Musical Evenings St. and Larsson). He has worked under the Donat Zadar and Festival Next Generation direction of Philippe Bender, Bruno Man- Bad Ragaz performing in important con- tovani, Fayçal Karoui and Patrick Fournil- certs hall such as Concertgebouw Amster- let.He has performed diverse and varied dam, Lisinski Hall Zagreb, Izumi Hall Osaka programs with the CNSMDP saxophone and the Konzerthaus Berlin. To further ensemble at “Théâtre du Châtelet”, Paris, reine their musical ideas, the Ardemus in Douai, Vannes, and at the “Younger Hall” Quartet studies at the Netherlands String in St. Andrews, Scotland. Also a member Quartet Academy (NSKA) with Marc Danel of Quatu’or Laloi (founded in 2008) a sax- (Quatuor Danel). They have attended ophone quartet which excels in a mix of masterclasses by Luc-Marie Aguera (Ysaÿe genres including tango, jazz, classical mu- Quartet), prof. Eberhard Feltz (Berlin) and sic, contemporary and music from Central Misha Amory (Brentano Quartet). The Europe and the Balkans.Nicolas Arsenijevic Quartet also enjoys guidance from Sven is involved in contemporary premiers and Arne Tepl and Arno Bornkamp, professors has worked with many composers. World at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. premiers include works such as “Sous l’égide” by Kaija Saariaho, “Translittéra- Arkansas Saxophones Choir tions II” by Carlos Castelarnau (April 2013), The Arkansas Saxophones Choir is an “Sikuri II” by Juan Arroyo for tenor saxo- ensemble comprised of professionals, phone and electronics (May 2013). He has teachers and students who play the saxo- developed concert lectures, ”sequence(s)”, phone. The ensemble performs each year with double bassist Florentin Ginot and at the Arkansas Bandmasters Convention actor Hervé Péjaudier, mixing Sequenzas and for Arkansas Saxophone Day. It is con- by Luciano Berio and Dante’s poems. ducted by Dr. Jackie Lamar, Professor of Saxophone (retired) University of Central Arsenijevic, Nicolas and Batoš, Ivan Arkansas. Arkansas Saxophones has per- After studies at the Cergy-Pontoise (with formed at World Saxophone Congresses Jean-Yves Fourmeau) and Saint-Maur in Thailand, Scotland, and France and conservatoires (with Nicolas Prost), young performs a variety of music from transcrip- saxophonist Nicolas Arsenijevic, born in tions to new commissioned works. 1988, continued to study with Christian Wirth before being admitted unanimously Arsenijevic, Nicolas into Claude Delangle’s saxophone class at After brilliant studies at the Cergy-Pon- the Conservatoire National Superieur de toise (with Jean-Yves Fourmeau) and Musique in Paris. He has won numerous Saint-Maur conservatoires (with Nicolas awards in major competitions including, Prost), Nicolas Arsenijevic born in 1988, Concours International de Nantes and continued to study with Christian Wirth Concours Européen de Gap, Nova Gorcia before being admitted unanimously into International Competition in Slovenia, Claude Delangle’s saxophone class at Chieri International Competition in Italy, the “Conservatoire National Superieur de Andorra International Sax Competition Musique” in Paris. He has won numerous Fest, Nochta Competition in Zagreb. In awards in major competitions.In 2007 he recent years, Arsenijevic has acquired formed the Oblivion Quintet with whom he great experience on stage. In 2007 he has given numerous concerts throughout formed the Oblivion Quintet with whom he France (Paris, Laval, Alençon). He works has given numerous concerts throughout regularly with pianist Françoise Bufet. France (Paris, Laval, Alençon). He has per- In 2012 alongside pianist Zoltan Peter he formed as soloist with orchestra on several played as part of the programming of the occasions, notably with the Slovenian Society of Slovenian Composers in Lju- String Chamber Orchestra in Ljubljana and bljana, where he premiered “Visshudi” by with the Chieri Chamber Orchestra in Italy Peter Savli, for saxophone and percussion. (concertos by Glazunov and Larsson). He He has performed as soloist with orches- has worked under the direction of Philippe tra on several occasions, notably with the Bender, Bruno Mantovani, Fayçal Karoui Slovenian String Chamber Orchestra in and Patrick Fournillet. He is also a mem-

250 biographies | a-a | ber of Quatu’or Laloi (founded in 2008) a Athens Saxopone Quartet saxophone quartet which excels in a mix of The Athens Saxophone Quartet was genres including tango, jazz, classical mu- founded by Athanasios Zervas in 1997. It sic, contemporary and music from Central has frequent appearances in music fes- Europe and the Balkans. Nicolas Arsenije- tivals and concert halls internationally, vic is involved in contemporary premiers and has released several CDs. The Athens and has worked with many composers. Saxophone Quartet’s members are virtu- Ivan Batoš (Split, 1979) is the artistic asso- oso saxophonists as well as accomplished ciate and pianist of the Wind Instruments composers, theorists, and teachers in Department of the Zagreb Music Academy. universities and colleges in Greece and in His career has been inluenced by all his USA. piano teachers equally: Ivana Oreb, Đuro Eric Honour, baritone and alto saxophone, Tikvica, Lovro Pogorelić and Arbo Valdma. holds a DM in composition and an MM in Ivan Batoš’s personal musical proile is saxophone performance and composition now additionally deined through collab- from Northwestern University; he studied orations and performances with chamber saxophone with Fredrick Hemke. He is a music artists such as Lidija Ljubičić, Gor- professor of music technology and compo- dan Tudor, Bruno Philipp, and by helping sition and director of the Center for Music numerous students in their development Technology and chairman of the Music and musical formation. Department at the University of Central Missouri. ATAM Saxophone Quartet is an interna- Dionisis Roussos, alto and soprano saxo- tional ensemble interpreting pieces across phone, holds a diploma in saxophone from all genres and eras. All members regularly the Athens Conservatory; he studied sax- attend masterclasses across Europe and ophone with Theodore Kerkezos. He is a are Czech and Slovak nationals who met member in the Music Band of the Hellenic at a clarinet and saxophone masterclass Coast Guard, and saxophone professor at in Ostrava in 2015. Formed 1 year later, the Orfeion Conservatory in Athens Greece. quartet continues its tradition of visiting Leo Saguiguit, tenor and soprano saxo- courses together (Saxophobia 2017, Ba- phone, holds an MM in saxophone perfor- latonSax 2017) and, despite the distance mance from Northwestern University; he separating its members, is actively working studied saxophone with Fredrick Hemke. on and performing new repertoire. He is an associate professor of saxophone Alžbeta Klasová studied at RCM in Lon- at the University of Missouri, and a mem- don with Kyle Horch as a scholar of the Dr. ber of the Chicago Saxophone Quartet. Michael West Award. She won 1st prize at Athanasios Zervas, soprano and alto sax- the Competition of Slovak Conservatories ophone, holds a DM in composition and (2012), Deloitte Talent Award, Talents of an MM in saxophone performance from New Europe. Northwestern University; he studied saxo- Alžbeta Kačmárová currently studies at phone with Fredrick Hemke. He is an asso- Ostravian university with Zbygniew Kaleta. ciate professor of music theory & creation She won Slovak competitions for solo and at the University of Macedonia in Thes- chamber performance including 1st place saloniki, Greece and visiting artist (saxo- at the Competition of Slovak Conservato- phone) at the Athens Conservatory. ries (2016). Tereza Novotná currently studies at Ostra- Australian Saxophone Orchestra formed vian university with Zbygniew Kaleta. She in 2015 for its inaugural performances at took part in the 2016 Erasmus programme the SaxOpen – 17th World Saxophone in Warsaw under Pawel Gusnar. She is a Congress in Strasbourg, France. These scholar of the Nadace Český hudební fond. professional and highly regarded Austra- Matěj Trojan studied at the Prague con- lian saxophonists reside throughout the servatory with Pavel Fiedler. He took part world and share an appreciation for the in the Bohemia Saxophone Ensemble. As music from their country that depicts the an orchestral player, he also guests with multi-cultural inluences that Australia en- diferent ensembles (Czech Philharmonic, joys in addition to the programmatic rep- Radim Schwab Band, Party Leaders). resentation of the wide brown land known as Terra Australis. Brought together again biografIES

251 biographies | a-B | by Dr Diana Tolmie (conductor), this group Azar Duo has reformed especially for the 18th World It is a real artistic frenzy which pushes Saxophone Congress. Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach and Wang Wen- jiao to reclaim all repertoires, including Australasian Saxophone Quartet ASAX-Q, transcriptions from Bach to Poulenc, while brings together four leading saxophonists remaining at the forefront in the era of from Australia and New Zealand: Joseph contemporary music. Dedicatees of sev- Lallo (Melbourne AUS), Simon Brew (Wel- eral works, the two musicians collaborate lington NZ), Michael Jamieson (Auckland regularly with composers such as Marco NZ), Jay Byrnes (Sydney AUS). ASAX-Q is Stroppa, Frédéric Durieux, Bruno Manto- a unique quartet that draws its musicians vani, etc. The cultural ield of the two inex- from the four major Australasian centres haustible-energy performers has led them - Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wel- to play in places such as the Museum of lington. A long time in conception and now Orsay, the Orangerie Museum, the “Grand a realisation, ASAX-Q are excited to join Salon des Invalides”, the “Cité de la Mu- forces to create one of the region’s most sique” or the castle of Nantes. Duo Azar is advantageous chamber ensembles. 2018 regularly invited to perform in France and plans to be an exciting year for one of the abroad. Summer 2011 led them especially most inspired ensembles of the region - to Beijing and to Buenos Aires for concerts their irst tour of Australasia in January to and public lectures. Formed in 2008, Duo New Plymouth, Sydney and Melbourne, Azar obtained a Master of chamber mu- followed by many fantastic plans. sic in 2012 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Avena Saxophone Quartet Paris in the classes of Claire Désert and The Quatuor Avena is a French saxophone Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Duo Azar recently quartet founded in 2016 in Strasbourg distinguished itself by obtaining prizes in (France). Four young saxophonists, each the Saxiana international chamber music from their respective country (Italy, Japan, competition with saxophone, the Adolphe South Africa and France) met at the Haute Sax International Competition (Paris) and École des Arts du Rhin, where they were to the international competition of Dreux. continue with their studies in saxophone. Having both studied at the Paris Conser- Their mutual pleasure and passion, not vatoire National Supérieur de Musique et only for the saxophone but for chamber de Danse, Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach and music, sent of a spark which quickly Wenjiao Wang are also both prize-winners turned into something serious. Combining at numerous national and international four diferent ways of playing the saxo- competitions such as Yamaha Music Foun- phone with four diferent repertoires plus dation of Europe, Safran Foundation, Al- interests in all diferent types of music fred Reinhold Foundation and the National (traditional music from Japan or South Competition of China. A irst album based Africa, classical masterpieces like Borodin on Spanish music and tango (Duo Azar or tango with an Italian lair) has always plays Albéniz, Ravel, Villa-Lobos, Piaz- been a great challenge, but one which has zolla) was released in March 2011 at P.A.I brought enormous amounts of pleasure, Records. both to the musicians and to the audienc- es. The quartet is the winner of three Inter- b national Chamber Music Competitions held in Bolougne-Billancour Paris (France), Ku- Ball, Andrew rashiki (Japan) and Remirement (France) Andrew Ball is an Australian saxophon- and have performed in Paris, Lyon, Stras- ist and composer. He is currently tenor bourg, Mulhouse, Karlsruhe, Tokyo, Osaka, saxophonist and resident composer with Nagoya, etc. Always with the idea of taking Barega Saxophone Quartet, His Merry Men the music one step further, the quartet has and Bullhorn brass band. Andrew has been recently started incorporating movement featured soloist with Divertimenti strings into it’s performance working with Marco performing Bennett’s Concerto for Stan Locci on a show based on the music by Getz and with the Queensland Wind Or- Guillermo Lago. chestra performing the Maslanka Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, as well as Williams’

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Catch Me If You Can. He has completed a recital at the University of Illinois at Ur- large-scale commissions for ensembles in- bana-Champaign with guest artist Claude cluding The Australia Ensemble, Hourglass Delangle, and a 2013 premiere of three Ensemble, Collusion, Australian Saxophone works for bass and piano at the Interna- Orchestra, E.M.O big band and Queensland tional Society for Bassists Convention held Youth Orchestras. His playing and compo- in Rochester NY. In 2010-2011 she was a sition is featured on two full-length albums Visiting Assistant Professor at the Universi- of new Australian music by Barega SQ and ty of Notre Dame, functioning as a collabo- a new album of extended and prepared rative pianist and instructor for the depart- solo saxophone compositions titled For- ment of music. Casey received a BM from bidden Languages. Internationally, Andrew Indiana State University studying with has premiered compositions in France, William Hughes and a MM in Piano from Scotland, Italy and Greece, including at the University of Illinois. She also worked the WSCXVI 2012 and SaxOpen 2015. With with Krassimira Jordan at the Bosendorfer a uniquely kinetic, intricate and colourful Piano Academy in Vienna, Austria, and is compositional voice, Andrew draws inspi- supplementing her pianistic studies with ration from an eclectic variety of contem- pedagogue Zitta Zohar in New York City. porary avantgarde, folk, improvised and electronic musics. His compositional ap- Bangkok Saxophone Ensemble is a Silpa- proach consistently extends the capabili- korn University Faculty of Music ensemble ties of performers, exploits and reimagines from Bangkok, Thailand. Members of the the idiosyncrasies of instruments and aims Ensemble are students as well as saxo- to challenge attitudes and ideologies sur- phone teachers. The conductor of the En- rounding the limits of context and genre. semble is Supat Hanpatanachai.

Banister, Logan and Dierlam, Casey Barega Saxophone Quartet Logan Banister is a diversely talented mu- The Barega Saxophone Quartet was sician with competence in a variety of ar- formed in 2007 and is one of Australia’s eas. A native of Omaha (Nebraska), Logan premier single reed ensembles, performing earned accolades there for years as a high across the country and internationally. The school student. He was named as an al- group enjoys a versatile and wide-ranging ternate to the 2015 Jazz Band of America, programme of music from French and selected as the lead alto in the 2014 NMEA classical repertoire to minimalism and All-State Jazz Band and also received contemporary works, in addition to spe- special recognition as an Outstanding Per- cializing in compositions of a crossover former at the 2013 and 2014 NSAA District classical/jazz nature. A primary goal of Music Contests for his performance of the the BSQ is to perform and promote origi- Ibert Concertino da Camera. An active nal repertoire and Australian works. They composer as well as a performer, Banis- have premiered new music composed by ter’s compositions have been featured on Michael Bakrnčev, Louise Denson, Thomas his two CDs released with his jazz combo, Green, Catherine Likhuta, Andrew Garton, Three Day Weekend. At the collegiate lev- Nathan Lam, Andrew Kennedy, and An- el, he has continued his tradition of excel- drew Ball, at events including “SaxOpen’” lence. He was named the Freshman Music (Strasbourg, 2015), the Australasian Sax- Major of the Year for 2015-2016 at Okla- ophone and Clarinet Conference (Sydney, homa Christian University. In 2017, he was 2013), XVI World Saxophone Congress in selected as the 2nd chair alto saxophone St Andrews (Scotland, 2012), the Cross- at the CBDNA SBPIP Intercollegiate Honor bows Festival (Brisbane, 2012) and the Band. Banister maintains an active profes- Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Festival sional performance schedule around the (Melbourne, 2011). Barega’s debut album Oklahoma City and Omaha areas. Three Serpents is the irst volume in a se- Casey Gene Dierlam is an avid performer ries of recordings capturing their proud of contemporary music and is devoted to tradition of championing new music by promoting the music of innovative new Australian composers and arrangers. In composers through solo performances and 2016 the members were soloists with the collaborative endeavors. As a collaborative Queensland Wind Orchestra and featured pianist, her recent performances include performers at the Sydney Opera House. biografIES

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Beaugeais, Katia and the American Guitar Society Bickford Katia Beaugeais is a French-Australian Award. Wenjun has performed concerts saxophonist and composer whose music in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Hong has been performed in Europe, United Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Kingdom, America, Canada, Peru, Asia, Zhengzhou, Xi’an and Fuzhou. Wenjun New Zealand and Australia. Beaugeais won earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree the prestigious 2010 ISCM/IAMIC Inter- from the University of Southern California national Society for Contemporary Music Thornton School of Music where she stud- Young Composer Award. She is doing a ied with Brian Head, Scott Tennant, and PhD in Composition on the dual role of a William Kanengiser. composer-performer at the Sydney Con- Rhett Bender is a Professor of Music at servatorium, new piece for the Australian the Oregon Center for the Arts at South- Chamber Orchestra CD, First Light at Uluru ern Oregon University. He is the soprano for the Royal Australian Navy Band’s CD saxophonist with the Globe Saxophone with world-renowned didgeridoo player, Quartet and the Director of the Siskiyou William Barton, and an ABC Classic FM Saxophone Orchestra. Bender is a guest saxophone recording. Other highlights artist-teacher at the Sichuan Conservatory include: performance of her music by Kyle of Classical Music in Chengdu, China and a Horch and the Royal College of Music Sax- Visiting Professor of Music at the School of ophone Orchestra in London, guest solo- Arts of Yantai University. He is the Region 1 ist-composer with 100 saxophones, Royal Director of the North American Saxophone Northern College of Music in Manchester, Alliance. Bender earned degrees from Iowa England, Selmer Saxophone Showrooms State University (BM) and the University of in Paris, performing her own saxophone Georgia (MM, DMA) where he was a stu- concerto for ABC FM, invited on a panel dent of Kenneth Fischer. with the legendary Jean-Marie Londeix, Boulevard des Productions Strasbourg TV, Bensmann Saxophone Quartet 2011/2013 Zagreb Biennale, and her music Detlef Bensmann studied saxophone with performed by Ensemble Zeitluss (Austria), Prof. Omar Lamparter and double bass Elly Bašiæ Music School (Croatia), Sydney with Prof. Heinz Jablonski in Berlin, Ger- Symphony Orchestra Fellowship players, many. After playing double bass in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra com- orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin poser workshop, Adelaide Wind Orchestra, (1979/80), he started his career as a saxo- Texas Woman’s University Wind Sympho- phone soloist with a debut concert in the ny. Berlin Philharmonie with the Radio Sym- phonie Orchestra Berlin (DSO) and a irst Bender, Rhett and Qi, Wenjun recording of concerto for saxophone and Based on the West Coast of the United orchestra (1980). He reguarly performs States Jitazax performers Wenjun Qi, gui- internationally with world-class orchestras tar and Rhett Bender, saxophone; create and renown conductors, such as Dmitrij a musical intersection for trans-paciic Kitajenko, Kazushi Ono, Sian Edwards, Eiji collaboration. Jitazax performs concerts Oue, Tetsuro Ban, David Shallon, Michael featuring their interpretations of Chinese Dixon, Golo Berg, Neil Thompson, Jorge music and compositions for the guitar-sax- Lopez Marìn (Cuba), Olaf Koch and oth- ophone duo. In the spring of 2018 they will ers. More than 25 concertos have been tour China and Taiwan performing in Yan- composed especially for Detlef Bensmann tai, Zhengzhou, Nantong, Dali, Chengdu, (mostly recorded) and he has premiered and Taipei. Wenjun and Rhett Bender fre- more than 100 compositions for cham- quent soloist with international orchestras ber ensembles or solo pieces. In 1983, he and are professors of music at the Oregon founded the Berlin Saxophone Quartet and Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon in 2006 he founded “Bensmann-Saxo- University. phone-Quartet”, with students of his mas- Wenjun Qi teaches guitar at the Oregon ter-class. Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon After his graduation in Skopje, Ninoslav University. She has won First Prize at the Dimov continues his studies in Berlin, at Fifth National Guitar Competition of Chi- the Universität der Kunste, in the class na, both as a soloist and as part of a duet, of prof. Detlef Bensmann. He acquired

254 biographies | b-b | many state and international competition Szalonek, Rainer Rubbert and many oth- awards, and he is a regular participant at ers were premiered. In Zagreb an Octett, prestigious master classes and seminars formed by present and former students, for saxophone in Slovenia, France, Ger- will perform the Octett of Peter Jona Korn many .... Along his countless solo recitals, and transcriptions by Berlin based saxo- Ninoslav has many soloist appearances phonist and arranger Christoph Enzel. with Macedonian Philharmonic Orches- tra, Bitola Chamber Orchestra, Kosova Berni, Attilio Philharmonic Orchestra... From 2017, he is Attilio Berni fell in love with clarinet and founder and appointed artistic director of saxophone in his young years, while play- the International Saxophone and Clarinet ing in the marching band of his home Festival “SaxClar” in Skopje, Macedonia. town. He graduated in clarinet (class of He is associate professor for saxophone at Vincenzo Mariozzi) from Conservatorio di the Faculty of Music in Skopje. Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome. Since 1993 Tianhong Wu is a Chinese saxophonist he intensively researches history and or- who won a second prize at the irst Ya- ganology of saxophone and all woodwind maha Jiangsu wind instrument competi- instruments. Since 1996 he is the president tion, irst prize at the Yangzhou City wind of Centro Studi Musicali Totte in Pietra, a instrument competition, irst prize at the non-proit association which promotes and German Die Holz Pur wind chamber com- organizes cultural events in connection petition. He graduated composition and with saxophone and jazz. He collaborated composition technology theory at the as musical consultant for original instru- Nanjing Art University. He is now a gradu- ments of certain epochs in ilms like “The ate of classical saxophone under professor Talented Mr. Ripley by A. Minghella, The Detlef Bensmann at the Berlin University Gangs of New York by M. Scorsese and of Art. many more. Pai Liu, born 1990 in China, started play- ing saxophone when he was seven years Bernstein, Eudes and Compagnon, Sandro old. In 2003 Pai Liu won the First prize at In 2004, Sandro Compagnon began his the Yamaha Saxophone Competition, and scholarship at Annecy Conservatory in the studied at the Shenyang Conservatory of class of Mr. Charnay and Mancuso and then Music. After three years he continued his joined the class of Jean-Denis Michat in classical saxophone studies with prof. Li at Lyon’s conservatory. In 2006, he won the the Central Conservatory of Music in Bei- third prize at the Gap competition in the jing. In 2008 he won the First prize at Bai- under 16 category, in 2010 the 3rd prize in lin International Music Competition. From the Valenciennes competition in the solo 2011, Pai Liu studied classical saxophone category and reached the semi-inals of with Detlef Bensmann and Uwe Steinmetz the Adolphe Sax international competition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in 2014. He performs in jazz festivals and in Rostock, where he got his Bachelor De- he regularly performs with André Manouki- gree. Then he continued his Saxophone an. Compagnon is also a founding member Master studies with Detlef Bensmann at of OG Loc 5 heads, a quintet with which the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in he won the Ain’Pro Jazz competition and Berlin. recorded at Jazz (s) Ra Production. He is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree Berlin Saxophone Ensemble at the CNSMDP in Claude Delangle’s class. The tradition of saxophone ensembles More recently, he won the irst prize at the dates back to Gustav Bumcke. Gustav Osaka Chamber Music Competition with Bumcke was the pioneer for the saxo- the Zahir quartet. phone in Berlin. As a player, teacher and Eudes Bernstein is one of the most versa- composer he promoted the instrument tile french saxophonists of the new gener- and wrote various works for large ensem- ation. He is currently studying for his mas- ble in 1920ies. In his tradition Saxophone ter’s degree at Conservatoire Supérieur de Ensembles are supported by the Universi- Musique de Paris with international soloist tät der Künste and Musikhochschule Hanns Claude Delangle. He also has a bachelor’s Eisler. Under the direction of Johannes degree in Musicology at Paris Sorbonne Ernst works by Dieter Schnebel, Witold University. In 2015 he founded the Niobé biografIES

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Saxophone Quartet which won Second about it” (I Care If You Listen), their work Prize at the prestigious International Osa- together since 2013 has included solo and ka Chamber Music Competition in 2017. chamber music, free and structured im- He also founded the Dämmerung Trio provisations, and interactive multimedia. and organized a “Berlin 1930” day around Their 2015 album ‘click/blow’ was reviewed forbidden WW2 composers such as Paul as “a full on noise-jazz symphony” (Raised Hindemith and Erwin Schulhof. Bernstein by Gypsies) and a “display [of] individual has received several prizes in internation- virtuosity and group musicianship… well al competitions and in September 2017 worth the listen” (Signals for Images). They hr won the 2nd prize (1st prize was not have been featured at conferences, festi- awarded) at the Aeolus International Com- vals, and on series such as the Society for petition for Wind Instruments. He made his Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States debut as a soloist with the Polish Chamber (SEAMUS), New York City Electronic Music Philharmonie in Rostock Festpiele. Festival (NYCEMF), Electroacoustic Barn- dance (EABD), North American Saxophone Bianchini, Michele Alliance (NASA), Music Now at the Univer- Michele Bianchini, Italian saxophonist, sity of North Texas, New Horizons Music is dedicated to the development and re- Festival (NHMF), Association for Technolo- search of new repertoire in contemporary gy in Music Instruction (ATMI), Ars Electro- music both as a soloist and as a member acoustica, The New Ruckus, Patrick’s Cab- of diferent chamber music ensembles. aret, Punk-Ass Classical, Skewed Visions, He graduated in saxophone with highest and as guest artists at universities across honors from the Conservatory of Music in the country. Moore is a doctoral fellow at Perugia, under the guidance of Roberto the University of Chicago studying compo- Todini, getting a scholarship as the best sition. Hutchins received the DMA from the graduate of the academic year. He studied University of Minnesota with Eugene Rous- at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with seau and is Artist/Teacher of Saxophone at Pekka Savijoki. He attended several master Virginia Tech. classes with C. Delangle, J. M. Londeix, E. Rousseau, F. Mondelci, R. Todini and V. Blair, Gillian and Mertens, Nathan Veldi. He has won several Italian and Inter- Mertens and Blair met in 2015 whilst study- national competitions. In 2014 he received ing at the Université Européenne de Saxo- the teaching qualiication from the Conser- phone in Gap, France. The duo have seen vatory of Music in Adria. Since 2016, he has their friendship grow into an exciting mu- organized ilSuono Contemporary Music sical collaboration, and have given perfor- Week together with the Greek composer mances together in both Asia and Europe Theocharis Papatrechas. This project, an- over the past two years. nually held in Città di Castello, consist in a Gillian Blair graduated from the Royal series of events dedicated to contempo- Northern College of Music with a First rary music. He has performed at numerous Class BMus (hons) degree in 2014 and a renowned Italian and foreign institutions Masters degree with distinction in 2016. and festivals (USA, Greece, Germany, Rus- She has won numerous competitions in- sia, France) and performend premiered cluding the International Young Musician works by G. Colombo Taccani, A. Gentile, Competition. She has performed at festi- A. Sbordoni, B. Strobl, D. Ghezzo, J. Eaton, vals and concert series’ including the BBC Ayala Asherov Kalus, A. Cavallari, R. Vac- Proms, World Saxophone Congress (St An- ca, S. Taglietti, V. Guastella, M. Pagotto, V. drews and Strasbourg), EurSax (Porto) and Friedel and J. Hummel, among others. He as a concerto soloist she has performed has recorded works for the American la- with ensembles including the City of Peter- bels ICIA and Navona records and two CDs borough Symphony Orchestra and Oldham for the contemporary music section of the Symphony Orchestra. She is on the faculty Italian label “A simple lunch record”. at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Sheield. Binary Canary is a collaborative improvi- Nathan Mertens graduated from The Uni- sation ensemble featuring laptopist Ted versity of Texas at Austin – Butler School Moore and saxophonist Kyle Hutchins. of Music with his Doctor of Music Arts Described as “skilled improvisers, no doubt degree in Saxophone Performance and

256 biographies | b-b | he also received his Master’s degree. He Thibaud of Bordeaux. This ensemble, with also did additional work at the Université its many sound possibilities, ranges from Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France. a small group of chamber music to a full He completed his undergraduate work at ensemble. From its beginning, its goal has Hastings College in Nebraska, graduating been to promote the repertoire and to magna cum laude in Saxophone Perfor- develop musical literature for this family of mance and Woodwind Pedagogy. He is instruments, in close collaboration with the currently based Tokyo, Japan as a recipient composers. of the Monbukagakusho Research Stu- dent Scholarship. Mertens has performed Bornkamp, Arno concertos with the Busan Philharmonic Since his 1982 solo debut in Rome, per- Orchestra, Hastings Symphony Orchestra forming the ‘Concertino da Camera’ by and The University of Texas Symphony Or- Jacques Ibert, Arno Bornkamp has played chestra. He has been a inalist of the North more than two hundred concerts with or- American Saxophone Alliance Solo Com- chestras around the world, including the petition, Arapahoe Philharmonic Concerto most important works from the saxophone Competition, etc. repertoire in addition to new concerti written especially for him. In addition to Bohemia Saxophone Quartet (BSQ) is his solo career, chamber music is one of a top Czech music ensemble, which has, Arno Bornkamp’s great loves. For over since its start in 1990, evolved into a highly thirty ive years Bornkamp has been a professional entity with distinctly speciic, member the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet well-balanced sound. Due to its rich reper- and his duo with pianist Ivo Janssen exists toire the quartet has performed not only almost as long. Additionally, Bornkamp in concert halls and theatres, but also at has taken part in a unique ensemble: Cla- alternative as well as jazz stages. BSQ is zz Ensemble, made up of musicians from characterzed by wide, multi-genre drama- both the jazz and classical worlds. The turgy encompassing original classical and many CDs he has made on various labels jazz repertory for a saxophone quartet, since 1990 have garnered national and original compositions mostly dedicated international praise. Arno Bornkamp is a to the ensemble, and a large number of renowned teacher, leading an international transcriptions and adaptations of various saxophone class at the Conservatory of music styles and genres by the members Amsterdam. of the ensemble. BSQ was a inalist in the IX. Concours International de Musique de Bradbury, Alex Chambre in Paris. They have done con- Alex Bradbury is a practising lawyer based cert tours in many European countries as in Perth, Western Australia. Outside of the well as in the USA, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, courtroom, Alex is an amateur trombonist Lebanon, Indonesia and Kuwait. BSQ has and baritone saxophone enthusiast and is performed at many major international heavily involved in the Perth music scene. music festivals: Strunypodzimu – Strings Inextricably tied to the saxophone commu- of Autumn, Prague Spring Festival, Con- nity through his partner Erin Royer, Alex centus Moraviae (the Czech Republic), has visited two saxophone congresses L’Octobre Musical (Carthage), Hofkonzerte previously and is looking forward to par- im Podewil (Berlin), Sächsich-Böhmisches ticipating in a third. Combining his musical Musikfestival, Festival of Nations in Ten- and legal passions, Alex has a particular nessee, International Contemporary Music interest in copyright, and the ways in Festival Contrasts (Lvov), Klangspuren which it applies to musicians in an every- (Innsbruck), Saxophonmesse (Dresden) day context. and 3ème stage d’interprétation et de virtuosite Saxiana (Paris). Breedlove Duo Founded in 2014, Duo Breedlove is a sax- Bordeaux Nouvelle-Aquitaine Saxophone ophone and percussion duo comprised Ensemble is made of all the instruments of of faculty members at the University of the saxophone family and includes twelve Arkansas-Fort Smith. Dr. Christopher Bar- students of the PESMD Bordeaux Aqui- rick serves as the head of the Department taine and of the Conservatoire Jacques of Music, and the James & Ann Bumpass biografIES

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Distinguished Chair of Music at UAFS. As the projection of orchestral winds and the Associate Professor of Music, he directs sonority of the human voice. These choices the UAFS Jazz Band and teaches applied are also relected in the ensemble’s name, saxophone. He is a regular performer at Bron, which is the Dutch word for source the International Saxophone Symposium or fountain. Bron’s repertoire features and North American Saxophone Alliance music written expressly for the ensemble. conferences. Originally from New Jersey, Their collaboration with composers from Barrick holds music degrees from the Uni- all around the world has lead the quartet versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University to a deeper appreciation for the creative of Tennessee, and Indiana University of process and these relationships have in Pennsylvania. Dr. Tommy Dobbs is Instruc- turn, helped to shape their interpreta- tor of Music at UAFS, where he teaches tions of contemporary music. Recently, the percussion studio and directs the Lions Bron was awarded the Jury Prize at the Athletic Band. He holds doctoral and mas- Fontys, De Toonzaal Ensemblewedstrijd. ters degrees in percussion from Florida They were also invited to perform live on State University and a BM degree from national radio (Podium Radio 4 NL). It is the University of North Florida. Dobbs is the ensemble’s hope that Bron will help co-principal percussionist with the Fort rehabilitate the image of the saxophone Smith Symphony. and that their audiences will develop a new appreciation for the saxophone and Brellochs, Christopher its many musical virtues. Christopher Brellochs is a saxophon- ist, conductor and an educator who has Bryan, Carolyn J. and Maugans, Stacy performed in numerous musical styles Dr. Stacy Maugans, associate professor of throughout the United States, from well- music, teaches saxophone, music theory, known New York City venues like Birdland, and performance pedagogy at Valparaiso the 55 Bar and Smoke to prestigious Carn- University, where she has received the egie Hall. International performances have Excellence in Teaching Award. She is also included guest appearances in France and on the faculty of Lutheran Summer Music Germany. Brellochs’ recordings include Academy and Festival. An active recitalist, Quiet City (2011) which features the world adjudicator, and lecturer on the history of premiere recording of Aaron Copland’s saxophone in Russia and the former Soviet complete incidental music for Quiet City; Union, Dr. Maugans has received grants the recording received radio play on Na- from U.S. Dept. of Education and Social tional Public Radio: Weekend Edition and Science Research Council for studies in Performance Today, and print reviews in Russian and has performed internationally Gramophone (Awards 2011) and Der Spie- in Russia, Tanzania, Malta, etc. Her perfor- gel magazines. Brellochs is Chair of the mances have included commissions and Music Program at SUNY Dutchess Com- premieres of works by Jillian Whitaker, munity College in Poughkeepsie, New York Benjamin Krause, David DeBoor Canield, where he conducts the Mid-Hudson Com- etc. She earned the DMus, BMus, and BA munity Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble, and (math) at Indiana University under the typically teaches Music Theory, Aural Skills guidance of Dr. Eugene Rousseau and the and History of Music. He has also created a M.M.at Arizona State University with Dr. YouTube video series on music theory. Joseph Wytko. Carolyn J. Bryan is Professor of Music Bron Saxophone Quartet at Georgia Southern University. Bry- The Bron Saxophone Quartet was found- an received her Doctoral and Master’s ed with the aspiration of putting con- degrees in Indiana University and the temporary music in its historical context. Bachelor of Music Education degree from This approach to the saxophone begins Baldwin-Wallace College. Dr. Bryan has with performing on vintage saxophones performed and lectured at the 12th and that are designed true to the intention of 13th World Saxophone Congresses, the its inventor, Adolphe Sax. The resulting Southeastern Saxophone Summit, North tonal world is one that demonstrates the American Saxophone Alliance conferences, potential of the saxophone as a classical etc. She was a contributor to Women and instrument; with the lyricism of strings, Music in America. Bryan has been involved

258 biographies | b-b | in numerous orchestral, chamber, and solo had the opportunity to work with numer- premiers and recorded with the Winds of ous leading pianists including Ms. Rebecca Indiana. She has also served as conductor Penneys, Christopher Harding, Roberta for Georgia Southern Opera. Dr. Bryan Rust, and several others. At the Royal Col- has been recognized with the College of lege of Music, she has been selected to Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) perform in several concerts including the Award for Excellence, CLASS Awards of 150 years Bach-Busoni concert, Keyboard Distinction in Teaching and Service, and Music Festival. Currently, she is studying membership in Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kap- for her second master’s degree in piano pa Lambda. performance at the Royal College of Mu- sic, under the supervision of Gordon Fer- Bun-Leng Trio gus-Thompson. Guillermo Presa graduated with honours at the International Saxophone Class of the Byrnes, Jay Balearic Islands High Conservatory. In 2017 Jay Byrnes is one of the most pre-emi- he graduated from the Royal College of nent igures in the Australian saxophone Music with a Master of Performance, were scene. A passionate performer, arranger, he studied saxophone with Martin Rob- researcher and educator, Byrnes is a spe- ertson as an RCM Scholar. As a soloist, he cialist in the performance of transcriptions has performed in the Fruit for Apocalypse and the fervent discussion of music’s cul- Emerging Artists Programme, ME_MMIX ture. Renowned for his interpretations of Festival, Placa Base Festival and the Lon- music (from Bach to Piazzolla), Byrnes has don BaskFest. He also visited renowned developed a reputation as a versatile and academic institutions such as the College vibrant musician; acclaimed for his dynamic of Music Mahidol University, the Rajchapat stage presence and rigorous attention to Bansomdej Chaophraya University and the stylistic performance. He regularly performs Assumption College, where he performed throughout Europe, South America and concerts and gave masterclasses. He has Australasia as both a soloist and chamber performed with the Balearic Islands High musician. Aside from his busy performance Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and career, Byrnes has become an authority the Basque National Youth Orchestra. in interpreting music of other eras and Wisuwat Pruksavanich studied with Shy- cultures on the Saxophone with particular en Lee at the College of Music at Mahidol focus in Latin American music, Aboriginal University. He obtained several prizes at Australian music and music of the baroque national and international level in Saxo- era. In 2016 Byrnes completed his DMA phone related music competitions: irst (Doctorate of Musical Arts), researching prizes at the 9th Asian Symphonic Band the performance of tango music for the Competition and Thailand Yamaha Big- classical saxophonist, his thesis titled ‘The Band Competition. Recently the Hard Fairy Devil’s Horn and the music of the Brothel’ album was nominated for Best Instru- receiving the highest awards. In 2015 By- mental Album and Wisuwat himself, was rnes released his debut CD, El Asunto Del nominated for Best New Artist at the 11th Tango an album that featured his research Komchadluek Awards. Today, Wisuwat is a through performance. In 2010 Byrnes com- saxophone instructor at Mahidol Universi- pleted his Masters in Music at ESMAE, Por- ty’s College of Music and a saxophonist in to, Portugal with a focus on interpreting Cloud Wanderer, Siam Saxophone Quartet Baroque music on the saxophone. This was as well as a contra-bassoonist in Mahidol the beginning of his pursuance into other Wind Symphony and a bassist (sideman). music’s cultures. Byrnes has held teaching The path to being a classical pianist for positions in the United Kingdom, Venezue- Thai-born Tipwatoo (Pin) Aramwittaya la and Australia. He is a casual lecturer and was unusual; her fascination with the sci- tutor at Sydney University (Sydney Con- ence led to her undergraduate studies in servatorium of Music), coordinating the biomedical science, before she decided Fundamentals of Music 1 program. He has to take her piano performance to the next also given guest lectures for Sydney Uni- level. Her debut recital in Bangkok in 2014 versity’s ‘Latin American studies’ course was a huge success, which was followed and performance courses Byrnes is the by her obtaining an FTCL diploma. She Director of Saxophone Academy Sydney. biografIES

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day the Cantus Ensemble is distinguished and especially praised part on the Croatian c cultural scene. More than 400 performed works, 90 of which were irst performanc- Camargo, Bruno and Chen, I-An es, around 60 guest performances all Bruno Camargo is a part of the new Bra- around the world (Austria, Italy, Slovenia, zilian generation of saxophonists. Awarded Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Bel- in national and international competitions, gium, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Sweden, he obtained his degree in Brazil. First Bra- France, Netherlands, Swiss, China, Cana- zilian student in Jean-Denis Michat’s class da, Mexico and Turkey), numerous guest at the Lyon Conservatory, he prepares for soloists and conductors, and the usual the diferent competitions and also seeks practise of numerous composers' dedica- research to create the repertoire and ex- tions, witness the position of this ensemble pansion of the classical saxophone in Bra- in the national and international context. zil and Latin America. Since the concert season 2006/2007, the ensemble has its own concert cycle in Canhoto, Carlos Zagreb. Among the ensemble's perfor- One of the most qualiied portuguese sax- mances abroad, their concerts in Sweden, ophonists, Carlos Canhoto was the irst to in autumn of 2006 (international project obtain a PhD in Music (Performance). He Musical Links), should certainly be high- did this at Aveiro University after having lighted, as well as the grand «journey graduated in Saxophone and Chamber around the world» in 2008 that took them Music at Cergy-Pontoise Conservatory, to Beijing (Beijing Modern Music Festival) France, with professor Jean-Yves Four- and Toronto (Glenn Gould Studio), where meau, and Musicology at Universidade they presented extraordinary ten scores of Nova in Lisbon. He won several prizes, Croatian composers of the 20th and 21st including the 1st prize at the U.F.A.M. century. In the concert season 2009/2010 Contest in Paris, in 1995, in the category the ensemble had a very successful guest “Supérieur”, and the 1st Prize at the Ile-de- performance at the festival BEMUS in Bel- France contest in Chamber Music, in 1998. grade and for the irst time performed in He has been very active in the promotion UK, at the Sounds New Music Festival in of new contemporary music, working Canterbury. In the season 2010/2011, they closely with composers like Christopher gave a concert as a part of the Dôme des Bochmann, Antonin Servičre, Pedro Ama- Invalides cycle in Paris, in Tonhalle Düssel- ral, Amílcar Vasques Dias, António Chagas dorf, at the festival Ensemblia in Mönchen- Rosa, José Carlos Sousa and Eduardo gladbach and in Zentrum Paul Klee in Patriarca, among others. He’s a founder Bern. In spring 2012, Cantus Ensemble per- and a distinguished member of Síntese, formed at the NCPA May Music Festival in one of the leading contemporary music the new Beijing Opera House and in Octo- ensembles in Portugal. He is the Artistic ber 2012 at Musikprotokoll in Graz. In 2014 Director of Síntese – Contemporary Music ensemble appeared at the Culturescapes Festival. Among other recordings, in 2016 Festival in Basel and at the Days of Kohoj he issued his CD “SHOUT”, with pianist Festival in Slovenia, and as well in Canada Natalia Riabova. Carlos Canhoto is cur- (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Kitchener). rently Professor at Castelo Branco’s Higher Cantus Ensemble was appointed oicial Education School of Arts (ESART). He’s ISCM's ensemble for the year 2008 and also a researcher at INET/MD in Lisbon. He was presented at the ISCM's World Mu- is a founding member of the Portuguese sic Days in October 2008, hosted by the Saxophone Association and was a member Gaida Festival in Vilnius. of the Organization Board of the EurSax’17 – European Saxophone Congress. Carinthia Saxophone Quartet and Gabriel Lipuš Cantus Ensemble was formed in 2001 as The Carinthia Saxophone Quartet has festival ensemble for the Music Biennale been vitalising Carinthian cultural life since Zagreb, but it continued to work relent- 1988 with appearances at the Carinthian lessly on its quality, programming best of Summer Music Festival, Millstatt Music the best and newest of the newest. So to- Weeks, St. Paul’s Cultural Summer Music

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Festival, and the Wörthersee Classics Fes- Capitol Quartet tival. The quartet has also been touring Comprised of saxophonists who are teach- abroad (1997 American tour to Las Vegas, ing faculty at America’s leading music New York, Washington and Chicago; 2005 schools, the Capitol Quartet has captured Canberra International Chamber Music the imaginations of critics and audiences Festival; Collaboration with the Italian alike. Combining innovative repertoire with based “Teatro Potlach” in Italy, Austria, virtuosic playing and an energetic, engag- Great Britain and Denmark). Special em- ing stage presence, the Quartet brings a phasis in the work of the quartet is put on unique brand of entertainment to the con- safeguarding the original French literature cert stage. Since its formation in 1991, the for saxophone quartet, premieres and per- Capitol Quartet has performed regularly at formances of contemporary compositions major concert venues throughout the Unit- - mainly by Austrian composers - as well ed States, earning wide acclaim for the en- as surprising audiences with sophisticated semble’s musical versatility and innovative arrangements of music from diferent peri- style. Dedicated to advancing music edu- ods and styles. cation, the Capitol Quartet regularly per- Guest singer Gabriel Lipuš teaches singing forms and lectures at National and State at the Kärntner Landeskonservatorium in Music Educators conferences. The Capitol Klagenfurt. Beside teaching he is a very Quartet has been featured with the Cincin- proliic singer and composer. nati Pops, Indianapolis Symphony, Roch- ester Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Caovva Saxophone Quartet was founded National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, in 2014 as a result of the common interest Canada), Windsor (Ontario) Symphony, of its members in exploring, promoting the San Antonio Symphony, Long Beach and exposing the music of Latin Amer- Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Springield ican composers. The irst objective of (MO) Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, this group was to present its proposal Imperial Symphony (Fl), Bay-Atlantic Sym- to the VXII World Saxophone Congress, phony, Grand Rapids Symphony, the U.S. which was held in July 2015 in Strasbourg Air Force Heritage of America Band, the (France). His project entitled “Caovva U.S. Continental Army Band and many oth- Quartet Plays the Chamber Music for Saxo- er symphonies across the country. In 1994, phone by Aldemaro Romero” was selected the Capitol Quartet won the prestigious from 630 proposals from all over the world Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Compe- to participate in this congress. The mem- tition, and in 1997 released its debut re- bers of Caovva Quartet are professional cording: American Sketches on the Klavier saxophonists based in Colombia where Records International label. Other recent they perform as saxophone professors and widely acclaimed recordings include of some of the main universities of this Balance (2015) on Blue Griin Records, country. The players of our quartet in- FLEX (2012) on White Pine Records, the cludes Magister Agustin Castro (professor 2001 Summit Records release “Anything of saxophone at Universidad de Caldas in Goes”, and the innovative 2004 release the city of Manizales) Dr. Javier Ocampo “Dig” which showcases the Rochester Phil- (professor of saxophone at Conservatorio harmonic with Jef Tyzik conducting and Antonio María Valencia in the city of Cali), producing. Dr. Esneider Valencia (professor of saxo- phone at Universidad de Antioquia in the Carrozzo, Andrea city of Medellín) and Magister Cesar Villa- Andrea Carrozzo graduated with hon- mil (professor of saxophone at Universidad ours from the Conservatorio “N. Rota” in Distrital in the city of Bogotá).Currently, Monopoli (Italy) studying with Vittorio Caovva Saxophone Quartet participates Cerasa. He furthered his studies at the actively on establishing a “saxophone Conservatoire de Lyon with Jean-Denis school” in Colombia and Latin America. Its Michat getting the DEM, at the end of the performance and master classes has taken 3ème cycle, with the mention “trés bien à them throughout Colombia, Mexico and l’unanimité”. He attended several master- Portugal. classes with world-renowned musicians including C. Delangle, V. David, C. Wirth, J. Y. Fourmeau, A. Bornkamp, D. Gauthier, biografIES

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M. Hirano, Jimenez Alba, R. Hekkema and tional Heritage, National Children’s Fund in the summer 2014 he took parts in the Scholarship and others. He is one of the courses organized by the “Université Eu- best Polish musicians of the young gen- ropéenne de Sassofono” in Gap (France). eration. He has attended masterclasses He distinguished himself in several national with Lars Mlekusch, Jan-Schulte Bunert, and international competitions and he is Jean-Denis Michat, Alexander Doisy, winner of 12 irst prizes. In 2013, he was a Philippe Portejoie, Jerome Larane, Gordan inalist in the “Premio Nazionale delle Arti”, Tudor, Dragan Sremec, Matjaz Dravensek organized by the Italian Ministry of Educa- and Bartłomiej Duś. As a composer he tion, and he received a special mention for won National Composers Competition in musical talent from the jury. He performed Lódź with a piece for saxophone alto solo in several Italian, Romanian and French Mystery and he performed his poem Lueur concert hall as a soloist and in chamber de Lune for saxophone and orchestra with ensembles; in 2015 he debuted as a soloist the Karol Szymanowski Youth Symphonic with the orchestra playing the “Concerto Orchestra. in E lat major, Op. 109” by A. Glazunov. He Paweł Gusnar is a graduate of the Fry- collaborates, for the development of the deryk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. saxophone repertoire, with the Italian com- He belongs to a select group of saxo- posers Federico Gardella, Roberto Vetrano, phonists who successfully combine clas- Cesare Saldicco. sical music with jazz and popular music. He gives several dozen concerts a year Cascatelle Saxophone Quartet in Poland and abroad, as a soloist and in The Cascatelle Saxophone Quartet is a chamber ensembles. As a session musi- promising young ensemble founded in cian, he has taken part in the recording February 2017 at the Zürich University of of ilm soundtracks, incidental music and the Arts, performing both classical and CDs for labels such as BMG, ARMSmusic, contemporary music. The four musicians Pomaton EMI, DUX and Polish Radio. In mentored by professor Lars Mlekusch, more recent years, he has been invited to made their debut as a quartet at the open- judge a number of highly regarded Saxo- ing of the exhibition at Museum of Design phone competitions. He is also invited as a in Zürich. In May 2017 the ensemble had an lecturer to international courses of music opportunity to work with a contemporary interpretation. Paweł Gusnar teaches sax- Columbian composer Germán Toro-Pérez ophone at the Fryderyk Chopin University and perform his great piece “Musique de of Music in Warsaw and at the Lodz Acad- Saxophone” at Atelier zeitgenössische emy of Music. Musik at ZHdK. In the near future the Cascatelle Saxophone Quartet is planning Chamberlin, Michael to participate in chamber music compe- Dr. Michael Chamberlin is an alumnus of titions, to create and organize diferent the University of Maryland (DMA), the artistic projects and to cooperate with University of North Texas (MM), and Bowl- composers to enlarge the saxophone rep- ing Green State University (BA) where ertoire. he studied saxophone performance, jazz, and education. He is a versatile musician Chałupka, Wojciech and Gusnar, Paweł and accomplished in a variety of musi- Wojciech Chałupka is a student of sax- cal settings including concert, jazz, and ophone in the class of Paweł Gusnar in commercial styles. He is a sought after Warsaw. He is a young composer and clinician and presents frequently to musi- his pieces have been performed by vari- cians throughout the world. Dr. Chamberlin ous artists. Wojciech plays in a variety of joined the United States Army Band pro- chamber gropus, e.g. duo with accordion, gram in 2013 and was selected in 2017 to saxophone quartet and duo with organ. He play the baritone saxophone with the Jazz has been successful in many competitions, Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band. including the International Saxophone Prior to this assignment Dr. Chamberlin Competition in Wroclaw and International completed two years of service in Sem- Saxophone Festival in Przeworsk. He was bach, Germany as a member of the United awarded many scholarships, including States Army Europe Band and Chorus, Scholarship of Minister of Culture and Na- and one year in Seoul, South Korea with

262 biographies | c-c | the Eighth U.S. Army Band. Dr. Chamberlin The University of Missouri Kansas City with presented a master class on jazz impro- Professor Zach Shemon. Chi Him is the visation and bebop scales at the 2016 irst Hong Kong saxophonist to advance Biennial National Conference of the North into the semi-inal round in the Jean-Marie American Saxophone Alliance at Texas Londeix International Saxophone Competi- Tech University and a similar lecture at the tion. He is also the prizewinner of the 48th 2015 World Saxophone Congress in Stras- Annual Bowling Green State University bourg, France. He has an extensive back- Competition in Music Performance, the ground leading a jazz combo and playing 55th Annual Lima Symphony Orchestra as a sideman in various musical ensembles. Young Artists Competition, and the 2015 As an educator Dr. Chamberlin teaches and 2016 Douglas Wayland Chamber Mu- privately throughout the Washington, D.C. sic Competition. As an advocate of new metro area where he currently lives. Most music, he has performed in many diferent notably, his instructors include Jim Riggs, countries and has premiered a number of Gunnar Mossblad, Jay Miglia, Chris Mc- works by composers including Dai Fujiku- Guire, John Sampen, Dale Underwood, Al ra, Mikel Kuehn, James Mobberley, Narong Regni, Connie Frigo, and Chris Vadala. Prangcharoen, and more. Lin Ying-Ting is a Taiwanese composer Charrier, Marie-Bernadette who explores unique timbre qualities of Curious and impassioned by all the musi- both acoustic and electronic music. Active cal currents of today, Marie-Bernadette as a composer and pianist, Ying-Ting’s mu- Charrier carries out an international career sic has been awarded several honors and (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, awards, including the Studying Abroad Belgium, Slovenia, Estonia, Switzerland, Fellowship from the Ministry of Education Austria, Ireland, Australia, Tasmania, Cana- in Taiwan, the IAWM Pauline Oliveros Prize, da, USA, Japan, China, Peru, Mexico, Thai- the National Symphony Orchestra of Tai- land, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil…) wan competition, the Taiwan National Min- as a soloist and in chamber music with the istry of Education Composition Award, and ensemble Proxima Centauri of which she the Chai Found Chinese Musical Instru- is the artistic Director. She has taken part ments Competition. After graduating from in various and radio shows and recordings the National Taiwan Normal University, she and is regularly invited to give conferences is currently in pursuit of a DMA degree at and master-classes in the world. She has UMKC, studying with Chen Yi, Zhou Long played with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Paul Rudy. of Pays de Loire, of Bangkok and of Italy, the International Ensemble of Saxophones, China Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble ENM, ONBA, ARCEMA, SMASH, the NEM Established in 2012, the China Conservato- of Montreal, the ECM+… Charrier currently ry Saxophone Ensemble is a professional teaches the saxophone and chamber mu- chamber ensemble group founded and sic at the PESMD Bordeaux Aquitaine and directed by professor Manlong Li, classical the Conservatoire of Bordeaux, where in saxophone professor in China Conservato- 1993 she created a class of interpretation ry. Ensemble has performed and premiered of contemporary music for all instruments wide range of works worldwide, and has and she has been training generations of appeared in variety of domestic events interpreters to the open practice of music related to saxophone. The China Conser- of today. She is a Selmer artist and Hon- vatory Saxophone Ensemble has been orary Member of the French Association belauded and recognised as one of the of saxophonists. Charrier has created over highest rank saxophone chamber group in a hundred original works for saxophone the country. written for her and has recorded ten CDs. A graduate from China Central Conserva- tory, Manlong Li studied with Professor Chik, Chi Him and Ying-Ting, Lin Wu Zhang and Chunxiao Tao, respected Chi Him Chik is an active performer and clarinet educators. Since 2000, Manlong improviser from Hong Kong. Graduated Li serves as a faculty in China Conserva- from Bowling Green State University, un- tory of Music, China Central Conservatory, der the direction of Dr. John Sampen, Chi Attached Middle School of China Central Him is now pursuing his master’s degree at Conservatory, Minzu University of China, biografIES

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Beijing Vacational Institute of Local Opera research university — Wayne State Univer- and Arts, Beijing Long Island International sity, and the President and Artistic Director Art Institute. He is known as the “leading of the Detroit Jazz Festival (the largest educator of the classical saxophone in Chi- free jazz festival in the world.)He has per- na”. He wrote several instruction ranging formed at jazz festivals including: Cork, from beginner’s to professional level, from Ireland, Montreux-Switzerland, Panama, classical hits to traditional music. He has Pori, Nice, North Sea, and Glasgow — And held hundreds of lectures and recitals. won numerous awards, including the irst American to receive the Brusoni Award in Cockcroft, Barry Italy in 2011.In addition to his work on com- Saxophonist and composer, Barry Cock- mercial recordings and ilm soundtracks, croft’s music has received thousands of including the soundtrack for the award performances throughout the world and winning Paramount Pictures release “The is regularly played in 40 countries. He is Big Night”, and Television series Leverage a long-time member of the International and the Librarian, Collins’ jazz solo work Saxophone Committee. Barry has been can be heard on the CD “A Hot Night In concerto soloist with the United States Paris” The Phil Collins Big Band (Atlantic) Navy Band and the Scottish Chamber and numerous jazz releases. Collins has Orchestra. He has played regularly with performed with artists including Danilo major Australian orchestras and for more Perez, Pistol Allen, Lou Rawls, Mel Torme, than 15 years has been a guest with the Marcus Belgrave, the Detroit Jazz All- Malaysian Philharmonic. Barry has visited Stars, Doc Severinsen, Matt Michaels, The 70+ countries and continues to compose Turin Philharmonic 900, and the Detroit for the saxophone and perform throughout Symphony OrchestraHe has presented the world. Barry has given masterclasses at numerous workshops and residencies leading institutions including the Paris Con- around the world including the Giuseppe servatoire (France) and was an adjudicator Verdi Conservatory in Torino Italy, Berklee at the Adolphe Sax International Compe- Global Jazz Institute,Tokyo Japan, Europe, tition (Belgium). He studied in Australia South Africa, Glasgow, Scotland, and at with Dr. Peter Clinch for 5 years and for 2 numerous national conferences on topics years in Bordeaux France with saxophonists including jazz saxophone/improvisation, Jacques Net, Marie-Bernadette Charrier, world-music inluences, and distance jazz and Jean-Marie Londeix. Barry’s compo- education. sitions have seen successful adoption into mainstream repertoire. His recent work, Cortona Sessions Saxophone Collective the Melbourne Concerto, was premiered The h2 quartet (Geofrey Deibel, Jefrey by the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Por- Loefert, Kimberly Goddard Loefert and tugal. Since 1995, Barry’s close association Jonathan Nichol) has partnered with the with over 120 composers has led to the internationally recognized new music fes- publication of around 15,000 works. Barry tival, The Cortona Sessions for New Music, has rallied composers writing the most to create a weeklong summer saxophone advanced concert music to remember also program held in beautiful Cortona, Italy in the developing players who require a stim- early July 2018. In addition to h2 quartet, ulating and original repertoire of their own.. the faculty for the Cortona Sessions Sax- His own pedagogical books have helped to ophone Collective (Christopher Creviston, guide thousands of developing musicians Hannah Creviston, Joseph Lullof and John and his 120 published works are available Nichol) includes some of the most sought exclusively from Reed Music. after saxophonists and pedagogues work- Collins, Chris ing in the United States. Taking place be- Chris Collins is a professional jazz wood- fore the 2018 World Saxophone Congress, wind player who has toured throughout this new workshop will be titled the Corto- Japan, South Africa, Europe and North na Sessions Saxophone Collective (CSSC) America as the leader of his own ensem- and should attract saxophonists from both bles and as a featured soloist. Cited as the United States and Europe. This World holding a singular place in the jazz scene Saxophone Congress performance would of Detroit, he is also a Professor and Direc- feature an ensemble comprised of faculty tor of Jazz Studies at Detroit’s Carnegie I and students from the 2018 Cortona Ses-

264 biographies | c-C | sions Saxophone Collective performing ex- (Strasbourg, France), FISP (Palmela, Portu- citing new music for saxophone ensemble. gal), concerts in Seville, Alcalá de Henares, Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, etc. Creviston, Christopher Christopher Creviston has played venues Current Saxophone Quartet was founded ranging from Carnegie Hall to Paisley Park in Oslo (2010) out of the common wish of and the Apollo Theater. As soloist and with performing contemporary music written the Capitol Quartet, Creviston has been for saxophone quartet. The quartet’s main featured with bands and orchestras across interest is to commission and perform the U.S., including the National Sympho- music especially written for the ensemble. ny Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony The quartet has played at the World Sax- Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony ophone Congress XVI and XVII, the Scan- Orchestra and the Lansing Symphony dinavian Saxophone festival and in 2016 Orchestra, to name a few. He performs Current has toured with both concerts and regularly with the Capitol Quartet and in masterclasses in England, Spain, France duos with pianist Hannah Creviston and and Finland in addition to several concerts guitarist Oren Fader. In addition to several in Norway. established recordings, Creviston’s most Anders Abelseth is currently a master recent releases include the “Concerto for student at The Norwegian Academy of Soprano Saxophone and Band” by William Music in Oslo. He has a bachelor’s degree Bolcom with conductor Gary W. Hill and from The Royal Academy of Music in Aar- the Arizona State University Wind Orches- hus and has a Post Graduate from Escola tra, and a disc entitled “Breaking” which Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barce- presents works commissioned/co-com- lona. Anders is an active performer in dif- missioned by the Creviston duo from com- ferent contemporary music arenas. posers Stacy Garrop, Mark Lanz Weiser, Åshild Henriksen has a master degree in Katherine Hoover and John Fitz Rogers. classical saxophone from the Norwegian Creviston is now on the faculty at Arizona Academy of Music. In her studies her main State University. In January of 2017, Crevis- project was performing and researching ton became President-Elect of the North contemporary and folk music from difer- American Saxophone Alliance. ent countries. Today she works as a free- lance musician in professional ensembles Cuarteto Itálica was founded in 1989 by in Norway and as a soloist performer. José Antonio Santos (teacher of saxo- Gudrun Faleide Fristad inished her mas- phone of the C.S.M. “Manuel Castillo” of ter’s degree, from the Norwegian Academy Seville). The ensemble is characterized of Music in Oslo in 2012 and has since then by working closely with composers with been active as a freelance saxophonist the aim of encouraging the composition both with her own projects, and contem- of music for the quartet of saxophones in porary music duos and as a substitute particular, and the saxophone in general. in all the six professionals wind bands in The result has been the creation of numer- Norway and the Oslo Philharmonic. After ous works dedicated and premiered by the audition in 2014 she started in 2015 as a group of composers such as César Ca- full-time employee, as a saxophone player, marero, Paco Toledo, Violeta Cruz, Ramón in the Staf Band of the Norwegian Armed Roldán, Enrique Busto, Romero Ramírez, Forces North-Norway. José Zárate, Nuria Núñez, Paco Molina, Silje Eckhof Varhaug is educated as a Robert Lemay, Orie Sato, etc. They have musician and a pedagogue from The Nor- participated in numerous festivals and wegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. concerts, such as the Martín Codax Music Currently she lives in Oslo and works as a Festival, the Cadiz International Contem- freelance musician in various stages and porary Music Festival, the XII World Saxo- settings. At the same time, she works as a phone Congress in Montreal (Canada), the conductor and a saxophone teacher. Andalusian Saxophone Days (organized by the own quartet), XIII World Saxophone Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Congress in Minneapolis (USA), XIV World Orchestra Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana (Slo- The Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony venia), EurSax (Ciudad Real), SaxOpen Orchestra is one of the oldest European biografIES

265 biographies | C-d | radio orchestras: it grew out of an orches- of Pedagogy). He currently teaches saxo- tra founded in 1929 for Radio-Zagreb, just phone in Harbin Conservatory of Music. six years after the foundation of the irst European radio orchestra. It has borne its Deibel, Geofrey current title since 1991. Initially, it was tied A Washington, D.C. native, Geofrey Dei- exclusively to the radio programme, how- bel is emerging as an important voice for ever it began to hold public performances the saxophone and contemporary music. in 1942. Live broadcasts of concerts and Recent concert highlights include per- recording remain a component part of its formances with the Athens Saxophone work. The chief conductors were Pavle Quartet, and the International Contem- Dešpalj, Krešimir Šipuš, Josef Daniel, Oskar porary Ensemble recitals in Brooklyn NY, Danon, Milan Horvat, Uroš Lajovic, Vladimir Stuttgart, Germany, Cortona, Italy, and in Kranjčević, and Nikša Bareza. Enrico Dindo Wichita, KS. Deibel has lectured at Conser- has held this position since the 2015/2016 vatories in Stuttgart and Cork and many season. With a unique programme orienta- US universities. He has commissioned and/ tion, at the centre of which is the continu- or premiered works by many known com- ous performance and stimulation of works posers. He is a member of the critically by Croatian authors as well as a repertoire acclaimed h2 quartet, irst prize winner at of both standard and lesser-known works, the Fischof Competition, recent inalist at the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and Orchestra has become one of the key per- recipient of multiple Aaron Copland Fund forming bodies in Croatia. The orchestra Grants. Deibel has also performed with regularly takes part in festivals and events the New World Symphony and Grant Park such as the Zagreb Music Biennale, the Symphony, as well as numerous regional Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Osor Music orchestras in Michigan. He holds degrees Evenings, Music Evenings at St. Donat’s from Northwestern University and Michi- Church, educational concerts for children gan State University. His principal teachers and youth in cooperation with Croatian have included Joseph Lullof, Frederick Musical Youth (HGM), competitions for Hemke, Leo Saguiguit, and Reginald young musicians... Concerts with years- Jackson. He currently serves as Assistant long subscription cycles, the independent Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies Majstorski ciklus and cycle Kanconijer in at Wichita State University, and on the cooperation with Croatian Radiotelevision faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Choir, which hosts leading Croatian and Music, and the Great Plains Saxophone international directors and soloists, are Workshop. held at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall and are broadcast live on Croatian Radio’s Delangle, Claude Third Programme and Croatian Television’s Soloist, researcher and pedagogue, Claude Third Programme. A large number of audio Delangle, one of the greatest contempo- and video recordings are stored in the Cro- rary saxophonists, stands out as the mas- atian Radiotelevision archives, which are ter of the French saxophone. Privileged available via the HRTi multimedia platform. interpreter for classic works, he enriches the repertoire and encourages creation d by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, DaYu, Gao Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, and promot- Gao DaYu was born in 1986. He inished ing the youngest. Since 1986, he is the the Central Conservatory of Music Middle invited saxophonist in the Ensemble Inter- School and in 2011 he graduated with a contemporain, he also appears as a soloist Master’s Degree from the Conservatoire a with the most prestigious orchestras (Lon- Rayonement Regional d’Aubervilliers-La don BBC, Radio France, Radio of Finland, Courneuve in the class of Stephone WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo) Laporte. He also graduated with excellent and works with David Robertson, Peter results from Conservatoire a Rayonement Eötvös, Kent Nagano, Esa Pekka Salonen, Regional d’Aubervilliers-La Courneuve in Miung Wung Chung, Guilherme Bernstein 2013 and gained the honorary title DEM and many other conductors. Passionate for (music performance artist and a Master his instrument, he goes beyond the work

266 biographies | d-d | of the soloist and frequents the Musical she obtained her “Teaching degree” and Acoustic Laboratories of the University of her “Concert degree”, unanimously. She Paris 7. The results of his research on spe- owes her particular sense of phrasing and ciic acoustics of the saxophone will be for colour to the master classes received from him a precious asset in his collaboration the great pedagogue Maria Curcio. Since with composers. His recordings for BIS, the 80s she has visited every corner of the Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, planet with her husband, the saxophonist Erato and Verany bring out French music Claude Delangle, and has recorded with while revealing new musical horizons from him about ifteen discs, mainly for the the repertoire created by the brilliant Adol- Swedish irm BIS. Their encounter dates phe Sax to the avant-garde works or the back to their common beginnings at the popular repertoire. After obtaining several Conservatoire National de Région in Lyon. outstanding Premiers Prix at the Conser- Mrs. Delangle has been awarded at the vatoire National Supérieur de Musique of international competitions Maria Canals of Paris, Claude Delangle was appointed pro- Barcelona (Spain) and of Geneva (Swit- fessor in 1988, where he has created the zerland). She also gives master classes on most prestigious saxophone class in the French music; she has a predilection for world. Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen and Dutilleux.

Delian Duo was born at the Delian Acad- DeLouis, Chistopher emy for New Music (Greece), in June 2017. Christopher DeLouis is an avid soloist, Bera Romairone (saxophonist) and Kanae chamber musician and educator based in Mizobuchi (singer) were collaborating with Morgantown (West Virginia). With a pas- composers and creating new works which sion for all styles of music ranging from have been premiered in Grypario Cultural traditional to contemporary, he has given Center in Mykonos. concerts and clinics across the Midwest Bera Romairone born in Ayacucho, Argen- and the Washington D.C. and Southern tina, was a student at the National Uni- New England areas. He has commissioned versity of Arts in Buenos Aires where she and premiered numerous works for the obtained the irst Prize in the First Cham- saxophone as a solo instrument or as ber Music Competition of the UNA. In 2011, part of an ensemble. He has frequently she received a scholarship to study with appeared at the United States Navy Band Arno Bornkamp in the Netherlands. She International Saxophone Symposium, the continued her studies of saxophone and Annual New England Saxophone Sym- contemporary chamber music with Ma- posium, Bowling Green State University rie-Bernadette Charrier at the Conserva- New Music Festival and the University of tory of Bordeaux and inished her Master Nebraska Kearney New Music Festival. degree at the HEMU de Lausanne obtain- Christopher has been a semiinalist in the ing the Paléo HES-SO prix. Currently, she Plowman National Chamber Music Com- takes part in the interdisciplinary collective petition and has won prizes in the Douglas Young Blood Initiative and participates in Wayland Chamber Music Competition and diferent festivals of contemporary music. the MTNA Chamber Music Winds Ohio Kanae Mizobuchi was educated at the State Competition. Christopher is currently Kunitachi College of Music in Japan. She pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree continued her studies at the Conservatoire on a University Provost Fellowship at West of Strasbourg in the class of Françoise Virginia University. He holds a master’s Kubler and Marie Kobayashi. She is pas- degree from Bowling Green State Univer- sionnate about contemporary music and sity and a bachelor’s degree in both Music participated in many masterclasses (with Education and Saxophone Performance Philippe Manoury, Pascal Dusapin, Geroge from the University of Rhode Island. His Kurtag, Peter Eötvös...). In 2017 she was principle teachers include Michael Ibrahim, guest artist at the Delian Academy for new John Sampen and Jared Sims. music. It was at the Ecole Normale where Odile Di Marco, Emma and Likhuta, Catherine Catelin-Delangle carried out her advanced A 2017 Churchill Fellowship recipient, Dr. studies under the direction of the great Emma Di Marco is an Australian classical pedagogue Germaine Mounier and where saxophonist who maintains a fulilling biografIES

267 biographies | d-d | portfolio career as a performer, chamber as an artistic director for several projects, musician, educator, artistic director, and including the “Sounds of Matter” inter- researcher. She is a Sessional Lecturer in national composition competition. Addi- Saxophone, Queensland Conservatorium tionally, he is a composition teacher at the Griith University (2014 to present) and People’s University of Vienna (WieVolk- an educator at Emma Di Marco Music. She shochschule) and the artistic director of is also a saxophonist with Queensland the arts platform “Neues Atelier”. Symphony Orchestra and a soloist with Queensland Wind Orchestra & Mueller Dimov, Ninoslav International Chamber Orchestra. She has Ninoslav Dimov inished his undergraduate performed at the XVI World Saxophone and graduate studies in the class of Stojan Congress in St Andrews, Scotland & XVII Dimov at the Faculty of Music in Skopje. World Saxophone Congress, Strasbourg, He continued his studies in Berlin, at the France. She has commissioned almost Universität der Kunste, in the class of prof. two dozen commissions of new works for Detlef Bensmann. He was in Berlin until saxophone & saxophone quartet. Emma is 2009 and achieved the “Konzertexamen” a founding member of the Barega Saxo- specialisation. During this period, he ac- phone Quartet. quired many state and international com- petition awards and he has been a regular Diegert, Joel and Artacho, Adrián participant of prestigious master classes Joel Diegert is an internationally active and seminars for saxophone in Slovenia, saxophonist with a wide range of musical France, Germany, etc. Along with his solo interests. He has achieved international recitals, Dimov appeared as a soloist with success as a founding member of FIVE the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, SAX. Diegert’s current interest in contem- Bitola Chamber Orchestra, Kosovo Philhar- porary music led him to pursue his doctor- monic Orchestra... From the beginning of al research. He was a winner of the 2005 his studies, he has been leader of Dimov NASA classical competition, prize-winner Saxophone Quartet and played numerous of the 2011 Jean-Marie Londeix Competi- concerts in Skopje, Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, tion and prize-winner of 2011 Gaudeamus Mostar, Ohrid, etc. He played a couple of Competition. He has performed with in- concerts with Berliner Saxophone Quar- ternationally-renowned ensembles, such tett, and since 2007 he has been a mem- as Musikfabrik (Cologne), Phace (Vienna), ber of the Bensmann Saxophone Quartet. and the Vienna Saxophonic Orchestra. His He is the founder and the appointed artis- primary saxophone teachers were Lars tic director of the International Saxophone Mlekusch, Vincent David, Jean-Michel and Clarinet Festival “SaxClar” in Skopje, Goury, John Sampen, Steven Mauk and Macedonia. At the moment Dimov is the April Lucas. Diegert holds the position of associate professor for saxophone at the visiting professor of saxophone at West Faculty of Music in Skopje, member of Virginia University for the 2017-18 academ- Macedonian Radio Television Big Band, ic year. ZJM Big Band, and regular on-call saxo- The Spanish-born composer Adrián phone player for Macedonian Philharmonic Artacho graduated with honors from the Orchestra. Vienna Konservatorium (Austria) in 2012 and has developed an international career Domino Group since. His compositional work extends to The Domino Group was formed in the UK a variety of areas such as music theater, in 2016, from students of conservatoires in dance & multimedia. After a postgraduate Manchester and London. The ensemble’s degree in electroacoustic composition with idea is to explore the contemporary saxo- Karlheinz Essl, he is currently conducting a phone repertoire and show a diferent side PhD research project in “Augmented Per- of classical saxophone playing. This new formance” at the University of Music and ensemble consists of four independent Performing Arts of Vienna. He is an active professional young musicians who decided performer of live electronics either solo or to join their musical abilities in order to in diferent conigurations, including visu- create inspiring performances. In a short als and a self-constructed musical instru- space of time the ensemble has already ments such as a Laser Harp. Adrián works been a part of several projects with the

268 biographies | D-e | most recent being a tour in Switzerland 2006-2011 she was studying at the Liszt organized by Maria & Walter Strebi-Erni Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest) Foundation in July. The members of the with Professors Attila Némethy and István quartet have been actively participating in Gulyás. In 2008 Irén spent a semester at various musical projects too, which include the Bard College (USA), where she had pi- Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, Eur- ano lessons with Prof. Jeremy Denk. After Sax in Porto, EUYWO in Luxembourg; also obtaining the Master Degree at the Acad- are further developing their proiciency emy as a Soloist Performer and Teacher, with world-renowned saxophone players in she continued her studies (Instrumental masterclasses and lessons. Accompaniment) at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität in the class of Prof. Duncan, Preston and Rodríguez, Ramonet Denise Benda. Irèn Seleljo is a sought-af- An internationally acclaimed performer ter chamber musician, and plays regularly and educator, Preston Duncan has on over with various instrumentalists. Her reper- 65 occasions appeared as a soloist with toire covers several classical music styles, large ensembles at prestigious venues. however in the past years she developed Duncan was awarded a Fulbright Fellow- a special attention to the contemporary ship and has won numerous awards and music. Since 2013 she is working as a piano prizes including 1st prize in the MTNA accompanist at the Kunstuniversität Graz, National Woodwind Competition. He was and at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversi- the featured performer and educator at tät der Stadt Wien. the 1st Taiwanese National Saxophone Festival, the 12th Encuentro Universitario e Internacional de Saxofón in Mexico City and Saxfest Costa Rica and the featured Eder, Christian and Marsel, Arne performer at the 4th International Festival The saxophonists Arne Marsel and Chris- of Saxophones in Montevideo, Uruguay. He tian Eder formed Loopismo, a unique duo currently teaches at the University of Min- project in 2012. After several years’ collab- nesota and, during the summer, at Ticino oration, including the saxophone quartet Musica International in Lugano Switzerland melo-X, both saxophonists are now un- and Shell Lake Arts Center. dertaking an unusual ‘Journey of Sound”. Loopismo combines traditional woodwind Duonarchie instruments like the alto, soprano, baritone Gerald Preinfalk comes from the North saxophones and the clarinet with voice, of Austria. He started playing the clarinet percussion, Jew’s harp and electronic at an early age. The Saxophone became sources of sound and efects, including a vocation when he discovered Vienna's loop devices and the EWI (electric wind in- diverse music scene. Studies of Jazz- and strument). All sounds are created and pro- Classical-Saxophone opened a wide range grammed by Loopismo themselves, which of activities. Gueststudies in Boston (USA) results in very high standards of sound and Paris completed this constant curios- aesthetics. Traditional saxophone playing ity. Since 2000 he is a member of "Klang- is extended through contemporary playing forum Wien", one of the most renowned techniques such as microtonality, multi- contemporary classical music ensembles. phonics, slap tonguing, as well as blowing Guest appearances have teamed him with and key clicks, which are also looped as Classical Orchestras like Vienna Philhar- rhythms. Both musicians present a con- monic and various Big bands and Jazz en- cert experience with a wide spectrum. sembles. His own projects reach from clas- Own compositions and arrangements are sical chamber music with piano, through recorded during the performance as dou- Theatre-music, to Free-Improvised-music. ble- voiced sequences. The recurring loops Since 2008 he holds the Professorship for provide the basis for motifs and melodies Classical Saxophone in Graz (Austria). as well as improvisation. In addition, asyn- Irén Seleljo was born 1987 in Uzhgorod chronous loops give rise to special efects. (Ukraine) and started to learn the piano This technology provides new and diverse under the tutelage of her mother, followed sound dimensions ranging from single by the studies with Erzsèbet Belàk at the sound to the polyphony of a big band St. Stephan Music-High School (Budapest). structure. The musical stylistics of Loop- biografIES

269 biographies | e-e | ismo are composed of three groups: the formation. In order to nurture and develop sound of old European music (based on interest from young saxophonists, they baroque and middle age melodies and sac- have initiated concerts where students ramental spheres of sound), contemporary will perform alongside our ensemble. The Jazz (speciic compositions for saxophone ensemble hopes that this project will help and the possibilities of the instrument’s increase the visibility and the pertinence of tone and sound efects in connection with the formation. electronics, enriched with a healthy pinch of groove and improvisation as a power- ENDeM Saxophone Quartet ful means of expression) and world jazz The ENDeM Saxophone Quartet is made (sound and melody inluenced by the va- up of four young saxophonists - students riety of global ethnic music connected to at the Academy of Fine Arts in Split, in and expanded upon by the harmonics of Professor Gordan Tudor’s class. The quar- jazz and improvisation). tet was founded in 2015, when the musi- cians gave their irst performance. Since El Dorado Quartet connects the master- then, the quartet has performed numerous pieces of the saxophone quartet repertoire times at various events, including the with the never-ending creation of new Contemporary Sound Exhibition in Zagreb music - the future with the past. and the New Music Days in Split. In 2016 they won 1st prize at the Davorin Jenko Elysian Quartet international competition in Belgrade. The The newly formed Elysian Quartet is com- quartet’s repertoire includes works from prised of graduate students at the Univer- various stylistic periods, from Baroque to sity of Oklahoma who have all competed contemporary music. and placed in chamber music competi- tions, as well as solo competition. Some of Ensemble du Bout du Monde the chamber music competitions include The Ensemble du Bout du Monde is a col- the Music Teacher’s National Association lective made up of four classically trained Chamber Music Competition (2d place saxophonists from Australia, France, Israel, winner 2016, and 3rd place winner 2017), and the United States. As a contemporary the Coltman National Music Competition ensemble, they are constantly searching to (2nd place winner 2017), the Fischof Na- place art in unexpected and truly unique tional Chamber Music Competition (Semi- situations. The saxophone quartet, their inalist 2017, Quarterinalist 2013), as well tool to make art through music, has sought as university-sponsored competitions like to create a paradigm shift in the con- the Central Michigan University SAI Small temporary concept of what this already Ensemble Competition (1st place winner versatile ensemble is. Interested equally in 2014 and 2017, 2nd place winner 2016). breaking away from the classic view of a The OU Graduate Quartet plans to com- quartet, the ensemble members deem it pete in a multitude of competitions this necessary to collaborate in a cross-cultural year, including the North American Sax- way between the arts and other human- ophone Alliance Quartet Competition, ities. Formed, developed, and trained in the Music Teacher’s National Association France, EBM brings four disparate people Chamber Music Competition, and the and cultures together to envision a cre- Fischof National Chamber Music Compe- ative and innovative collective for which tition. there exists no boundaries or limitations.

Ensemble de Saxophone de Montréal Entre-Nous Duo The Ensemble de Saxophone de Mon- Duo Entre-Nous is a clarinet and saxo- tréal was formed in 2016 and consists of phone ensemble dedicated to the evo- professional saxophonists in Montréal. lution and continued progression of new These musicians strive to explore existing music. Formed in 2014 by Don-Paul Kahl repertoire for saxophone ensemble, while and Jackie Glazier, the duo performs and also commissioning new works for the commissions new repertoire for saxo- genre with a focus on Quebecois com- phone and clarinet. Thus far the duo has posers. They are working to standardize commissioned composers from America, the saxophone ensemble as a performing France, Spain, and Australia, garnering

270 biographies | E-E | new pieces in a variety of diferent styles. Alliance. Dr. Nolan teaches saxophone at Devoted to music education, the duo is Kwantlen Polytechnic University and the active in teaching positions in the United University of British Columbia. An active States. They have given masterclasses and performer, saxophonist Julia Nolan has lectures at universities and conservatories numerous commissioned works by Canadi- throughout the US and Europe. Recog- an composers. nized both nationally and internationally, Latino Sonsax has become one the most the duo has the mission to bring an excel- inluential saxophone ensembles from Lat- lence and performance and practice to all in America, performing hundreds of con- avenues of their work. Individually, the two certs in countries such as Russia, Japan, have won major international competitions Canada, United States, Chile, Brazil, Peru, for clarinet and saxophone, accordingly. Colombia, France, Germany, United King- Living in two separate major performance dom, México, Central America, among oth- continents allows them to access a wider ers. Sonsax has released 4 recordings and network to disseminate their work further. a DVD of exceptional breadth and creativ- A long-term goal of the ensemble is to ad- ity making many appearances in diferent vocate for the unique sounds and artistic radio and TV shows in Latin America and merits of this duo and to bring attention to has presented clinics and Masters classes the fascinating possibilities between these in many Universities around the world. two instruments. Equinox Saxophone Ensemble Ernst, Johannes Versatile and original, the Equinox Sax- Johannes Ernst studied classical saxo- ophone Ensemble, based in Nottingham phone at Berlin University of the Arts (UK), is a group of like-minded, accom- and, receiving a scholarship from the Ger- plished saxophonists with a passion for man Academic Exchange Service, at the exploring the possibilities the saxophone Bordeaux Conservatory under Professor can ofer. From transcriptions of classical Jean-Marie Londeix. Commitments as a so- favourites, through the jazz heritage of the loist with renowned orchestras, as a cham- saxophone, to modern classics and orig- ber music partner in numerous ensembles inal, contemporary works for saxophone and as a teacher of saxophone at Berlin ensemble, Equinox presents the saxophone University of the Arts and the “Hanns Eis- as a chameleon-like instrument capable of ler” Academy of Music followed his years taking on many personalities. The group’s of study. His last CD ‘Fundstücke - Compo- unique and compelling sound comes from sitions for saxophone and piano from 1929 the combination of instruments and the oc- -1950’ was released by the Label Es-Dur, casional use of electronics, keyboards and Hamburg in 2013. percussion, which provide variety and lex- ibility in the programming. Director Alistair Escocia Internacional Parnell is a leading proponent of electronic Sue McKenzie is the Director of the Scot- wind instruments, which are often featured tish Saxophone Academy, was an Assistant in the Equinox line-up. The group appeared Director of the 16th World Saxophone at the 2012 and 2015 World Saxophone Congress and is the leader and founder of Congresses in St Andrews and Strasbourg, the Scottish Saxophone Ensemble. As part and has recorded two albums: ‘Partial of the McKenzie Sawers Duo she has given Eclipse’ and ‘The Equinox Collection’. Equi- premieres of many new works. She studied nox welcomes special guest Nigel Wood, with Kyle Horch at Royal College of Music who composed much of the programme as well as with Eugene Rousseau, Lynn for today’s performance. Nigel founded Klock, David Murray and David Binney. She the group Saxtet, its publishing company, regularly performs with the internationally Saxtet Publications, which he owned and renowned Salsa Celtica and Glasgow Im- managed for 23 years, and also the Na- provisor’s orchestra. tional Saxophone Choir of Great Britain. Julia Nolan has served as a clinician and He is recognised as a leading player of the international judge in Belgium, Hong Kong, world’s smallest saxophone, the soprillo. Taiwan, and the United States and is cur- rently the Director of Scholarly Publica- tions for the North American Saxophone biografIES

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Fateyeva recorded her debut album of f works by Mishat, Ibert, Albright and De- cruck. For this project she was awarded Fabijanić, Nikola the Best Newcomer ECHO Klassik in 2016. Saxophone player Nikola Fabijanić is a Fateyeva has performed with the Vien- soloist, chamber and orchestra musician na Symphony Orchestra conducted by and a pedagogue. He works at the Pavao Vladimir Fedoseyev, with the Tchaikovsky Markovac Music School, at the Academy Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian of Arts in Novi Sad as a guest professor National Philharmonic, the Istanbul State and as a saxophone player in the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra and the Giuseppe Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radio Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan. She and Television Symphony Orchestra and has also played with orchestras from Bo- Croatian National Theatre Orchestra. He chum, Bonn, Frankfurt an der Oder, Kassel, has had a number of successful perfor- Colmar, Cologne, etc. In 2016 she success- mances with Papandopulo Quartet and in fully completed a postgraduate degree in a duo with Linda Mravunac Fabijanić. His chamber music with her duo partner, the performances, and those of his ensembles, pianist Valeriya Myrosh, at the Hamburg are regularly praised by the audience, col- School of Music and Theatre, where her leagues and critics. He has recorded three teacher was Professor Niklas Schmidt. solo albums, three albums with the Papan- dopulo Quartet and one with the Zagreb Favata, Enzo Soloists. As a soloist, he has performed In his long concert career, Enzo Favata with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, presented his music in many prestigious Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Festivals and venues around the world, Orchestra, Croatian Army Symphony Wind and has performed and recorded with Orchestra, Croatian Navy Symphony Wind great musicians like the Argentine mas- Orchestra, Zagreb Chamber Orchestra, ter Dino Saluzzi, trumpeter Enrico Rava, Gaudeamus Orchestra, Windstrings and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Metropole Art Ensemble NRW. He is a winner of nu- Orkest the famous orchestra of Dutch merous awards for artistic and pedagogic Radio-Television, Dave Liebman one of success: Chancellor’s Award, a winner of the best saxophone players in the world, the Giulio Viozzi international competition, Guinga Brazilian guitarist, Omar Sosa, Zagreb Philharmonic American Express Jan Bang, best electronic musician, but Award for the best young artist, the winner also other good musicians like the African of international competition Alpe-Dunav- singers Dudu Manhenga and Hope Masike Jadran, Darko Lukić Award, etc. He often from Zimbabwe, Ivan Mazuze from Mo- holds seminars and master classes at home zambique. Currently he has to his credit 16 and abroad, and is a member of juries in CD releases and a number of movie music national and international music compe- scores, some of which have won presti- titions. Fabijanić graduated saxophone at gious prizes at International Film Festivals. the Academy of Music Zagreb in the class He is ‘also the author of “soundscapes” for of professor Dragan Sremec. museums and exhibitions. He is the artistic director of the International Music Festival Fateyeva, Asya the Straits, in Santa Teresa Gallura, Sardinia Asya Fateyeva, a classical saxophonist Island, characterized by an innovative pro- born on the Crimean peninsula in 1990, gram, praised for sensitivity towards green has a wide repertoire which includes orig- environment and landscape, with famous inal works written for her instrument, as concerts taking place at sunset or sunrise well as Baroque, Classical and Romantic by the Sardinian sea. pieces which she often arranges herself. In 2014 she became the irst woman to Feng, Zeyu reach the inal of the prestigious Adolphe Zeyu Feng was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Sax International Competition in Belgium, Province, and he now teaches Saxophone where she won third place. She has also at the School of Music in Sias International won numerous irst prizes in international University ailiated to Zhengzhou Univer- competitions in Russia, France and Ger- sity. He is also a member of the National many. As a winner of the irst prize at the Higher Art Institutions Saxophone Special- German Music Competition in 2012, Asya

272 biographies | f-f | ized Committee. In 2009, he was admitted McCullough Cup Concerto and Senior Sax- by Central Conservatory of Music ranking ophone Competitions at ESB Feis Ceoil. number one among the many candidates. Finegan has also held solo recitals at the Later, he followed Li Manlong and Yang Boyle Arts Festival and at the National Tong to polish his saxophone playing Concert Hall at Fes Ceoil Gala Concert. He techniques. In 2013, he enrolled in the has taken lessons with world-renowned Saxophone Performance Master program saxophonists Arno Bornkamp and Ties ofered by Sichuan Conservatory of Mu- Mellema in Amsterdam. sic, where he studied with Li Yusheng. In 2016, he graduated with distinction. During Fischer, Stephen and Rachael the postgraduate period, he organized a Saxophonist Stephen Fischer is the ap- saxophone quartet performance, and was plied saxophone instructor in the Depart- responsible for the alto part. Under his ment of Music at Georgia College and has leadership, the performance team won the also served on the faculties of Clemson irst prize in the First Chengdu “Yamaha” University, the University of Georgia and Saxophone Quartet International Compe- the University of West Georgia. As a per- tition Professional Group. Individually, he former, Dr. Fischer is an active member of won the honor of the “Best Performer” in the North American Saxophone Alliance the Second “Voice of China” Composition and has been invited to perform at the Competition. In 2014 he participated in organization’s national and regional con- the 11th Siskyou Saxophone Workshop in ferences in the United States. He has also Southern Oregon, US. Two years later he performed as a soloist and chamber musi- performed with the Guanyun Saxophone cian at meetings of the World Saxophone Quartet Troupe and MD Saxophone Septet Congress in 2003, 2006), 2012 and 2015. Troupe in Melbourne, Australia. In 2017 Dr. Fischer has recently premiered new he participated in the irst exhibition and works by composers Dave Deason, Roger performance by the National Saxophone Vogel and Natalie Williams. He received Specialized Committee in Wuhan. the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in sax- ophone performance from the University Fiard, Frédéric of Georgia, studying with Dr. Kenneth Frédéric Fiard works as a stage manager Fischer. Additionally, he attended the in several theatres in Paris. He made in- Domaine Forget International Music and stitutional ilms but by his initial musical Dance Academy in Quebec, Canada, where training at the conservatory of Rennes, he he studied with Jean-Marie Londeix and continued the instrumental practice of the Jean-Francois Guay. saxophone. This led him to a personal ap- Violinist Rachael Fischer has performed proach to music pedagogy through digital across the United States and in Europe. media. He has worked on two volumes of She is a founding member of Piedmont a multimedia series entitled "A master, an Camerata. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Fischer instrument" with François Rabbath on his is Assistant Professor of Music at Georgia "New technique for double basse" then Gwinnett College, and also maintains a full on an educational DVD with Daniel Hu- violin studio at the University of Georgia mair entitled "Jazz Drums". On a personal Community Music School. She has com- and voluntary basis, he has also set up a pleted Suzuki teacher training with Linda scheme for primary school pupils to prac- Case, Kimberly Meier-Sims and Carrie tice instruments and form an orchestra. Reuning-Hummel, and has taken supple- "The Genius of Sax" is his irst documenta- mental courses with Teri Einfeldt, Edward ry and will be available on his website HY- Kreitman and Edmund Sprunger. She is the PERLINK "http://www.adolphe-sax.com" past president of the Suzuki Association www.adolphe-sax.com. of Georgia. Rachael Fischer holds a Bach- elor of Music degree in violin performance Finegan, Robert from the University of Georgia, a Master of Robert Finegan is a young saxophonist Music degree in violin performance from from Stoneylane, Ireland. He was a winner Arizona State University, and a Doctor of of several prestigious competitions, includ- Musical Arts degree in violin performance ing the Flax Trust Music Award, the DIT with a minor in musicology from the Uni- Briscoe Cup and Concerto competition, versity of Georgia. biografIES

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saxophone. Five by Five is a Japanese saxophone Michal Hanuš was born in 1980 in Vrchla- quintet that consists of students and grad- bi, the Czech Republic. He studied organ uates of Tokyo National University of Fine playing at the Music Faculty of Academy Arts and Music. Ensembles name contains of Performing Arts in Prague and Musik- our thoughts of “I want to make the best khøgskole Oslo. music that satisies the ive senses.” In addition, the concept, a completely new Four Saxophone Quartet idea that is unprecedented, in which parts, From the Gene Harris to the Villa Celimon- genres, etc., change lexibly. tana Jazz Festivals and locations around the world, including England, Austria, Flowers, Tyler Slovenia, Thailand, Italy, the United States, Tyler Flowers is currently a DMA candidate Singapore, Germany, Iceland, Scotland, in Saxophone Performance and Saxophone Luxembourg, The Philippines and France, Teaching Assistant at Arizona State Uni- Four is received exuberantly for their versity in Tempe, AZ under the direction of impeccable performances of music origi- Dr. Christopher Creviston. Previously, he nating entirely from Watkins’ pen. FOUR is received his MM from Arizona State Uni- working on their ifth CD (Collaboration) versity and his BM from the University of with the Miami, Zagreb, Saxitude and Rich- South Carolina in Columbia, SC under the ard Ingham saxophone quartets. They also direction of Dr. Cliford Leaman. Flowers recorded On a Warm Summer’s Evenin’ won the Arizona State University Concerto (Jazz Hang, 2010), “Supported by rock-sol- Competition in 2014, placed second in the id jazz and orchestra ensembles, On a MTNA National Chamber Music Compe- Warm Summer’s Evenin’ is a celebration tition as a member of Mosaic Quartet in of diverse musical styles by an inventive 2015, and placed second in the Arapahoe writer and four outstanding saxophonists Philharmonic Concerto Competition in who are as equally at ease unselishly serv- 2015. In addition to actively performing as ing the demands of an ensemble as they a soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Flow- are navigating the rigors of solo duties. To ers has been teaching privately throughout all involved, thank you for the music and the Phoenix, AZ Metropolitan area since the artistry.” For their third CD, FOURway August 2013. Stop, (Jazz Hang, 2012), Jef Coin wrote a wonderful prose. Here are the last few Fojtíček, Roman and Hanuš, Michal lines: “Glorious, bright moments bursting Roman Fojtíček was born in 1963 in and bouncing with fullness and joy. When Hořice. He started playing clarinet and is 2+2 more than the sum of it’s pats? Lis- went to Teplice Conservatory where he ten, and here you will hear four sounding graduated in 1987. He began his saxophone like ive or more…” studies at Jaroslav Ježek’s Conservatory in Prague, where he graduated in 1994. Fragments Duo Already during his university years he Vanja Ilekovic and Rich Patitucci have started cooperating with a number of jazz, cultivated their musical rapport over sev- dance, theatre and symphony orchestras. eral years. Often shedding jazz standards He is one of the founding members of the in an underground garage by day and later Bohemia Saxophone Quartet, with which sharing the stage in jazz clubs and cafes he often performed in Prague, elsewhere in at night. From this a desire to create their the Czech Republic, and abroad (Denmark, own music evolved and they have begun Germany, Austria, Indonesia, Lebanon, Isra- performing original compositions and ar- el, Jordan and France). In 2003 he founded rangements as a guitar and sax jazz duo the Czech Sax Quartet. He works in many as well as in a jazz guitar quartet. The duo, musical ields (e.g. The Sklep theatre) and Fragments, presents a compelling individ- has participated in many recordings for ual sound that draws on jazz, classical and Czech radio and television. He plays with more creative aspects of rock and popu- several Prague orchestras (the Prague Ra- lar music. Vanja Ilekovic graduated from dio Symphony Orchestra, the State Opera the University of Zagreb Conservatory in and the Prague Symphony Orchestra). He 2001. He has attended many seminars with wants to pursue a solo career playing the world renown saxophonists and musicians,

274 biographies | F-g | including Ernie Watts, Claude Delangle, (BM), U. of Illinois (MM), Conservatorium and Eugene Rousseau. In addition to his van Amsterdam and U. of South Carolina ongoing tenure with Croatian Military’s (DMA). Her teachers are Steven Mauk, Symphony Orchestra and Big Band he Debra Richtmeyer, Cliford Leaman and regularly contributes to a wide range of Arno Bornkamp. projects. He is a member of the Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet, with whom he has Fuego Quartet recorded two CDs, Four Odd and Mellow. Founded in 2015, Fuego Quartet is an He also performs with several popular pop, award-winning chamber group devot- rock, swing and jazz bands, including The ed to the performance of both standard Swingers, Soul Fingers, Mr. Dynamite, Brian and contemporary works written for the Holiday, and Neki Novi Klinci. saxophone. Most recently, they were the Rich Patitucci (USA): Rich’s story is not awarded the Gold Medal at the 44th An- that of a typical professionalmusician. nual Fischof Chamber Music Competition, From an early age he was a voracious 1st place in Brass, Winds and Percussion at and astute listener of almost every genre the 8th Plowman Chamber Music Compe- of music. While studying philosophy at tition and 2nd Place in the 2017 National university, he decided listening wasn’t MTNA Chamber Music Competition. The enough. He quickly bought a guitar and Fuego Quartet is also the most recent began composing his own music. As a recipient of the John Celentano Award for restless nomad in both life and art, his Excellence in Chamber Music. Comprised wandering landed him in Zagreb, Croa- of graduate students from the Eastman tia, where he formed the rock power trio School of Music, Fuego has been featured Southern Alias and began studying jazz in a variety of settings from standard and classical music with local musician concert hall venues to community engage- Mario Igrec. In 2013 Rich left Croatia to ment concerts. They have been featured formally study music and composition in artists at the Chicago Cultural Center, Uni- Antwerp, Belgium. He graduated in jazz versity of Illinois, Michigan State Univer- performance in 2017 and currently resides sity, Strong National Museum of Play, The in Brussels where he composes and per- George Eastman Museum, Dorris Carlson forms regularly, most notably with his jazz Reading Garden, Phillis Wheatley Library, combo Alloy. Susan B. Anthony Museum, Washington Square Concert Series, OSSIA Presents Frigo, Conni; Marsalis, Branford and [Col][lab]. and Dierlam, Casey American saxophonist Connie Frigo is g an internationally accomplished soloist, chamber musician, teacher, speaker, and Generation Saxophone 1987 founder of numerous festivals. Highlights Nikita Zimin is one of the brightest repre- of her career include six years with the sentatives of the Russian classical school premiere U.S. Navy Band, Washington, of saxophone. He is a graduate of the D.C.; seven years touring nationally as the Russian Gnesin’s Academy of Music (class baritone saxophonist with the New Centu- of Russian People’s Artist, Professor Mar- ry Saxophone Quartet; guest artist recitals, garita Shaposhnikova) and Paris National masterclasses and summer workshops in Conservatoire (class of Professor Claude Europe, South America and the United Delangle). Nikita has won the Grand prix States, including the American Saxophone of the most prestigious international com- Academy and The Great Plains Saxophone petitions including the VI International Workshop; and faculty positions at the Adolphe Sax Saxophone Competition Universities of Tennessee and Maryland (Dinant, Belgium - 2014). Nikita Zimin has before arriving to The University of Geor- a wide repertoire and has worked with gia, where she serves as Associate Profes- many orchestras including the Volgograd sor of Saxophone. In 2017 with The Yargo Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Trio (lute, saxophone, piano), she released Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Udmurt State the album “Voices, Reimagined” with Symphony Orchestra, Belgorod Philarmon- Mark Records. She is a Fulbright Scholar ic Orchestra, the Mecklenburg State Choir, (Holland), and graduate of Ithaca College Northwest German Philharmonic, Leba- biografIES

275 biographies | g-g | nese Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Aeter- ing with Jacques Rouvier, Prisca Benoit, na Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Denis Pascal, Laurent Cabasso and in the Orchestra and others. He gives recitals and 2nd cycle supérieur with Hortense Carti- masterclasses, both in Russia and abroad. er-Bresson et Fernando Rossano. He has Nikita Zimin is a regular participant of in- won some prestigious awards at Pianist ternational Saxophone Congresses and in- Competitions in Japan. He performs as ternational Festivals. He is the President of soloist with rchestras but he is also a de- the Eurasian Saxophone Association and voted chamber musician. a Member of the Guild of young musicians of Russian Musical Union. He is a teacher Geromet, Walter at the Frédéric Chopin Music College in Sax player, composer, musical director and Moscow. teacher Walter Geromet, graduated cum Brandon Jinwoo Choi is in great demand laude in saxophone at the Conservatorio as an international soloist and he has ap- Tartini (Trieste, IT) with M. Donninelli in peared across three continents, in France, 2005 and subsequently studied at the Real Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Taiwan, Conservatorio Superior de Música in Ma- Thailand, Korea, Japan, and United States. drid with Francisco Martinez. He has also As a soloist, Dr. Choi has been a soloist attended several Masterclass throughout with orchestras that include The Ruma- Europe with important classical and mod- nia Ploiesti State Philharmonic Orchestra, ern soloists. He has received awards at The Korea Mostly Philharmonic Orchestra, several national and international contests The University of Cincinnati College-Con- of musical execution and given more than servatory of Music Wind Orchestra. He 500 performances in Europe and the Unit- has won top prizes in many national and ed States. Walter’s teaching experience international. Dr. Choi holds 4e cycle of includes several international courses and Perfectionism (Artist Diploma) at the Con- conferences. In 2006 he recorded his irst sevatorie de Lyon, France with Jean-Denis CD, TWO FANTASTICS, with the pianist Michat. Choi was a teaching assistant and R. Silvestre. The CD includes some of the holds Doctor of Music Arts degree at the most representative contemporary pieces University of Cincinnati, College Conserva- for piano and sax, inluenced by popular tory of Music where he previously earned cultures from diferent countries (T. Yoshi- his Master of Music degree in Saxophone matsu, P. Iturralde, I. Gotkowsky, A. Corghi, performance. He is professor of Chung- J. Takacs) and received excellent reviews Ang University, Seoul Art College, Sam from composers and musicians around Yuk University and Seoul Chung Am Art the world. In 2007 he settled in Madrid University. where he currently lives with his family Yo Matsushita, after graduating from the and created the Walter Sax Big Band, a Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and Keio stand-out jazz band in the Spanish scene, University, acheived a master’s degree and the WS Academy of music. The school from the Tokyo National University of the focuses on the study of the saxophone (at Arts (in the class of Masato Ikegami), and diferent levels) and the creation of instru- three years later he won the First Grand mental combos, signiicant meeting points Prize at the Jean-Marie Londeix Interna- for students and professionals. The goal of tional Saxophone Competition (Bangkok, the Academy is to ofer not only individual 2014). He has already accepted important lessons to their students, but an opportu- concert engagements in Japan, including nity to play in bands and give concerts, an Tokyo as well as in Europe particularly in essential part of their musical enrichment France. and crucial to nurture their enthusiasm. Kishin Nagai started taking piano lessons Walter produced and published the CD IN- at the age of 4. He inished the studies at COGNITO in February 2016, that contains the Geidai College of Music (attached to his own compositions for solo curved-so- the University of Arts, Tokyo) in the class prano saxophone and new techniques of of Hiroshi Nagao and Yukio Yokohama in execution. His last solo CD, a tribute to 2011, and was then unanimously admitted composer J. S. Bach with curved-soprano to 1er cycle supérieur of the Piano Class at sax, published in June 2017. Conservatoire National Supérieur de Mu- sique de Paris (CNSMDP). He was study-

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Trio GIG gresses, he hosted the 2013 NASA Region Trio GIG, a unique chamber ensemble on 9 Conference and is currently the director Croatia’s cultural scene, was founded in of Region 9. He released SaxSpectrum in 2006 after a successful performance at the 2009 (MSR Classics) and SaxSpectrum 2 52nd Split Summer Festival for which they in 2014 highlighting his original composi- were awarded with the award Judita for tions and commissioned works for saxo- the best musical programme of the Festi- phone. International music magazines such val. The Trio performs original contempo- as Fanfare, American Music Guide, BBC rary works, thus encouraging creations of Music Magazine and Gramophone gave new compositions. Because of this, they strong reviews of his CDs. He has several have collaborated with young Croatian and published compositions for saxophone and foreign composers who have dedicated band with Eighth Note Publications (Al- their works to them. Their repertoire also fred Music). He received degrees from the includes original transcriptions of various University of Saskatchewan, Northwestern piano trios and orchestral compositions University, and the University of Missouri. of all periods. In 2016, with the support of Bonnie Nicholson is a pianist, teacher and Croatia’s Ministry of Culture, the trio pub- chamber musician from Prince Albert, Sas- lished their irst CD. The members of the katchewan. Her degrees include a Bachelor ensemble are saxophonists Gordan Tudor of Music (Performance) and a Master of and Goran Jurković and pianist Ivan Batoš. Arts Degree from the University of Sas- katchewan, as well as an A.R.C.T. in Piano Gillis, Glen and Cunnigham, James E. Performance from the R.C.M. For over 25 The Gillis Cunningham Duo is an avant years, Bonnie has served as a Sessional garde electro-acoustic ensemble com- Lecturer in Piano, at the Department of prised of Dr. Glen Gillis (saxophone, Uni- Music, U of S, in Saskatoon. versity of Saskatchewan) and Dr. James E. Cunningham (didgeridoo, conch trumpet, Giuliani, Rosario percussion, and electro-acoustic computer The enthusiastic and triumphal tones processing, Florida Atlantic University). used by the press to describe Rosario They have been composing and perform- Giuliani’s playing characteristics derive ing their own brand of original music since directly from the special sound he cre- 1999 at music conferences and festivals. ates. With nonchalance he draws from Their most recent international perfor- his instruments a luid phrasing style, at mances include appearances at the 2015 times dazzling, which naturally links him World Saxophone Congress and SaxOpen to great saxophonists such as Julian Can- in Strasbourg, France, the 2016 NASA nonball Adderley, Art Pepper, and John Biennial and 2017 Region 9 Conferences, Coltrane. Frequent comparisons are made the 2016 STRATA New Music Festival in spontaneously by his listeners. In 1996 he Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and the won the Massimo Urbani prize, and one 2017 British Forum for Ethnomusicology in year later he was named “Best Soloist” in Sheield, England. The current direction of addition to his own quartet which won the the duo involves the use of real-time cap- Best Group award at the European Jazz tured digital convolution reverb and high- Contest in Belgium. In the year 2000 he speed computer processing with the goal took irst place honours, by popular vote, of integrating acoustic instruments, pre-re- in the Top Jazz contest in the New Talent corded source material, and video in a live category. The contest is held as an annual interactive performance environment. referendum by Musica Jazz magazine. His collaborations in the jazz ield have been Gillis, Glen and Nicholson, Bonnie frequent and prestigious, having played Glen Gillis is Professor of Saxophone, together with the likes of Charlie Haden, Conducting, and Music Education at the Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Phil Woods, Enrico University of Saskatchewan. His career has Rava, Franco D’Andrea, Donald Harrison, spanned over three decades in the realms Marc Johnson, Joey BARON and Richard of classical, contemporary, and jazz music, Galliano. After having made many record- with performances across North America, ings with various Italian and foreign record Europe and Asia. Having performed at labels, in September of 2000 Rosario Gi- many NASA and World Saxophone Con- uliani signed an important contract with biografIES

277 biographies | G-G | the prestigious French recording company, Goines, Victor Dreyfus Jazz, with whom he has already A native of New Orleans, Victor Goines recorded ive very successful albums: Lug- began studying clarinet at age eight. He gage, Mr. Dodo, More Than Ever, Anything received a bachelor of music education else and Lennie’s pennies. Giuliani divides degree from Loyola University in New Or- his time between his Italian, European, and leans in 1984 and a master of music degree overseas commitments, performing regu- from Virginia Commonwealth University in larly in the following festivals: Jazz a Liegi Richmond, Virginia in 1990.Saxophonist, (Belgium), Gexto Jazz Festival (Spain), clarinetist, composer and educator, Victor Blue Note Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Goines is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York), Umbria Jazz (Italy), Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Jazz a Vienne (France), Jazz Baltica (Ger- Septet since 1993, touring throughout the many), etc. and in other jazz events that world and recording over seventy releases take place around the world. In the spring including Marsalis' Pulitzer Prize winning of 2006 he participated in a highly suc- recording Blood on the Fields (Columbia cessful tour that took him to the principal Records, 1997) and Jazz at Lincoln Center cities of China. Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis' to name just two. He is an acclaimed solo artist and Gmyrek, Maria and Trefon, Wojciech leads his own quartet and quintet. As a Maria Gmyrek and Wojciech Trefon are leader, Goines has ten recordings. A gifted students at the Stanisław Moniuszki State composer, Goines has more than 100 orig- Music School in Bielsko-Biała. They have inal works to his credit. Goines has record- been performing together since 2012 as a ed and/or performed with many noted jazz saxophone and harp duet. In their irst year and popular artists including Ahmad Ja- together, they won the Grand Prix at the mal, Terence Blanchard, Ruth Brown, Dee 22nd National Chamber Group Competi- Dee Bridgewater, Ron Carter, Ray Charles, tion in Bystrzyca Kłodzka, and 1st prize at Eric Clapton, Chick Corea, Bo Diddley, Bob the 5th National Harp Duet Competiton in Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Green, Lio- Cieszyn. In 2014, they won 1st prize at the nel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, B.B. King, Warsaw Chamber Music Forum, despite Lenny Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Mar- being the youngest participants. In 2015, salis, James Moody, Dianne Reeves, Willie Maria and Wojciech became winners of Nelson, James Taylor, Marcus Roberts, Ste- two prestigious musical events: the 36th vie Wonder and a host of other renowned National Music School Chamber Groups musicians and ensembles. Throughout his Competition in Wrocław, and the 6th career, Goines has been deeply committed International Harp Duet Competition in to the ield of Jazz Education. In Novem- Cieszyn. In 2016, the duet won the Grand ber 2007 he was named director of jazz Prix at the International Harp Competition studies and professor of music at North- in Lvov. In 2014, Polish national television western University in Evanston, Illinois. invited them to take part in the music Prior to that appointment he was the artis- ilm “Behind the harp strings”, years later tic director of the jazz studies program at directed by Violetta Rotter-Kozera. In the the Juilliard School, and a faculty member same year, their irst professional record- teaching saxophone and clarinet. He has ing, in the Polish Radio Concert Studio in also served on the faculties of Florida A & Katowice, was chosen to represent Poland M University, the University of New Orle- at the European Union Broadcasters Radio ans, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Competition “Concertino Praga”. In 2015, Xavier University. Maria received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Grandesso, Damiano preceded by a “Young Poland” scholarship Damiano Grandesso (1990) is an Italian a year earlier. Wojciech, meanwhile, re- saxophonist, member of Five Sax and Mila- ceived a scholarship for exceptional artistic no Saxophone Quartet. He played in major achievement from the Ministry of Culture concert halls of the world: Musikverein and National Heritage for the years 2013, Vienna, Taipei National Concert Hall, Teatro 2015 and 2016, also receiving a “Young del Lago Chile, Citè de la Musique Paris, Poland” scholarship in 2017. Concertgebouw Brugge, Konzerthouse Vienna, Bruxelles Flagey, Gasteig Munich,

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Belgrade Concert Hall and Concertge- Sremec. As a soloist, he won irst prizes bouw Amsterdam. Damiano is passionate at ‘Davorin Jenko’Competition (Belgrade about contemporary music and he has 2015), ‘Woodwind and Brass’ Competition premiered over 40 new pieces. He usually (Varaždin), and the state competition for works with composers such as Giovanni students in Croatia- HDGPP (2016). He Bonato, Mario Pagotto, Leonardo Schiavo, was the semi-inalist at the ‘Papandopulo’ Alberto Schiavo, Federico Zattera, Gianni Croatian Competition for Young Musicians Giacomazzo, and Pier Damiano Peretti, and received the scholarship of the city of Christian Lauba. He regularly gives master- Zagreb. Furthermore, he attended mas- class in Italy, Spain, Serbia, South America terclasses by many renowned saxophone and Asia. Since 2012 he has been invited players like the members of the Zagreb several times to perform with the Bruxelles Saxophone Quartet, Papandopulo Quartet, Philharmonic Orchestra and the Belgrade Mobilis Quartet, but also masterclasses Philharmonic Orchestra. Damiano is irst taught by Kenneth Tse (at the Universi- prize winner of 12 national and internation- ty of Iowa School of Music in the USA), al competitions. He recorded CDs with for Arno Bornkamp, Lars Mlekusch, Jean-Yves ARS, Azzurra Music, and Orlando Records. Formeau, Miha Rogina, and Oto Vrhovnik. He is the artistic director of Alpen Classica He performed as a member of the Zagreb Festival. Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Ra- dio Symphony Orchestra and the Croatian Grgić, Dominik and Kottek, Krešimir National Theatre Orchestras in Zagreb and Dominik Grgić was born in 1996. After Rijeka, and is currently a member of the graduating from the music high school, Morum Trio. Dominik started his degree in Saxophone at the Zagreb Academy of Music (Uni- Gričar, Jan versity of Zagreb, Croatia) in the class of Saxophonist Jan Gričar (1992) belongs prof. Dragan Sremec. His most notable to the young prosperous Slovenian saxo- competition successes include winning the phone generation. He works with various irst prize at the International Woodwind composers, with whom he tries to explore and Brass Competition in Varaždin for and enrich saxophone repertoire in difer- two consecutive years (2015, 2016) and ent musical styles. He graduated with the the irst prize at the 54th Croatian State highest grade ‘summa cum laude’ from Competition for music and dance in 2016. Academy of music in Ljubljana in the class- In 2017 he participated in the prestigious es of professors Matjaž Drevenšek and International Saxophonist Competition Miha Rogina. He continued his studies in Josip Nochta as the best ranked Croatian France where he was a student of profes- contestant.Throughout his education, he sor Vincent David at the Regional conser- has been trained by prominent Croatian vatory in Versailles. He inished his master and world artists: Claude Delangle, Arno studies at the Conservatoire national Bornkamp, Vincent David, Lars Mlekusch, supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Joonatan Rautiola, in the class of professor Claude Delangle, Mariano Garcia, Christian Wirth, Fumie where he also got a degree in chamber Ito, Lev Pupis, Vincent le Quang, Gordan music in the class of professor Laszlo Ha- Tudor and Nikola Fabijanić. He is currently dady. He performs all over Slovenia and a fourth-year saxophone student at the Europe as well as in Japan as a soloist or a Music Academy of Zagreb, in the class of member of the Niobé saxophone quartet professor Tomislav Žužak.Dominik is the and Duo Novum with the accordionist Nejc winner of the Oscar of Knowledge Award, Grm. He was invited by many international organized by the Croatian Ministry of Ed- festivals such as Jeunes Talents (France), ucation, and is actively engaged in music Young Classic Europe (Germany), NeiS- production. uonideiLuoghi (Italy), Lent and Glasbena Krešimir Kottek (Zagreb, 1991) graduated mladina Slovenije (Slovenia). As a soloist in Saxophone at the Academy of Music in he has so far performed with the RTV Zagreb, in the class of Professor Tomislav Slovenia Symphonic Orchestra, Slovenian Žužak. During the irst three years of his Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Or- studies at the Academy in Zagreb, he was chestra of the Academy of Music Ljubljana, a student in the class of Professor Dragan Wind Orchestra Trieste… He is laureate and biografIES

279 biographies | g-h | prizewinner of many international and na- BMG, ARMSmusic, Pomaton EMI, DUX and tional competitions such as International Polish Radio. In more recent years, he has competition Marco Fiorindo, International been invited to judge a number of highly Saxophone Competition Nova Gorica and regarded Saxophone competitions. He is Osaka International chamber music com- invited also as a lecturer to the internation- petition. Jan Gričar works as a professor al courses of music interpretation. Paweł of Saxophone and Chamber music at the Gusnar teaches saxophone at the Fryderyk Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lju- Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and bljana, Slovenia since September 2017. at the Lodz Academy of Music. Guernica Saxophone Ensemble Guernica Saxophone Ensemble is saxo- h phone group in Japan whose members are Koji Yamamoto, Daisuke Namiki, Hajime h2 Quartet Kuribayashi and Yuka Yoshikawa. Declared “an ensemble to watch for years Koji Yamamoto studied saxophone with to come” by the American Record Guide, Nobuya Sugawa and Hirokazu Hayashida. the award-winning h2 Quartet has been He won 1st prize in 16th Japan Junior Winds wowing audiences since 2002. A dynam- and Percussion Competition and 3rd prize ic and innovative chamber ensemble, h2 in 6th Akiyoshidai Music Competition. He constantly seeks to defy perceptions and performs not only classical music but also expectations of the saxophone. h2 has contemporary music and improvisation. performed throughout the United States, Daisuke Namiki studied saxophone with and has performed in Europe, the UK and Satoshi Kato. He won Grand Prix in Japan in Asia. The group is also in demand for Classical Music Competition (2015) and appearances and residencies at summer Kantokoushin’etsu branch tournament of music festivals both at home and abroad, the JBA Junior & High School Wind and including the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Percussion Instrument Solo contest (2012), in Michigan and the Cortona Sessions and became a inalist of the Junior saxo- for New Music in Italy. The ensemble has phone competition (2015). released ive critically-acclaimed record- Hajime Kuribayashi studied saxophone ings: Generations, Times & Spaces, Groove with Yoshiyuki Hattori and Akira Matusy- Machine, Hard Line, and Enrapture. Each uki. He is a founding member of Tsukuba of these albums introduces audiences to Saxophone Quartet and won gold prize in a diferent side of the saxophone, with 9th and 10th Japan Saxophone Association the latter four comfortably bridging the Ensemble Competition. He also performed gap between the popular and avant-garde at the 16th and 17th World Saxophone Con- sides of American music. The h2 quartet gress. has won prizes at the Fischof National Yuka Yoshikawa studied saxophone with Chamber Music Competition (First Prize, Sadahito Kunisue. She won gold prize in Gold Medals) and the North American 12th Japan Wind and Percussion Solo Com- Saxophone Alliance Saxophone Quartet petition. She became a inalist of 23rd and Competition (irst prize), among others. 24th Japan Classical Music Competition. The group was also a recipient of an Aaron She is a member of Ensemble Factory and Copland Fund Recording Grant in 2010 for premiered Paul Creston’s “Quartet” in Ja- their album Times & Spaces. pan. h2/4 Duo and Ryan Gardner Gusnar, Paweł The h2/4 Duo is comprised of founding Paweł Gusnar is a graduate of the Fry- members of the h2 quartet, Jefrey Loef- deryk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. fert and Jonathan Nichol. h2 is dedicated He belongs to a select group of saxophon- to commissioning and performing compel- ists who successfully combine classical mu- ling new works for saxophone quartet, and sic with jazz and popular music. He gives operates as a non-proit organization. The several dozen concerts a year in Poland and group is also in demand for appearances abroad, as a soloist and in chamber ensem- and residencies at summer music festivals bles. As a session musician, he has taken both at home and abroad, including the part in the recording of ilm soundtracks, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and incidental music and CDs for such labels as the Cortona Sessions for New Music in

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Italy. The h2 quartet also hosts the Great way Hall in New York, to major academic Plains Saxophone Workshop during the institute worldwide, such as University of summer months. As members of the h2 Southern California, California State Uni- quartet, the ensemble has released ive versity-Fullerton, Illinois State University, critically-acclaimed recordings: Genera- and the University of Tennessee as a guest tions, Times & Spaces, Groove Machine, artist. She performed in various music Hard Line, and Enrapture. festivals including Amali Coast Music Fes- Jefrey Loefert serves as Associate Pro- tival (Italy), Schlern Music Festival (Italy), fessor of Saxophone at Oklahoma State PianoSummer in New Paultz (New York) University. A dedicated teacher, Loefert and Rebecca Pennys Piano Festival (Flor- recently received the Oklahoma State Uni- ida). Wenjing Liu-Hallberg holds a Doctor versity College of Arts & Sciences Junior of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence, Piano Pedagogy from University of Iowa the Wise-Diggs-Berry Award for Teaching under the guidance of Russian pianist Kse- Excellence, and the Friends of Music Dis- nia Nosikova. tinguished Music Professor Award. Jonathan Nichol is Associate Professor of Hanawa, Misato and Nishioka, Saki Saxophone at the University of Oklahoma. 33-year old Misato Hanawa, born in Ibara- He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree ki, started playing the piano at the age of (2010) and a Master of Music degree three, saxophone at the age of ten with (2007) from Michigan State University Nobuya SUGAWA. After inishing a course and a Bachelor of Music Education degree at Senzoku Music collage with Hiroshi (2005) from Central Michigan University. HARA. She entered the National Music Jonathan’s primary teachers include John Academy Cerqy Pontoise in France, where Nichol, Joseph Lullof, Robbie Smith, Diego she is currently studying as a postgraduate Rivera, and Rodney Whitaker. with Professor Jean-Yves Fourmeau. She has won the 1st prize at the 2011 Leopold Hallberg, John and Liu-Hallberg Wenjing Bellan International Competition (France), Dr. John Hallberg has performed as a so- 1st prize at the U.F.A.M Internacional Com- loist and chamber musician in the United petition(France),as well as some other Kingdom, France, Belgium, Sweden, China, international prizes. She was nominated Hong Kong, and across the United States. and became the recipient of the Inter- Hallberg’s career has taken him to many national Music Award in Japan. Misato is of the world’s most prestigious venues, an avid chamber music performer. She is including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie an extremely inquisitive performer and Hall, Segerstrom Hall, and numerous uni- enjoys working on new works by modern versity campuses world-wide. Hallberg composers, as well as resurrecting rarely currently instructs saxophone at California performed repertoire. Her musical inter- State University-Fullerton, The Colburn ests are extensive and she explores a wide School for the JumpStart Young Musicians range of repertoire, from Baroque right up Program, and the Orange County School to works by contemporary composers. Her of the Arts. Hallberg received a Doctor of international career has already seen her Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance perform at venues throughout the world, with minors in Music Theory and Analysis, as well as at a number of prestigious fes- Music Technology, and Jazz Studies at tivals. She is teaching at the Music collage USC. Hallberg also holds a Master of Arts of Shobi in Tokyo. She has received many degree from The University of Iowa, and accolades and awards in recognition of her a Bachelor of Music degree from The Bob talent. Cole Conservatory of Music at California Saki Nishioka was born in Japan. She State University, Long Beach. obtained her Diploma at the Kyoto City Dr. Wenjing Liu-Hallberg, a solo perform- University of Arts in 2015. She has also er and chamber musician, has intensely obtained her Concertiste Diploma at Ecole performed throughout the United States, Normale de Musique de Paris ,in class of China, and Italy. A scope of her concert Bruno RIGUTTO. For her Master’s degree, engagement expands from prestigious she is currently studying at the Conser- professional concert venues, such as Weill vatoire of Paris(CNSMDP-Conservatoire Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Stein- National Supérieur de Musique et de biografIES

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Danse de Paris)in class of Hortense CARTI- Germany, Spain and Iceland. Hanno is a ER-BRESSON.She has received scholarship teaching artist of Clarinet and Chamber from Aoyama Foundation in Japan. She Music in the Phoenix metropolitan area, received many international Competition and is highly sought after for both music awards. She has performed at a variety and multidisciplinary collaborations. From of music festivals, including the Chopin this year’s project, notable performances Festival in Paris, Lisztomanias, Piano aux this summer included connecting with the Jacobins, Piano en Valois. She has also Icelandic eco village community, Sólhei- performed together with the Ribeirão mar, to share an unaccompanied recital, re- Preto Symphony Orchestra and the Cham- turning to Saarburg International Chamber ber Orchestra Osaka. Music Festival in Germany. She secured a place in the inal round of the International Hanfeng, Du Clarinet Association’s young artist com- Du Hanfeng was born in 1989 and started petition held in Orlando. Before moving learning saxophone at the age of 12. He to Arizona for her Master’s in Clarinet Per- took part in the national competition of formance, Hanno studied with Professor wind instruments of young performers at Clarence Padilla at Drake University for her the age of 14 where he won First Prize. undergraduate degree. Currently, she is in He later entered the Wuhan Conservatory the doctoral program for Clarinet Perfor- with the highest scores at the age of 17. mance at Arizona State University. Hanfeng became interested in jazz and Ryan LeMoine is an active saxophonist lead a conservatory band. He also created and educator in the Phoenix metro area, as a quintet of saxophonists at the age of 19 well as in many diferent venues across the and the ensemble won irst prize in the United States and Europe. As a chamber Asian jazz festival. He served in the army musician, he was a prize winner at the Mu- when he was 21, his rank was captain of sic Teachers National Association Cham- the Air Force of China, and he directed a ber Music Competition (2015), as well as brass band. He also took part in the parade the inaugural NASA Saxophone Quartet dedicated to the celebration of the 60th competition (2008). As a researcher, LeM- anniversary of China’s air force and was oine has completed an ultrasound study awarded the President’s Medal of Honor. of saxophonist’s tongue motion during In 2015 Hanfeng graduated from Odess pitch bends. An Adjunct Faculty member Ushinskiy National Pedagogical University at Chandler-Gilbert Community College where he was taught by Anna Stepanova. and Estrella Mountain Community College, He took part in several master classes, LeMoine also maintains a private lesson including those by Bob Mintzer (USA), studio, as well as teaching saxophone at Pawel Gusnar (Poland) and Florent Mon- Rosie’s House Music Academy. fort (France). He co-organized the Inter- national Competition of Young Performers Hara, Hiroshi Golden saxophone (Ukraine), took part Hiroshi Hara graduated at the top of his in the work of international jury of Breath class from SHOBI College of Music and (Russia), and he organizes festivals and Tokyo University of the Arts (Special Grad- masterclasses across China. He is currently uate Course). In 1996 he won irst prize engaged in scientiic postgraduate study at the 13th Japan Wind and Percussion of Odesa Ushinskiy National University. Competition. In 2002 he was the irst Jap- anese saxophone player to win the 3rd Hanno-LeMoine Duo International Adolphe Sax Competition in The Hanno-LeMoine Duo formed in 2016, Dinant, Belgium.Currently he is teaching through a mutual interest of exploring the saxophone at Tokyo College of Music, Sen- soundscape possibilities for the clarinet zoku College of Music and SHOBI College and saxophone instrumentation. The duo of Music, he also performs in various Eu- aims to broaden the repertoire for their in- ropean countries as well as in Taiwan, and strumentation, making more conventional regularly holds workshops for which he is and unconventional sounds present to the highly praised. single reed community of the world. Clarinetist Kristi Hanno has performed Harrington, Allen and Enns-Braun, Lottie across the United States, Belgium, France, Canadian saxophonist Allen Harrington is

282 biographies | h-h | an Associate Professor at the University of ities and Culture, Department of Arts and Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music where the Junior and Senior High Schools which he teaches saxophone, bassoon, and are attached to Kunitachi College of Mu- chamber music. He holds degrees from sic. Sayaka Takeuchi studied saxophone the University of Saskatchewan (B.Mus.) and graduated from Kunitachi College of and Northwestern University (M.Mus.). He Music. She has developed her skills under has appeared as a concerto soloist with Mr. Katsuki Tochio, Professor Keiji Shimoji, more than a dozen orchestras in Canada, Mr. Takenobu Nohara. She works as a part- Europe, and South America. He has given time instructor for a music course at Toride countless recitals across Canada, includ- Girls Junior High and Senior High School ing recital tours for Debut Atlantic, Prairie which are attached to Seitoku University. Debut, and Home Routes Classical. In the Hisashi Onuki entered Tokyo University of past few years he has released three CDs the Arts in 1990 and graduated in 1994. He of music for saxophone and piano as well completed his master course study in the as saxophone and organ on the Ravello same university in 1996. He has developed Records label: Metropolis (2014), The Post- his saxophone skills under Professor Keiji card Sessions (2016), and Vanishing Point Munesada, Professor Nobuya Sugawa, and (2016). As a bassoonist, Allen plays as a Professor Kazuo Tomioka. He also studied regular extra with the Winnipeg Sympho- chamber music under Professor Kazuo To- ny Orchestra and principal bassoon with mioka. Besides being a concert soloist, he the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Lottie holds courses and masterclasses for brass Enns-Braun is currently music director and bands all over Japan. He works as a part- organist at Young United Church (Win- time instructor at Senzokugakuen College nipeg, Canada); University Organist for of Music, the Junior High School which is the University of Manitoba; and an active attached to Tamagawa University. member of the Royal Canadian College of Hirotoshi Sato graduated from Kunitachi Organists. She began her musical training College of Music. He won the highest level as pianist and chorister in rural Manitoba. award among the wind instrument univer- She holds undergraduate and graduate sity students section in the 10th The Great music degrees from the former CMBC, the Wall China International Music Competi- University of Manitoba and the University tion. He has developed his saxophone skills of Western Ontario. As organist and music under Keiji Shimoji, and Kazuyuki Hayashi- director, she has held positions in several da. He also studied chamber music under United Churches in Winnipeg. She is heard Norihiko Takiue, Masato Kumoi, and Keiji regularly as soloist and accompanist in Shimoji. He works as a part-time instructor Winnipeg and beyond. She has toured in at Yamaha popular music school. Eastern Canada; played Evensong services HD Duo at Lincoln Cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral, First performing together in 2008, Michael London; St. Alban’s Cathedral; Bristol Ca- Duke and David Howie have made the thedral; Tewekesbury Abbey and Salisbury impetus for their duo the presentation of Cathedral all in the UK; performed with the exciting and innovative chamber music. Of Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; and col- particular interest and drive for the duo laborated with many choral ensembles. has been their close collaboration with some of Australia’s most prominent and Hayate Quartet respected composers commissioning, re- Hayate means a wind which blows gently, cording and performing these new works but fresh. The Hayate Quartet is always written speciically for them. Leading looking for the best way to blend tradi- composers that have written for HD Duo tional, French-style and original Japa- include: Anne Boyd, Michael Smetanin, nese-style arrangements for saxophone. Matthew Hindson, Mark Zadro, Andrew With the idea to create a brighter and fu- Batterham, Tim Dargaville, Brenton Broad- ture-oriented saxophone musicality. stock, Miriama Young, Catherine Likhuta Norihiko Takiue performs as a soloist, and and Paul Sarcich. Meeting as colleagues at chamber musician. He also works as a the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the part-time instructor at Kunitachi College Duo has toured across the major cities of of Music, Nagoya University of Arts and Australia as well as appearing in concert Music, Tokai University School of Human- throughout the world in countries such as biografIES

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Thailand, USA, England, Scotland, Mexi- Folds, Randy Newman, Claude Delangle, co and French Polynesia New Caledonia. Niels Bijl, Mario Marzi, Arno Bornkamp, Some highlights have included: perfor- Andy Scott & more. He has also performed mances at multiple World Saxophone Con- with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Op- gress’ (2009, 2012, 2015), their UK debut era Victoria, NSW Police Band, Four Bari- in concert at “Australia House” in London tones, Tenor Sax Collective & Hourglass (2012), the Australasian Saxophone and Ensemble. Nathan has toured extensively Clarinet Conference (2013) and recital con- within Australia and overseas playing at certs at the Festival de Mexico in Mexico many prestigious concerts and festivals City (2014). including; World Saxophone Congress (Scotland & France), European Saxophone Hemke, Frederick L. Congress (Portugal), Australian Saxo- Dr. Frederick L. Hemke, born July 11, 1935 phone & Clarinet Conferences (Sydney, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is an American Melbourne, Brisbane), Adelaide Cabaret virtuoso classical saxophonist and inlu- Festival, Australian Chamber Music Fes- ential former professor of saxophone at tival (QLD), Manly Jazz Festival, Vivid & Northwestern University. Hemke helped Sydney Festival. Nathan is also a member raise the popularity of classical saxophone, of the Nexas Quartet - one of Australia’s particularly among leading American com- leading Chamber Music Ensembles. Nathan posers and helped raise the recognition of teaches and lectures in saxophone across classical saxophone in solo, chamber, and the country. He has taught and presented major orchestral repertoire. For a half cen- various workshops, masterclasses as well tury, from 1962 to 2012, Hemke was a full- as adjudicating at Queensland Conserva- time faculty music educator at Northwest- torium, Sydney Conservatorium, University ern University’s Bienen School of Music. In of New South Wales, Australian Institute of 2002, Hemke was named Associate Dean Music, Barker College and various regional Emeritus of the School of Music. Hemke conservatoriums. retired from Northwestern University in Martin Jacoby is a composer and con- 2012. From the start of his career in the temporary Pianist and graduate of Royal early 1960s, building on the achievements Northern College of Music (principle of earlier inluential American teachers of study tutor Sally Ann Macleod). He has classical saxophone — including those of performed throughout the UK including Larry Teal, Joseph Allard, Cecil Leeson, appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes- Sigurd Raschèr, and Vincent Abato — tival, the Bridgewater Hall, Steinway Hall Hemke, and a handful of peer American London and the Nottingham Albert Hall. saxophonists — including Eugene Rous- During his studies he received one-on-one seau and Donald Sinta — helped build coaching and master classes from Nelson American saxophone repertoire through Goerner, Michel Berof, forte piano special- composers that included Muczynski, Cres- ist Stefano Fiuzzi, Phillippe Cassard and ton, Stein, Heiden, and Karlins. Journalist Aleksandra Zvirblyte. Martin is also a keen and author Michael Segell, in his 2005 chamber musician, and has performed book, The Devil’s Horn, called Hemke The on many occasions within a variety of Dean of Saxophone Education in America. ensembles, as well as receiving coaching from both the Talich and Endlellion string Henshaw, Nathan and Jacoby, Martin quartets. Martin completed his Bachelors Nathan Henshaw is an internationally re- last year with irst degree marks in all nowned Australian saxophonist recognised performance modules. Following a con- for his ability to excel in a great diversity of cert appearance in July 2010, Martin was genres & styles. His commitment to pro- invited to perform in front of the Major of moting the musical multiplicity of the sax- Nottingham as well as Sir Harry Djanogly, ophone has resulted in the creation of nu- who then set up a sponsorship arrange- merous new works for saxophone, across a ment to allow Martin to undertake a two broad range of styles. From solo classical year masters course at the RNCM. Martin performances to jazz gigs, Nathan’s work studies under principle study tutor Sally as a freelance musician has seen him per- Ann Macleod, who has mentored him for form with a diverse range of outstanding the last four years. performers, such as Tim Minchin, Ben

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Hermes Duo pulled them to search new musical experi- Georgios Lygeridis studied saxophone, ences. The saxophone quartet and percus- phonetics and advanced music theory at sion – an ensemble full of sonority but with the Macedonian Conservatoire of Thes- few compositions hopes to interest some saloniki (Greece). He graduated from the composers in developing this interesting Hochschüle für Musik Köln in the class of repertoire. Enrica Birsa is a winner of vari- Daniel Gauthier and the Ecole Nationale ous international competitions and she has de Musique de Créteil (Paris) in the class played in the two last editions of World of Georges Porte. During his residence Sax Congress. Alberto Cavallaro graduat- in France he received the 1st prize in the ed at the Conservatory “Fausto Torrefran- Saxophone Competition of the European ca” with the highest marks and praise. He Music Contest “Picardie”. He participated won several competitions of chamber and in a number of seminars by distinguished contemporary music. He plays in the Duo saxophonists such as: Cl. Delangle, A. Dubois. Natsuki Ishikawa graduated at the Bornkamp and P. Portejoie. He has been a Music University Senzoku Gauen under member of various saxophone groups, as the guidance of M. Sumichija Arimura and well as of a contemporary improvisation Uko Tanave. Yohan Leite has won awards ensemble which focused on improvisation in several competitions inculuding Saxi- as a way of creating soundtracks for ilms ana Junior Contest, Parisian saxophone and theatrical plays. Currently, Lygeridis contest, and Miglior Solista Junior Evento holds a teaching position at the State Con- Sax. Derlis Duarte Núñez graduated with servatoire of Thessaloniki and the Neapolis the highest marks in the Conservatory of Municipal Conservatoire (Thessaloniki, Cergy. He participated in ive editions of Greece). He is the founder and the Artistic the International Percussion Festival in Pa- Director of the saxophone ensemble “SAX tagonia. He specialized in marimba. Julie NOUVEAU”. Eftihia Veniota obtained her Duarte Núñez graduated with the highest piano Diploma with a First Class and Virtu- marks in the Conservatory of Cergy. She osity First Prize of the Associated Board of teaches percussion in Paris region schools. the Royal Schools of Music of England. She then pursued her advanced performance Himbert, Clément studies in France, at the Conservatoire French saxophonist Clément Himbert National de Région Aubervilliers -La Cour- studied with Georges Porte, Vincent David veuve in the class of Isabelle Grandet. She as well as Claude Delangle and graduated furthered her studies at the Conservatoire from the Paris National Conservatory in de Montreuil in the class of Muriel Blaisse. 2008. International competition winner In 2002 she was awarded a First Class as a chamber musician and a soloist, he Diploma from the Soloists’ Department was awarded in 2005 the irst grand prize of theHochschüle für Musik Köln, where of the International Music Competition she studied with Ulla Graf. Furthermore, “Pacem in Terris” in Bayreuth (Germany). continuing with her postgraduate studies He is engaged in contemporary music and under R. Szidon where she graduated with has worked with Pierre Boulez, Mauricio a Konzert Examen Degree from the Robert Kagel, Peter Eötvös or Régis Campo and Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Veniota was recently dedicated the Gérard Pes- has been awarded with a number of prizes son’s composition Blanc mérité. He has from piano competitions in Greece while performed the concerto repertoire in halls as a soloist she has given recitals and has such as the Bayreuth Markhaus Opera, the participated in chamber music concerts in Châtelet Theatre and the Cité de la Mu- Greece and other European countries. sique in Paris or the Athens Parnassos Hall. Clément Himbert also performs as a guest Hétéroclite Ensemble solo artist with several ensembles and The members of Hétéroclite Ensemble orchestras in versatile repertoires; he main- have diferent cultural and music back- tains regular collaboration with Châtelet grounds but one thing joins them together: theater and Orchestre Philharmonique de all of them had studied in the Conserva- Radio France (conductors Myung-Whung tory of Cergy. The collaboration between Chung, Pascal Rophé, Alexander Briger, J. Y. Fourmeau and the percussion classes Mikko Franck). With electronic artist Olivi- had created strong musicals ties and has er Sens and choreographer Zexuan Huang biografIES

285 biographies | H-H | they explore interactions between sound, established in June 2011. Its members are light and movement, through projects professional saxophonists who obtained regularly presented in China. His research qualiications from music academies interests lie in the ields of interpretation in Hong Kong, Europe, and the United and creation; he defended a performer’s States of America. They strive to promote doctoral thesis in 2017 Between composer new music through commissioning and and performer: analysing a process of cre- recruiting new works from local and in- ating a new work, under the supervision of ternational composers. HKSE made their Professor Jean-Marc Chouvel (Sorbonne debut concert in 2012 at Shatin Town Hall, University) and Claude Delangle (Paris presented by Hong Kong International Conservatoire). Saxophone Society. The concert received much compliments with all tickets be- Hindley, Quentin ing sold out. HKSE has also appeared in A former viola player, Quentin Hindley RTHK programme “The Works” and TVB studied at the Conservatoire National programme “Cultural Plaza”. Furthermore, Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris HKSE was invited to hold the lecture re- (CNSMDP) with Hungarian conductor Zsolt cital at HKAPA and HKIEd, “Good Music Nagy between 2007 and 2012, receiving Every Friday” respectively. In 2012, HKSE irst prizes in conducting, orchestration received Arts Development Fund (Cultural and analysis. Further studies followed with Exchange Project) from Home Afairs Bu- Pierre Boulez, Paavo and Neeme Järvi, reau to represent Hong Kong at the World Susanna Mälkki, Jorma Panula and Michail Saxophone Congress 2012, held at St. Jurowski. His extensive knowledge of con- Andrews University, Scotland, UK. In 2015, temporary music has earned him invita- they received the ADF (CEP) from HAB tions from the Orchestre National de Lille again to participate in SaxOpen, the 17th to conduct the French premiere of Tristan World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, Murail’s work Relections / Relections, and France. In 2013, HKSE held their annual from the Aix-en-Provence festival to con- concert in October followed by a concert duct a new opera by Jonathan Dove: The named HKSE X Friends in November. In Monster in the Maze. the following year, HKSE was invited as guest performer at Hong Kong Interna- Hondo, Makoto tional Band Fair 2014 Opening Concert, Makoto Hondo was born in Japan. After and performed with renowned saxophonist graduating in 2012 from the Tokyo Univer- Lars Mlekusch. sity of the Arts, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Honnold, Adrianne Musique et Danse de Paris in the class of Adrianne Honnold teaches popular music Claude Delangle. Since September 2015, history at the University of Missouri-St. he studies at Conservatorium van Amster- Louis and Maryville University. She re- dam in the class of Arno Bornkamp as a ceived her Bachelor and Master of Music exchange student of Erasmus programme. degrees from the University of Illinois at He won the 1st prize of 7th Competition In- Urbana-Champaign where she studied with ternational in Slovenia (2013), the 1st prize Debra Richtmeyer and Chip McNeill, and is of Concours International Adolphe Sax au currently pursuing her PhD in Popular Mu- niveau Solist in France (2014), the 1st prize sic Studies (Musicology) at the University of 2nd Competition International of Sax- of Birmingham in the UK. Ms. Honnold has ophone in Andorra (2015), the 2nd prize appeared regularly with the Saint Louis of 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Symphony Orchestra since 2004, and has Competition (2017), and the 1st prize of also performed with the Opera Theatre 34th Japan Wind and Percussion Competi- of Saint Louis, the Lyric Opera of Kansas tion (2017). He is a baritone saxophonist in City, the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, Masataka Hirano’s saxophone quartet. the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the USAF Band of Mid-America, Sessions Big Band, Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble and the St. Louis Jazz Orchestra. She was (Quartet) a founding member and Artistic Director Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble (HKSE) of Chamber Project St. Louis from 2007 to is a non-proitable music organization 2015. She has been a featured performer

286 biographies | H-I | and clinician at various North American of The Moanin’ Frogs saxophone sextet, Saxophone Alliance conferences as well as he performs internationally and maintains the Missouri Music Educators Conference, a visible proile in popular chamber music. and has performed world premieres at the Their debut album was released on Teal World Saxophone Congresses in St. An- Creek Music in 2017. Jonathan Hulting-Co- drews, Scotland and Strasbourg, France. hen earned his BM and MM under Donald Sinta at the University of Michigan. He is Household Division Saxophone Quartet Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Uni- The Household Division Saxophone versity of Massachusetts Amherst. Quartet is comprised of four of the inest saxophonists from across the Division. They Hungarian Saxophone Consort perform at many high proile events and After only a decade of the Hungarian clas- are often featured on concerts, recitals, sical saxophone education system’s history and recruiting events. Their extensive per- in Hungarian Universities, all high-school, forming schedule has included The Guards conservatory and university professors Chapel at Wellington Barracks, the annual established the irst professional saxo- Scarlet & Gold Concert at Cadogan Hall, phone orchestra ever in Hungary, called: as well as various Universities across the Hungarian Saxophone Consort. Based on United Kingdom. Each member performs his idea and led by Bence Szepesi – Pres- as both a member and as a soloist within ident of the Hungarian Clarinet and Saxo- their own Band as well as being a member phone Society – the Hungarian Saxophone of this prestigious quartet. The members of Consort made its debut in Budapest 2015 the quartet have studied at the University with explosive success, which others have of Alberta, Bowling Green State University, followed with world famous saxophonists Indiana University and the Royal College like: Dr.Paul Cohen (USA), Philippe Geiss of Music. Adam Gorb is currently the Head (FR), Mihály Borbély (HUN), Lev Pupis of the School of Composition at the Royal (SLO), etc. Their repertoire encompasses Northern College of Music in Manchester. almost all music literature from original His works have been performed by the BBC works to transcripts alike, including work Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Singers with variable soloists. It has aimed at join- and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. He ing the international saxophonist life and has a PhD in Composition from the Univer- to show young generations the way to sity of Birmingham and has taught at Uni- work together. versities in the USA, Canada, and Japan, and many European countries. i Hulting-Cohen, Jonathan Iberian Quartet United States-based saxophonist Jonathan Antoine Flores, Pedro Melo, Luis Coelho Hulting-Cohen appears regularly as con- and Patricia Aller are the members of Ibe- certo soloist, recitalist and chamber musi- rian Quartet. The group aims to share their cian. He premiered three saxophone con- passion for chamber music with the public. certos, including a double concerto with In 2016 Antoine, Pedro and Luis met at the Arno Bornkamp, and performed standards the Academia Internacional de Saxofone in with the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Oporto, Portugal. After a few days of mas- Adrian Symphony Orchestra (MI) and Se- terclass and rehearsals, they realized what quoia Symphony Orchestra (CA). He pre- an enormous pleasure it is to play together sented solo recitals in Strasbourg, France, and they decided to start a saxophone Mississippi University for Women, the Edin- quartet project and look for the fourth burgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival, and per- member. They turned to Patricia who hap- formed chamber music with David Shifrin pily accepted. Pedro and Luis studied at at Chamber Music Northwest under John the Universidade do Minho with the Luis Adams and David Robertson at Carnegie Ribeiro and Antoine and Patricia studied Hall. With the Admiral Launch Duo, Hult- at the Musikene (High Music School of the ing-Cohen commissioned and premiered Basque Country, Spain). They pursue the nationwide ten works for harp and saxo- same principle - to get the same musical phone, which are schedule for release on objectives through the communication the duo’s debut album in 2018. Co-founder and go deep into the musical analysis by biografIES

287 biographies | I-I | the selection of a varied repertoire. Iberian LEMC, No Input, Miradas Cruzadas. He now Quartet made its’ debut at the Festival XIII. plays with the Ensemble Container # GVA Musikaldia 2017 in Arrasate-Mondragón and Macunaiming Ensemble. He also per- (Guipúzcoa, Spain). formed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Symphonique, Iberosudamericano Quartet etc. Sara Zazo Romero inished her superior studies at Badajoz Conservatory with pro- Icarus Duo fessor Vicente Contador. She completed The combination of saxophone and guitar her formation with professor Marie-Ber- is quite unusual for a chamber music en- nadette Charrier in Bordeaux and with semble, due in part to the very diferent Prof. Pierre-Stéphane Meugé at HEMU de characteristics of both instruments. It was Lausanne (Switzerland). In 2016 she won the research on new instrumental and tim- a Second Prize of Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung brical resources that inspired Alfonso Pa- and three Fondations support her career. dilla (saxophone) and Alberto Plaza (gui- She collaborates regularly with Orchestre tar) to establish this singular duo in 2009 de la Suisse Romande and Orchestre de with the aim of promoting the possibilities Chambre de Geneve. In 2016 she gained a of this unexplored combination. The group position at Lucerne Festival Academy. She makes use of two very popular instru- is the founding member of Cexsaxo Duo ments in a new way, employing all the new and Sax Consort. Since 2016 she has been techniques and possibilities of both instru- the principal saxophone teacher at Conser- ments developing all the resources in a vatoire de La Broye (Switzerland). surprising way. Icarus Duo has performed Bera Romairone studied at the National around Spain in many festivals premier- University of Arts (Buenos Aires) where ing works specially written for them by she obtained the 1st Prize in the First Spanish composers as Santiago J. Báez, Chamber Music Competition of the UNA. Antonio J. Flores, Rafael Díaz and Ramon In 2011, she received a scholarship from Humet among others. They have also per- Mozarteum to study with Arno Bornkamp formed at Scandinavian Saxophone Festi- in the Netherlands. She inished her Mas- val 2013 in Aahrus (Denmark), XVII WSC in ters with Marie-Bernadette Charrier at the Strassbourg (France) and Eventosax 2016 Conservatory of Bordeaux. She is currently in Rome (Italy. They have recorded their a part of the interdisciplinary collective irst CD which will be published in 2018. Young Blood Initiative and participates in Alfonso Padilla López is a saxophone diferent festivals of contemporary music teacher at Conservatorio Superior de Músi- (International Academy Darmstadt, Impuls, ca Manuel Castillo in Sevilla. As a soloist Delian Academy). he has toured Europe and USA and is a Diego Carretero Menayo inished his member of Ziryâb Saxophone Quartet. superior studies with Professor Vicente Alberto Plaza Fernández, guitar soloist, Contador in 2011. He regularly collaborates winner of many international contests, is with Extremadura Symphonic Orchestra. In a member of Duo Rosique-Plaza and a 2006 he won the 2nd prize in V Concurso teacher at Conservatorio de Música Ana Nacional de Interpretación Intercentros Valler in Utrera. in Spain and in 2014 the third prize in V Concurso Internacional Vitor Santos in Ignite Duo Portugal. He obtained the Diplôme Na- Roberto Todini and Michele Bianchini tional Supérieur, specializing his studies in combine their diferent artistic aesthetics contemporary music with Professor Ma- in their project. They aim to research new rie-Bernadette Charrier. He is the founding performance practices of the classical and member of Cexsaxo Saxophone Duo. contemporary saxophone through the Andrés Castellani started his music studies perspectives of two diferent generations. in Buenos Aires and he continued them A strong friendship and professional part- with Marie-Bernardette Charrier. He in- nership has accumulated through the years ished his Masters degree in the Académie to lead a journey of constant exploration Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg, of the instrument in the sounds of old and under Philippe Geiss. An advocate of new new music. music, he was a member of Ensamble

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Impetus Saxophone Ensemble was after an intense year of work at the Nordic formed in Japan after all the members Saxophone Festival 2017 in Aarhus, Den- have returned from their studies in France mark, playing Piazzolla and original music. where they actually met for the irst time! Jazz orkestar HRT-a, nekadašnji Big Band InSax Quartet Hrvatske radiotelevizije, to jest Plesni In a time of chamber music lourishing, orkestar Radio Zagreba, postoji i radi kon- saxophone quartets in particular, four tinuirano već više od 50 godina, što je u friends decided to create the irst profes- povijesti big bandova rijetkost u svjetskim sional saxophone quartet of the district of razmjerima.Plesni orkestar RTZ, preteča Viseu, Portugal - the InSax Quartet. The Big Banda HRT, osnovan je u sezoni members share the same passion for music 1946./47. za potrebe Radija i sastavljen od and for this instrument, which is as versa- najboljih glazbenika iz nekoliko ansambala, tile as the program they present, keeping okupljenih pod vodstvom Zlatka Černjula. focus on a repertoire that allows them to Orkestar je kasnije vodilo nekoliko dirige- explore new sonority, as well as some of nata. Posebno mjesto među njima pripada the classics of music written in the 20th Miljenku Prohaski, koji je orkestar vodio and 21st centuries, all over the world. This više od 30 godina. Valja također spome- is a peculiar quartet, with an innovative nuti Silvija Glojnarića i Sašu Nestorovića spirit, looking for new challenges. dok danas orkestrom rukovodi Andreas Marinello. Mnogi glazbenici svjetskoga j ugleda nastupali su kao solisti s Orkestrom u Zagrebu – trubači: Art Farmer, Clark Ter- Japan Saxophone Orchestra was formed ry i Ted Curson, saksofonisti: Johnny Griin, in 2015 to participate in the SaxOpen in Sal Nistico, Ernie Wilkins, trombonist Kai Strasbourg. The condutcor of the ensem- Winding, pijanist John Lewis, bubnjar Art ble is Mr. Iwamoto Shinichi, a chairman of Taylor i drugi. Japan Saxophonist Association. The sec- Andreas Marinello (Bolzano, Italija, 1983.), ond leader is Mr. Tomioka Kazuo, the bu- studirao je jazz saksofon i jazz kompozici- reau chief of the same Association. ju na Sveučilištu za glazbu i izvedbene umjetnosti u Grazu i na Glazbenoj aka- Jaureguiberry, Luis Federico and demiji u Kölnu, a na Sveučilištu za glazbu González, Manuel i izvedbene umjetnosti u Beču studirao Combining their own compositions with je klasični saksofon. Godine 2011. u Grazu arrangements of tangos, milongas and je stekao naslov magistra umjetnosti. Po- candombes, Luis Federico Jaureguiberry hađao je radionice i usavršavao se kod and Manuel González Ponisio investigate Miguela Zenona, Donnya McCaslina, Dicka diferent timbral, textural and formal al- Oattsa, Rosaria Giuliania, Davea Liebmana, ternatives. The members of the duo met Maurizia Giammarca, Boba Mintzera, Boba at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National Brookmeyera i drugih. Od 2013. djeluje kao University of La Plata, Argentina, where saksofonist i u Jazz orkestru HRT-a, u ko- today they studied composition. Both mu- jem, od sezone 2015./2016. stupa na mjes- sicians are also involved with popular mu- to šefa-dirigenta.Djeluje i kao skladatelj te sic and genres such as rock, salsa, cumbia, aranžer surađujući s brojnim sastavima u tango, candombe, jazz. This inluenced not Hrvatskoj i inozemstvu; njegove skladbe i only the repertoire but the ways of ap- obrade izvedene su u Hrvatskoj, Austriji, proaching it, taking aspects linked to the Njemačkoj, Jordanu, Sloveniji te na Cipru. arrangement as aesthetic proile, individual and collective improvisation and diferent JG Jemmy Genic Quartet textural aspects. The rhythmic develop- The JG Jemmy Genic Quartet is a saxo- ment and metrical overlays present in the phone quartet formed in 2011. It has at- music of the Atlantic coast of the South tracted attention for being the world’s irst American continent are also highlighted. saxophone quartet that uses handmade Here stands out the presence of rhythmic instruments from sterling silver named keys that are presented in more or less ex- ‘’silver sonic’’, by Yanagisawa Japan. The plicit ways in the music that the duo devel- quartet’s activities have been featured in ops. The duo made their irst performance the Tokyo metropolitan Area News of NHK biografIES

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(Japan Broadcasting Corporation), “The are 10 to 15 pre-professional students SAX”, “Pipers”, “Band Journal”, and “The registered in the lessons of the 3rd cycle Ongakugendai”. They released one album, (CEM), specialization (DEM), and profes- and are scheduled to release another one sional orientation (COP/PôleSupérieur – in 2018. They and have performed across since 2013). The ensemble serves to foster Japan. And have won second place in the a pedagogical and educational nature for 10th Annual Yokohama International Music those that are involved. In this setting, Competition, Chamber Music section. each instrumentalist can practice on the existing saxophones and acquire a wide Jiang – Molano Duo repertoire which crosses through the Ba- Hanchao Jiang was born in Shanghai in roque, Classical, and Romantic periods the year of 1988. He won the Gold Prize to the music of today. Additionally, the in Shanghai Spring International Music ensemble works on jazz standards and Festival Wind Section Competition at musical works from musical comedies and age 13. In 2009, he graduated with aDEM ilms. This “chamber orchestra” tends to of “Mention Très Bien à Unanimité avec peak the interest of many current compos- Félicitations du Jury ”from Conservatoire ers. F. Guerrero, T. Escaich, F. Rossé, Ton àRayonnement Régional de Musique de ThâtTiet, W. Karlins, A. Louvier, T. Tesei, Saint-Etienne. He then entered Geneva M. Kuehn, C. Lauba, S. Pavlenko, E. Rolin, Superior Conseravtory of Music, graduated C. Gabriele, among many many more, with B.A. and M.A. in music performance have written new works of the highest in 2013. He taught in Ecole de Musique de quality for this ensemble. Many talented Saint-Chamond and Ecole de Musique du musicians have passed through the CRR/ Rive-de-Gier from 2012 to2013. Currently PSPBB saxophone class and thus this en- Hanchao serves as the deputy head for semble. Many of them have come from Shanghai City Philharmonic Symphonic all over France and the entire world and Wind Orchestra. During his career he has had quickly thereafter earned the CA, DE, been invited as soloist to play with major DNSPM, Master, Doctorate, and prizes from orchestras. Also an active chamber musi- national and international musical compe- cian, Hanchao has made constant eforts titions in Geneva, Paris, Bayreuth, Cracovie, to explore and adapt chamber music in Tel Aviv, Bangkok, New York. The ensemble order to expand the repertoire of classical has been conducted and directed, since its chamber music for saxophone while al- creation, by Jean-Michel Goury, professor ways challenging himself to attain an ever of saxophone at the CRR/PôleSupérieur de higher level of performance in terms of the Boulogne-Billancourt, concert saxophonist, tone color of the instrument and perform- and pedagogue of international renown. ing skill. He formed the duet with pianist Juan David Molano. They have performed José-Modesto, Diago very often in China with great success Diago José-Modesto is a member of re- in many major concert halls, theatres as search group of Historia Actual of the well as conservatories, including Shanghai Universidad de Cádiz. He graduated on Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Advanced Studies in the Program of Geog- Xiamen Gulangyu Concert Hall, Nanchang raphy and History of the same University, University, Harbin Normal University, Professor of Saxophone by the Real Con- Northwest University for Nationalities, etc. servatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Besides, he has made contribution tomu- and teacher of English as Foreign Lan- sical education. In 2016, he worked as the guage by the Universidad Complutense de art director of Suzhou Mudu Experimental Madrid. He has performed as soloist and Middle School in “The 8th World Chinese he has made lectures about the history of Art Festival” held in Malaysia and Singa- music and organology in several European pore, and was honored with the Chinese countries and the USA. He has published Excellent Teacher Award. several researching articles. Nowadays he is teacher of saxophone in the Conservato- JM Goury and Friends rio Profesional de Música “Manuel de Falla” Saxophone Ensemble de Cádiz (Spain) and he is carrying out The large saxophone ensemble of the doctoral studies related to the historical CRR/PSPBB was founded in 1990. There survival of the saxophone. He also is the

290 biographies | J-J | director and producer of the acclaimed Jones, Heath audiovisual documentary SaxRevolutions: Heath Jones serves as professor of music Adolphe Sax’s life and founder of Sax- at Oklahoma Christian University where he Resurrection, a publishing irm to bring to teaches courses in saxophone, jazz studies, light the forgotten repertory of the nine- world music and music technology. Jones teenth-century saxophone. has given master classes, lectures, and recitals in China, Japan, Australia, Russia, Joka, Jovana and Pupis, Lev New Zealand and Europe. He is presented Lev Pupis graduated in 1998 from the Uni- “Elements of the Jazz Language” at the versity of Music in Vienna. From 2000 to 2009 World Saxophone Congress in Bang- 2003 he studied saxophone in Paris where kok, Thailand. He is an active professional he took his degree in J. Y. Fourmeau’s performer in the Oklahoma City area and class (Premier Prix) and afterwards he serves as Past-President for the Oklaho- continued his post-graduate studies with ma Jazz Educators. Heath was named the Vincent David. He became Magister Ar- University Jazz Educator of the year by tium at the University of Music in Vienna the OKJE in 2008 and 2014. Jones has (in Oto Vrhovnik’s class) in 2005 and at lead the following albums: Lookin’ Back, the Music Academy in Ljubljana (in Matjaž Live and Learn, B3 Paradigm, and Nice Drevenšek’s class) in 2007. As a solo artist and Easy with Tony Monaco, Lee Rucker, he has performed with Symphony Orches- Roy Hargrove, Keith Anderson and Jeremy tra of University of Music Vienna, Sympho- Thomas. ny orchestra of Ljubljana music academy, Slovenian philharmonic orchestra, etc. He Jorge, Antonio García is also involved in teaching at music Con- Antonio García Jorge has obtained irst servatory in Ljubljana and he holds master- prizes in numerous international compe- classes and summer schools. He is a mem- titions in France, Spain, Italy, Andorra and ber and co-founder of Ensemble 4SAXESS Croatia. International success has allowed and saxophone orchestra SOS and the him to perform as a soloist with various or- founder of the International Woodwind chestras and give recitals throughout Eu- festival and competition EMONA in Lju- rope. He has also travelled to China, where bljana. In 2015 Lev has been elected as a he gave a masterclass and concert in Xi’an. board member of the International saxo- He has received awards from INJUVE and phone comitee. the Spanish Ministry of Education and is Jovana Joka started her musical journey supported by the Meyer and Tarrazi foun- at the music school Ivan Matetić Ronjgov dations. Interested in the creation of new in Pula with her teacher Arduino Malpera. music, he has collaborated with IRCAM in She deepend her studies at the Academy Paris and worked with composers such as of music Ljubljana in the class of prof. Mat- Joan Magrané, José Manuel López-López, jaž Drevenšek and at the CNR Lyon in the Gilbert Amy, César Camarero and Luis class of Jean Denis Michat. She is the win- Naón. Also attracted by orchestral music, ner of irst prizes at state competitions in he has performed with the Castilla y León Croatia and winner of the student Prešeren Symphony Orchestra, the Galicia Sympho- Prize of the Academy of Music for the ny Orchestra, The Lyon National Orchestra performance of Glazunov’s concert with as well as with the CNSMDP Orchestra RTV Slovenia Orchestra and conductor and the OLC of Paris in many renowned En Shao. She actively performs with many venues. After having studied under the ensembles. She collaborated with the guidance of Juan Clemente Novo, Vincent Ljubljana Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the David and Claude Delangle at the CNSM in Slovenian Police and the Slovenian Armed Paris, Antonio continued his studies on the Forces. She is a mentor to young saxo- DAI course for contemporary music and phonists at various saxophone workshops. creation with Hae-Sun Kang. In parallel, he From 2011 she has been working as a pro- studied for a Master degree in chamber fessor of saxophone and chamber music music under David Walter with the Quartet at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Yendo, a group which he co-founded and Ljubljana. with which he performs numerous con- certs, projects and has broadcast on Radio France. biografIES

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Jorgensen, Nathan studies related to the historical survival of Dr. Nathan Jorgensen is director of jazz the saxophone. Diago José-Modesto is the studies at the University of New Hampshire director and producer of the acclaimed where he is responsible for teaching ap- audiovisual documentary SaxRevolutions: plied saxophone lessons, directs two jazz Adolphe Sax’s life, and founder of Sax- ensembles, serves as administrator and co- Resurrection, a publishing irm to bring to ordinator of the Clark Terry Jazz Festival, light the forgotten repertory of the nine- and is the producer of the UNH Traditional teenth-century saxophone. Jazz Series. Jorgensen is an accomplished jazz and classical saxophonist and feels at Juncos, Alessandro and Toso, Dal Toso, home in nearly every musical situation. He Matteo has had the opportunity to share the stage Alessandro Juncos began his studies at with notable jazz performers such as Ter- the Liceo Musicale Pigafetta in Vicenza rell Staford, Bobby Watson, Bobby Shew, in 2011 with Anna Righetto. He attended Gary Foster, Bob Sheppard, and many oth- many masterclasses with great masters, ers. His classical performing has allowed including Eugene Rousseau, Mario Marzi, him the opportunity to perform with the David Brutti and Fabrizio Paoletti. In 2016 Kansas City Symphony, the South Dakota he organized a concert at Liceo Pigafetta Symphony, the Dakota Wind Ensemble, titled Premiere concerto. Many composers and he has been featured as a concerto wrote for him, including Elena Rezzaro soloist with the Dakota Wind Ensemble, and Fabrizio Durlo. In 2016 he won the irst South Dakota State University Symphonic absolute prize at the Concorso musicale Band and the University of New Hamp- per giovani musicisti città di Treviso in the shire Wind Symphony. Jorgensen is in de- contemporary music category. In 2017 he mand as a performer, clinician, adjudicator, participated at Evento sax 2017 in Velletri and lecturer. He has performed by invita- (Roma), where he attended a masterclass tion at regional and national conventions with Fabrizio Paoletti. He won the critic for professional organizations such as the prize at the contest and gave a lecture North American Saxophone Alliance, Col- about Classical Latin music repertoire for lege Music Society and the National As- saxophone. Since 2016, he has been at- sociation of College Wind and Percussion tending the saxophone course with Mauro Instructors. Jorgensen holds a DMA from Ribichini at Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo the University of Kansas, a Master of Music di Vicenza. He is also attending a band from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and conducting course with Andrea Loss in Or- Dance and a Bachelor of Music from the chestra di iati della provincia di Vicenza, University of Kansas. His teachers have in- an orchestra he is collaborating with. cluded Vince Gnojek, Tim Timmons, Bobby Born in 1997, Matteo Dal Toso started Watson and Dan Gailey. studying piano at the age of 6. He has participated in several international piano José-Modesto, Diago competitions: in 2009 he won a irst prize Diago José-Modesto is a member of a at the Music Competition of the Adriatic research group of Historia Actual of the (Ancona) in 2012, at the International Mo- Universidad de Cádiz where he graduated zart Competition (Vicenza) he received in Advanced Studies in the Program of a special prize Joseph Vella for the best Geography and History. He is a professor interpretation. He is a student collaborator of Saxophone at the Real Conservatorio at the conservatory in Vincenza, providing Superior de Música de Madrid and a teach- piano accompaniment for the students. He er of English as a foreign Language at the is also a bassoonist and has, from the very Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He beginning of his studies, collaborated with has performed as a soloist and has given the best local orchestras and attended lectures about the history of music and various music festivals. organology at several European countries and in the United States. He has published several researching articles. He currently teaches saxophone at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Manuel de Falla de Cádiz (Spain) and is carrying out doctoral

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Young Composer) and Oliver Leith, whose k new commission A Day at the Spa won a British Composer Award in 2016 and has Kahl, Don-Paul been played on Radio 3. Support from or- Described by distinguished American com- ganizations such as the Tunnell Trust, Wor- poser John Corigliano, as an “artist beyond shipful Company of Musicians and the Park his time,” concert saxophonist, Don-Paul Lane Group has led to performances at Kahl has performed throughout Europe, the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, with the United States, Australia, and South- the latter concert given a four star review East Asia. He has appeared as soloist with in The Times. The group’s debut album the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oil, released in 2016 was supported by the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra City Music Foundation, Hattori Foundation and Wind Symphony, and the Susquehan- and a Help Musicians Emerging Excellence na University Orchestra. As an avid cham- award. Produced by John Harle, it featured ber musician, Don-Paul is active with the music by Gavin Bryars, Jonny Greenwood international saxophone quartet, Ensemble and Steve Martland as well as a major con- du Bout du Monde (EBM), his duo with tribution to the repertoire in the form of clarinetist, Jackie Glazier, Duo Entre-Nous, superb new pieces by Oliver Leith, Jenni and with the mixed ensemble, Hectuor Watson and John Rittipo-Moore. Quartet. Don-Paul was a prizewinner at the prestigious 4th Jean-Marie Londeix Kalypso Duo International Saxophone Competition in Duo Kalypso was formed by Miha Rogina Bangkok, Thailand. He was also awarded (saxophone) and Sae Lee (piano), who are the Harriett Hale Woolley Scholarship for accredited for their innovative interpreta- study in Paris, France. Currently, Don-Paul tions of musical works. Both are graduates is working as a freelance saxophonist of Conservatoire National Supérieur de based in Belgium and is also a doctoral Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSM) and candidate for the Ph.D in Artistic Research Prize-winners of major international solo with KU Leuven and the Orpheus Institute. and chamber music competitions. The duo He holds degrees from Susquehanna Uni- has worked with today’s leading musicians versity, University of Florida, and Lemmen- including Pierre Boulez, Fabio Luisi and sinstituut. His primary mentors are Marcus Sergei Markarov, and has appeared at ma- Weiss, Jean-Michel Goury, Jonathan Hel- jor international concert stages throughout ton, Geofrey Deibel, and Gail B. Levinsky, Europe, Asia and USA such as the Musikv- with additional study with Frederick L. erein in Vienna, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Großes Hemke. Festspielhaus in Salzburg or Izumi Hall in Japan. Individually, they have performed Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet as soloists with a number of orchestras Described by The Times as ‘irresistible’, worldwide including the Vienna Symphony Kaleidoscope is an innovative collabora- Orchestra as well as Philharmonic orches- tion between four creative young artists. tras of Bratislava, Bruges, Hofer, Kansai, The group’s approach is built on the dis- Maribor, Paris Laureates, Pleven and Soia, tinct creative personalities of its members, Symphony Orchestra of Slovenian ra- with engaging programmes blending dio-television, and Thailand Philharmonic classical and contemporary music. The orchestra. Sae Lee and Miha Rogina both quartet’s work has led to multiple awards work at Ljubljana University, Faculty of and high proile performances at venues Music and have held masterclasses at uni- such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room versities across Japan (Senzoku gakuen and Bridgewater Hall. The quartet’s line- University, Showa University, Osaka Univer- up features an array of artistic skills, from sity etc.), UK, Latvia, Poland, Germany and award-winning soloists and multi-instru- Austria. Their extensive repertory includes mentalists to innovative composers of the original works for saxophone and music ranging from classical to electronic. piano, contemporary music, jazz, ethno, The quartet is committed to the creation tango and their own transcriptions. Their and performance of new music, and has concerts are broadcasted by radio and TV commissioned and premiered works from stations worldwide.

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Kelly, Ashley and Harrington, Ahslyn with the Australian International Opera Ashley Kelly currently holds the position Company, the Australian National Acade- of Lecturer of Saxophone at the University my of Music (ANAM) Orchestra, the Royal of New Mexico. She has enjoyed notable Australian Air Force Band. Kenealy’s play- performances with the New Mexico Phil- ing has also been featured on ABC Classic harmonic, Baton Rouge Symphony Or- FM, Foxtel Arts Channel and the Chandos chestra, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra recording label. Kenealy made his con- and, most recently, the Santa Fe Opera, certo debut in 2015, performing the Henri where she participated in the premiere of Tomasi Concerto for Alto Saxophone and the contemporary opera, The (R)evolution Orchestra with the Melbourne Conserva- of Steve Jobs. She has performed as a torium of Music Symphony Orchestra. He soloist at national and regional NASA con- has since performed as soloist with The ferences and has been selected to perform Melbourne Musicians Orchestra, Preston at the 2018 John Donald Robb Composer’s Symphony Orchestra and The University Symposium, performing Chant by Augusta of Melbourne Wind Symphony. Kenealy Read Thomas. Ashley holds a Doctorate of is also a keen music educator. As well as Musical Arts from Louisiana State Universi- lecturing in Music Performance at the ty, a Master of Music degree in saxophone University of Melbourne, he maintains an performance from the University of New active teaching studio at Carey Grammar Mexico and a Bachelor of Music degree in School in Melbourne, Australia, where he music education and performance from provides lessons for approximately 50 the University of Montevallo. Her primary woodwind students. He has also appeared teachers are Dr. Griin Campbell, Dr. Eric as a guest mentor of 3mbs FM’s The Talent Lau, Glenn Kostur and Dr. Lori Ardovino. competition. Ashlyn Harrington is a pianist based in Chicago, IL. As a solo and collaborative Kofman, Carrie performer, Harrington aims to promote Carrie Kofman teaches at The Hartt contemporary classical works and move School of Music, Dance and Theater at audiences with music from all eras. Har- the University of Hartford and at the Yale rington holds a Master’s degree in Piano School of Music. Prior to this, she held Performance from Louisiana State Uni- positions as Assistant Professor of Sax- versity, a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Per- ophone at Penn State University, at the formance with Honors from New Mexico University of New Mexico, and taught at State University, and has served on faculty Boston University. She has performed as a at New Mexico Highlands University and soloist and chamber musician in 26 states, the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. 12 countries and on 5 continents. Her re- cording projects include the recent CD’s Kenealy, Justin and Friends Carillon Sky, Dialogues and Dragon Rhyme. Saxophone Quartet One review in Fanfare Magazine calls her Although members of this ensemble have playing “suave, subtly nuanced, and techni- played in groups together in the past, the cally secure in its every gesture”, while an- Friends Saxophone Quartet was formed other refers to her “melting tone and touch- solely for this performance of Bach’s music ing sensitivity.” She also has an ongoing for saxophone quartet. Australian-based recording and performing series entitled saxophonist Justin Kenealy is currently Pink Ink that is dedicated to promoting the completing his PhD in Music Performance music of living women composers. Commit- at the University of Melbourne, Australia. ted to new music, commissions and pre- His research project is concerned with mieres include over 50 compositions. Her transcriptions for the saxophone and he saxophone students have placed in over is transcribing 5 violin works for saxo- 100 diferent performance competitions phone, two of which will be performed at including winning 19 university concerto the Congress. Kenealy has performed as competitions at four diferent universities. soloist throughout Australia, France, the Kofman holds a bachelors degree from United States, and China. He performs the University of Michigan and a masters regularly with the Melbourne Symphony degree from the University of North Texas. Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria and has Kofman is a certiied Kripalu Yoga Teacher also received guest invitations to perform and teaches Yoga for Performers.

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Kolesov, Sergey tural feast for the mind’s eye.” Koplant No Sergey Kolesov is the leading Russian sax- is: Joel Vanderheyden (tenor saxophone), ophonist of today. He has been conduct- Brian Lewis Smith (trumpet, laptop, keys), ing successful concert and pedagogical Drew Morton (bass, synth), and Rob Baner activities all over the world for more than (drums, loops, vibes). 15 years (Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Blegium, Brazil, China, Japan and many Koren, Domen and Lee, Sae other countries). Kolesov is the irst Rus- Domen Koren was born in Ljubljana in sian musician in history to win the “Grand- 1995. He began his studies with prof. Betka prix” at the prestigious International Adol- Bizjak Kotnik at Music School Moste-Pol- phe Sax Competition in Dinant, Belgium, je at the age of 8 and later continued his 2006. A graduate of the Russian Gnesin’s studies at the Conservatory of music and Academy of Music in the class of Professor ballet in Ljubljana in the class of Lev Pupis. Margarita Shaposhnikova, Sergey Kolesov He is currently in the irst year of Master is the irst prize winner of an impressive studies in the class of Matjaž Drevenšek at number of prestigious international com- the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. As an petitions. Sergey Kolesov is a profeesor of exchange student he was improving skills Lomonosov Moscow State University and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, in the S. Prokoiev Music College. Kolesov is the class of Joonatan Rautiola. Koren has been organizer and inspiration for the biggest awarded several irst prizes and golden saxophone performance projects in Rus- plaques in national and international com- sia: International Saxophone Competition petitions. As a soloist he has performed “The Voice of Saxophone in the Modern twice with the wind orchestra of the Con- World” (Russian Gnesin’s Academy 2011), servatory of Music in Ljubljana and twice International Saxophone Competitions with the Slovenian Philharmonics. He is “Pushkinsax” (Prokoiev Music College very active as a chamber musician. As a 2014, 2015, 2017), as well as master classes member of diferent groups he has per- with outstanding musicians from around formed numerous concerts around Slo- the world. Sergey Kolesov is the author of venia as well as across the Europe. Apart the Russian national musical educational from his busy concert schedule, Koren project «Forest Sax school in Slavic Krem- collaborates with young Slovenian and lin». Sergey Kolesov serves as a member of foreign composers and regularly substi- juries of International competitions, the In- tutes in many professional orchestras, such ternational TV children competition “Nut- as the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, cracker,” as well as at a number of festivals SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, the RTV and competitions in Russia. He regularly Symphonic orchestra, Slovenian Police takes part in programs of the international Orchestra and Orchestra of Slovenian charitable foundation “Gift of Life.” Army. After the audition, he was accepted both to Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Koplant No Ensemble and Schleswig-Holstein Festival orchestra Koplant No is a forward-thinking, cinemat- with which he performed in famous con- ic electro-jazz ensemble that fuses intri- cert halls. cate compositions and jazz improvisation with electronica, progressive rock, and hip- Korsax Duo hop. Called “one of the most innovative Young Wook Yang studied saxophone ensembles in the Midwest” by Minnesota performance at College of Music Seoul Public Radio’s David Cazares, they are the National University. After graduation, he recipients of a grant from the National En- moved to Paris to pursue further studies dowment for the Arts and have performed and earned diplomas from Charenton/ at venues across the country in New York, St.-Maurice Civic Conservatory and Val- Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., St. de-Marne State Conservatory. He also Louis, and at the 2015 World Saxophone completed artist diploma (Cycle Con- Congress in Strasbourg, France. Their po- certiste, Niveau professionnel) studies at tent music has the rare ability to satiate Charenton/St.-Maurice Civic Conservatory. the most discriminating jazz aicionados, He performed with SNU Symphonic Band, while completely disarming the anti-jazz Universal Saxophone Ensemble and Jeju crowd, and has been described as “a tex- National University Symphoy. As an educa- biografIES

295 biographies | K-K | tor, he taught at the College of Music Seoul with Jean-Yves Fourmeau on Saxophone, National University. He currently teaches at and François Poly on early music inter- College of Music, Jeju National University. pretation. He later studied with Alexandre Dr. Yeomin Yun is the irst Korean saxo- Souillart at CRD de Puteaux on Perfec- phonist to receive the DMA in saxophone tionnement level. He got the Diploma DEM performance from the United States. For and Prix de Perfectionnement on Saxo- his doctoral degree, he studied saxophone phone and the certiicat of Performance at with Dr. James Bunte and Prof. Rick Van Musik und Kunst der Privatuniversität der Matre at the University of Cincinnati. He Stadt Wien in the class of Lars Mlekusch earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 2017. He is currently a musician at Taipei at the Korea National University of Arts Philharmonic Chamber Society, ISCM-TW and a Graduate Certiicate in Performance Ensemble and Trio Lalumière. Ku is the at the University of Southern California. He artist director of I-Saxo and SBE Proj- was selected as saxophonist for “Powder ect. In 2014 and 2016, he organized the Her Face” together with USC Opera and irst and the second I-Saxo International LA Philharmonic under directing by Thom- Music Workshop in Taipei and has been as Adès. Some of Dr. Yun’s highlights in invited to be the producer of 2016-2017 performance include EBS Space Concert, Taipei International New Music Festival. He KBS Open Concert, WASBE Conference, has performed numerous commissioned NASA Conference, and World Saxophone works and has been a soloist with many Congress. Dr. Yeomin Yun served as In- professional orchestras. Ku has shared the structor of Music at Korea National Uni- stage with many international musicians, versity of arts and Assistant Professor of including Stephan Hussong, Ian Bostridge, Saxophone at the Gyeong Ju University in Baldur Brönniman, etc. In 2016, Ku released South Korea. He is currently Full-time Lec- his début album Le son, l’image. turer of Music at the Korea Science Acade- my of KAIST. Ku, Po-Yuan and Chen, I-An Dr. Po-Yuan Ku started to pursue his study Kraszewski, Mark in music under the tutelage of Dr. John Mark Kraszewski gained three degrees Sampen at Bowling Green State Univer- from the Eastman School of Music: Bach- sity (US) in 1999. He received his Artist elor of Music in Saxophone, Applied Sax- Certiicate in Saxophone Performance in ophone Performance, Master of Music in 2000, and the degree of Master of Art Saxophone Performance and Literature in Saxophone Performance in 2002. In and Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone 2003, Po-Yuan went to study in Canada Performance and Literature with a minor under the tutelage of Dr. William Street in Jazz Studies. He taught classical and and received his degree in Doctor of Music jazz saxophone to Cornell University music Arts from University of Alberta in 2009. majors and non-majors and he was a lec- In 2005, he won the University of Alberta turer at the University of Rochester Music Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competi- Department where he directed the Jazz tion and performed in Winspear Centre in Combos and taught Basic Jazz Theory and March 2006. In 2008, he won the Concerto Improvisation, as well as Elements of Mu- Competition of ECCS and world-premiered sic and Introduction to Music Theory. He the concerto in the Region 9 saxophone currently teaches woodwinds at the Midori conference of NASA (North American & Friends Foundation in New York. He has Saxophone Alliance) in 2009. He currently performed as a soloist with the University teaches at National Tainan University, Tain- of Rochester Wind Symphony and at the an University of Technology, Fu-Jen Catho- 2015 World Saxophone Congress he gave lic University, National Taichung University a lecture about Miles Davis’ tenor saxo- of Education and Chinese Culture Univer- phonists. sity. Po-Yuan is also the founding member of the Composition VII Saxophone Quartet. Ku, Chun-Hao Po-Yuan is also the conductor of the Taipei Chun-Hao Ku was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Youth Symphonic Band. He got his bachelor degree in saxophone Pianist I-An Chen has won numerous at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and he has awards including the First Prize of National studied in Paris at CRR de Cergy-Pontoise Music Competition in her native country

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Taiwan and the Ann Arbor Young Artist World Symphony (including a 2008 Euro- Competition. She holds a Master of Piano pean Tour). In addition to his membership Performance degree from University of in the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, Kush Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the instruction has worked as a free-lance saxophonist of Dr. Logan Skelton and a Master degree with many known jazz ensembles. Kush of Piano Accompanying and Chamber has performed at Carnegie Hall on two Music (now Collaborative Piano) in UM. occasions: in 1998 and 2008. In 2014, the In 2009 she worked as the oicial pianist Jason Kush/Billy Test duo released Inter- in resident at the XV World Saxophone secting Lines on New Focus Recordings Congress and since 2011 she has been the (Naxos). Kush’s scholarly work includes a oicial pianist in Singapore Saxophone dissertation on Franc?ois Louis, as well as Symposium. She was invited to serve as feature articles in The Saxophone Journal, the collaborative faculty in Asia Paciic Polyphonic.org, The Instrumentalist, and Saxophone Academy and was a lecturer The International Musician. In 2013, Kush and collaborative pianist in the 2nd Taiwan established the Three Rivers New Music International Saxophone Symposium. She Consortium, an organisation whose irst is currently on the artist faculty as Assis- commission by this was Out of this World tant Professor of the Music Department of (2014) by David Maslanka. Fu-Jen Catholic University (Taiwan). l Kugel Ensemble was created in 2016 in the saxophone class of the Hochschule für Lachaine, Jennifer Musik in Basel, where four musicians of Jennifer Lachaine got her bachelor’s Chinese and Spanish nationality studied and master’s degrees from the Université for the “Master in Performance” with the de Montréal and PHD in Art Studies and saxophonist Marcus Weiss. The main ob- practices (Saxophone teaching). She has jective of this project was to bring the con- performed as a part of Orchestre Phil- temporary music closer to the audience. harmonique de Montréal, Ensemble de The Ensemble-members took part in mas- saxophones de Montréal, etc. She has also ter classes with the pianist Ferenc Rados performed as a soloist, including her per- and the saxophonist Rico Gubler. Since the formance at the XVII World Saxophone beginning they have been in regular class- Congress in Strasbourg where she gave a es with the viola player Silvia Simionescu Premiere Performance of Charles-Philippe and the saxophonists Pilippe Koerper and Tremblay-Bégin’s piece. She currently Marcus Weiss. In 2017 they took part in teaches at the Collège de Montréal. the International Saxophone Congress in Lee, Shyen and Chen, I-An Zurich and after the event they have got Shyen Lee currently serves as the profes- programmed concerts in Basel and invita- sor of saxophone in Mahidol University, tions for some international competitions Thailand. Lee appeared as solo recitalist and music events. in various concert halls including Lincoln Center, Paine Hall in Harvard University as Kush, Jason well in Montreal, Minneapolis, Paris, Bor- Dr. Jason Kush is an active saxophonist, deaux, and others. He has commissioned educator, and scholar. Kush earned his and premiered pieces by John Harbison, Doctor of Musical Arts degree in from the Frank Ticheli, Larry Bell, Gunther Schuller, University of Miami under the tutelage of and Bernard Rands. He also commissioned Dale Underwood and Gary Keller. Kush is pieces by leading Chinese composers. an Associate Professor at Slippery Rock Several Thai emerging composers have University and an Artist Lecturer at Carne- often written new works for him, including gie Mellon University. Kush has performed Narong Prangcharoen, Jiradej Setabundhu, as a soloist and ensemble member in wide Boomrat Sirirattanapan. In order to pro- variety of genres in the United States and mote saxophone performance in Asia, he Europe. Kush has extensive experience as organizes saxophone summer camps in an orchestral musician, performing with Bangkok, Taiwan and China on an annual the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (over basis. He has successfully established the 130 services and a 2013 European tour), tradition and pedagogy of concert saxo- the Russian National Orchestra, and New pohne in Taiwan. Lee studied with Kenneth biografIES

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Radnofsky in New England Conservatory zine, C.M.F Magazine, Saxophone Journal, (BM, 96) and Dr. John Sampen in Bowling Pipers, Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Green University (MM, 98). Journal and others. He is the artistic di- Pianist I-An Chen has won numerous rector of les Rencontres Musicales de awards including the First Prize of National Capvern, a music festival in the south of Music Competition in her native country France. Laran teaches saxophone at the Taiwan and the Ann arbor Young Artist National Conservatoire in Aulnay-sous- Competition. She has given diverse perfor- Bois and frequently gives masterclasses in mances as a soloist and chamber musician, Europe and Asia. and has been seen on stage at various venues in Taiwan, China, Southeastern Leaman, Cliford Asia and the United States. Ms. Chen holds Critics have hailed Cliford Leaman as a Master of Piano Performance degree “an artist of the irst order (...) intuitive, from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, exciting, and enthralling” (Paul Wagner, under the instruction of Dr. Logan Skelt- The Saxophone Journal). “Leaman reveals on; and another Master degree of Piano himself to be {an} artist of technical bril- Accompanying and Chamber Music in UM, liance and emotional commitment. (...) where she studied with world renowned The range of colors is impressive...” (Jack collaborative pianist Martin Katz. During Sullivan, American Record Guide). Asso- her residency in Ann Arbor, she was ap- ciate Dean, Director of Undergraduate pointed staf pianist for studios and master Studies and Professor of Saxophone at the classes. The auspicious experiences led to University of South Carolina, Leaman is in a successful career as a collaborative artist. great demand as a soloist and clinician and Ms.Chen enjoys a distinguished career as has performed and taught throughout the a performer and educator. She is currently United States, Canada, Italy, Spain, France, on the artist faculty as Assistant Professor Slovenia, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan and of the Music Department of Fu-Jen Catho- in China. Leaman has recorded four com- lic University, Taipei, Taiwan. pact discs with piano, and two additional discs with percussionist Scott Herring as Laran, Jérôme the RoseWind Duo. In addition to his work Jérôme Laran studied with Claude with piano and marimba, Leaman has per- Delangle at the Conservatoire National formed as a concerto soloist with numer- Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de ous Wind Ensembles and Orchestras and Paris and graduated in 2002 with a irst has recorded concerti by Brant, Bassett prize with unanimity. He then followed and Dahl. He has given masterclasses at the two years cycle de perfectionnement major schools of music and conservato- (advanced cycle) and obtained the apti- ries across the globe. Leaman is an avid tude certiicate in saxophone teaching in supporter of contemporary music and he 2005. He has received numerous prizes has commissioned and given the world and awards including the Czifra Foun- premiere performances of over 30 works, dation and the prestigious “Révélation including concerti by William Bolcom, Classique” (classicaldiscovery) prize from Leslie Bassett, Frank Ticheli and Michael ADAMI. Laran received the irst prize at Colgrass. the International Saxophone Competition in Luxembourg, and he excelled in several Lerman, Fernando international competitions such as A.R.D Graduate of the National Conservatory in Munich, Adolphe Sax in Dinant. As a “Lopez Buchardo”, Fernando Lerman was soloist, he has performed with the Orches- formed by Hugo Pierre and Victor Sko- tre National de Chambre de Toulouse, the rupski (saxophone) and Juan Carlos Zorzi Itinéraire Ensemble, the Wallonie Royal (composition). His thesis for the master’s Chamber Orchestra and others. He has re- degree in Latin-American Music (U.N of leased some ten recordings including three Cuyo) titled “Erasing borders, academic solo compact discs, and his latest solo and popular music for saxophone and release “Impressions d’Automne” devoted piano created in Buenos Aires” includes to french music has received great critical pieces of Mario Herrerías, Astor Piazzolla acclaim. In addition, he has appeared in and Juan D’ Argenton, among others. He publications that include Vandoren Maga- is a professor at “Manuel de Falla” Con-

298 biographies | L-L | servatory and National University of Arts the treasure we have got during university in Argentina. His works of chamber music life, and with our music we try to express have been performed by recognized con- our love for Japan. cert musicians like Maria Noel Luzardo, Miguel Villafruela, Amalia del Giudice, Lombard, Matthew Tanya von Arx and others. He had shared Matthew Lombard is a South African sax- multiple artistic projects with Abel Rogan- ophonist and educator who is currently tini, Alejandro Manzoni, Maximo Rodriguez, working on his doctorate at the University Ricardo Nolé, Ludmila Fernandez, etc. of California, Los Angeles, studying under Among his latest works are the CD “Yours, renowned saxophonist, Doug Masek. He mine, ours” with de guitarist Juan Falú, Obi completed the Master of Music degree Homer, Alan Plachta and Claudio Cecolli. with distinction at the prestigious Royal He has also collaborated with Juan Palo- Northern College of Music in the United mino on „Eight letters to Julio“ with script Kingdom, where he specialized in saxo- by his brother Gabriel D. Lerman, and the phone performance and studied under direction of Daniel Berbedés (co-author of Rob Buckland principally. Matthew ob- his plays). He develops and performs con- tained his Teachers Licentiate in Music for certs and classes in Argentina, Santiago de alto saxophone with distinction from the Chile (University of Chile), Paris (Chamber University of South Africa in 2011. He also Selmer), Berlín (Universität der Künste), holds a Bachelor of Music degree with Sevilla’s Conservatory and La Habana distinction from the University of Pretoria (ISA). (completed in 2009). He has also received a Diploma in saxophone performance from Lessard, Paul the Associated Board of the Royal Schools Saxophonist Paul Lessard has performed of Music (UK). In 2013 Matthew was award- in the United States, Canada, France, Italy ed second place overall in the First UNISA and Turkey. Recent engagements include South African Wind Competition, where performances as a soloist with the Hag- he was also awarded with the saxophone erstown Municipal Band (Maryland, USA) category prize. As a prominent educator and with the Symphony Orchestra and in South Africa, in 2014 Matthew started Wind Symphony at Gettysburg College the National Saxophone Symposium along (Pennsylvania, USA). He is currently serv- with the University of South Africa Music ing as a Teaching Assistant for the saxo- Foundation, bringing local and internation- phone studio at the University of Florida, al artists together to give workshops, clin- where he is working towards a Masters de- ics and master classes in three major cities gree in saxophone performance and com- in the country. In 2016, Matthew released position. In addition to performances and a CD of works by South African compos- recordings done as a member of university er, Niel van der Watt, for saxophone and ensembles, Paul recorded on the latest chamber ensembles. release by the Atlantic Chamber Winds and has performed live in styles ranging L’ombre Duo from classical recitals to shows with the Japanese Saxophonists Taewook Ahn and punk band The Shackeltons. His primary Miki Isogai are members of Duo L’ombre. teachers have been Jonathan Helton and They initially met in Paris, France whilst Amanda Heim and he has performed in undergoing their studies at a number of masterclasses for Arno Bornkamp, Claude conservatoires across Europe, such as Delangle, Vincent David, Gerard McChrys- Versailles, Lyon, Brussels and Vienna. They tal, Joonatan Rautiola, and others. are now based in Japan, actively working with Japanese composers. As a duo, they Lien Duo are always keen to discover new musical The Duo Lien was formed in 2017 when we territories. decided to take part in the Zagreb Con- gress. We are majoring in saxophone at the Londeix, Jean-Marie university in Japan. The name Lien means Jean-Marie Londeix (1932) is consid- “human bonds”. In the past four years, we ered one of the world’s greatest players had good and bad times, but our friend- and teachers of saxophone “perhaps af- ship withstands all diiculties. Kizuna is ter Adolphe Sax and his teacher Marcel biografIES

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Mule, the most important ‘inventor’ of the Ojai Festival, the Moscow Autumn Festival, modern saxophone” (Francesco Salime). the KKL (Kultur- und Kongresszentrum of Londeix has become known and appreci- Luzern, Switzerland), and many other. He ated as a concert artist, teacher, lecturer has also served as principle saxophonist and author of numerous pedagogical and with Detroit, St. Louis, Minnesota, and Chi- historical works. He performed more than cago Symphony Orchestras, and currently 600 times as a soloist appearing around serves in that role with the Cleveland Or- the world, frequently inaugurating the irst chestra. Lullof performs with the Capitol saxophone concerts and recitals in many and J4 Saxophone Quartets and is on the of the world’s inest concert halls. In the artist-teaching faculties at the Brevard Mu- early 1950’s he was one of the irst wind sic Center and the Great Plains Saxophone instrumentalists to perform full recitals. Workshop. He has been frequently recorded and has Yu-Lien The has performed throughout the 13 LPs, 10 compact discs and a number of US, Europe and Southeast-Asia, including DVDs to his credit. Well over one hundred appearances at the Gilmore International important works for saxophone were writ- Keyboard Festival, Zankel Hall at Carnegie, ten for and dedicated to him and more and as a soloist with the Nordwestdeut- than 150 foreign students traveled from sche Philharmonie, the Kammerorchester around the globe to study with him at the Hannover and the Baroque Orchestra Bordeaux Conservatory of Music. Among L’Arco. A sought-after chamber musician, these former students, now concert artists she frequently collaborates with saxo- and musical ambassadors in their own phonist Joe Lullof and has been involved right, many teach at major schools of mu- in a number of commissions and world sic and perform internationally. Londeix is premieres. She is a prizewinner of the frequently invited to teach in the conser- 12th International Piano Competition Viot- vatories and universities of Europe, Asia, ti-Valsesia and the Deutsche Musikwettbe- the US, Russia, Canada, Scandinavia, etc. werb. Born in the Netherlands, Yu-Lien The He was Honorary President of the Asso- obtained piano performance degrees from ciation of Saxophonists of France and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Han- President of the International Saxophone nover and from the Hochschule für Musik Committee of the World Saxophone Con- Detmold as well as a D.M.A. from Michi- gress; he has also organized numerous gan State University. Her principal piano international festivals: World Saxophone teachers were Arie Vardi, Anatol Ugorski, Congress, Conference on the General Deborah Moriarty and Lori Sims. Dr. The State of the Saxophone and several in- is Assistant Professor of Piano at Western ternational competitions. He created the Michigan University and has previously Ensemble Internationale de Saxophones served on the faculties at Bowling Green and commissioned and premiered over 100 State University and Valparaiso University. original works of quality with that group. Jean-Marie Londeix is also the author of Luna Agudo, Juan Pedro over twenty important pedagogical works Juan Pedro Luna Agudo was born in Izna- for saxophone. toraf (Jaén)in 1992. He began his musical studies at the age of 5. At the age of 7, he Lullof, Joseph and The, Yu-Lien entered the Ramos de Pareja Conservatory Joseph Lullof enjoys a proliic career as in Baeza where he completed the Elemen- a saxophone artist and teacher. Currently tary Degree, later moving on to the Pro- Professor of Saxophone at Michigan State fessional Conservatory of Music in Jaén, University, Mr. Lullof has been featured as and there, under the tutelage of Marcos guest soloist with the Cleveland, Minneso- A. López Vergara, he inished the Middle ta, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, school with the highest grades. He holds and Brevard Music Center Orchestras the title of "University Expert in Musical amongst others. Mr. Lullof has concertized Interpretation in Saxophone" obtained at extensively throughout North America, the International University of Andalusia. Europe, South America and Asia, per- He visited masterclasses where he worked forming at notable venues such as Weill with artists like Guilles Tressos, Cristhophe Recital Hall, Jordan Hall, the Smithsonian Bois, Alfonso Padilla, Mariano García, An- Institute, Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, the drés Gomis, Juan Jiménez, Daniel Gauthier,

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Miha Rogina, Jean Yves Formeau, Vincent throughout the United States and interna- David, Arno Bornkamp, ??Claude Delangle, tionally. His music explores the fusion of Eric Devallon. He won many prizes at inter- post-bop jazz and the classical music of national competitions. both Europe and India. Luthra has shared the stage, and recorded with, many of the Lunte, Frank greatest jazz artists in the world, including At the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Mike Stern, Frank Lunte studied with Detlef Bens- Kenny Garrett, Joe Chambers, Charli Per- mann and passed his graduate recital with sip, Dennis Irwin, Zé Renato, The Tempta- distinction. Subsequently he took part in tions, The Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Bobby master classes under Claude Delangle, Short, Lew Solof, and Bernard Purdie. Jean-Marie Londeix, and Iwan Roth. At the Luthra was born in the USA but began his age of 19 Frank Lunte made his solo début formal music training at age nine (studying with Alexander Glasunov’s saxophone con- the classical guitar) in the home of Adol- certo.Together with pianist Tatjana Blome phe Sax, Belgium, before specialising in he has released a widely acclaimed four- the saxophone. He is a faculty member at part CD-Documentation (eda records) with New York’s renowned School of Jazz, The works for saxophone and piano from Berlin New School College of Performing Arts. and Germany. In 2003 both musicians were honoured with the Andrei Sakharov m medal in Moscow.As a soloist Frank Lunte has performed many times with the Cham- M/W Duo ber Orchestra Berlin under its principal Saxophonist and conductor Matthew Mc- conductor Jürgen Bruns. In 2008 Deutsche Clure is equally comfortable performing Grammophon/UNIVERSAL released his avant-garde improvisations in unusual performance of Lars-Erik Larsson's saxo- venues as well as standard classic saxo- phone concerto.Concert tours have taken phone repertoire on the concert stage. him throughout Europe, Russia, and to His current professional pursuits include Brazil.Frank Lunte is co-editor of a book to teaching saxophone at the University of be published in 2014 by the Nicolai Verlag North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as the to commemorate the 200th birthday of music director at Church of the Good Adolphe Sax. For the irst-ever time in an Shepherd in Durham, NC. McClure en- Urtext edition, he published the Hot-So- joys musical experimentations including nata by Erwin Schulhof by the G. Henle alternative venue performances, unusual Verlag in 2018. collaborations, and multimedia and live electronic interactions. Currently, McClure Luthra, Arun and Sugg, Andy is collaborating with choreographer Justin Andy Sugg is a leading Australian saxo- Tornow and composer/electronic musician phonist who performs regularly through- Lee Weisert on the creation of new and out that country and internationally. He experimental works for dance, electronic features on numerous recordings and leads music, saxophone, and a variety of multi- an ensemble that specialises in the fusion media elements. Lee Weisert is a compos- of jazz and popular styles. He is attached er of instrumental and electronic music to the School of Music, Monash Universi- and an associate professor at the Univer- ty, and has presented at the Manhattan sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His School of Music, the World Saxophone recent music has incorporated increasingly Congress (Strasbourg) and elsewhere disparate elements such as orchestral in- around the world. Sugg’s book, The In- struments, found sounds, ield recordings, luence of John Coltrane on Improvising digital synthesis, and analog circuitry, in an Saxophonists, was praised by leading US attempt to ind, “through experimentation, jazz scholar, David Demsey, describing it tinkering, and unconventional approaches, as “an analytical masterpiece.” Sugg was a ritualistic and deeply expressive world a consultant for Chasing Trane: The John of sound”. Wild Arc, his irst CD of orig- Coltrane Documentary, a feature-length inal compositions, was released by New ilm directed by John Scheinfeld. Focus Recordings in 2014. He frequently Arun Luthra is a leading saxophonist and performs with saxophonist Matthew Mc- composer in New York, who performs Clure under the group name MW Duo. biografIES

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Their performances often incorporate live Brazil, Germany, Austria, Lebanon, Oman). digital processing, sampling, and extended Appreciated by critics and audiences, the techniques to create immersive and slowly quartet recorded “Faces” (2011) “Zahir” evolving improvisations. MW Duo has per- (2013), containing only pieces dedicated formed nationally and internationally both to MAC Saxophone Quartet, and “Viaje” as an instrumental duo as well as in collab- (2016). The MAC Saxophone Quartet regu- oration with Durham-based dance troupe larly gives master classes and is the found- COMPANY. er of MAC Saxophone Meeting Riardo (CE) and Saxophone Festival Pontebba (UD). MA Duo They have recently launched a prestigious Laurent Matheron extends his instrumen- collaboration with pianist Roberto Plano. tarium by creating sound sculptures. Per- forming contemporary music and creation Macondo Ensemble are his favorite playgrounds. He also plays Macondo, more than being a iction liter- the Germanic repertoire of the inter-war ary term from Gabriel García Márquez, is period. His practice of improvisation is the way in which this musical group gives enriched by the soundscapes of the com- a name to the Colombian musical diversity posers he interprets, and he is interested through their own musical resources and in the unheard sounds of his sculptures. the genuine liking for our tradition. In 2013, François Rossé, Damien Charron, Philippe when this group emerged its members put Laval and Bruno Giner wrote for his in- forward a broad musical spectrum causing struments. He studied with Alain Bouhey a varied, coherent, 100% Colombian, fresh at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris objective and casual sound experience on (Higher Diploma of Concert) and Yochk’o a format quartet of saxophones, vocals Sefer (the initiator of the concept of and percussion, which will challenge the sound sculptures) and was strongly inlu- stylistic and space barriers.This ensemble enced by their “scriptoral research”. Mem- has musicians with great musical career is ber of the French Saxophone Ensemble, a luxury payroll. Its members brought their the Saxophone Septuor, he is a founding fortune, memory and personal travel with member of the Inscape and Hinterland en- themselves, as professional musicians inter- sembles. He teaches at the Conservatory ested in the academic and popular musical of Corbeil-Essonne. traditions of Colombia. Karen Barreto (Alto Saxophone) from MAC Saxophone Quartet Sogamoso, Boyacá, She is the leader and The MAC Saxophone Quartet was found- the "engine" of the ensemble, the motor ed in 2010 and is made up of musicians and leader. Nicolas Castro (Baritone Saxo- who have many important musical col- phone) and Felipe Silva (Tenor Saxophone) laborations and numerous irst prizes in form Bogota, at their young age, are the national and international competitions. bright future of the saxophone in Colombia, They have graduated with honors and winners of many national and international later studied with illustrious artists such contests. Nicolas, with emphasis on classi- as J. M. Londeix, C. Delangle, V. David, J. cal saxophone interpretation and Felipe on Y. Formeau, F. Mondelci, M. Gerboni, M. Jazz music. Cesar Medina (Soprano Sax- Marzi. They have collaborated with several ophone) and Pedro Acosta (Percussion), symphony orchestras, including Orches- are teachers of jazz music from the Javeri- tra Academy of the Teatro Alla Scala in ana University and other music schools in Milan, the Rome Opera House Orchestra, the city, being two of the most important Orchestra G. Verdi in Milan, Orchestra of igures of the jazz scene in Bogotá and the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Colombia. Winners of many festivals, such Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, as Jazz al parque, Colombia al parque, Orchestra Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Petronio Alvarez, and more. And inally, FVG Mitteleuropa Orchestra. They have Maria Escobar (Voice), was selected as the representative of Colombia in the festival intense concert activity in Italy (Ravenna Via del mar 2010, and her voice has been Festival, Venice Biennale, 39th Navy Band developed in the traditional Colombian International Saxophone Symposium, XVII music on the most important vocal tradi- International Saxophone Fermo, etc.) and tional festivals of the country. She is from abroad (Russia, United States, Slovenia, Armenia, Quindío.

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Macunaiming is a saxophone and piano Northern University, Wittenberg University, ensemble formed by Argentinian saxo- Wake Forest University, and Indiana Uni- phonist Andrés Castellani and Brazilian versity. He completed the Doctor of Music pianist Fábio Godoi. After a tour in Brazil degree at the Indiana University Jacobs and Argentina as a duo, French saxophon- School of Music where his primary studies ist Olivier Duverger joined the group for were with Otis Murphy. He received the new projects. Master of Music degree and a Performer’s Olivier Duverger earned his bachelor’s Certiicate also from IU and received the and master’s degree with high honors at Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum Académie Supérieure de Musique de Stras- laude, in Saxophone Performance and Mu- bourg, under Philippe Geiss and completed sic Education from the University of North additional studies in chamber music and Carolina at Greensboro, where his teachers interpretation in Strasbourg and Vienna, were Steven Stusek and Craig Whittak- under Prof. Lars Mlekusch. Olivier has re- er. He has performed with the National cently performed in various countries, as Symphony Orchestra, the Winston-Salem part of saxophone duo Miradas Cruzadas Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony Or- or as a soloist with contemporary ensem- chestra, and the Lexington Philharmonic, ble Ukho (Kiev). He is a laureate of Sa- among others. lieri-Zinetti (Verona, Italy) and Illzach Inter- SSG Paul Tucker has been a member of national chamber music competitions. Pershing’s Own since 2006. Prior to joining Andres Castellani studied with Ma- the Army Band, Tucker studied in Paris rie-Bernardette Charrier at the Conserva- at CNR Cergy-Pointoise, where he was toire National de Musique de Bordeaux, awarded the Superieur Musique de Cham- and earned his master’s degree at the bre and the Perfectionnement degree, the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Stras- highest performance degree awarded in bourg, in the class of Philippe Geiss. As an France. He also holds a Masters of Music advocate of new music he was a member in saxophone from Indiana University, and of several contemporary music ensembles: a Bachelor of Music from the University of Ensamble LEMC, No Input, Miradas Cruza- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tucker main- das. He now plays with the Ensemble Con- tains an active performance and teaching tainer #GVA (Geneva) and Macunaiming schedule. He has performed with the Na- Ensemble (Strasbourg). He has performed tional Symphony Orchestra, and was guest with the Orchestre Philharmonique de clinician at the 2008 Taiwan Saxophone Strasbourg, and others. Summer Festival. Most recently, he record- Fábio Godoi studied piano at São Paulo ed a CD of saxophone music by Neil Thor- State University (Unesp) in the class of nock, composition professor at Brigham André Rangel. At this time he was awarded Young University, which was just released a grant in the Special Training Program on the Navona classical label. He also in Music which lead him to participate in maintains an active private teaching studio the Unesp Studio of contemporary music in Northern Virginia. as a performer and organizer. With Amy Lin he worked in France. He received his Made in Taiwan Saxophone specialization diploma at Strasbourg Con- Ensemble and Lars Mlekusch servatory and his master’s degree in Piano Made in Taiwan Saxophone Ensemble was Performance at Haute École des Arts du formed in 2013 by Taiwanese saxophon- Rhin/Académie supérieure de musique de ists who have studied in the US, France, Strasbourg. He has appeared at the Fes- Japan, Thailand and the Netherlands and tival Suona Francese, the concert series has since held over 50 concerts. MIT has Música no Museu, the Musica festival, etc. collaborated with numerous great musi- He currently teaches at Strasbourg Con- cians including Marija Aupy, Vincent Da- servatory and Pôle Sud School of Music. vid, Philippe Geiss, Hiroshi Hara, Gregory Letombe, Masanori Oishi, Nicolas Prost, McCord, Adam and Tucker, Paul Alexandre Souillart and the FIVE SAX Dr. Adam McCord is Assistant Professor Quintet. The MIT Ensemble makes it a duty of Saxophone at the University of Louis- to expand the saxophone ensemble reper- ville School of Music. He previously served toire. In addition to arranging works for the on the faculties of Miami University, Ohio ensemble, the group continuously com- biografIES

303 biographies | m-m | missions new works by active composers, Stephen A. Taylor, and Ashley Wang at including Philippe Geiss, Hao-Yuan Chiu major saxophone conferences, as well as and Che-Yi Lee. The MIT is also devoted to a solo concert at the Krannert Center for promoting the saxophone in Taiwan and the Performing Arts highlighting musical, bringing it into the mainstream by holding compositional, and collaborative trends masterclasses, lectures, recitals and con- at the University of Illinois. Nathan is cur- certs. There are currently more than 20 rently a Business Administrative Associate ensembles and over 200 players that are – Operations Manager at the University of coached by the MIT. Illinois School of Music. He also Associ- Lars Mlekusch is a saxophonist, conductor ate-Faculty at McKendree University (USA) and educator. At the age of 26, he was teaching music online courses. Nathan is appointed professor of saxophone and the co-Director and saxophonist for Suono chamber music at the Konservatorium Mobile USA, along with artistic Director Wien University in Vienna (now Music and Philipp Blume. Nathan holds the Doctor of Arts University of Vienna). Since 2015 he Musical Arts from the University of Illinois, is also the saxophone professor at the and degrees from Bowling Green State Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He University (2005) and the University of has performed throughout the world as North Texas (2003). His principle teachers a soloist, with orchestras and chamber include Debra Richtmeyer, John Sampen, ensembles. He was a regular guest of the and Eric Nestler. Klangforum Wien and a soloist of the en- Dr. Eli Fieldsteel is a composer specializ- semble PHACE. Mlekusch has appeared at ing in music technology with a diverse his- the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Wien and tory of cross-disciplinary collaboration. He the Cité de la Musique Strasbourg. In 2017, is the recipient of the 2014 James E. Croft he was invited as a guest conductor of the Grant for Young and Emerging Wind Band Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt Composers, irst prize in the 2012 ASCAP/ and will appear as a conductor in the fol- SEAMUS Student Commission Competi- lowing season with the ensemble PHACE tion, and other, including the award from Vienna. He is the founder and Artistic the Bandmasters’ Academic Society of Director of both, the Vienna International Japan and the Frank Ticheli Competition. Saxfest and the Zürich International Sax- His music has been performed interna- fest. tionally by ensembles such as the Dallas Wind Symphony, the North Texas Sympho- Mainz 04 SaxQuartet ny Orchestra, the Kawagoe Sohwa Wind Mainz 04 is a saxophone-quartet going Ensemble of Tokyo, and the University of new ways with good old rock music. As North Carolina Chapel Hill Wind Ensemble. the band name describes, they are from His music is published under Lovebird Mu- Mainz, Germany and they have been work- sic, and has been recorded on the SEAMUS ing together since 2004. Needless to say, and Aerocade Music record labels. Field- the football-club named Mainz 05 is al- steel holds degrees from Brown University most as famous as Mainz 04. Mainz 04 are (BA, 2008), The University of North Texas oical ambassadors of the city of Mainz, (MM, 2010), and The University of Texas at Zagrebs twin city. Mainz 04 did their work Austin (DMA, 2015). His primary teachers with jazz and classical music for saxquartet have included Russell Pinkston, Bruce Pen- until they found out they all love the rock nycook, and Jon Christopher Nelson. songs of the 1970s and 80s. So they decid- ed to arrange this music in a special way Marici Saxes for their instruments. Mixed with Latin or A marriage of harmony and diversity Cool Jazz-Elements, the well known songs sums up English saxophone quartet Marici sound new and fresh. Saxes. Four unique musicians, supremely successful saxophonists all, they came Mandel, Nathan and Fieldsteel, Eli together through a craving for collective Nathan Mandel is saxophonist whose creativity. Since their inception, in 2010, recent performances include a world pre- they have established a considerable on- miere of John Nichols III’s Fall Silent in line presence and drawn an enthusiastic Brooklyn, NY, world premiere performanc- international following with their reworking es of works by Carlos Carrillo, Sean Harold, of revered classics peppered with a smat-

304 biographies | m-m | tering of original compositions. The richest Play and a Tony nomination for Best Origi- harmony of tone and musicianship brought nal Score Written for the Theater. Branford this ensemble together; the diversity of also provided music for The Mountaintop range and styles is what sets them apart. and served as musical curator for the 2014 Each of the female members is classical- revival of A Raisin in the Sun. He formed ly trained but their joint musical palette the Marsalis Music label in 2002. He is also ofers shades of pop, big-band, jazz and an educator, forming extended teaching musical theatre too. Marici Saxes are alum- relationships at Michigan State, San Fran- ni either of the Guildhall School of Music cisco State and North Carolina Central and Drama or the Royal Northern College Universities and conducting workshops at of Music – or both. They have, individually, sites throughout the United States and the performed with such diverse luminaries world. His numerous awards include three as Sting, Seal and Ben Howard, and with Grammys and (together with his father esteemed ensembles including The BBC and brothers) his citation as a Jazz Master Concert Orchestra, The Mariinsky Theatre by the National Endowment for the Arts. Orchestra and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra among many others. It is with Maxield, Jessica this wealth of experience that Marici Saxes Los Angeles-based concert saxophonist have united to form an exciting and vibrant Jessica Maxield enjoys an active career as ensemble. Marici, in Buddhist mythology, is an accomplished performer, educator, cli- the goddess of ‘light’, be that the moon or nician, and adjudicator. Currently instruct- the sun, so their debut album title ‘Light’ ing classical saxophone at the University was never in doubt. Like Marici herself, of Southern California’s famed Thornton who is often depicted with several heads School of Music, Dr. Maxield has concert- and arms wielding diferent weapons, they ized and presented clinics throughout the like to think of themselves as a single body United States, Austria, Belgium, France, made stronger by our various individual The Netherlands, Norway, Ukraine, and strengths. Japan. Notable appearances include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Mil- Marsalis, Brandford waukee Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Growing up in New Orleans as the old- Philharmonic and the Jofrey Ballet. Jessi- est son of pianist and educator, Branford ca Maxield holds degrees with distinction Marsalis was drawn to music along with from Bowling Green State University and his siblings. His irst instrument, the clar- Northwestern University, where she recent- inet, gave way to the saxophone when ly completed a Doctor of Musical Arts and the teenage Branford began working in served as a Lecturer of Saxophone under local bands. A growing fascination with the guidance of the legendary Dr. Freder- jazz as he entered college gave him the ick Hemke. She hosted the North American basic tools to obtain his irst major jobs, Saxophone Alliance’s Region 5 Conference with trumpet legend Clark Terry and in at Northern Illinois University in January Art Blakey’s legendary Jazz Messengers. 2015. In 1986 Branford formed a quartet which has been his primary means of expression. McAllister, Timothy He has also excelled in duets with several Saxophonist Timothy McAllister, hailed major pianists. Classical music inhabits a as “a virtuoso, one of the foremost saxo- growing portion of Branford’s musical uni- phonists of his generation” (The New York verse. He is frequently heard with leading Times), is one of today’s premier soloists, symphony orchestras including those in a member of the renowned PRISM Quar- Chicago, Detroit, Dusseldorf and North tet, and a champion of contemporary Carolina as well as the New York Philhar- music credited with over 40 recordings monic. He also served as Creative Director and 200 premieres of new compositions. for the Cincinnati Symphony’s Ascent International acclaim came in 2009 with series in 2012-13. Broadway has also wel- his celebrated work in John Adams’s City comed Branford’s contributions. His initial Noir, ilmed as part of Gustavo Dudamel’s efort, original music for a revival of Au- inaugural concert as Music Director of the gust Wilson’s Fences, garnered a Drama Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the World Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Premiere of John Adams’s Saxophone biografIES

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Concerto in 2013 with the Sydney Sym- Orchestra of San Francisco Ballet. Venues phony Orchestra under the baton of the include San Francisco Opera House, Baku composer in the Sydney Opera House. A Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, St David’s regular saxophonist with the Chicago Sym- Hall, Cardif, National Concert Hall, Dublin. phony Orchestra, he has performed the world’s top orchestras and ensembles in McKenzie, Sue and guest Philippe Geiss ifteen countries, and he has the distinction Sue McKenzie is the Director of the Scot- of having been one of the only classical tish Saxophone Academy, was an Assistant saxophonists to appear as soloist in the Director of the 16th World Saxophone 120-year history of the BBC Proms con- Congress (2012) and is the leader/founder certs. He has recorded for the Nonesuch, of the Scottish Saxophone Ensemble. As ECM, Deutsche Grammophon, Berliner part of the McKenzie Sawers Duo she has Philharmoniker Recordings, Stradivarius, given UK and Scottish premieres of many Soundset and other labels. McAllister won new works and regularly performs at the a Grammy Award with the St. Louis Sym- World and British Saxophone Congress. phony Orchestra and David Robertson as They released “The Coral Sea” with Del- soloist on the album “John Adams: City phian Records and their second CD, “After Noir” featuring the Saxophone Concerto. the Tryst” was released in March 2018. She Following appointments at Arizona State studied with Kyle Horch at Royal College University and Northwestern University, of Music as well as with Eugene Rousseau among others, he was named Professor of (Japan), Lynn Klock (University of Mas- Saxophone at the University of Michigan sachusetts), David Murray (World Saxo- School of Music, Theatre and Dance in phone Quartet, Paris) and David Binney 2014, succeeding his legendary mentor, (New York). Sue regularly performs with Donald Sinta. the internationally renowned Salsa Celtica and Glasgow Improvisor’s Orchestra (per- McChrystal, Gerard forming with Gino Robair, Marilyn Crispell, Gerard McChrystal comes from Derry, Maggie Nicols, Keith Tippet and Evan N. Ireland. He took up the saxophone as Parker) and in 2013 was commissioned to a second study for his RNCM audition in write for and perform with her own band, 1982. By 1987 he had made his concerto “Dark Grooves” at the Edinburgh Jazz and debut with the RTE Concert Orchestra Blues Festival. Other performances include playing the Dubois concerto live on TV in appearing on a UK tour with Australian DJ the inal of RTE Musician of the Future. Tom Lowndes (Hot Dub Time Machine), His UK debut was with the Philharmonia in with US free improvising banjo player and 1989 premiering Out of the Cool by Dave composer Paul Elwood and in Oslo with Heath. He studied at the RNCM (Manches- the quartet Lemur. ter) and was the irst student to graduate Internationally regarded saxophonist and with three awards including a distinction widely performed composer, Philippe in his PPRNCM. Further studies at The Geiss plays the entire saxophone family Guildhall School, London and Northwest- from sopranino to bass saxophone. He ern University, Chicago followed. He has works closely with many great improvisers worked with Philip Glass, The Smith Quar- as Jerry Bergonzi or the French pianist tet, guitarist Craig Ogden and Rambert Jean-François Zygel collaborating in live Dance Co. Gerard has performed in 35 concerts, silent movies improvised mu- countries including USA, China, South Af- sic and many TV shows playing classical rica, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Korea, Sweden “crossover” improvised music. Philippe’s and all over Europe including Italy, France, own musical style lies somewhere between Spain and Slovenia. He has recorded al- contemporary classical, jazz and world bums with BBC NOW, Ulster Orchestra, music. As a composer, his music has been and London Musici. His album Aria was performed by renowned musicians and named as one of the best classical CDs of ensembles including the U.S. Navy Band, 2011 by Classic FM. Orchestras Gerard has Branford Marsalis, Nederland Wind En- worked with include The Philharmonia, semble, many wind ensembles and leading BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC saxophone quartets including Habanera, Concert Orchestra, National Symphony of Alliage Diastema, Ellipsos, and more. His Ireland, Stuttgart Staatsorchester and the compositions include works for beginners

306 biographies | m-m | to high level performers and he is pub- zie, Andrew Bishop, and Raphael Imbert, lished by Robert Martin, Billaudot, and Zeitgeist, bluegrass legend John Hartford, Leduc. Each year Philippe also organizes percussionist Eddie Prévost, and pipa play- a major saxophone festival in Strasbourg er Min Xiao-Fen, among many others. (Les Rencontres du Saxophone). Dr. Susan Mayo has been part of the musi- cal landscape of Kansas for over 30 years. McKenzie, Sue; Elwood, Paul and Active not only in the classical world, play- Mayo, Susan ing with the Wichita Symphony and Cham- Sue McKenzie is the Director of the Scot- ber Music at the Barn, she also performs tish Saxophone Academy, was an Assistant in a variety of unique groups. She can be Director of the 16th World Saxophone seen with the WC Quartet, one of the only Congress (2012) and is the leader/founder improvising string quartets in town, Poke of the Scottish Saxophone Ensemble. As Salad Orchestra, a string trio irmly rooted part of the McKenzie Sawers Duo she has in American traditions of old-time, country given UK and Scottish premieres of many and early popular music, the 21 Century new works and regularly performs at the Projects collective, a creative collaborative World and British Saxophone Congress. of musicians, visual artists, and dancers, They released “The Coral Sea” with Del- and is part of the free improvisation com- phian Records and their second CD, “After munity, performing regularly with bass the Tryst” was released in March 2018. She clarinetist Mike Unruh. She pursued her studied with Kyle Horch at Royal College undergraduate degree at the University of of Music as well as with Eugene Rousseau the Paciic (BM: Cello Performance) as well (Japan), Lynn Klock (University of Mas- as doing graduate work at the Peabody sachusetts), David Murray (World Saxo- Conservatory of Music, and Wichita State phone Quartet, Paris) and David Binney University (BME in Special Music Educa- (New York). Sue regularly performs with tion) and the University of Kansas (DMA in the internationally renowned Salsa Celtica Cello Performance). Mayo is currently on and Glasgow Improvisor’s Orchestra (per- the faculty of Friends University and is mu- forming with Gino Robair, Marilyn Crispell, sic director for both Symphony in the Flint Maggie Nicols, Keith Tippet and Evan Hills fall event Woodfest, and the Wichita Parker) and in 2013 was commissioned to Pop-Up Concert series VIBRANTICT. write for and perform with her own band, “Dark Grooves” at the Edinburgh Jazz and McPhilemy, Emma and Creviston Hannah Blues Festival. Other performances include Emma McPhilemy is an international solo- appearing on a UK tour with Australian DJ ist and performer with a highly unique and Tom Lowndes (Hot Dub Time Machine), versatile style to her playing. She performs with US free improvising banjo player and regularly throughout the UK, Europe and composer Paul Elwood and in Oslo with China as a soloist and as leader of ‘The the quartet Lemur. Abelia Saxophone Quartet and ensemble’. Paul Elwood’s music has been featured She recently graduated from The Royal at festivals in Moscow, Soia, Mexico City, Northern College of Music with a First Marseille, South Africa, Wollongong (Aus- Class Honours degree, under the tuition of tralia), Edinburgh, Darmstadt, Madrid, Rob Buckland, Andy Scott and Carl Raven Strasbourg, and all over the U.S.A. He is and is currently studying as a postgradu- an active ive-string banjoist in both the ate at The Guildhall School of Music and realms of experimental and bluegrass mu- Drama with John Harle. Recent highlights sic. In 2015 he played on the premiere of include touring Europe, the UK and China “Hanover” by Alvin Lucier, a composition as the Musical Director and saxophone using three banjos played with EBows with soloist in Bill Whelan’s production of ‘Riv- chamber ensemble. He recently recorded erdance’, winning the ‘Star Award’ from a new composition for solo banjo written the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and for him by Christian Wolf, and he has col- performing as part of the RNCM’s most laborated with guitarists Jean-Marc Mon- prestigious competition inal, Gold Medal. tera and Eugene Chadbourne, cellist Hank Emma has also managed several collabo- Roberts, the Callithumpian Consort of the rative projects and international tours and New England Conservatory, famed banjoist performances with other conservatoire Tony Trischka, saxophonists Sue McKen- students around the UK to China, Switzer- biografIES

307 biographies | M-M | land, Portugal and Strasbourg. Michat, Jean-Denis Described as “impressive and expressive” Jean- Denis Michat studied saxophone, (Fanfare Magazine) and “superb...[with] composition, new technologies and music great dexterity, rhythm, and touch” (Amer- history at the Paris Superior Conservatory ican Record Guide), Hannah Creviston (C.N.S.M.P) from 1990 to 1999. At the early is Assistant Professor of Practice (Piano age of 24, he was appointed saxophone Pedagogy), Director of the Music Prep professor at the “Conservatoire National Program, and Coordinator of Class Piano de Lyon” and promoted one year later to at Arizona State University. She received assistant professor at C.N.S.M.P. Jean-De- her B.Mus. in Piano Performance and Music nis Michat has appeared both as a saxo- Education with a Piano Pedagogy con- phone soloist and in several ensembles centration from the Crane School of Music and philharmonic Orchestras throughout at SUNY Potsdam, studying with Eugenia the world. He is today one of the most Tsarov. A researcher and presenter on the famous saxophonists playing “a la fran- efects of music on children with autism, cais”, and has dedicated himself to ensure she holds an M.M. in Piano Performance a greater acceptance of the saxophone in and an M.MuED in Early Childhood/Ele- classical music. As a composer, his compo- mentary Music Education from the Univer- sitions are played by numerous profession- sity of South Carolina where she studied al ensembles including the Toulouse Capi- piano with Scott Price. Prior to joining the tole National Orchestra, Calliope Choir and faculty at ASU in Fall 2012, Creviston was the Ensemble Itineraire. He had the chance on the faculty at the Crane School of Mu- to meet Karl Heinz Stockhausen who fas- sic. cinated him and was a major inluence in his musical development. Following the Meraki Saxophone Quartet is an award advice and moderating inluence of oth- winning, Perth - based saxophone quar- er notable teachers, Michat developed a tet that has a dedication to creativity and deeper understanding of composition that ingenuity. Bridget Cleary, Mia Vùkovic, led to his individual approach to musical Kieran Toye and Tessa Campbell work timing. Having taken part as a saxophonist together to bring the community music in many premieres, he has built up valuable lowing with intelligence, love, soul and expertise in the development of new work power. The ensemble has been together as seen ”from the inside”. since 2016 with the focus on creating new music, reimagining old music, and relishing Mikula, Connor and Healy, Will playing in all the musical styles available to Connor James Mikula is a Distinguished the saxophone. Fellow at Michigan State University, pur- suing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree Merism Duo was co-founded by saxophon- in Saxophone Performance, studying with ists Michellina Chan and Mary Osborn. Professor Joe Lullof. He earned a Masters The duo was conceptualized in 2017 at of Music in Saxophone Performance from the 5th Jean-Marie Londeix International University of Michigan, studying with Dr. Saxophone Competition in Thailand. Both Timothy McAllister and Bachelors of Music of them inished their Bachelor’s degree in Saxophone Performance with a minor in Australia (Melbourne Conservatorium of in Jazz from Michigan State University, Music – University of Melbourne and Syd- studying with Professor Joe Lullof and ney Conservatorium of Music – University Professor Diego Rivera. Walking on the of Sydney respectively) before moving Ceiling, Connor’s irst CD, was released by to France to further their studies. What Blue Griin Records (2017). He performed the world premiere of the CD’s title piece they have in common is their dedication at the World Saxophone Congress in Stras- to working with composers in their region bourg, France in 2015. Connor was chosen to create new works for the saxophone. a Yamaha Young Performing Artist, a na- Michellina is currently pursuing her Mas- tional competition which recognizes out- ter’s degree at the Conservatorium van standing young musicians from the world Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp and Mary of classical, jazz and contemporary music. is studying at the Conservatoire à rayonne- Connor has won competitions in the U.S. ment régional de Versailles with Vincent and Europe including: Winner, New Music David. Sessions solo competition in Cortona, Italy;

308 biographies | M-M | winner, Winds/Percussion Division, Uni- Mix, Sean, Gould, Amelia and Bell, versity of Michigan Concerto Competition; Larry Thomas winner, National Lima Symphony Orchestra Recognized in 2016 as the 3rd place inal- Young Artists Competition; winner, Midwest ist for the American Prize in Instrumental Young Artists Walgreens National Concerto Performance, Sean Mix has previously Competition, Woodwinds; winner, Norbert been named a semiinalist in the Londeix Mueller Concerto Competition; winner, International Saxophone Competition Grand Rapids Symphonic Band Competi- (Bangkok, 2014) and the Dilson Florencio tion; and winner, Senior Division State and International Competition (Brasilia, 2015). East Central Finals of the MTNA’s National Other recent highlights include a recital Competition. at the 17th World Saxophone Congress in Will Healy is a composer and pianist Strasbourg, France, and regular appear- based in New York. Noted for his "lushly ances throughout the United States. Equal- bluesy" sound and "adroitly blended... tex- ly in demand as a chamber musician and tures" (New York Times), he is the artistic ensemble player, Sean appears frequently director of ShoutHouse, an ensemble of 15 with groups throughout the Northeast hip-hop, jazz, and classical musicians. After including Boston Modern Orchestra Proj- his time playing trumpet in an Afrobeat ect, Monadnock Music, Atlantic Symphony, band, he grew interested in collaborating Glens Falls Symphony, Matti Kovler Ensem- with performers from many corners of the ble, etc. Sean studied at Boston University, New York music scene. In addition, he is the New England Conservatory of Music, an accomplished pianist specializing in and the University of Southern California. Bach, with a repertoire that includes the He is a member of the music faculty at the complete Goldberg Variations and WTC Wellesley Public Schools. Book 1. Recent awards include a Charles Amelia Gould is currently a Science Op- Ives Scholarship from the American Acad- erations Associate at Howard Hughes emy of Arts and Letters, an ASCAP Morton Medical Institute. She earned her Masters Gould Award, a 2017 JFund commission, of Music degree in trumpet performance at and prizes in the Juilliard and Kaleido- New England Conservatory and works as a scope Orchestra Composition Compe- freelance trumpeter in the Boston area. titions. Healy was the recipient of the Composer and pianist Larry Thomas Bell Richard Rodgers Scholarship at The Juil- has been awarded the Rome Prize, fellow- liard School, where he studied with John ships from the Guggenheim and Rocke- Corigliano. feller Foundations, the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Misstiq Duo Letters, and grants from the American Noemi Szoke, saxophone artist, was born Music Center, the American Symphony in Baja, Hungary. In 2012 she was admitted Orchestra League and Meet the Composer. to the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversi- He has been a resident composer at Ben- tät to study with Lars Mlekusch, saxophone nington College, the Woodstock/Fringe professor in Vienna. In 2017 Noemi received Festival and the American Academy in her master degree diploma to become Rome. Bell’s music has been widely per- a saxophone artist and teacher. In 2015 formed in the United States and abroad Noemi started working as a saxophone by such orchestras and ensembles as the teacher at the Liszt Ferenc Music School of Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, RAI Baja and the Secondary School of Arts of Orchestra of Rome, Juilliard Philharmonia, Nyíregyháza, University Of Szeged István Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ruse Vántus Practicing Musical Arts High School. Philharmonia (Bulgaria), Civic Symphony Hilda Szecsenyi, cello artist, was born in Orchestra of Boston, University of Miami the town of Magyarkanizsa in Vojvodina. In Symphony, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, 2009 she received her master degree as ÖENM (Salzburg Mozarteum), Speculum an art teacher, under Imre Kalman as her Musicae, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, mentor at the Art Academy of Novi Sad. In New York New Music Ensemble and Borro- 2005 she began teaching at the Academy meo String Quartet, as well as at festivals of Novi Sad with a focus on chamber music in Ravinia, Aspen, Valencia (Spain), Ponti- and within that, string quartets. no (Italy), San Salvador, Moscow Autumn (Russia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Australia, biografIES

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New Zealand, Edinburgh Festival (Scot- CD came out in 2011 as a result of a col- land) and the Boston Early Music Festival laboration with Bank-Austria that marked fringe concerts. Sixteen recordings of Bell’s the quartet as the Artist of the year. The works appear on North/South Recordings, Austrian National Radio Ö1 rewarded the Vienna Modern Masters, Arabesque and CD with the Pasticcio Prize. The quartet Albany Records. As a pianist, Bell performs has been a part of a »New Austrian Sound his music regularly and has championed of Music« program of the Austrian Foreign works by American composers. He has giv- Ministry in concert season 2016/17. The en recitals throughout the United States, quartet plays classical music, written orig- as well as in Italy, Austria and Japan. inally for a saxophone quartet as well as arrangements from earlier musical periods Mertens, Nathan; Rosinbum, Elizabeth and contemporary music from 20th and and Voit-Page 21st century. The goal of the ensemble is to Jessica Nathan Mertens, Elizabeth Ros- present the relatively unknown combina- inbum and Jessica Voigt-Page are three tion of these four instruments by playing talented young entrepreneurs that main- concerts as well as giving masterclasses, tain multi-faceted careers as performers, combining music with theater and and researchers, educators, and business own- other forms of art. ers. Mertens, a recipient of the prestigious Monbukagakusho Research Student Schol- Momentum Quartet arship, is the irst American saxophonist to All four members of Momentum graduat- study saxophone formally in Japan. After ed from the University of Southampton, earning his doctorate from the University UK, where they studied under Dr. Angela of Texas, he moved to Japan to research Space. They are all now students at top Japanese saxophone performance and Conservatoires across the UK. They have pedagogy at the Kunitachi College of performed in masterclasses with sax- Music under Masato Kumoi. Rosinbum is ophonists such as Lynn Klock, Vincent an in-demand private teacher, clinician, David, Jerome Laran and Nikita Zimin. performer, and speaker. She has created They are an engaging and vibrant ensem- a series of lectures designed to prepare ble made up of individually-outstanding young musicians develop the necessary musicians.Wayne Hau is a London-based skills to build thriving businesses, create a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who clear vision for the future, and overcome is studying for a Masters in Music Perfor- anxiety, both personally and professionally. mance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Voigt-Page is the founder of Saxophone Music and Dance, under the direction of Academy Austin, joined the faculty at Gerard McChrystal and Melanie Henry. Baylor University, and leads the Longhorn Hannah Brierley is from Oxford, UK and is Music Camp at The University of Texas. also studying at Trinity Laban with Gerard She founded the Abundant Musician Proj- McChrystal and Melanie Henry. For many ect to guide young musicians through the years she has enjoyed performing in pit or- process of engineering their careers in the chestras around the UK on the saxophone, arts. clarinet and lute. Emily Cox is a classi- cally-trained saxophonist and multi-in- Mobilis Saxophone Quartet strumentalist from Dorset, UK. She was The Mobilis Saxophone Quartet was awarded a scholarship to attend the Royal formed by four ambitious saxophone Northern College of Music for her Masters students in Vienna in 2009. All members in Music Performance, under the tutelage are now accomplished saxophonists and of Rob Buckland, Carl Raven and Andy pedagogues at music schools and univer- Scott. Based in London, Laurence Astill sities in Austria and Croatia. The potential is studying at the Royal College of Music of the quartet got early recognition, when for his Master of Performance under the it won Austrian National Chamber Music tutelage of Kyle Horch. An accomplished Competition and became inalist of the teacher and performer, Laurence has re- Fidelio Competition at the Conservatory ceived a number of awards and grants Vienna. The four musicians have ever since from organizations including the EMI Music played in main concert halls in Austria, rest Sound Foundation. of Europe and South America. Their debut

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Montagnard Duo was formed in 2002 and core is the transcriptions of piano trios has performed over 300 concerts in all 50 along with the contemporary compositions states, 20 countries on 6 continents. Festi- originally written for such chamber groups, val performances include the Chautauqua as well as the performances of the new Institution, Scandinavian Saxophone Festi- compositions made in collaboration with val and North-West University New Music young Croatian composers. So far they Week (South Africa). The duo has commis- have made several outstanding perfor- sioned, premiered and recorded more than mances with many more planned in 2018 40 works. in Croatia. Joseph Murphy has been the saxophone professor at Mansield University of Penn- Murphy, Otis sylvania since 1987, where he has also Otis Murphy holds the position of Profes- served as Department Chair and Director sor of Saxophone in the Indiana University of Bands. He received the bachelor’s de- Jacobs School of Music, joining the faculty gree from Bowling Green State University at the age of 28 in 2001 and becoming (OH), and Master and Doctoral of Musical one of the youngest faculty members Arts degrees from Northwestern Univer- in its history. Dr. Murphy has garnered sity. He received a Fulbright Award for a a number of awards as a performer in- year of study in Bordeaux (France), where cluding international prizes in Belgium’s he received a Premier Prix. He is a clini- Adolphe Sax International Saxophone cian for the Selmer Corporation. Murphy Competition, France’s Jean-Marie Londeix has been involved in commissioning and International Saxophone Competition and premiering more than ifty new works for the Heida Hermanns International Wood- the saxophone, including pieces by Libby wind Competition in the United States, he Larsen, Michael Colgrass, John Harbison, has appeared in renowned concert halls Bernard Rands and Gunther Schuller. throughout the world and he has taught Guitarist Matthew Slotkin is an acclaimed saxophone classes at prestigious interna- performer, teacher and scholar, and has tional music schools and festivals. He has appeared in venues on six continents. A released some ifteen recordings includ- commitment to contemporary music has ing four solo compact discs which have resulted in premieres of works by compos- all received critical acclaim. Dr. Murphy ers Linda Buckley, John Anthony Lennon, holds Doctor of Music and Master of Music Scott Lindroth and John Orfe. Recordings degrees from the Indiana University Ja- on Summit, Centaur and Liscio labels have cobs School of Music, graduating with the been praised as “a magniicent achieve- Performer’s Certiicate, the highest honor ment”. Slotkin directs the guitar program given to a performer at this institution. In at Bloomsburg University and has given addition, he pursued advanced studies masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, in France under a Fulbright Fellowship Northwestern University, Victorian College for foreign study as a pupil of Jean-Yves of the Arts (Australia), ESMAE (Portugal), Fourmeau at the Conservatoire National National University of La Plata (Argenti- Régional de Musique in Cergy-Pontoise, na) and the Alexandria Guitar Festival. He earning the Prix de Perfectionnement by a received the Bachelor, Master and Doctor unanimous decision of the jury. Otis Mur- of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman phy leads a very fulilling life with his wife, School of Music, where he studied guitar pianist Haruko Murphy, and together are with Nicholas Goluses. dedicated homeschooling parents of their six children. Morum Trio Trio Morum, formed in 2017, consists of n three young musicians and students at the Zagreb Academy of Music: Krešimir Nabb, David Kottek (saxophone), Dominik Grgić (sax- David Nabb is Professor of Music at the ophone) and Petra Kukavica (piano). The University of Nebraska at Kearney. Born members of the trio, currently mentored and raised in Iowa, he holds both a Bache- by professor Vlatka Peljhan, are multiple lors of Music and Masters of Music degrees awarded musicians who worked with many in Multiple Woodwind Performance from world-renowned artists. Their repertoire’s Indiana University and a PhD in Music Edu- biografIES

311 biographies | n-n | cation from the University of North Texas. Percussion Competition, the Yokohama Since surviving a catastrophic stroke in International Music Competition, the K In- 2000, Nabb has worked with Jef Stelling ternational Music Competition and the irst to develop a saxophone that can be Asian Saxophone Congress International played with the right hand only. Nabb has Competition. He was a semi inalist at the demonstrated his toggle-key saxophone ifth Adolph Sax International Competition, throughout the world and is often asked to the International Saxophone Competition speak and write about music for persons Josip Nochta, the Jean-Marie Londeix with disabilities. In 2013, David Nabb and International Saxophone Competition Jef Stelling received the irst-ever OHMI/ and the inalist of the third International Ars Electronica prize for their work on the Saxophone Competition in Łódź. He has toggle-key saxophone at Bruckner Hall performed with the Tokyo Geldai Philhar- in Linz, Austria. Previously, they received monia, and the Tokyo New City Orchestra. awards from VSA, NAMM, and NAPBIRT at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Nedremo, Anja and Abelseth, Anders Nabb has written articles on music making The main interest of the newly formed for people with disabilities for number of Norwegian saxophonist Nedremo - national publications, including Music Ed- Abelseth Duo, is playing contemporary ucators Journal, Flöte Aktuell, The Flutist music together, as well as the possibility of Quarterly, The Journal of the American commissioning more music for saxophone Occupational Therapy Association and The duos and making duo as a chamber music Journal of Research in Music Education. form more accessible. David Nabb plays a Yamaha saxophone Anja Nedremo (1989) was born and grew adapted to the Stelling brass & Winds up in Drammen, Norway. She started her Toggle-key saxophone mechanism by Jef musical studies under Claus Olesen and Stelling. Johannes Thorell at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg and holds a BA NAFA Saxophone Quartet and MA in classical saxophone. She is now The NAFA Saxophone Quartet is in the in the soloist class at the same academy. forefront of the saxophone scene in Singa- Anja has also studied under Lars Mlekusch pore. Comprised of student saxophonists at the Conservatory of Vienna, and has a from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, postgraduate qualiication from Escola Su- the quartet performs regularly locally as perior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelo- well as internationally. Under the tutelage na, were she studied under Nacho Gascón. of Dr. Zechariah Goh, the quartet is often As a soloist, she has won competitions at invited to perform in workshops, schools, home and abroad. She has on-going col- corporate events and many others locally. laboration with composers in Europe and They have also represented Singapore Scandinavia. in the 17th World Saxophone Congress Anders Abelseth (1991) was born in Lier, (2015) as well as the 1st Asian Saxophone Norway. He studied his bachelor degree Congress (2016), where they performed a at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, recital of pieces written by local compos- Denmark, with professor Claus Olesen and ers including Zechariah Goh, Lee Kah Hong Johannes Thorell. Later he took a post Bernard, Jeremiah Li, Alexander Oon and graduate education at Escola Superior Oh Jin Yong. de Música de Catalunya where he studied with professor Nacho Gascón. Currently Nakajima, Ryo and Kiguchi, Yuto Anders is a Master student at The Norwe- Ryo Nakajima was born in Chiba, Japan. gian Academy of Music in Oslo where he He graduated from Kunitachi College of inishes in May 2018. In Oslo he has lessons Music High School where he was taught by with Rolf-Erik Nystrøm. Anders is an active Norihiro Takiue and where he was awarded performer, both as a soloist and a chamber the Governor of Tokyo’s Prize. He graduat- musician. ed from Tokyo University of the Arts under Masataka Hirano, Nobuya Sugawa, Hiroshi Nelligan Saxophone Quartet Hara and Masato lkegami. He is now a stu- The Nelligan Saxophone Quartet was dent of Vincent David at CRR de Versailles. formed in 1994, with the mandate to He won irst prizes at the Japan Wind and showcase the contemporary and classical

312 biographies | n-N | repertoire for the saxophone. The quartet the Doctor of Music Literature and Perfor- gave its irst oicial recital at the opening mance degree in Saxophone, Clarinet, and concert of the event The saxophone: Past, Bassoon, with High Distinction, from the Present and Future, a weekend devoted Indiana University School of Music (Bloom- to the saxophone and organized around ington, IN). He studied with Eugene Rous- the French master Jean-Marie Londeix. seau (saxophone). Since its beginning, the Nelligan Saxo- phone Quartet has performed in many Nestler, Eric and Ford, Mark Quebec concert halls, including Redpath Eric Nestler has been on the faculty of the Hall, McGill University, the Françoys-Ber- University of North Texas College of Music nier in Domaine Forget, the Chapel of the since 1992. He is currently Professor of Mu- Grand Seminary of Montreal, the Théâtre sic. Internationally, Nestler has performed La Chapelle, and the Salle Marie-Stéphane solo recitals in Cape Town and Stellen- of the Vincent D’Indy School of Music. bosch, South Africa and has traveled to Among the colleges that hosted the Europe where he performed several solo quartet are the Cégep de Joliette, Cégep recitals including performances at the Marie-Victorin, Cégep de Drummondville, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hunga- the University of Montreal, and Laval Uni- ry, the Prague Conservatory, the Janacek versity. The Quartet is a recipient of several Academy in Brno, the Czech Republic, and awards, including a fellowship from the Castlefranco, Veneto, Italy. He has also Maurier Arts Council for its 2003 season performed extensively in Asia including and the Conseil des arts et lettres du Qué- Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, bec award. Nelligan quartet performed Shanghai, and Tianjin, China. In November at the XVI Saxophone Congress (2012) in 2004, Nestler was a featured artist at the Scotland, recorded its second CD “Con- Asian Saxophone Conference in Bangkok, sonances Modernes” in 2013 and played Thailand. He earned a Bachelor of Music at the XVII World Saxophone Congress degree in Music Education, Summa Cum (2015) held in France. The Nelligan Saxo- Laude, from Susquehanna University phone Quartet is currently working on a where he was a student of Donald Beckie. new concert series and a new recording He has since received both the Master of project. Music degree in Woodwind Instruments, with High Distinction, and the Doctor of Nestler, Eric Music Literature and Performance degree Eric Nestler has been on the faculty of the in Saxophone, Clarinet, and Bassoon, with University of North Texas College of Music High Distinction, from the Indiana Univer- since 1992. He is currently Professor of Mu- sity School of Music (Bloomington, IN). sic. Internationally, Nestler has performed He studied with Eugene Rousseau (saxo- solo recitals in Cape Town and Stellen- phone). bosch, South Africa and has travelled to Mark Ford is a marimba artist and the Co- Europe where he performed several solo ordinator of Percussion at The University recitals including performances at the of North Texas College of Music in Denton, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hunga- Texas. As a Past-President of the Percus- ry, the Prague Conservatory, the Janacek sive Arts Society and the coordinator of Academy in Brno, the Czech Republic, and one of the largest percussion programs in Castlefranco, Veneto, Italy. He has also the United States at UNT, Ford is an active performed extensively in Asia including performer and composer. Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tianjin, China. In November New Age Sax Quartet 2004, Nestler was a featured artist at the The New Age Sax Quartet was formed in Asian Saxophone Conference in Bangkok, 2016 in Kyiv (Ukraine). The quartet plays Thailand. Mr. Nestler earned a Bachelor of classical, modern and contemporary mu- Music degree in Music Education, Summa sic, including Ukrainian music, jazz, pop Cum Laude, from Susquehanna University music, etc. The ensemble performs across where he was a student of Donald Beck- the Ukraine and is the laureate of several ie. Mr. Nestler has since received both Ukrainian and International competitions. the Master of Music degree in Woodwind Instruments, with High Distinction, and biografIES

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New Jersey Saxophone Quartet with achieved through collaborations with lead- the University of Delaware ing composers. This culminated in their Percussion Ensemble debut album ‘Current’ (released in 2016) The New Jersey Saxophone Quartet featuring the music of Matthew Hindson, was founded in 2003 by Frank Mazzeo. Elena Kats-Chernin, and Matthew Orlovich The ensemble members are all working amongst others. In 2017 Nexas embarked professional musicians, who incorporate upon a new collaboration with opera star music from all genres and their diverse Peter Colman-Wright resulting in their backgrounds. The New Jersey Saxophone Weimar-Era themed ABC Classic release Quartet has performed at the University “Ballades of the Good Life” (4.5/5 from of Delaware, Bucks County College, Villa- Limelight Magazine). nova University Chamber Music Concert Series, Temple University Concert Series, Nichol, John and Creviston, Hannah Sayersville Cultural Arts Society, New York John Nichol is professor of Saxophone at University, Bucks County Performing Arts Central Michigan University and has per- Center, the Pocono Arts Festival, Blue formed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Ridge Jazz Festival, Riverfront Renais- Montreux (Switzerland, 1997), the North sance Art Gallery, the Noyes Museum, the Sea Jazz Festival (1997) and the Ford 2005 North American Saxophone Alli- Detroit International Jazz Festival (2000, ance Biennial. The New Jersey Saxophone 2001, 2002). Professor Nichol has also per- Quartet were main stage performers at formed by invitation at eight World Saxo- the 2006 World Saxophone Congress in phone Congresses: Chicago, Illinois (1979), Ljubljana, Slovenia where they premiered Nuremberg, Germany (1982), Kawasaki, Ja- Bob Mintzner’s Saxophone Quartet No. pan (1988), Valencia, Spain (1997) Montre- 3 speciically written for the NJSQ. The al, Canada (2000), Minneapolis, Minnesota New Jersey Saxophone Quartet made its (2003), St. Andrews, Scotland (2012) and Carnegie Hall debut in 2008 and returned Strasbourg, France (2015). Nichol has per- in 2010 to perform an all Phil Woods pro- formed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, gram, which featured the world premiere the Harry James Orchestra and the Nelson of “Requiem” a composition dedicated Riddle Orchestra. Nichol can be heard to Vincent James Abato and speciically on Flights of Fancy (Centaur Recording, composed for the New Jersey Saxophone 2003), Caught in the Act (White Pine Mu- Quartet. The group has had works written sic, 2007), Woodwind Echoes (White Pine for them by Bob Mintzer, Billy Kerr, Todd Recording, 2008) and Conspiracy Theory Groves, Mark Zuckerman and Phil Woods. (White Pine Music, 2010). John Nichol is a The University of Delaware Percussion En- Past President of the North American Sax- semble is directed and conducted by Mr. ophone Alliance. Harvey Price and is part of the University of Delaware’s, College of Arts and Scienc- Nichol, Jonathan es, Department of Music located in New- Saxophonist Jonathan Nichol is the Assis- ark, Delaware, USA. tant Professor of Saxophone at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma. He holds a Doctor of Nexas Quartet Musical Arts degree (2010) and a Master of At the forefront of chamber music, Nexas Music degree (2007) from Michigan State Quartet is focused on promoting the mu- University and a Bachelor of Music Edu- sical diversity of the saxophone by show- cation degree from Central Michigan Uni- casing its versatility and ability to cross versity (2005). Nichol’s primary teachers genres. The group’s success comes from have been John Nichol, Joseph Lullof, Rob a combination of personalities, virtuosic Smith, Diego Rivera, and Rodney Whitaker. saxophone skills, and their aptitude to pro- He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and a gram concerts of a wide appeal that has Vandoren Performing Artist. As an active seen the ensemble perform in a multitude jazz musician, Jonathan Nichol has per- of settings as soloists, to collaborations formed with Phil Woods, Randy Brecker, with theatre and dance companies, and David Liebman, the Jimmy Dorsey Orches- other artists and performers. The creation tra, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, the Lan- and championing of Australian music has sing Symphony Jazz Band, the Grand Rap- always been a core goal of Nexas Quartet ids Jazz Orchestra, and The Four Tops. He

314 biographies | p-p | leads his own jazz group, the Nichol Quar- collaborated with wellknown composers, tet and is a member of Boyd Street Brass. such as Stefen Schleiermacher, Mauricio Nichol is a member of the acclaimed h2 Sotelo, Charlotte Seither and Georg Katzer. quartet, recipients of the prestigious Gold As soloists, orchestra musicians or cham- Medal at the 2007 Fischof National Cham- ber musicians, the three of them regularly ber Music Competition and the First Prize play in Berlin venues such as the Berlin Award at the inaugural North American Philharmonic hall, the Staatsoper Berlin, Saxophone Alliance Chamber Music Com- the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Deutsche Oper petition. The h2 quartet’s CD Generations or at festivals such as “Klangwerkstatt Ber- (BGR 185) was released in August 2008 lin”, “Klangzeitort Berlin”, “Randspiele Ber- on the Blue Griin Recordings label. h2’s lin”, “Originaltöne Neukölln”, “Maerzmusik” second CD, Times and Spaces (BGR 211) and the “Mecklenburger Festspielen”. The and the Blue Griin Label received a 2010 trio won a second prize at the Alice Sam- Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant. h2 ter competition for chamber music in 2016. quartet released its album Groove Machine (BG 245) in 2012 and album Hard Line in NoVex Duo 2014. Jonathan Nichol was a semi-inalist Duo NoVex is a new music ensemble in the 2009 Concert Artist Guild Compe- bringing the talents of French percussion- tition and a inalist in the 2012 Concert ist Victor Hocquet and Israeli saxophonist Artist Guild Competition with h2 quartet. Noa Mick. The duo began its journey in Nichol is also a sought after orchestral sax- 2017 as they were invited to perform as ophonist and has performed solos with the guest artists at the Ensemble Linea Inter- Grand Rapids Symphony, West Michigan national Summer Academy in Strasbourg, Symphony, Lansing Symphony, and Flint France. The main focus of their work is Symphony. interdisciplinary performances. Through visual art they ind new sounds and ways Niobé Saxophone Quartet was created to bring a unique sound experience on in 2015 at the Paris CNSM where they ob- stage and communicate it to audiences. tained there Bachelor Degree in June 2017. By working with composers, the duo com- They have worked with famous teachers missions new repertoire, as well as, inter- such as Laszlo Hadady, Claude Delangle, prets the existing repertoire with a fresh etc. They played in numerous famous con- perspective. After having premiered a new certs halls in Paris (Theatre du Chatelet, work by Argentinian composer, Carlos Palais de Tokyo, Hotel de Soubise, Rouma- Grätzer, NoVex is currently working on new nian Ambassy, etc.). Invited by the presti- projects with visual art and dance to be gious Orchestre Colonne, they participated premiered in 2019. to “Piccolo Saxo and Cie” show in Wagram Concert Hall in Paris in March 2017. They Novikov, Evgeny were chosen by French Jeunes Talents Evgeny Novikov was born in Novosibirsk Agency for 2016/2017 concerts season (Russia) where he took his irst saxophone in France. They also did a concert tour in classes at the Novosibirsk School, College Slovenia in April 2017. Radio France invited of Music. He went on further studies in them in the “Young Musicians” emission of France and the Netherlands, where his Gaëll Le Gallic. In May 2017, They won Sec- teachers were Nicolas Prost, Vincent David ond Prize at Osaka International Chamber and Arno Bornkamp. He got his cum laude Music Competition. Bachelor’s degree of Music in 2012 and Master’s degree of Music with excellence in Noir Trio 2014. Evgeny was awarded by foundation Trio Noir is a Berlin based ensemble Maestro (named after a great conductor founded in 2015 by Zhifeng Hu (piano), Arnold Katz), as well as Russian Per- Christoph Lindner (percussion) and Se- forming Arts Foundation, Talent Grant of bastian Lange (saxophones), all studying Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Vladimir at the University of the Arts Berlin. Their Spivakov Charity Foundation, Foundation intention is to connect the various possibil- Meyer and Societe Generale Foundation. ities of sounds and stylistics of this rather His career brought him to perform in uncommon instrumentation and thereof signiicant halls, such as Concertgebouw create a new body of sound. The trio has Amsterdam, Philarmonie de Paris, Rach- biografIES

315 biographies | N-O | maninov Hall in Moscow, etc. Evgeny No- venian Cultural Day, the 25th anniversary vikov has won prizes at some major Inter- of Slovenia’s independence and 70 years national competitions - the 5th Adolphe of the Society of Slovene Composers was Sax International Saxophone Competition a very big success. (Belgium, 2010), Concours International de saxophone (France, 2012) and Jean-Marie Núñez, Jesús Londeix International Saxophone Compe- Jesús Núñez studied in C.E.M. Andrés tition (Thailand, 2017). He is the Winner Segovia of Dos Hermanas (Sevilla), C.P.M. of Russian National Music Competition Francisco Guerrero and C.S.M. Manuel (2016). As an orchestra and chamber mu- Castillo of Sevilla, with Alfonso Romero sic player, Evgeny has worked with the Ramírez, José Carlos Luján and José An- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Res- tonio Santos. He has won several prizes, identie Orkest (Hague Philharmonic), the both national and international. He has Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and many also participated in diferent festivals and more. He has accomplished a post-grad- concert cycles in Sevilla, Cádiz, Madrid, uate contemporary music program at the Valencia, Badajoz, Rouen, Ljubljana, Brest, CNSM de Paris that gave him opportunity Pontinvrea, Dublin, Edinburgh, Stras- to work with the young composers from all bourg, Palmela and Porto, etc. He has over the world and perform with the En- premiered works of the composers Paco semble Intercontemporain. Toledo, Antonio J. Flores, Juan de Dios García Aguilera, Paula Yturriaga, Eneko Novum Duo Vadillo, Nuria Núñez, Norah Walsh, Jaime Duo Novum consists of two young and González, Ana Teruel and others. He has talented Slovenian musicians, saxophonist taught masterclass and courses in Sevilla, Jan Gričar and accordionist Nejc Grm. Granada, Edinburgh, Cádiz, Madrid, etc. They met whilst attending the Conser- He has collaborated on several CDs such vatoire of music and ballet Ljubljana and as “Monográico de Fernando Villanueva”, continued their studies at the Academy “Diálogos”, “Open your mind”, “S3” ... He of music in Ljubljana. During their studies, has done a continuous work from 2004 to they attended many competitions and 2009, with Marie-Bernadette Charrier (sax- both received numerous prizes as solo art- ophone teacher at the Conservatoire de ists. For their hard work, umpteen concerts Bordeaux, France). Currently he is part of and successful competitions they were the Dúo SinCronía (with the pianist Noelia both awarded with the highest and most Sierra), the Dúo Lisus (along with the sax- prestigious student award, the Prešeren ophonist Lidia MuñozCuarteto Itálica and award of University in Ljubljana. After S3-Spectral Sax Style (with the composer graduating with the highest grade “summa Juan de Dios García Aguilera). He receives cum laude” they decided to continue their private composition lessons from Alfonso studies abroad. Jan inished his studies at Romero Ramírez (member of ECCA) and the Regional conservatory in Versailles and he is a saxophone teacher at C.P.M. “María CNSM de Paris, whereas Nejc went to Swit- de Molina” of Úbeda. zerland, Hochschule für Musik Basel and Germany, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. 0 Despite working in diferent countries, their passion for chamber music, the pur- Obrigado Quartetto suit of new challenges and the discovering Quartetto Obrigado was formed in 2013 as of new sounds brought them together. an enthusiastic group of Louisiana based With an idea of developing the lack of saxophonists that enjoy coming togeth- repertoire for this interesting instrumental er to perform new music for saxophone combination, the duo works with compos- quartet. They have performed recitals and ers such as Nina Šenk, Matej Bonin, Olli Vir- conferences in New Mexico, Illinois, Texas, taperko as well as with professors Claude Georgia, and at the 17th World Saxophone Delangle and Miha Rogina. Duo Novum has Congress in Strasbourg. appeared internationally on major concert The group is comprised of Dr. Griin series in Slovenia, France, Belgium and Campbell Distinguished Professor of Germany. Their concert in Brussels, where Saxophone at Louisiana State University, they have performed in honour of the Slo- Taylor Barbay Assad, professor at Nicholls

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State University, Jennifer C. Foret, Gifted l’Orgue de Sax is a refreshing ensem- and Talented Music Teacher in Slidell, LA, ble of six young professional saxophone and Brina Bourliea Faciane, professor of players who are fascinated by the endless saxophone at Southeastern Louisiana Uni- possibilities of the sound spectrum of the versity. saxophone. As the name of the ensemble suggests, l’Orgue de Sax’s main goal is to O’Connor, Doug and Netzer, Osnat play especially transcribed organ music. Praised for his “seamless technique” and They also work with talented organ players “sumptuous lyricism” (The Philadelphia to bring you a spectacular program. After Inquirer), saxophonist Doug O’Connor has playing a irst concert in 2016, l’Orgue de performed across Asia, Europe, and the Sax became a well known ensemble on U.S., including appearances as soloist with the Belgian music scene. l’Orgue de Sax the National Symphony Orchestra, the followed masterclasses with Timothy Mcal- Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Asheville lister and is a Selmer Performing Artist. Symphony, Symphony in C, Musica Nova, the Eastman Jazz Ensemble, as well as Ostojić, Jasenka various college percussion ensembles. Dr. Jasenka Ostojić, graduated in conducting O’Connor was the Second Prize winner of from the Music Academy in Zagreb in class the 2nd International Jean-Marie Londeix of prof. Pavle Dešpalj, with whom she also Saxophone Competition in Bangkok. He completed the post-graduation training. holds a BM from the University of Mary- During her studies she gained a scholar- land in addition to MM and DMA degrees ship from Lovro & Lilly Matacic fund. She from the Eastman School of Music. He also inished a conducting master class has served as Associate Lecturer of Sax- with prof. Ronald Zollman. She is the head ophone at the University of Wisconsin of the 3rd Department of Conducting, in Eau Claire, as saxophonist with the Harp and Percussion with the title of reg- United States Naval Academy Band, and ular professor at the Music Academy in is currently employed as ceremonial saxo- Zagreb. She teaches the basics of vocal phonist with the United States Army Band, technique, chamber choir and conducting “Pershing’s Own” as well as at the Eastman obligatory, and leads the Choir of the Mu- School of Music as Adjunct Assistant Pro- sic Academy since 2000. She Specialized fessor of Saxophone. He is a co-founder in vocal training for young singers. She is of the Global Premiere Consortium Com- a permanent conductor of the Zagrebacki missioning Project, an online platform for djecaci (Zagreb's Boys) since 1994. In the instigating the composition, dissemination, year 2006 she founded the Croatian soci- and performance of new music worldwide. ety Collegium Pro Arte with the choruses Dr. Osnat Netzer is a composer, songwrit- Cappella Zinka and Cappella Odak. er, pianist and educator. A native of Haifa, Israel, Netzer studied at the Jerusalem p Academy of Music and Dance, Mannes Col- lege of Music and New England Conserva- Padilla, Alfonso tory. During her time at NEC, she received Alfonso Padilla is one of the Spanish sax- a grant from the Beebe Foundation that ophonists with great international prom- funded both studies in experimental the- inence, as proved by the amount of con- ater at Universität der Künste in Berlin and certs, recitals and master classes ofered the completion of her opera, The Won- in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, France, drous Woman Within. Her compositions Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Switzerland, have been performed in Israel, France, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Argentina, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Taiwán and USA. He forms part of various Turkey and the United States, published by musical groups and projects, such as the Edition Peters and Earthsongs, and record- Ziryâb Saxophone Quartet, the Duo Icarus ed on Bridge Records. Netzer also serves (sax&guitar) along with Alberto Plaza and on the faculty of Harvard University, where regularly collaborates with groups and she has taught composition, theory and ensembles specializing in performing con- musicianship since 2013. temporary music as Zahir Ensemble. He is invited to participate at important events such as the International Saxophone Week biografIES

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Porto 2012 (Portugal), Eventosax 2011, ophone Concerto with piano reduction. 2014 and 2016 (Rome, Italy), or the Nordic Currently Dr. Page is Assistant Professor Saxophone Festival 2013 and 2016 (Den- of Saxophone at The University of Texas mark). Also, he has performed as soloist at Austin Butler School of Music, and is a at the 1st European Saxophone Congress former student of Eugene Rousseau, Otis 2014 Ciudad Real (Spain) and the Vienna Murphy, and Kenneth Tse. International Saxfest 2015 (Austria) and also has been invited as a guest artist to Palermo Contemporary Quartet is a the “I Asian Saxophone Congress” hold in saxophone group founded in 2017 with Chiayi “Taiwán” in 2016 as a soloist with the objective of working on the most CYC Wind Orchestra. In 2014, he toured important pages of contemporary music USA, which led him to teach master class- for saxophone quartet. All musicians are es and ofer concerts at Eastman School specialized in contemporary repertory and of Music (Rochester, NY). Mansield Univer- technique and all of them are specializing sity and Susquehanna University (PA) a.o. in a 2nd level Master in Contemporary He has joined the V Seminario/encuentro music in Palermo Conservatory. They have entre Compositores y Saxofonistas at Uni- performed music by Donatoni, Xenakis, versidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) Sciarrino, Tagliavia, Gubaidulina and many in 2016, developing lectures and ofering others. Palermo Contemporary Quartet recitals in Buenos Aires and La Plata. Al- musicians are Ghehanghir Baghchighi, fonso Padilla is Professor of Saxophone Nicola Mogavero, Francesco Italiano and at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Giuseppe Mario Caccamisi. In November “Manuel Castillo” (Seville, Spain). 2017 they have been protagonists of “La Page, Stephen bocca, i piedi, il suono” for 4 alto saxo- Described by noted American composer phones and 100 saxophones in movement Libby Larsen as “fearless on stage”, Dr. in Teatro Massimo in Palermo for 70th Stephen Page has appeared across four birthday of composer Salvatore Sciarrino. continents, in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Palm Saxophone Duo Canada, Australia, and across the United The Palm Saxophone Duo is an innovative States as a soloist and member of Zzyzx and forward-thinking duo with a focus on Quartet. Well known for his interpretations contemporary music. The duo compris- of the great original works for saxophone, es Alastair Penman (UK) and Matthew Stephen has also furthered the saxophone Lombard (South Africa) who both have repertoire through the commissioning of successful solo careers in their own right. new works from composers such as John The pair met whilst studying with Rob Mackey, David Maslanka, Dan Welcher, Buckland at the Royal Northern College of David Rakowski, Ida Gotkovsky, David Can- Music and started working together after ield, Greg Wanamaker, and Mark Mellits, discovering a natural blend between their among others. Stephen has won awards saxophone sounds and a shared musical at many international and national com- vision. Since forming, the duo has given petitions, including 1st Prizes at the North numerous recital performances of both American Saxophone Alliance Solo Com- traditional and contemporary repertoire. petition, Music Teachers National Associa- Now based in the UK and USA respective- tion Chamber Music Competition, AUREC ly, the duo enjoy meeting at international Saxophone Competition and the Yamaha saxophone events to continue their perfor- Young Performing Artist Competition, as mances together. As soloists Alastair and well as a silver medal at the Fischof Com- Matthew have given countless performanc- petition. Dr. Page has released ten record- es across Europe, Africa, America and ings as a soloist and chamber musician, Australia at some of the world’s most pres- which can be heard on the Enharmonic, tigious concert halls. Alastair is a City Mu- Teal Creek, Crystal Music, and AUR Labels. sic Foundation, BBC Introducing and Park Forthcoming CD releases include The Lane Group Artist and has won awards Saxophone Music of Florent Schmitt, light from the Countess of Munster Musical and shadows, waves and time (the music Trust, RNCM and St Catharine’s College. of Gregory Wanamaker), and the premier Matthew was awarded second place over- recording of John Mackey’s Soprano Sax- all in the First UNISA South African Wind

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Competition, having won the saxophone from Indiana University and the Bachelor of category prize. As a prominent educator Music Education degree from Baldwin-Wal- in South Africa, Matthew planned the irst lace College. Dr. Bryan has performed and National Saxophone Symposium. lectured at the 12th and 13th World Saxo- phone Congresses, the Southeastern Saxo- Palm Trio phone Summit, North American Saxophone Angela Space, a saxophonist and compos- Alliance conferences, the Festival of Wom- er, currently teaches at the University of en Composers International, and meetings Southampton (UK). She has had a wide va- of the Florida and Minnesota Music Edu- riety of performance experience with en- cators Associations. Dr. Bryan’s research sembles such as the New World Sympho- focuses on developmental literature for the ny, Florida Philharmonic, the South Bend saxophone and music by American women Symphony, The Temptations, Ensemble X, composers. She was a contributor to Wom- the All American College Band at Disney- en and Music in America Since 1900 and land, and her own three-piece punk band, Yamaha’s Educator Series. Bryan has been Rainbow Reservoir. Angela graduated from involved in numerous orchestral, chamber, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and solo premiers and recorded with the with a dual degree in music education and Winds of Indiana on Eugene Rousseau’s CD saxophone performance studying with Saxophone Vocalise and the Savannah Jazz saxophonist Lynn Klock and composer Orchestra’s Satin Doll. Dr. Bryan has also Sal Macchia. She earned a Master of Music served as conductor for Georgia Southern from Ithaca College where she was teach- Opera and led a professional production of ing assistant to Steven Mauk, and a Doctor Amahl and the Night Visitors. of Musical Arts from the University of Mi- ami studying with Gary Keller and serving Papandopulo Quartet consists of Croatian as an adjunct saxophone faculty. She has saxophone players, graduates from the performed on multiple saxophone con- Music Academy in Zagreb in class of Dra- gresses and conferences as both a soloist gan Sremec. They pursued their education and member of the Pioneer Saxophone at Conservatoires in Paris, Amsterdam and Quartet. Vienna and have taken part in masterclass- George Weremchuk, Associate Professor es held by world renowned saxophone of Saxophone at the University of Central players. The Quartet performs regularly on Florida, has performed and recorded with many festivals in Croatia and abroad. Spe- such diverse groups as the New World cial attention has been given to a promo- Symphony and the Sam Rivers Rivbea Or- tion of new music and to young Croatian chestra. He is featured on the New World and foreign composers without neglecting Symphony’s recording entitled New World the classical music of the past centuries. Jazz (RCA Red Seal), and performed with The Quartet has performed with some out- Sam Rivers at the Chicago Jazz Festival, standing international saxophonists such Matosinhos Jazz Festival in Portugal, and as Jean Yves Fourmeau, Arno Bornkamp, at Lincoln Center in New York. George Lars Mlekusch, The Amstel Quartet, and regularly performs with the Orlando Phil- with Croatian leading saxophonists: Dra- harmonic Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, gan Sremec and The Zagreb Saxophone and performed with the London Symphony Quartet. Performances of Papandopulo Orchestra, under the direction of Marin Quartet have been described in superla- Alsop, during their residency in Daytona tives by the critics. Members of the Quar- Beach, Florida. George holds the Doctor of tet are also engaged in pedagogical work, Music degree from the University of Miami. teaching at Universities in Zagreb, Sarajevo He is a magna cum laude graduate of the and Novi Sad, music schools in Zagreb, University of Massachusetts and Indiana Split, Jastrebarsko and Samobor, working University where he received the Master of as teachers on the workshops in Croatia Music degree. His teachers include Eugene and abroad. Together they founded School Rousseau, Lynn Klock, and Gary Keller. of Saxophone in Jaska, a highly successful Carolyn J. Bryan is Professor of Music at international spring camp for saxophone Georgia Southern University. Bryan re- students. ceived her Doctoral and Master’s degrees in saxophone literature and performance biografIES

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Pan-american Trio and Sae Lee part of ensembles. With the Sator Quartett Preston Duncan has on over 65 occasions he performed at the XIV World Saxophone appeared as a soloist with large ensem- Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2006 bles at prestigious venues. Duncan was he got his Jazz Diploma. His pedagogical awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and has book “Manuale Completo di Sassofono” won numerous awards and prizes including was published in 2017. He is currently a 1st prize in the MTNA National Woodwind saxophone teacher at a high school in Competition. He was the featured per- Vibo, Valentia. former and educator at the 1st Taiwanese National Saxophone Festival, and many Parero Saxophone Quartet was formed in other festivals. He currently teaches at the 2016 by four female saxophone players of University of Minnesota. the same generation. In addition to stan- Saxophonist Sofía Zumbado received a dard repertoire of the saxophone quartet, degree at the University of Costa Rica and they also work on various genres. Not only a master’s degree at the National Auton- do they present commissioned works, but omous University of Mexico. She has been they also actively collaborate with other soloist with the National Symphony Or- musicians. The name “Parero” was coined chestra of Costa Rica. As a soloist, she has from Spanish pareja, meaning two people, performed in Costa Rica, United States, and tesoro, meaning treasure. Mexico, Cuba and Uruguay. Zumbado is currently the saxophone player of various Penman, Alastair projects: Mal’akh group, the duet of piano Hailed as a “pioneering instrumentalist and and saxophone Zumbado-Gell and the writer” and praised for his “surpassingly trio of classical music of North India Satya beautiful music” and “undoubtedly bril- Mantra. liant mind”, British saxophonist Alastair Ramonet Rodríguez has completed his Penman is a dynamic and versatile per- studies in the lamenco guitar ield, in former and composer, presenting contem- Madrid and Andalucía, with ethnomusicol- porary music in new and exciting ways. ogist Ana Vega Toscano, guitarrist Oscar Having earned masters’ degrees in both Herrero and concert artists Manolo Sanlú- Information and Computer Engineering car and Víctor Monge “Serranito”. He has (University of Cambridge) and Saxophone played as a soloist with the National Sym- Performance (Royal Northern College of phony Orchestra of Costa Rica, Symphony Music), Alastair has a strong interest in Orchestra and the String Orchestra of the the fusion of live saxophone performance University of Costa Rica, etc. Rodríguez with electronic efects, backings, and en- has three record productions and a book hancements to create often previously Estudios para Guitarra. He obtained with undiscovered sound-worlds. As a soloist, honors the degree of Graduate in Music Alastair has performed at venues including and a Masters of Arts degree with hon- St Martin-in-the-Fields, St John’s Smith orable mention at the University of Costa Square, Milton Court, Trinity College Chap- Rica. He is currently a Professor at the el (Cambridge), The Forge and Clapham School of Musical Arts at the Universityof Omnibus. He has been a guest recitalist at Costa Rica. the RNCM and Canterbury Christ Church University Saxophone Days and at Eur- Panzitta, Daniele Sax17 (the 2017 European Saxophone Con- Daniele Panzitta is an Italian saxophonist gress at Consevatório da Música do Porto). and teacher. In 1994, after gaining some In an ensemble setting, Alastair performs experience in a local concert band, he with the award-winning Borealis Saxo- started to study saxophone in the Conser- phone Quartet (soprano saxophone) and vatory of Vibo Valentia. In 2001, he inished Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet (bari- his studies and graduated at the top of his tone saxophone). Alastair has performed class and started to study with Armando with the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, Ghidoni. At the same time he attended the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Orpheus Sinfonia, University of Calabria (Academic Courses Ardente Opera, The Beethoven Ensemble of Aesthetic and History of Music) where and Cambridge Touring Opera. He has also he graduated in 2004. During this time, appeared with jazz groups at Montreux he played across Italy as a soloist and as a and London Jazz Festivals, as well as at

320 biographies | p-p | jazz clubs across Europe. Alastair has had musician, and educator. She is a native of the pleasure of working with conductors both Port Huron and Marysville, Michigan including Sir Roger Norrington, Dimitry and is currently living in Tallahassee. Sara Sitkovetsky, Baldur Bronnimann, David Hill is the Instructor of Clarinet and Saxophone and Stephen Cleobury, and has performed at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College with jazz greats Mike Gibbs, Clare Teal, and holds the Doctor of Music degree from Steve Waterman, Mark Nightingale, Gareth Florida State University. She has also per- Lockrane, Julian Arguelles, Liane Carroll, formed at the World Saxophone Congress, Issie Barratt and John Helliwell. United States Navy Band International Sax- ophone Symposium, and at conferences Perugia Saxophone Quintet of the International Clarinet Association. The Perugia Saxophone Quintet was Sara earned her Doctor of Music degree founded by Roberto Todini, saxophone from Florida State University. Her teachers professor at the Conservatorio di Musica include Daniel Gilbert, Fred Ormand, Frank di Perugia. Since its foundation, the aim of Kowalsky, Chad Burrow, Deborah Bish, and the project has been that of collaborating Jonathan Holden. with composers to develop the repertoire of this ensemble. The group currently Pierick, Phil counts a large amount of new pieces writ- An advocate for new music, saxophonist ten by Italian and foreign composers with Phil Pierick has commissioned more than very diferent music styles. The group has 25 new works and presented over 50 pre- played in several important Italian venues mieres in France, Germany, Austria, Cana- and festivals such as Galleria d’Arte Con- da, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore temporanea in Rome, Galleria Nazionale and the United States. He is a member dell’arte in Perugia, Festival dei Due Mondi of a saxophone duo, Ogni Suono which in Spoleto, Conservatoire de Montereau has recently initiated SaxoVoce, a project and Tremblay (France), Fira de Barcelona exploring the wide-ranging possibilities (Spain), among others. of synthesizing saxophone and voice. The only saxophonist to receive prizes at both, Phillips, Scotty and Eastwood, Sara the Jean-Marie Londeix International Sax- Saxophonist Scotty Phillips has been ac- ophone Competition (2014) and the ISSAC claimed and heard in performance across International Saxophone Competition the United States, Canada, France, and Po- (2012), Pierick is also a three-time prize- land. He has performed at Carnegie Hall’s winner at the MTNA National Young Artist Weill Recital Hall (NY), Schermerhorn Sym- and Chamber Music Competitions (2009, phony Center (TN), Center for New Music 2011, 2012). He received Eastman School of (CA), Princeton Symphony Orchestra Music’s 2014 Teaching Assistant Prize for Chamber Music Series (NJ), ETHOS New his work as an instructor of chamber music Music Series (NY), Roche Visiting Artist at Eastman. Pierick teaches at The Col- Series (PA), First Tuesday Performance Se- lege of Wooster as Adjunct Instructor of ries (GA), Wychwood Barns (ON), Opening Saxophone. He has a PhD of Musical Arts Nights (FL), SaxOpen (France), Ratusz from the Eastman School of Music, where Staromiejski w Szczecinie (Poland), Nowo- he was also awarded both the Performer’s solski Dom Kultury (Poland), and Wałeckie Certiicate and Arts Leadership Program Centrum Kultury (Poland). He has also Certiicate and served as teaching assis- appeared as a guest artist at the University tant to Chien-Kwan Lin. As a 2014-15 Ful- of Arkansas – Fort Smth, Oklahoma State bright Scholar, Phil studied contemporary University, SUNY Fredonia, Mercyhurst performance practice in Vienna with Lars University, University of South Florida and Mlekusch. His Bachelor’s and Master’s de- with the Tallahassee Symphony, Flagstaf gree are from the University of Illinois at Symphony, National Music Festival Orches- Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with tra, and Taneycomo Festival Orchestra. He Debra Richtmeyer and held the position of currently is tenor saxophonist in Singu- saxophone teaching assistant. He addition- larity Saxophone Quartet and a freelance aly studies in Paris with Jean-Michel Goury woodwind artist in Orlando. as a recipient of the 2009 Frank Hunting- Clarinetist Sara Eastwood maintains an ton Beebe Fund for Musicians. active career as a recitalist, orchestral biografIES

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Pique, Gabriel Plater, Thomas Gabriel Piqué is a native of Augusta Thomas Plater is a saxophonist from Hert- (Georgia). He holds degrees in saxophone fordshire (Great Britain) and is currently performance from the Eastman School of studying the irst year of his MMus with Music and the University of Georgia and is John Harle, at the Guildhall School of Mu- currently pursuing a PhD of Musical Arts sic and Drama. He regularly performs with degree at the University of Illinois. In 2015, the School’s ensembles, including perfor- Gabriel was named Presser Scholar, and mances with the GSMD Wind Collective two years later was awarded Eastman’s and GSMD Big Band. Thomas graduated prestigious Performers Certiicate, as well from his BMus with Honours in 2017 at as being named a Graduate College Fel- the RNCM, and during his time there per- low at the University of Illinois. Gabriel formed in masterclasses for renowned sax- has been a featured soloist with groups ophonists including Vincent David, Chris- including the Augusta Symphony Orches- tian Forshaw and Phillipe Geiss. Thomas tra and the University of Georgia Wind has also performed many times with the Ensemble. He is the 1st Prize winner of the RNCM Saxophone Orchestra and played 2016 North American Saxophone Alliance Tenor Saxophone on their trip to the World Solo Competition and a gold medal winner Saxophone Congress in 2015, where he of The Fischof National Chamber Music also played a recital with the Cyon Saxo- Competition and The Plowman Chamber phone Quartet. Thomas is a Leverhulme Music Competition. Gabriel is an active Arts Scholar at the Guildhall School and international performer, having had perfor- has been the recipient of several external mances in Las Vegas, Moscow, Strasbourg, awards, including winning the Peter Lam- Beijing, Shanghai and Thailand within the bourne Rotary Competition in 2012, and last ive years. winning a scholarship in 2013 to study with John Harle at Dartington International Pitayathorn, Nitchan Summer School. In 2016 he was appointed Nitchan Pitayathorn began studying sax- Principal Saxophone of the National Youth ophone with Mr. Promwut Sudtakoo at Wind Orchestra of Great Britain and con- Music Campus for General Public (MCGP) tinues to work with the Orchestra. Thomas Seacon Square, Bangkok Thailand. In 2014, also has keen interest in arranging and Nitchan went to the Pre-college Program editing, and was the Saxophone specialist of the College of Music at Mahidol Univer- consultant for the ‘More Graded Studies sity where he studied with Mr. Wisuwat for Saxophone’ and ‘Improve your Sight Pruksavanich and Prof. Shyen Lee. He also Reading for Saxophone’, both published got a merit scholarship from the college. by Faber Music. In his spare time he tran- Nitchan performed at various international scribes and arranges music from record- musical events and camps such as the 17th ings which have either gone out or never World Saxophone Congress, Singapore entered print. Saxophone Symposium, Nanyang Acade- my of Fine Arts, the 7th Thailand Interna- Pofenberger, Wilson tional Soloist Saxophone Summer Camp, Saxophonist Wilson Pofenberger is etc. He has taken masterclasses with dis- quickly establishing himself as a soloist, tinguished world-class saxophonists such educator, and chamber musician. Currently as Jean-Marie Londiex, William Street, Mr. Pofenberger is pursuing a Doctoral of Claude Delange, Kenneth Tse, Jean-Michel Musical Arts degree in saxophone perfor- Goury, Philippe Geiss, Alain Crepin, Ste- mance and literature at the University of phen Page, Lars Mlekusch, Phil Pierick, etc. Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he is the Nitchan was awarded by many national split jazz and classical teaching assistant and international competitions. Nitchan for artist teacher Debra Richtmeyer. Recent was the of principal saxophone of the accomplishments include grand prize at the Mahidol Symphonic Band, and the YAMP 2017 Enkor International Woodwind and Symphonic Band from 2015-2017, and cur- Brass Competition, winner of the 2016-2017 rently he is a “Music Talent” scholarship Harriet Hale Woolley award, irst prize at student at the College of Music, Mahidol the 2014 Dana Young Artist competition, University. and inalist in the 2013 Butler Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. A

322 biographies | P-P | strong advocate for new music, Mr. Pofen- Portejoie, Philippe berger has premiered works by Guillermo Philippe Portejoie studied saxophone at Lago, Gregory Wanamaker, Robert Lemay, the Conservatory of Nantes with Jean- Alexis Bacon, Andrew Koss, Alex Miller, and Pierre Magnac, then continued at the Aaron Lockhart. He has maintained a pri- Paris National Conservatory of Music with Daniel Defayet. He has received numer- vate studio in the Youngstown, Ohio area, ous awards as a Soloist and as a Chamber providing lessons to students of all levels. Muscian. He has played and recorded Mr. Pofenberger received his Masters of with the main French Orchestras like Par- Music degree from Youngstown State is Orchestra, France National Orchestra, University and his Bachelors of Music Ed- Radio-France Philarmonic Orchestra, and ucation degree from Indiana University of many European ones, and with a number Pennsylvania with additional study at CRR of directors like Jefrey Tate, Myu-Wung Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France. He Chung, Michel Plasson, Peter Eotvos, Lu- has performed in masterclasses with Otis ciano Berio, Marek Janowsky, Kurt Mazur, Marc Soustrot, Kéo Hussein...). Since 1986, Murphy, Chien-Kwan Lin, Michael Ibrahim, he plays duo saxophone and piano with Timothy McAllister, Vincent David, Claude Fédérique Lagarde, with whom he has Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, Masataka Hirano, recorded 9 CDs and has played in more and Christian Wirth. His primary teachers than 250 concerts. Along with Claude include Debra Richtmeyer, Jean-Michel Bolling’s Big Band, he plays irst sax alto Goury, James Umble, and Keith Young. and has recorded more than a dozen CDs and done more than 500 concerts. He Polaris Duo develops his career between classical mu- sic, jazz and sometimes he plays in movies illian Blair (saxophone) and Elinor Nichol- or TV. He’s shared the big stage in the U.S., son (harp) formed the Polaris Duo in 2011 Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, whilst studying at the Royal Northern Col- Scotland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, lege of Music (Manchester, UK) and have Switzerland, Cheque Republic, Slovakia, since been exploring an eclectic range of Slovenia, Norway, Sweden, Greece, South repertoire and possibilities for this unusu- Korea, Algeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Re- al instrumentation. They gave the world union Island, Canada, Taiwan, Latvia, Gua- premiere of Andy Scott’s Sonata for Alto dalupe and Brazil with Top Jazz Players Saxophone and Harp at the 2012 World like Phil Zoods, Clark Terry, Dizzie Gillespie, Stéphane Grappelli, Didier Lockwood, Saxophone Congress and have performed John Johyn Fadis Hendryx, Benny Bailey, at venues including the Bridgewater Hall, Roger Guerin, Martial Solal, Gérard Badini, Buxton Opera House, Wirral Arts Festival Claude Tissendier, Marcel Azzola Sylvain and Warwick University. They have been Kassap, François Castielo, Stan Laferriere, featured as ‘New Generation Artists’ for Michel Pastre to name a few. Many com- Lake District Summer Music and won 2nd posers have written for him. As much as prize in the British Harp Chamber Mu- for Saxophone Duos and Piano, Sax Trios, sic Competition. In 2015 they were both Piano and Clarinet as for Soloist. Philippe individually selected as inalists for the Portejoie became a Saxophone Professor at the Regional Conservatory of Paris in prestigious RNCM Gold Medal Competition 1995 and since then students from all over and most recently the duo was selected the world travel to come and study with to be an artist for the ‘BBC Introducing’ him. He’s been recently appointed Profes- scheme which has led to their music being sor at the Paris CCR, the Darius Milhaud broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The Polaris Conservatory and at the Centre Supérieur Duo is dedicated to presenting new music de Paris-Boulogne-Billancourt. and expanding the repertoire for this un- common pairing of instruments. They have Portovedo, Henrique worked closely with several composers on Henrique Portovedo has found his place new works and have given UK, European in contemporary music by working with and World premieres of pieces. Their de- composers such as R. Barret, H. Kiama, but album ‘illuminate’ was released in April P. Ferreira Lopes, P. Ablinger, P. Niblock, and features original works for saxophone among others. Portovedo has more than and harp alongside arrangements of works 40 works for saxophone dedicated to him by well known composers. including some Saxophone Concertos con- ducted by Clement Power, Luís Carvalho, biografIES François Boulanger, etc. He was a soloist

323 biographies | P-P | with several orchestras and ensembles consists of two members of the quartet, including L’Orchestre d’Harmonie de la Brian Bethea and Yi-Chia Tu. The quar- Garde Republican, Trinity College of Music tet has been playing together since the Wind Orchestra, Trinity Laban Contempo- beginning of the Fall Semester of 2015. rary Music Group, Fadomorse, Orquestra The quartet has participated in the NASA de Sopros do Inatel, Orquesta de Vien- Saxophone Quartet competition in 2016, to Marcos Redondo, and others. He is a where they reached the semi-inal round. co-founder of QuadQuartet and Artistic They have performed in the Wired Goat Director of Aveiro SaxFest. He was award- Concert Series, a performance series in ed with several Trinity Music Awards in Columbia, SC, for contemporary music London, Prémio Jovens Criadores 2012 by and in the University of South Carolina’s the Portuguese Institute of Art and Ideas composition recital. They have also partici- and received the Award by the Portuguese pated in masterclasses of Claude Delangle, National Centre of Culture in 2014. Porto- the Imani Winds, and Tom Meyer. vedo is a researcher at CITAR, School of the Arts at Portuguese Catholic University. Prelas, Luka and Radovani, Katrin K. At the moment, he is an artist in residency Luka Prelas (1994) is a Zagreb-based at ZKM, Karlsruhe in Germany and, as well, saxophone performance major, current- visiting researcher at UC Santa Barbara, ly studying at the Academy of Music in USA, supported by Fulbright Foundation. Zagreb, Croatia in the class of Dragan Portovedo is a member of the European Sremec. During her high-school and uni- Saxophone Comité, Tenor Sax Collective versity education, Luka was a contestant (Tenor SaxIndex), President of the Por- and winner of national and international tuguese Saxophone Association and was competitions. Beside her oicial tutors, the artistic director of the European Saxo- Luka attended masterclasses and seminars phone Congress EurSax Porto ‘17. led by: Tomislav Žužak, Gordan Tudor, Goran Jurković, Nikola Fabijanić, Arno Postma, Neal Bornkamp, Claude Delangle, Vincent Da- Saxophonist and pedagogue Neal Post- vid, Lars Mlekusch, Preston Duncan, Vitaly ma holds degrees from the University of Vatulya, Timothy McAllister, Joonatan Rau- Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music tiola, Vincent Lê Quang and Mariano Gar- (MM) and the University of Colorado (BM) cia. In 2017., she was chosen to perform at and is a currently a DMA Candidate at the Re;Formers festival in Moscow, where the University of South Carolina where he she played the irst Croatian Concerto serves as an Instructor of Music Apprecia- written for Saxophone and Strings (by tion. He is also on the faculty of Winthrop Pavle Dešpalj). Except classical saxophone, University and Clalin University teaching Luka is involved in Croatian feminist or- applied lessons on saxophone and cham- ganization and programmes, as well as ber music. As a concert saxophonist Neal writing and performance art practices. She has performed across the United States, is also a multimedia performer. Her debut Europe and Asia giving performances in as a performance artist was at the 2017 such venues as Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Vox Feminae festival with her piece Am I a Concert Hall, The Newman Center for the good girl? Performing Arts and The Idyllwild Per- Katrin K. Radovani was born in Split, forming Arts Center. His primary teachers where she attended the School of Fine are Dr. Clif Leaman, Dr. James Bunte and Arts Painting Department. In 2005 she Tom Myer. As an educator Neal currently is moved to Zagreb where she worked on currently on the faculty at Winthrop Uni- various projects and in ilm and festival versity and at Clalin University and at the productions. In 2017 she graduated Paint- University of South Carolina. ing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2015 she was awarded with the Special Praenimi Duo and Praenimis Quartet Rector’s Prize for scene design in the pro- The Praenimis Quartet consists of Brian duction of Boris Papandopulo’s opera Ma- Bethea on soprano saxophone, Jonathan dame Bufault. Kierspe on alto saxophone, Yi-Chia Tu on tenor saxophone, and Neal Postma on baritone saxophone. The Praenimi Duo

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Prélude Quartet Jennifer Higdon, Zhou Long, and Bernard Prélude was born of the restlessness of Rands, and MacArthur “Genius” Award four professional saxophonists, with inex- recipients Bright Sheng and Miguel Zenón. haustible spirit of improvement and a life Prism’s discography includes releases on dedicated to the study and pedagogy of Albany, ECM, innova, Koch, Naxos, New the saxophone. The Quartet interprets a Dynamic, New Focus, and its own new- wide repertoire that includes transcriptions ly launched label, XAS Records. In 2016, of baroque and classical works, original PRISM was named by the University of works for saxophone, as well as works of Michigan, as the irst recipient of the Ken- popular character like tango, Spanish mu- dall Award in recognition of its work in sic or music with jazz connotations. The “collaboration, entrepreneurship, and com- members of the quartet continue to take munity engagement”. classes with renowned saxophonists such as Habanera saxophones quartet, Diaste- q ma saxophone quartet, Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, Vincent David, etc. From Quatuor Apollinaire the pedagogical point of view, the mem- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the bers teach numerous courses and take symbol of the ebullient and creative art of part in conferences throughout Andalusia a troubled epoch in which experimentation and their main objective is to instill the abounded in all forms of art, science, soci- appreciation for music and the saxophone ety, and even revolution. An immense poet in others. Much of the quartet’s repertoire of deep ramiications, from his domestic is based on the original quartets for saxo- roots to his vivacious artistic collaborations phone, many of which were premiered and (paintings, music, theater), this “seeker of dedicated to the quartet itself. The quartet new horizons” greatly inspired the musi- is in constant contact with the composers, cians of this ensemble with his many ex- working with them on the timbral and ex- plorations. The quartet attempts, in its own pressive possibilities of the saxophone and manner, to reveal and revive from the past the extension. At the moment, all of the a repertoire still largely underestimated members of the quartet are teachers in dif- and deserving of new attention. Founded ferent conservatories in Andalusia. in 1994, and with at its base, the esteemed saxophone and piano duo Jean-Michel Prism Quartet Goury/Yves Josset this ensemble of lute, Intriguing programs of great beauty and piano, saxophone, and keyboards/voice breadth have distinguished the Prism primarily dedicates itself to chamber mu- Quartet as one of America’s foremost sic from the end of the 19th century to chamber ensembles. “A bold ensemble the beginning of the 20th century. It also that set the standard for contempo- incorporates, however, the commissioning rary-classical saxophone quartets” (The of contemporary works in order to enrich New York Times), Prism has been pre- the literature of this unusual instrumental sented by in Carnegie Hall and the Cham- combination. Since 1996, the quartet has ber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and performed concerts and masterclasses toured throughout Latin America, China, throughout the U.S., Canada, Italy, Spain and Russia under the auspices of the U.S. and Israel. Their irst album was recorded Information Agency and USArtists Inter- in 2000. Quatuor Apollinaire performances national. Prism has also been presented are presented and commentated, making to critical acclaim as soloists with the De- scenographic adaptions (lighting, spacing/ troit Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, placement) to selected works. and conducted residencies at the nation’s leading conservatories, including the Cur- Quatuor B Saxophone Quartet is one of tis Institute and the Oberlin Conservatory. the leading Japanese saxophone quar- Two-time recipients of the Chamber Music tets, established in 2007. The name of the America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous quartet originated from their common Programming, Prism has commissioned blood type, type B. They are registered over 250 works, many by internationally artists of the Japan foundation for Region- celebrated composers, including Pulitzer al Art-Activities and perform all over the Prize-winners Julia Wolfe, William Bolcom, nation, playing in halls and schools and biografIES

325 biographies | Q-Q | participating in many community based Quattro Temperamenti Saxophone Quar- activities. Their irst CD “To B continued…” tet was formed by saxophonists who orig- was released in 2010, and their second CD inated from the chamber music classes “Saxophone Renaissance” in 2014. They of Gordan Tudor and Timea Kalmar at the participated in the XVII. World Saxophone Novi Sad Academy of Arts. The ensemble Congress in Strasbourg (France). The was formed in 2014 and the name was members of the quartet are Sadahito Kuni- inspired by the eponymous composition sue, Masaya Yamaura, Sumichika Arimura written by Ivan Brkljačić– as hommage to and Gentaro Koyama. the very irst Serbian contemporary work for saxophone quartet which is a part of The Quatuor International de Saxophones the ensemble’s repertoire. This chamber is composed of musicians living at the four ensemble has achieved noted performanc- corners of world: France, Canada, Japan es, warmly received by the audience and and the United States. These musicians the critics. At the Davorin Jenko Interna- have developed a sincere and enduring tional competition, held in February 2015 personal friendship reinforced by their in Belgrade, the quartet was awarded the similar musical aesthetics, their profession- First prize, winning the title Competition al background and their various meetings Laureate in the Chamber music disci- and performances at saxophone confer- pline. In 2015, during the Showroom of ences and musical festivals throughout the contemporary sound, an annual festival world, as well as their regular participation of contemporary music held in Zagreb, as jury members of international musical the ensemble successfully premiered competitions, such as those in Belgium, several compositions by young Serbian France, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, etc. composers. This was the ensemble’s irst Their careers have brought the musicians, performance outside Serbian borders. The international soloists and professors in quartet gave its second performance in their respective countries’ conservatories Croatia during the saxophone masterclass and universities, to debut this quartet for Škola saksofona u Jaski in 2016, as a guest the WSCXIII in Minneapolis (2003). The ensemble. Same year they performed at experiment was a triumph; meeting both the concert of composer Ivan Brkljačić in the expressive and technical needs of the Belgrade. music, as well as providing a dimension of friendship that supports communication Quimera Quintet has been working since and success in chamber music. The group September 2017 under professors Luís has built upon their debut by organizing Pipa and Luís Ribeiro. The project start- series of concerts each year: in Belgium, ed as a quartet (SaxUM) and recently it Canada, France, Japan, Slovenia, Thailand became a quintet with Catarina Trindade and the USA, etc. They have commissioned (piano). SaxUM was founded in 2016 in other new works by composers Francois Braga by students of the music graduation Rossé, Roger Boutry, Sylvain Kassap, Fred- at University of Minho with the purpose of eric Devreese, Kushida Testurosuke, and expanding the capacity of communication Carleton Macy. “This is a remarkable quar- and to ind new paradigms as well as new tet. The deep friendship of the four mem- musical languages. It develops most of bers comes through clearly in their perfor- the activity in the North of Portugal. Sax- mances. Since they are four of the world’s UM performed at EurSax 2017 in Oporto. leading classical saxophonists, the level SaxUM took part in masterclasses with of playing is outstanding” (Saxophone the rewarded Quatuor Morphing and also Journal, Nov/Dec 2009). Each year since with great musicians like the oboist Omar 2003, the members have met in diferent Zoboli and the saxophonist Marcus Weiss. parts of the world to perform together and Catarina Trindade has worked with dif- explore new directions in contemporary ferent chamber music groups formations music from composers of diverse cultural throughout her academic career and had and national backgrounds. Their irst re- the opportunity to perform pieces written cording is titled Quatuor International de by the greatest composers like Arensky, Saxophones Live!! Beethoven, Brahms, Franck and Smetana. Catarina is currently a member of EPTA Portugal’s board.

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Quirk is a vibrant and lexible saxophone Noriko Kawamura, percussionist, earned ensemble founded in 2015. They have per- her Bachelor and Master degrees from formed as a duo, quartet, sextet, and as a Nagoya University of the Arts. The irst larger ensemble in collaboration with some prize winner at Gifu International Music of the world’s inest saxophonists, includ- Competition, Noriko started studying in ing Claude Delangle, Philippe Geiss, and France at the CRR of Lyon in 2012, and she Jérôme Laran. Their recital at this World currently studies at Haute École des arts Saxophone Congress welcomes saxophon- du Rhin in Strasbourg under the guidance ist and composer Richard Ingham, joining of Emmanuel Séjourne. Her performances them to play one of his original compo- include with the Central Aichi Symphony sitions. Richard was the Director of the Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, XVI World Saxophone Congress 2012 in Ensemble Relecture et Création, Emsem- St. Andrews, Scotland. His recent projects ble Linea. include the irst UK performance of the saxophone version of Boulez’ Dialogues Raum-Musik für Saxophone de L’Ombre Double in 2016. He has written The Ensemble Raum-Musik für Saxophone many works, including Pieces for Five Play- is particularly interested in playing in ers, premiered in this recital by the Quirk unconventional venues. We are at home Quartet and Richard. Richard is the editor where sound becomes an Event. The Mu- of The Cambridge Companion to the Saxo- sic is freely improvised but in each case phone (Cambridge University Press, 1999). adapted to the speciic venue. We Focus Quirk have performed at venues across on the spatial connotations of Music and the UK; their innovative recitals span music consider a concert as an experience in from the classical saxophone repertoire to space and time, exploring the multidimen- jazz and multimedia presentations. Com- sionality of space: its acoustic, architectur- posers and arrangers themselves, they al and physical properties, its atmosphere, present works by members of the quartet mood potential as well as emotional and in this recital. The Quirk Quartet are Sarah sensual connotations. We are very well Markham (soprano), Kenneth Wilkinson aware of the fact, that our concerts are (alto), Chris Jolly (tenor), Sarah Hind (bari- diferent for every listener, depending tone). very much on the speciic Location and e.g. also on the Position and perspective r of the listener. Our concerts are far from a typical Performance on stage; Players and Ra+ Trio audience typically are supposed to move Three japanese musicians met while study- around during a concert. Typical examples ing in Strasbourg and formed Ra+. Since for venues are art museums, churches, 2015 they have been trying to discover public Swimming baths, water reservoirs, new point of view in the ield of contem- factories, Gasometers, Underground ga- porary music. rages and the like. Each space conveys Yui Sakagoshi obtained her Bachelor of its unique concept, inspires Improvisation Music Degree at the Osaka College of Mu- and does not act merely as an immovable sic under guidance of Asako Inoue, and a parameter, but actually comes into play Master’s Degree in Musical Interpretation as a partner through the musical action. at the Haute École des arts du Rhin in The Ensemble consists of 9 saxophonists Strasbourg under the guidance of Philippe and has been founded in 1985 in Karlsruhe, Geiss. She participated and performed on Germany. Saxopen in 2015, Portrait - Jean-Claude Risset, Festival Musica in Strasbourg, Rautiola, Joonatan Academy of Stockhausen in Kürten. Joonatan Rautiola studied at the Sibel- Kanae Mizobuchi is soprano who studied ius Academy under Pekka Savijoki and at the Kunitachi college of Music in Japan. in Paris with Nicolas Prost and Christian She later continued to study at the CRR of Wirth. In 2010 he became the irst Nordic Strasbourg in the class of Françoise Kubler saxophonist having graduated from Claude and Marie Kobayashi. In 2017 she partici- Delangle’s saxophone class at the Paris pated the Delian Academy for new music Conservatory. His other teachers include as a guest artist. clarinetist Paul Meyer and oboist Maurice biografIES

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Bourgue. Joonatan Rautiola has appeared lieri-Zinetti international chamber music as a soloist with the Latvian National Sym- competition, the four members of Re/ phony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Sono inished their academic studies in Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symfoniker, Het some of Europe’s most prestigious mu- Kamerorkest Brugge among others and sical institutes (Basel, Vienna, Bordeaux, with several professional Nordic wind or- Milan, Brussels and Strasbourg). Re/Sono chestras. He has given recitals in London, is devoted to the original classical and Dublin, Tokyo, St. Petersbourg and at New contemporary repertoire of the saxophone, York’s Carnegie Hall. An active performer working with young composer in order to of contemporary music, Joonatan Rautiola enlarge the instrument’s repertoire and has given irst performances of works by involved in the regional musical life as in- many contemporary composers. He is the terpreters and pedagogues. only wind instrumentalist having won the Finnish National Radio’s Young Soloists’ Rev Saxophone Quartet Competition. His numerous prizes in inter- The Rev Saxophone Quartet was formed national competitions include irst prizes by Kohei Ueno (Soprano), Yuki Miyakoshi at the Nordic Wind Soloists’ Competition (Alto), Jun Tsuzuki (Tenor), and Souichiro and the Nova Gorica International Saxo- Tanaka (Baritone) in 2013. “Rev” comes phone Competition as well as prizes at the from the word “rev” referring to an en- International Aeolus Competition for Wind gine’s revolution speed, which indicates Instruments and the International Adolphe the quartet’s concept that “playing music Sax Saxophone Competition in Dinant, with its limitless energy and ‘driving’ to the Belgium. Joonatan Rautiola teaches at the place where everyone aims.” The quartet Sibelius Academy and at the Tampere Mu- has toured around Japan and played at sic Academy and has given masterclasses various events including musical recitals at Tokyo, Riga, London and Strasbourg and outreach events since its formation. among others. Furthermore, they performed on the stage of Geidai Chamber Music Concert No. 41. Rayuela Ensemble They do not only play repertoire for quar- The Ensemble Rayuela was founded tet but they also perform with a piano and in 2017 at the Conservatoire national traditional Japanese instruments in order supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. to pursue further possibility of saxophone This project is enriched by the inluences quartets. The quartet released the 1st full of diferent cultures (Japan, Italy, Spain album “The Rev Saxophone Quartet Debut and France), the curiosity of exploring Concert” on 23rd of August 2017. diferent music styles and the collabora- tion with other instruments. Despite its Richtmeyer, Debra; Mlekusch, Lars and recent foundation, Ensemble Rayuela has the MIT Saxophone Ensemble already had the opportunity to perform MIT (Made in Taiwan) Saxophone Ensem- at the Philharmonie de Paris (Grand Salle ble was formed in 2013 by Taiwanese sax- Pierre Boulez) for the season “Prelude ophonists who have studied in the United au Concert”, “Automne Musical du Grand States, France, Japan, Thailand, and the Chatellerault” and they were selected by Netherlands. The MIT has held over 50 the association “Jeunes talents” for the concerts and events since forming and has 2017-18 season. The Ensemble Rayuela col- collaborated with numerous great musi- laborated with the tubist Sebastian Perez cians. In 2016, the MIT invited Lars Mlekus- in the recording of his CD promoted by ch to serve as the artistic director. the “Fondation Meyer”. They are currently Lars Mlekusch is a saxophonist, conductor completing a Masters in Chamber Music as and educator. He has performed through- a saxophone quartet, in the class of David out the world and has taught master class- Walter at the CNSMDP. es at many renowned institutions. He has served as a jury member at prestigious RE/SONO Saxophone Quartet international competitions, is a professor The Re/Sono is a saxophone quartet of saxophone and chamber music at the based in Strasbourg, France. Laureate Music and Arts University of Vienna and of the 20th international chamber music the Zurich University of the Arts and is on competition of Illzach 2017 and 2017 Sa- the faculties of the European Saxophone

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University Gap, the Impuls Academy Graz Rogina, Miha and the Arosa Music Academy. He is the Described as ‘The best saxophonist of founder and Artistic Director of both the today’s younger generation’ by The Sax Vienna International Saxfest and the Zu- magazine, Miha Rogina is accredited for rich International Saxfest and serves as the his innovative interpretations of musical Artistic Director and Conductor of The MIT works. He has won 1st prize at no fewer Saxophone Ensemble. than 10 international competitions. He has Debra Richtmeyer, a renowned soloist and worked with today’s leading musicians pedagogue, has performed and taught including Pierre Boulez and Fabio Luisi master classes throughout North America and has appeared at major international and Europe and in China and Thailand. concert stages throughout Europe, Asia, She was the irst woman to perform a fea- USA and Africa such as the Musikverein tured concerto with orchestra and to give in Vienna, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Großes a master class at the World Saxophone Festspielhaus in Salzburg or Izumi Hall Congress. She has performed as concerto in Japan. He initially studied at Ljubljana soloist with numerous bands and orches- Music University and continued his stud- tras and was principal saxophonist with ies at the prestigious CNSM de Paris with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the St. Claude Delangle, where he graduated Louis Symphony. She has been Professor with highest honours. He also studied at of Saxophone at the University of Illinois the renowned Eastman School of Music and at the University of North Texas and in the USA. In 2015 he graduated orches- has adjudicated state, national and inter- tral conducting from the Universität für national competitions including the third Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxo- As soloist he performed with a number of phone Competition. Richtmeyer a Honor- orchestras worldwide including the Vien- ary Life Member and Past-President of the na Symphony Orchestra as well as Hofer, North American Saxophone Alliance. Bruges, Slovenia, Maribor, Paris Laureates and Thailand Philharmonic orchestra. As Ríos Gómez, Lorena an active chamber musician, he performs Lorena Ríos Gómez started her saxophone frequently with concert pianist Sae Lee studies at the Network of Music Schools of with whom they perform worldwide as the Medellín. She gained a Master in Art degree Duo Kalypso. Miha Rogina is a professor at from the University of Antioquia, where Ljubljana University, faculty of music. He she studied with Esneider Valencia and leads masterclasses at universities across Wilson Ferrer, and a postgraduate degree Japan (Senzoku gakuen, Showa University, in Saxophone Performance in the Superior Osaka University, Kagawa Tanki University Conservatory of Music in Castile and Leon, etc.), UK, Latvia, Poland, Germany and (Salamanca, Spain) with Maestro Andrés Austria, and is a member of jury at national Gomis. In 2012 she was the winner of the and international saxophone competi- ICETEX scholarship for Young Talents. She tions. As a conductor he led orchestras has played with diferent Medellín groups such as Slovenian philharmonic orchestra, such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Me- Symphonic orchestra of slovene radio- dellín, the EAFIT Symphonic Orchestra, the and television, Bratislava philharmonic Children and Youth Orchestra of Medellín, orchestra, Symphonic orchestra Pro-Arte, and the University of Antioquia’s Symphon- Chamber orchestra of Paris conservatoire ic Band, with which she has performed in and a Saxophone orchestra of Ljubljana diferent Colombian cities. She currently music university. He is a member of Vienna works as a researcher of the Latin-American based choir Wiener Singverein, with whom saxophone music. She hopes to, through he collaborated under leadership of great collaborations with Colombian composers, conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Mariss to nurture the saxophone repertoire avail- Jansons, Daniel Barenboim etc. able today. She also teaches saxophone at the University of Antioquia and the Net- Rogue Two is an ensemble dedicated to work Music Schools of Medellín. She is the the commissioning and performance of saxophone player of the women’s group new music for saxophone and percus- Tahonnas enclave and performs with Trío sion. Consisting of saxophonist Andrew Mestizaje and the Somnus Quintet. J. Allen and percussionist Gordon Hicken, biografIES

329 biographies | R-R | the group is especially interested in mu- is a prize winner in various national and sic that extends the timbral possibilities international contests and he played in of this chamber combination. They have many Festivals such as: Festival du Sax- performed throughout the United States, ophone-Paris, The Fenice Concerts, 10th and their debut album of contemporary World Saxophone Festival, Asolo Music, works is now available through Equilibrium International Meetings of Electronic Music, Records. Festival Nuove Sincronie, Dolomites Music Festival, Frankfurt Musikmesse, San Sebas- Roman, Nicki tian Jazz Festival, Tourcoing Promenades Nicki Roman is regarded as a highly active, Lyriques, Jazz at the Philharmonic Verona, diverse and emerging concert saxophonist. etc. He is an absolute winner of the 2003 She is a winner of the Music Teacher’s Na- Piazzolla Music Award, and as a soloist, he tional Association Young Artist Solo Com- has performed with the Orchestra da Cam- petition, the North American Saxophone era di Padova e del Venetoand Orchestra Alliance Solo Competition, William C. Byrd dei Pomeriggi Musicali. He has collabo- International Competition and is the irst rated with: R.A.I. Milan, Arena di Verona classical saxophonist to be the recipient of Foundation, La Fenice Theater in Venice the International Kate Neal Kinley Memori- and the Giuseppe Verdi Municipal Theatre. al Fellowship. She has presented solo and Ros has played with Stefan Milenkovich, chamber music performances throughout Antonio Albanese, Antonella Ruggiero, the United States, Europe and Asia. She Franco D’Andrea, Paolo Birro, Paolo Fresu, has also been a concerto soloist with or- Andrea Dindo, etc. His compositions are chestras such as the Eastman Symphony dedicated especially to saxophone, and Orchestra, Northwest Florida Symphony have been performed in Italy, Switzerland, Orchestra and the University of North Flor- France, Germany, Belgium, USA, Austria, ida Orchestra. In addition, she has present- Holland, Hungary, Finland and Russia. As ed recitals and masterclasses for students well as working as a musician and com- at the University of North Florida, Universi- poser, Pepito Ros researches the ields of ty of South Florida, Nazareth College, Man- rebalancing energy with sound and brain ield University, Frostburg State University, hemisphere harmonization. Mr. Ros has Eastman Summer Saxophone Institute, Illi- recently developed the Ros Method, a nois Summer Youth Music Camps and the holistic approach to music. He is the Pro- Eastman Community Music School. Nicki is fessor of Saxophone at the “C. Monteverdi” currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts Conservatoire in Bolzano, Italy. Degree with a certiicate in Collegiate Mu- sic Teaching and a minor in Instrumental Rosinbum, Elizabeth Pedagogy at the Eastman School of Music. Elizabeth Rosinbum is passionate about In addition, she is a recipient of the presti- helping young artists attain their person- gious Eastman Performer’s Certiicate and al and professional career goals. After the John Celentano Award for chamber her undergraduate studies in Music and music excellence. She currently serves as Psychology and Master’s Degree in Saxo- Assistant Director to the Eastman Saxo- phone Performance, she made it her life’s phone Project (ESP), the irst conductor- work to educate young musicians and less saxophone ensemble in the United empower others to perform their abso- States to perform completely from memo- lute best both in work and on stage. Her ry. She received her Master’s Degree from lectures inspire artists across disciplines the University of Illinois and her Bachelor’s to build conidence, create a clear vision from the University of North Florida. for their future, and develop the necessary skills to build a thriving business. Elizabeth Ros, Pepito maintains a multi-faceted career as an Pepito Ros is an accomplished classical/ educator, performer, speaker and clinician. jazz saxophonist, composer and research- She now has a student waitlist and is the er, who graduated from the “G.B.Martini” head private instructor in one of the top Conservatoire in Bologna and subsequent- band programs in Texas. Elizabeth has ly from the Paris European Conservatoire commissioned and premiered works for in Saxophone and Chamber Music under saxophone throughout the United States the guidance of Bruno Totaro in 1991. He and Europe as a soloist and chamber mu-

330 biographies | R-R | sician. She has spoken at several confer- annual Ladies Night event, where they so ences and at universities throughout Texas, far presented projects »Ladies go Tango«, Michigan, and Illinois. Elizabeth gives in collaboration with Quatro por Tango hundreds of educational masterclasses ensemble and the Argentinian composer to students in middle school, high school, Fernando Muslera, and »Village Ladies«, and college, and counsels other clinicians in collaboration with the singer Zvezdana in three states. She thrives on mentoring Novaković and composers from Croatia, individuals and helping others expand their Poland and Slovenia. ROYA recorded com- interests and skillsets. Whether it’s the fear positions for the following albums: Art from of the stage or the fear of not living up to Nina Šenk, wydziwiAnka from Anna Maria their potential, she helps people get out of Huszca and Slovena Voices from Zvezdana their comfort zone and conquer their fears Novaković. The quartet has performed solo for ultimate personal and career success. concerts at festivals in Croatia, France, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia. With the rich Roussos, Dionisios temperament and individual charisma of Born in Athens in 1979, Dionisios Roussos each of the members, ROYA has been con- studied saxophone at the Athens Conser- quering the hearts of the wider audience. vatory. He graduated with high honours Zvezdana Novaković (singer, harpist, com- from the class of Th. Kerkezos). He has poser, perfomer) takes much interest in also attended master classes with Jean diferent cultures. She has found her way of Marie Londeix. He won many prizes - in expression in a traditional form of singing 1998 he took the Chamber music award found in Slavic and Balkan countries, the from the Athens Conservatory and in 1999 throat vocal technique. In 2011, she started the Award of the national radio and broad- studying the harp under the mentorship of casting corporation E.R.T. In April 2006 he Tina Žerdin, and now holds solo concerts was awarded the gold medal at the nation- and projects combining harp, voice and sto- al competition and in April 2007 he got rytelling. She works as a freelance artist and the 1st prize at the International saxophone is the artistic leader of many international competition in Lamia. As a soloist he has projects. performed with the Louisiana Symphoni- etta (U.S.A), Guang-Xi Symphony Orches- Royer, Erin and Watson, Jenni tra (China), Harbin Symphony Orchestra Erin Royer is the Head of Saxophone at (China), Jeju Philharmonic Orchestra (S. the University of Western Australia and Korea), Athens National Broadcasting tutors at The Western Australian Acade- Orchestra, Athens Orchestra of Colors and my of Performing Arts. She is a classically Athens Contemporary Orchestra. He gave trained saxophonist, but prefers the term recitals in the US (Louisiana, Texas and cross-genre saxophonist as she performs Missouri), in China (Beijing, Guang-Xi) and in all genres. She is a highly respected in- Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki), as well as ternational saxophonist and regularly per- in in Cyprus and Italy. He is a member of forms with the Malaysian Philharmonic and the Athens Saxophone Quartet, (Greek and Western Australian Symphony Orchestras. American soloists), and a member of the Around Perth Erin performs solo recitals Piraeus Saxophone Orchestra. and with local ensembles such as The Oz Big Band, the award winning Perth Cabaret Roya Quartet and Zvezdana Novaković Collective and the Just Sax quartet. Roya Quartet is a group with a distinctly Jenni Watson is a freelance saxophonist, multicultural identity, adorned with the composer and multi-instrumentalist. She diversity of tradition, experience, cultur- balances composition commissions in the al heritage and values. The members of contemporary classical genre with her own ROYA have been fused into an ensemble instrumental/electronica recording projects. by their love for the classical saxophone Studying BMus and MMus with Rob Buck- and chamber music-making, accompanied land and Andy Scott at the RNCM (UK), she achieved the highest recital mark in the by their wish to present the very best of Woodwind department’s history. Her inal saxophone repertoire to a wider audience. Masters recital was entirely self-composed Through a variety of projects, the quartet – a irst for the RNCM. She has recorded is searching for diferent music genres and

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331 biographies | R-s | engaging soundworld. She performs with and touring nationally. She also performs varied groups including Kaleidoscope Quar- around with Western Australia with the tet, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Tenor Metro Big Band. Besides performing, Leah Saxophone Collective, and Lucan Mills (rap is passionate about high-quality music artist). Her compositions receive interna- education in schools, and is a secondary tional performances and she also founded classroom music teacher at Mercedes Col- BASS (the British Annual Saxophone Sym- lege and a vocal tutor at Perth College. posium).

Royer, Erin; Newhouse, Tim s and Gueli, Leah Sakagoshi, Yui and Solano, Iván Erin Royer is the Head of Saxophone at Yui Sakagoshi is a Japanese saxophonist the University of Western Australia and based in Strasbourg and Paris. She plays tutors at The Western Australian Academy in various ensembles and solo projects of Performing Arts and several local Perth and includes theatrical elements in her Schools. Erin is a classically trained saxo- performances and works. She obtained phonist but prefers the term cross-genre her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Osaka saxophonist as she can be seen performing College of Music, and a Master›s Degree in in all genres of music on all saxophones. Musical Interpretation at the Haute École She is a highly respected international des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. She is cur- saxophonist and regularly performs with rently developing her musical projects on the Malaysian Philharmonic and Western several levels, such as collaboration with Australian Symphony Orchestras. Around composers, performing choreographed Perth Erin can be seen performing solo pieces, creating theatre and music, etc. recitals or with local ensembles such as She is a member of the quintet Ensemble The Oz Big Band, the award-winning Perth Intercolor formed by 5 instruments of var- Cabaret Collective and the Just Sax saxo- ious timbres. She has also made a lot of phone quartet. Erin aspires to become an arrangements for live electronic music. internationally renowned performer, pro- Iván Solano is a Spanish clarinetist, com- moter and tutor of the saxophone and is poser and researcher. In 2010 SACEM determined, as a life goal, to make Perth a awarded him with the prize to the best sought-after place to study saxophone. pedagogic score, for his work on trans- Tim Newhouse is a composer, musician mission to children and young musicians. and arranger based in Perth, Western His catalogue of 50+ works continuously Australia. His compositions have been per- grows through the encounters and collab- formed internationally and all-around Aus- orations with ensembles and performers tralia, most notably at the Manly and Dav- around the world. His music navigates enport Jazz Festivals, St Briavels Castle in between styles: electroacoustics, music Chepstow. Tim is a recipient of the 2015 for theater, dance, symphonic orchestra, Jack Bendat Travel Scholarship, a grant choir or solo instruments. He explores which funded a tour to the east coast of improvisation and the limits between oral Australia with his compositions for jazz or- and written compositions. He graduat- chestra. At eighteen, Tim became the 2014 ed in Clarinet Performing, Teaching and Associate Composer-in-Residence for the Composition in Madrid, Budapest, Paris, WA Youth Jazz Orchestra (WAYJO). Strasbourg and Rome and has a Master›s Leah Gueli is a diverse performer who Degrees in Music Analysis and Musicology. studied at the Western Australian Acade- He is currently pursuing his PhD on Musical my of Performing Arts (WAAPA), gradu- Gesture at Université de Strasbourg. ating with a Bachelor of Music (Classical Performance) and a Graduate Diploma of Sakaki Duo Music (Opera). In 2016 she graduated Edith SAKAKI is a pun. First meaning is sur- Cowan University with a Graduate Diplo- names: Sakai + Akaki. Second meaning ma of Education (Secondary Music). Leah is sakaki (Cleyera japonica), lowering loves to explore diferent styles, especially evergreen tree. Sakaki tree is sacred tree jazz. Leah has fronted the Oz Big Band, in Japan and written with the kanji which one of Perth’s favourite swing bands, since combines “tree” and “spirit”. 2012, performing regularly around Perth Yuya Sakai is assistant professor of music

332 biographies | s-s | education at the University of Miyazaki, The F. Salime Saxophone Ensemble was Faculty of Education. As a soloist, he was born in 1992 at the initiative of Francesco awarded 3rd Prize at the 5th YOKOHAMA Salime, the ensemble’s Director. The group International Music Competition, and Fu- includes almost all the types of saxophone kuoka Educational Association Prize at the (sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone 58th Nishinihon International Music Com- and bass) and can have from a minimum petition. His current research focuses on of 6 to maximum of 20 saxophonists, sup- saxophone pedagogy. ported by one or two percussionist and Shunsuke Akaki is a concert saxophonist piano. The members of the group grew up and lecturer of Yamano Music co., LTD. under Salime’s guidance and they perform As a soloist, he has won 1st Prize at the concert activity individually obtaining 1st Tivoli Junior Saxophone Competition success in national competitions. The aim (Current Kurashiki International Saxophone of the group is to let people know the Competition) and was a inalist in the 10th technical, expressive, timbral and virtuostic Osaka International Music Competition. He skills of diferent types of saxophone. The has appeared as a concerto soloist with group’s repertory ranges from classic to the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra. contemporary music. The ensemble has al- ready given numerous concerts in Italy and Salaya/NAFA Saxophone Ensemble Europe obtaining unanimous praise from Salaya Saxophone Ensemble is one of the audience and the critics for the high the most prominent saxophone groups in quality of its performances. Its members Southeast Asia formed by students of the cooperate with the Orchestra of S. Cecilia College of Music, Mahidol University. They Academy in Rome. The group makes use have performed works exploring both of arrangements by Francesco Salime, who traditional concerts and stage production also teaches saxophone at the Conservato- that included choreography. The Salaya ry of music S. Pietro a Majella in Naples. Saxophone Ensemble regularly tours. They won prizes at the Thailand Internation- Sammarco, Fabio al Wind Ensemble Competition in 2013 Fabio Sammarco graduated from the and Thailand World Music Championships oldest ‘Saxophone School’ in Italy, the in 2013. The Salaya Saxophone Ensemble Conservatory of Salerno (class of Luigi received the award for Most Comical Per- Cavallo), completed his two years intern- formance from Woodwind Extravaganza ship at the Conservatory G. Rossini in Concert in 2013 and performed in Young Pesaro under the guidance of Federico Thai Artist Award in 2014, organized by Mondelci, and continued his studies with SCG Foundation. Recently, they have been Jean-Marie Londeix. After an intense and invited by Singapore Saxophone Sympo- frantic concert activity (over a dozen of sium and Asian Saxophone Congress in absolute awards) he senses a great deal of 2016 to be a part of the featured ensem- neglect in the widespread ‘popular-ordi- ble. nary’ treatment of saxophon and in the too NAFA Saxophone Quartet is in the fore- widespread use of transcripts. He begins front of the saxophone scene in Singapore. to promote a repertoire that assimilates Comprised of student saxophonists from the instrument to those in more historical the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, the legacy (in duo with Cello or Guitar) and quartet performs regularly locally as well from the mid-1990s he stimulated some as internationally. Under the tutelage of Dr. Italian authors for a production dedicated Zechariah Goh, the quartet is often invited to him, especially for saxophone and cello to perform in workshops, schools, corpo- and for saxophone and strings quartet. rate events and many others locally. They He has never performed public works that have also represented Singapore in the were not originals. Fabio Sammarco teach- 17th World Saxophone Congress (2015) as es at the Conservatory of Music N. Piccinni well as the 1st Asian Saxophone Congress in Bari. (2016), where they performed a recital of pieces written by local composers includ- Sambeat, Perico ing Zechariah Goh, Lee Kah Hong Bernard, Alto saxophonist Perico Sambeat is con- Jeremiah Li, Alexander Oon and Oh Jin sidered one of the great Spanish jazz mu- Yong. sicians. He has earned enormous prestige biografIES

333 biographies | s-s | for his extraordinary career, both in Spain Sandberg, Scott and Sebald, Matthew and internationally. With over 20 years of Dr. Scott Sandberg serves as Assistant professional experience, Perico Sambeat Professor of Clarinet/Saxophone—Coor- is the Spanish saxophonist with greatest dinator of Woodwinds at the University international projection. With a strong of North Dakota and maintains an active classical base, he began studying modern schedule as a performer, clinician, and music at the Taller de Musics in Barcelona. adjudicator. Internationally, he has toured In 1991 he moved to New York, where he China three times, including performing joined the New School. He played with as a featured soloist with the East China musicians, such as Lee Konitz, Jimmy Normal University Orchestra. He per- Cobb or Joe Chambers. His proliic career formed in Scottland, Canada, Switzerland, has led him to participate in festivals and Italy, Austria, Ireland, the United Kingdom, programs worldwide, and record numerous and Norway. In the United States, he has discs, twenty of which feature him as a performed at numerous North American leader and more than a hundred as a side- Saxophone Alliance conferences as well as men (Uptown Dance with Mike Mossman with ensembles such as the Dallas Wind and David Kikoski, Crossroad with Gerardo Symphony, Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Núñez, Friendship with Brad Meldhau, Kurt Orchestra, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Rosenwinkel and Jef Ballard, Flamenco Waverly Community Orchestra, Greater Big Band with Miguel Poveda and Javier Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, Sin- Colina and others, Dance Guaná, third gapore Slingers, Royal Klobasneks, and album of his CMS Trio with Javier Colina Dick King Classic Swing Band. A native of and Marc Miralta, Ballads with his quartet Grand Forks, North Dakota, Sandberg is with Borja Barrueta, Bernardo Sassetti and thrilled to have returned to his hometown Colina, ElasTic, a quintet with Jef Ballard, to teach at the University of North Dakota, Eric Legnini, Andre Fernandes and Thomas where he received his Bachelor of Music Bramerie). He received numerous awards, degree in music education. He received his both national and international, among Master of Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts which are AMMJ Awards for the Group of degrees in saxophone performance from the Year (CMS Trio), Record of the Year The University of Iowa as a student of Dr. (Flamenco Big Band), Songwriter of the Kenneth Tse. Year, Jazz Terrasaman award and Jazzing Matthew Sebald has devoted his life to the Premi in Sant Andreu. pursuit of music. Beginning lessons at age 7 with Lillian Simmons, Matthew quickly Sampen, John and Saxophone Ensemble developed a passion for music as a career. from Bowling Green State University He is currently studying under Dr. Nariaki As one of America’s leading concert sax- Sugiura at the University of the North Da- ophonists, John Sampen is particularly kota. His accomplishments to date include recognized as a distinguished artist in con- performing with the UND Chamber Or- temporary literature. He has commissioned chestra as the winner of the UND Mozart over one hundred new works and has Piano Concerto Competition of 2015 and soloed with ensembles from all over the performing in master classes with Dr. Lydia world. Sampen has recorded with Belgian Artymiw and John Clodfelter. and Swiss National Radio and is represent- ed on the AMP, Orion, CRI, Albany and Sato, Junichi Capstone record labels. He has presented Junichi Sato is a saxophonist, research- masterclasses at important universities er and educator in Japan. He earned his and conservatories throughout Europe, doctor’s degree (PhD) in music at Tokyo Asia and North America. In addition to National University of Fine Arts and Mu- contemporary literature, Sampen performs sic and became the irst PhD in the area traditional saxophone repertoire in recital of Saxophone in Japan. He specializes with pianist/composer Marilyn Shrude. Dr. in Luciano Berio and contemporary mu- Sampen is currently a Distinguished Artist sic. He plays an active part in the ield of Professor at Bowling Green State Uni- contemporary music and receives a high versity and is Past President of the North evaluation. Sato is both, a player and a American Saxophone Alliance. researcher. He has written a lot of papers on P. Boulez, L. Berio, Debussy, etc. and he

334 biographies | s-s | regularly publishes articles in magazines. rock and pop music. Since 2004 Saxitude He often holds masterclasses, concerts and has played more than 500 concerts and lectures at the CNSM de Paris, Manhattan has been delighting music-lovers all over School of Music (in New York) and Nation- the world. Made of professional saxophon- al Taiwan University of Arts. Sato is the ists, Saxitude is developing his sound by only person of the academic tenure spe- drawing upon inluences from the wide cialized in the Saxophone in a Japanese variety of the diferent projects the musi- national university. cians are involved in. Saxitude is playing the music they love to play with a lot of SaxibA – Sibelius Academy Saxophone energy and a healthy sense of humour. It’s Ensemble is a saxophone ensemble a vibrating live band that blends jazz, pop, formed by students of Joonatan Rautiola’s funk and rock grooves. Since 2004 Saxi- saxophone studio at the Sibelius Acade- tude released 6 CDs. my, Helsinki University of Arts. Since its creation in 2016, SaxibA has performed Saxo Clone is a meeting of three talented in diferent venues in the Finnish capital, musicians, saxophonists Frédéric Bas- in programmes including music by Karol quin and Gino Samyn and a pianist Pascal Befa, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Thibaux. After a full year of concerts and Felix Mendelssohn and Maurice Ravel. master classes in France and abroad (New SaxibA rehearses and performs without a York, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Portugal, conductor, which gives each member more Tunisie, Poland, etc.) a memento of these responsibility…and pleasure of music-mak- unforgettable musical moments had to be ing! made. Saxo Clone then decided to record their irst disc titled “French connection” Saxiberian Duo and Sax to showcase great French composers of Ensemble Quartet the current and the last century. The Sax Ensemble was created in 1987 with the aim of creation and promotion of SaxoElectro was formed in 2015 to pro- contemporary music. The original group mote electronic and modern music to the formation is saxophone quartet, piano and general public in Hong Kong. Showcasing percussion, which is unique in the world, local composers and commissioning new but the group membership is lexible, re- works, this duo aims to make modern lying on the repertory. In 1993, thanks to music more accessible and understand- the support and determination of some able to the audience. Au Yin Tak and Lena composers, musicians and music lovers, Cuglietta have been working together for the group established the Sax-Ensemble nearly ten years in Hong Kong perform- Foundation with the aim of encouraging ing not only in the concert halls, but local commissions to Spanish and foreign com- venues, school educational programs and posers and high-level pedagogical activ- outdoor performances to help saxophone ities. In 1997, the Sax-Ensemble received music become part of the local music cul- the National Music Award for Interpreta- ture. For the past two years, the duo has tion, mainly because of its contribution collaborated with local composer Alex Yiu to Spanish music and in recognition of its and commissioned a new media and saxo- ten years of existence at that time. Numer- phone work by American composer Frank ous authors have dedicated works to the Nawrot. We have also collaborated with Sax-Ensemble, some of them even sev- local photographer Kurt Chan and put his eral works, so the Sax Ensemble had the work into our music. chance to perform up to one hundred and eighty world premieres. Francisco Martínez Saxolosax is an association made of and Henrique Portovedo perform as the students and saxophone teachers. The Saxiberian Duo. members of the ensemble are disguised Saxitude Saxophone Quartet as white clowns to recall the history of Established in 2004, Saxitude, creative the saxophone at the beginning of the saxophone quartet from Luxemburg, who 20th century. Music for the ensemble was set out to develop a unique sound with an written by students of the Conservatory original repertoire of jazz compositions, of Music of Saint-Dié and by some pro- improvised music as well as jazz standards, fessional composers, friends of the group. biografIES

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The ensemble walks and does Soundpaint- their own unique style. ing, taught to them by Nicolas Woillard. The youngest of the group, 16 year-old Ka- Benjamin Nid is one of the best sound- trina Sawyer, is a high school student from painters in France. Houston (USA) studing Alto, Tenor and C-melody saxophone as well as clarinet. Saxophone Octet of the Royal Birming- Her teacher, Tatyana Kazmiruk, is well ham Conservatoire known in Kazakhstan as a soloist, instruc- The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire tor and jazz festivals participant. She Saxophone Octet performs across each received a bachelor’s and post graduate academic year, both at the conservatoire degree from Kazakh National Music Con- and further aield. These concerts are gen- servatory as a classical and jazz saxophon- erally project based and aim to provide ist. She is a frequent participant in saxo- students with a stepping stone between phone competitions in Rennes (France), small chamber music and larger ensemble Houston (USA), Moscow (Russia), New playing, whilst giving opportunity to gain York (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Lloret de Mar experiences on all members of the saxo- (Spain). phone family. Since 2008, projects have The third member of the group, Tatyana included – ‘Crossing Paths: new music of Klushkina, is a well establish performance Johannesburg’, ‘JTV: Cloud Cuckooland’, coach working for Kazakh National Con- “Hello, Mr Sax!”, ‘The Sounding Image,’ servatory and Republican National Music ‘Viva Vivaldi,’ ‘Less is More’,‘Travelling Mu- school for Gifted children. She taught both sic’, ‘The Night the Buses Died’, and ‘Hoe Tatyana Kazmiruk and Katrina Sawyer Down’. They have given performances at among many other woodwinds students. Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Newport Music Sax’ouDuo is made up of two young span- Festival and Staford Music Festival. They ish saxophonists. Luis Garvía Cabañas and regularly perform as part of the contem- Cristina Sánchez Martínez met in Lyon porary music series Frontiers, and have (France) in 2016, when they became part presented educational concerts as part of of saxophone class at the Conservatory the conservatoire’s chamber music festi- of Lyon led by Jean-Denis Michat. After val. Members of the group were heavily several projects in common and due to involved with the ensemble and chamber the friendship between them, in Sep- music sessions at the inaugural Royal Bir- tember 2017, they decided to begin this mingham Conservatoire Saxophone Day, new adventure and to found Sax’ouDuo. 2015. The RBC octet is directed by Naomi Sax’ouDuo focuses on the contemporary Sullivan. She has been a member of sev- repertoire written for saxophone duo. The eral ensembles, and she has held master- main objective of it lies in the composition classes and concerts across the USA and of new pieces, thanks to direct work with Europe. She has worked for a number of the current composers. UK orchestras including Birmingham Con- Luis Garvía Cabañas began his saxophone temporary Music Group, City of Birming- studies in the Musical Foundation “Manuel ham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish de Falla”. Passionate for his instrument, Symphony Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, he performed the professional degree in Aurora Orchestra, Piccadilly Dance Orches- the CPM “Isaac Albéniz” in Getafe with tra, The Opera Group, Birmingham Royal Mª del Carmen Carrasco. Afterwards, he Ballet, The Orchestra of the Swan and Mu- moved to Madrid, where under the direc- sic Theatre Wales. In 2007 Naomi started tion of Joaquín Franco he achieved the teaching at Birmingham Conservatoire and higher degree at the “Royal Conservatory has been Head of Saxophone since 2008. of Music of Madrid”, earning the honours diploma. Moreover, he completed his sax- Saxophone Revolution ophone studies with Eloy Gracia and Mi- The idea behind Saxophone Revolution guel Ángel Lorente. He has participated in was to show how musical traditions and diferent masterclass with highly regarded artistry passing from teacher to students. saxophonists such as Claude Delangle, Saxophone Revolution is a collaboration of Vincent David, Jean-Yves Formeau, Arno three generations of musicians from dif- Bornkamp, Christian Wirth, Mariano García, ferent countries joined together to create Masataka Hirano, Marco Gerboni, Pedro

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Pablo Cámara, Antonio Felipe Belijar, Raaf tional actions conducted in Ile-de-France. Hekkema and the members of Emsemble After remarkable tours in Asia (Japan, Squillante. As soloist, he has played in the Taiwan) and Europe (Italy, Poland ...) Saxo Camera Hall of National Auditorium of Voce has the privilege of being directed by Music in Madrid with the String Orchestra Jean-Pierre Ballon. of Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid (RCSMM) and in the Auditorium 400 of SaxWork Quartet is a professional South Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid with the En- Bohemian saxophone quartet led by the semble of Saxophones of RCSMM. eminent Czech saxophonist Kateřina Cristina Sánchez Martínez began her Pavlíková. The ensemble was founded saxophone studies at the age of six in “La in 2013 and since then it has performed Armónica de San Antonio” windband. She regularly, both in the Czech Republic continued her studies, since 2004, at the and abroad (Germany, Austria, Italy and Professional Conservatory of Music “Maria- France). SaxWork Quartet’s repertoire con- no Pérez Sánchez” in Requena. Afterwards, stitutes of original adaptations of famous between 2010 and 2014, she moved to classical and modern compositions which Castellón to study her higher degree at the were made thanks to the arranging activity Conservatory of Music “Salvador Seguí” of Kateřina Pavlíková. The Quartet per- under the direction of the professor José forms not only in concert halls, theaters, Luis Garrido. In the last years, she has par- galleries or churches, but also in other ticipated in diferent masterclass whith the non-traditional places: they performed in professors Antonio Salas, Juan Antonio a factory, a mill, a vineyard or on a motor- Ramírez, Vicent David, Otis Murphy and way. Arno Bornkamp. In 2016, she won the irst prize at the “I International Saxophone Schröder, Henning Competition” in Tianjin (China). In adition, Saxophonist Henning Schröder has per- since 2013 she plays with “arSonora Sax- formed throughout Europe, Asia and North ophone Ensemble” and “Saxmon Saxo- America, both as a soloist and in groups phone Quartet”. as diverse as the Berlin Philharmonic Or- chestra, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester, Saxo Voce Ensemble and Opus21. As baritone saxophonist of In a desire for innovation, Thibaut Canaval the acclaimed Capitol Quartet, with his founded in 2012 an ensemble of the entire duo partner, pianist Yu-Lien The, and with family of saxophones – Saxo Voce. This the Hiding Duo, Henning explores both the passion and pioneering will are a result of standard and contemporary repertoire of an observation: the Saxophone is recog- his instrument. Beginning with his tenure nized and appreciated by the general pub- at the University of Pelita Harapan in Indo- lic but has not yet succeeded in imposing nesia, Henning has developed a research itself as the piano or the violin. This obsta- interest in ethnomusicology, particularly cle encourages the Ensemble Saxo Voce focusing on the use of the saxophone in to tackle this challenge by working with diverse music systems. His contributions haste and pleasure to the transcription, to the 2014 book “Saxophon – Ein Instru- anxious to highlight the fantastic and di- ment und sein Erinder” relect his broad verse qualities of the Saxophone, adapting interest in the history and diversiication of more than twenty pieces: Bach, Mozart, the instrument. Moreover, he has devoted Debussy, Bartók, Rachmaninov, Shostakov- himself to the development and promotion ich, Poulenc, Gershwin, Glenn Miller... Fea- of extended techniques, as they are fre- turing a variable geometry ranging from quently found in the modern repertoire of soprano saxophone to bass saxophone, the instrument, such as circular breathing the Ensemble Saxo voce has been, since or slap tonguing. Through lectures and its beginnings, mixing diferent musical presentations as well as the composition genres (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Jazz of etudes, Henning attempts to convince and Modern). Depending on the styles, both performers and audiences of the sax- the Ensemble combines the possibilities. ophone's countless colors and efects. A In an efort to make music even more ac- dedicated pedagogue and clinician, Hen- cessible, Ensemble Saxo Voce educates ning serves as Assistant Professor of Music the youngest through a program of educa- at Ohio Northern University and he is cur- biografIES

337 biographies | s-s | rently on the faculty at the Brevard Sum- Wien, Erzsébet teaches saxophone at the mer Music Institute. Henning holds degrees Bartók High School of Music and the Liszt in saxophone performance and saxophone Academy of Music in Budapest. Erzsébet pedagogy, including the terminal Konzer- and Irén have been playing together for texamen from the University of Arts Berlin more than ifteen years. They have per- as well as a Doctor of Musical Arts from formed in London, Vienna, Rome, in their the University of Illinois. He studied with birthtown Uzhgorod and all over Hungary. Debra Richtmeyer, Johannes Ernst, Trent They have also made a tour in Romania Kynaston and Chip McNeill. and performed at the XVII. World Saxo- phone Congress in Strassbourg. Their rep- Sea and Sky Collective has taken its name ertoire ranges from baroque transcriptions from a rich and evocative work by the late to contemporary premieres. They focus on Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. original saxophone repertoire and they are It references a duality, the individual and keen on commisioning new works as well ensemble characteristics of the musicians as promoting Hungarian music. are present – from the inventiveness, ly- ing solos and virtuosic lair of clarinetist Sequenza Trio François Houle and saxophonist Julia Bernard Homan was born in 1987 in Osijek Nolan; the poetic mastery, ierce power (Croatia). In 2010 he graduated saxophone and musical depth of Jane Hayes; the in- from the Music Academy in Zagreb (class fectious violin lyricism of Joan Blackman; of prof. Dragan Sremec). He was improving to the fused interpretation of classics his knowledge by visiting master classes and brave new worlds for this innovative hold by E. Rousseau, C. Delangle, A. Born- collection of instruments. In Zagreb, the kamp, V. David, J.-D. Michat etc. He has Sea and Sky Collective presents itself as won many prizes at Croatian and interna- a violin – saxophone – piano trio. Violinist tional Student Competitions. He is a Trio Joan Blackman, is the former Associate Sequenza member from 2009. Bernard is Concert Master of the VSO and Artistic also a member of the reed quintet Kalam- Director of the Vetta Chamber Series. Julia os. He teaches saxophone and gives con- Nolan has performed as soloist and cham- certs, and he works with orchestras and ber musician in Canada, the USA, Europe, diferent chamber groups in Croatia. China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong presenting Marta Šomođi Homan was born in 1988 in concerti written for her by Canadian com- Zagreb, Croatia. She has obtained a master posers. Since her debut with the Toronto degree in lute and theory of music from Symphony, Jane Hayes has performed the Academy of Music in Zagreb with prof. across Canada, the USA, Europe, Mexico, Marina Novak and Karolina Šantl- Zupan. and China. Seldom do artists of such indi- She has spent 2008 studying with Trevor vidual accomplishment combine so spec- Wye in his lute studio in Kent, and played tacularly to jointly render chamber music in masterclasses given by Aurele Nicolet, magic. They continue the quest for music Michael Martin Koler, Riccardo Ghiani, for this combination and will record in the Lorna McGhee and others. Marta has won near future. seven irst prizes in Croatian national mu- sic competitons (lute and chamber music) Seleljo, Erzsébet and Seleljo, Irén and has represented Croatia in interna- Erzsébet and Irén Seleljo were born into tional competitons in Dubrovnik, Samobor a musical family, their parents have been (Croatia), Oldenburg (Germany) and Maja- their irst teachers. Irén graduated from no (Italy). She is also playing the traverso Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, and the and completed her masters in Konserva- piccolo in the Opera Orchestra of the Cro- torium Wien in the class of prof. Benda atian National Theatre in Zagreb. She is a Erzsébet studied saxophone at the Royal member of Trio Sequenza since 2009. College of Music in London and in Conser- vatorium Wien, and completed her doctor- Shanghai Conservatory Funote ate student at the Liszt Academy of Music Saxophone Ensemble in Budapest. Irén currantly works as a pi- The Shanghai Conservatory Funote Saxo- ano accompanist at Kunstuniversität Graz phone Ensemble is directed by Sean Xue and Musik und Kunstuniversität der Stadt and is comprised of saxophone students

338 biographies | s-s | at the Shanghai Conservatory in Shanghai, work is supported by the Instituto Nacional China. Their primary teachers include Pro- de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, the fessor Xiaolu Zhang and Xin Yu. From its Etxepare Basque Institute of the Basque foundation, the Funote Ensemble strives to Government and the German Foundation bring saxophone ensemble repertoire and Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung. its performance of the highest quality to the audiences in China. They have commis- Silva, João Pedro and de Almeida, sioned and premiered a variety of works Pedro Vieira from composers throughout China, such With more than 10 years playing togeth- as Sacred Moment by Hesheng Wang, East er, João Pedro Silva & Pedro Vieira de Rhythm by Xiaolu Zhang, works by Qian Almeida have played and recorded new Chen, and many other composers. Since Portuguese music for saxophone and pi- their debut at the Shanghai International ano, dedicated to them, edited in three Saxophone Symposium, which has brought CD’s. João Pedro Silva has a master’s de- national acclaim, they perform regularly in gree in saxophone performance and music Shanghai and other cities in China. They pedagogy from the Lisbon Superior Music have recently won the Gold Prize at the School. He studied with José Massarrão, 2017 China National Band Showcase, re- Alberto Roque and Pedro Moreira. He also ceiving a unanimous high praise from all attended masterclass with Daniel Defayet, jury members and audiences. James Houlik, Jean-Marie Londeix, Claude Delangle, etc. He was laureate on several SIGMA project saxophone competitions. As a soloist, he Is it even necessary to introduce Sigma has performed with the Portuguese Sym- Project in 2018? “The vast quantity of con- phonic Band, Lisbon Sinfonietta Orches- certs they have performed, most of them tra, Portuguese Navy Band, Portuguese in Europe and Latin America, during its Republican Guard Chamber Orchestra, ten-year-old career, the amount of works Lisbon Metropolitana Wind Orchestra, commissioned during said period, and its among others. His discography contem- participation in six discographic produc- plates 11 CDs. He is a member of the Bros. tions endorse its notable role as one of the Quartet, Artemsax and L.U.M.E. - Lisbon most active Spanish groups and as ambas- Underground Music Ensemble. He is author sador of recently created music” Jose Luis of the irst Portuguese pedagogical book Besada, musicologist (IRCAM, Paris, April for the saxophone learning. He is saxo- 2017). The distinct modularity of SIGMA phone and chamber music professor at the Project covers from the homogeneity in Lisbon Metropolitana Professional Music the formation of four equal instruments School and Palmela Conservatory. to its highest instrumental diversity. This Pedro Vieira de Almeida began his piano quality is highly valued in the current com- lessons with at years. He got his master’s position trends. One leaves their concerts degree in chamber music on the Univer- convinced of having attended a genuine sidade Nova de Lisboa and Lisbon Supe- experience for the senses, where never rior Music School. Almeida is a laureate felt before sensations, the acoustic space on several piano competitions. He is the and the visual liturgy emerge, all under piano player of the Palmela International the characteristic sound that reveals itself Saxophone Festival and the Almada In- as authentic. Sigma Project’s members ternational music competition. Today, he see themselves as creative explorers that is a professor at the Escola de Música do succeed in encouraging the composers Conservatório Nacional and Academia de who approach their sound, generating new Música de Almada. grammars in a genuine sound laboratory. This is shown in the projects developed Silver Reed Duo with the winners of the Spanish Nation- The Silver Reed Duo consists of lutist al Music Prize, such as Alberto Posadas Jennifer Lau and saxophonist Eric Lau. (‘Poética del Laberinto’ cycle), José María With 15 years of performance experience, Sánchez-Verdú (Khôra cycle), José Manu- the duo is dedicated to promoting mixed el López López and Jesús Torres, among chamber music including the lute and others. This dynamic has resulted in more saxophone. The Silver Reed Duo has per- than 50 premieres so far. Sigma Project’s formed at the Puerto Rico Conservatory, biografIES

339 biographies | s-s | the Universidade Federal do Paraná in ly-qualiied musicians of the SAF Band Brazil, the National Flute Association Con- with their truly varied repertoire and high vention, the North American Saxophone quality of musical reproduction continu- Alliance National Conference and the ously create an atmosphere of perfection World Saxophone Congress. of events, high manners and the image of Flutist Jennifer Lau is currently working on proud Slovenian Armed Forces members. the faculty of the University of New Mexico The successful development of the Slove- and has performed with the New Mexico nian Armed Forces Band, which has in its Philharmonic, Santa Fe Concert Associa- 22-year history become a vital, professional tion Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, New and motivated ensemble, has been master- Mexico Winds, New Mexico Symphony, El ly formed by the conductors of its various Paso Opera, Opera Southwest, and the ensembles. As a contracted colleague, the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet. She is a band was strongly marked by the expertise winner of the National Flute Association and rich experiences of the composer and Masterclass Competition and was also the conductor Jože Privšek. In addition, the coordinator of the NFA’s Newly Published SAF Band, which gives some 230 concerts Music Competition. per year, has worked with many renowned Saxophonist Eric Lau serves as Professor conductors and top solos from Slovenia of Saxophone and Chair of the University and abroad. Special proof of its high quality of New Mexico Department of Music. Dr. are also regular invitations to concert and Lau has given concerts throughout the festivals in Europe that the band receives. United States as well as in Europe, Puerto At those events, the band performs as a Rico, and Brazil. His commitment to new respectable ambassador of Slovenian cul- music has led to the commissioning of ture.For its top-level achievements, the SAF more than a dozen new works for sax- Band was in 1997 awarded with the Bronze ophone by composers including David and in 2008 with the Gold Medal of the Slo- Maslanka, Roshanne Etezady, Gunther venian Armed Forces. At its 20th anniversa- Schuller, Michael Colgrass, and Ida Got- ry, the President of the Republic of Slovenia kovsky. As baritone saxophonist with the Borut Pahor decorated the SAF Band with nationally acclaimed Iridium Quartet, Dr. the order of Merit.The conductor, Andreja Lau has had the pleasure of working with Šolar was born in Slovenia where she lives award-winning composers Michael Col- and works. In 2006 she graduated in sym- grass and Martin Bresnick as the ensem- phonic conducting at the Academy of Mu- ble-in-residence at the John Donald Robb sic in Ljubljana with maestro Marko Letonja. Composers’ Symposium. She was also studying conducting with Jan Cober at the Brabants Conservatorium in Slovenian Armed Forces Band, Andreja Tilburg, Netherlands. In 2002 she success- Šolar, conductor fully completed her master degree studies By establishing the Slovenian Armed Forc- and made her début appearance conduct- es Band in 1996, the Republic of Slovenia ing the Slovenian Armed Forces Band, established a continued practice with a which received excellent radio reviews. In year-long tradition of military bands on the 2008 she inished Senior Musician Course Slovenian territory. Today, the Slovenian in Naval School of Music Norfolk in Virginia, Armed Forces Band is a constituent unit of USA. She collaborated as a conductor with the General Staf and meets the needs of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the the military protocol. It is an indispensable RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Slo- part of all solemn events of the Slovenian venian Philharmonic Brass Ensemble, with Armed Forces, events marking anniver- the Latvian National Armed Forces Band, saries of SAF units and solemn swear-in Czech Army Central Band, Croatian Na- ceremonies, national celebrations and tional Armed Forces Band, Symphonishes international meetings. There is no event Blasorchester Klagenfurt, Blasorchester Jo- or celebration without an ensemble of the hann – Joseph – Fux Konservatorium Graz SAF Band – may it be the big concert band in the neighbouring Austria. She collabo- or the ceremonial band, the Big Band, rates as a member of an international juries wind quintet, brass quintet etc. In addition, at the Austrian and Slovenian competitions the SAF Band also plays at numerous hu- for wind bands and writes arrangements manitarian concerts and local events. High- for wind and brass bands.

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Shemon, Zach and Sullivan, Taimur Fourmeau. The quartet and its members Taimur Sullivan is Associate Professor of took part in music competitions and festi- Saxophone at Northwestern University, vals in many countries such as the United and a member of the acclaimed PRISM States, Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Hunga- Quartet. His performances have taken ry, Slovenia, Japan, Thailand, China, Taiwan, him from the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lin- Malaysia and Singapore. coln Center, and the Knitting Factory, to engagements in Russia, China, England, SiKé Duo Germany, and throughout Latin America. The SiKé Duo was founded in 2016 by He has dedicated much of his career to Italian saxophonists Basilio Merlino and commissioning new repertoire for the sax- Francesco Paolo Barbaria, whose aim was ophone, and has given the world premieres “research and innovation from a musical of over 250 solo and chamber works. As a and artistic point of view”. As a result, the member of the PRISM Quartet for 23 years, SiKé duo has turned itself into a classical Sullivan has performed concertos with duo exploring music and saxophone from orchestras nationwide and has conduct- all perspectives. ed residencies at leading conservatories Basilio Merlino graduated at the top of his throughout the United States. class and he achieved a Master of Saxo- Zach Shemon enjoys a versatile career as phone Performance at the National Music a saxophone soloist, chamber musician, Conservatory in Palermo in July 2010. orchestral musician, and pedagogue. As Interested in the French School of Saxo- a soloist, Shemon was awarded irst prize phone, he completed his studies with Gilles at the inaugural International Saxophone Tressos and Christophe Bois at the Centre Symposium and Competition in Columbus, d’Etudes Supérieur de Musique et Danse GA and has appeared as a soloist with (CESMD) de Poitou-Charentes in 2013. In numerous bands and orchestras through- June 2016, he got a Diploma of Saxophone out the US. He teaches saxophone at the performance (DNSPM) and a Diploma of University of Missouri - Kansas City Con- saxophone teaching (DE). He has been servatory of Music and Dance and regular- improving his skills studying with Fabrizio ly performs with the Kansas City Sympho- Mancuso, Sylvain Malezieux, Jean Denis ny and with the contemporary chamber Michat, Arno Bornkamp and Jean-Yves music ensemble, newEar. He spends his Formeau. Today, he is a saxophone teach- summers on the faculties of the Interlo- er at the Conservatory Paris Vallée de la chen Arts Camp, Interlochen Saxophone Marne (France). Summer Institute, and directing the Kansas Francesco Paolo Barbaria graduated City Saxophone Workshop. Shemon holds with top marks, from the early years of degrees in performance from Indiana Uni- his studies he was able to display a high versity and the University of Michigan, and level of musicality. He studied with Fab- has studied at the Université Européenne rizio Mancuso and Geraud Etrillard. He de Saxophone and the Aspen Music Festi- has also attended masterclasses with val and School. various world-renowned saxophon- ists including Claude Delangle, Fabrice Siam Saxophone Quartet Moretti, Herrero Sixto, Antonino Mollica, The Siam Saxophone Quartet (SSQ) per- Sergey Kolesov, Vincent David, Jean-Marie forms 20th century classical music for Londeix, Christian Wirth, etc. He has fur- saxophone quartet along with other styles. thered his musical studies with emphasis Moreover, this quartet represents the new on the saxophone at the “Conservatorio generation of saxophone and will be the A. Scontrino” of Trapani, graduating with new role model for saxophonists in Thai- maximum points. He is collaborating with land. All of the members of Siam Saxo- “Teatro Massimo V. Bellini“ in Catania and phone Quartet attended master classes by the “Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica Sicil- Jean Marie-Londeix, Claude Delangle, Dr. iana” of Palermo as soloist with orchestra. Chien-Kwan Lin, Prof.Shyen Lee, Shuichi He is a saxophone teacher of a secondary Komiyama, Jean-Pierre Baraglioli, William school. Street, Keiji Munesada, Richard Dirlam, Eugene Rousseau, Roger Greenberg, Eric Nestler, Federico Mondelci and Jean-Yves biografIES

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Skyftas, Panagiotis sor of Saxophone. As a performer, Smith Panagiotis Skyftas was born in Thessalon- is equally at home in either classical or iki, Greece. He made his irst musical steps jazz-related styles and is adept at all ive at the age of seven by playing the piano. of the woodwind instruments: lute, oboe, Thirteen years later, he obtained his Piano clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone. He has Diploma with honours. During this period, over 130 CD credits and has recorded on he also fulilled successfully his studies in many ilm scores, television themes and Harmony, Counterpoint, and Fugue. Pa- jingles. Smith also does clinics and perfor- nagiotis has been playing the saxophone mances at colleges and high schools and since 2008 when he was induced into the adjudicates at jazz festivals. In the sum- tertiary education in University of Mace- mers he teaches at various jazz workshops. donia (Greece), and collaborated with the distinguished Dr. Athanasios Zervas. In Soai Saxophone Ensemble is a large sax- June 2013, he completed his studies and ophone ensemble group consisting of received the Bachelor degree. In 2012 he current students of Faculty of Music, Soai took part in the irst Hellenic and Pancy- University in Osaka Japan. It was formed prian competition and won the irst prize. by Professor Masahiro Maeda, Mi-Bémol Furthermore, in 2013 he participated in Saxophone Ensemble. Their performance the Concerto Contest that took place in at the World Saxophones Conference in the University of Macedonia, in which he Strasbourg, France and the 1st Asia Sax- was placed second and was honoured ophone Conference in Chiayi City, Taiwan by performing with the Orchestra of the were highly acclaimed. University at Thessaloniki’s Opera House in January 2014. After working as a sax- Sofer Duo ophone teacher in Music High School of The Sofer Duo, consisting of Jef Sofer Serres (2014-15), he left Greece in order and Karalyn Sofer, was formed in 2011. to attend the two-year Master Program in Jef and Karalyn are both Band Directors the University of Columbia, Missouri. He in Oregon (USA) and are active saxo- was awarded with two distinguished schol- phone performers. They have performed arships (the irst one from the Fulbright all across the United States and in Europe, Foundation, and the other one from the with most notable performances includ- Sinqueield Charitable Foundation). ing the World Saxophone Congress XVI in Scotland, NASA Biennial and Regional Smith, Raymond and Watkins, Mark Conferences, International Navy Band Dr. Mark Watkins has performed and Symposiums, New England Saxophone lectured throughout the U.S., England, Symposiums, the Crane Chamber Sax- Wales, France, The Netherlands, Switzer- ophone Festival, numerous recitals, and land, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Canada, Chile, were guest artists at Boise State Univer- Thailand, Singapore, and The Philippines, sity (Idaho). Both Jef and Karalyn are Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, had founding members of the Rose Saxophone a broad Europe tour in 2012. Watkins has Quartet in Oregon, and performed Walter over 100 compositions and 38 publica- Hartley’s Quartet Concerto accompanied tions to date with Walrus Music, Roncorp/ by the Roseburg Symphonic Band in 2016. Northeastern, and Dorn. He has released Jef was a Concerto Competition winner numerous articles in periodicals including and performed the Glazunov Concerto The Saxophone Symposium and JAZZed with the UMass Symphony Orchestra. He Magazine. Dr. Watkins received his doc- received his MM in Saxophone Perfor- torate in ive woodwind instruments from mance and BM in Music Education and Indiana University and presently serves as Saxophone Performance, both from the Director of Jazz Studies at Brigham Young University of Massachusetts Amherst University–Idaho. studying with Lynn Klock. Karalyn was a Dr. C. Raymond Smith is one of those baritone saxophone soloist at the 2014 relatively rare individuals who is an excel- North American Saxophone Alliance lent performer and an excellent teacher Conference. She received her MM in Saxo- at the same time. Currently, he teaches at phone Performance from the University of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah Massachusetts Amherst, and a BM in Music as the Director of Jazz Studies and Profes- Education from the Crane School of Music

342 biographies | S-S | at SUNY Potsdam. Her teachers include the professional team: Jovana Joka as the Timothy McAllister, Christopher Creviston leader of the SOS Junior orchestra, Weron- and Lynn Klock. ika Partyka, Joanna Blejwas, Rok Volk, Irena Šmid and Aleš Logar. Organizational SONSAX and other technical duties fall to Sekvoja For more than 20 years, SONSAX has pur- president Gregor Zupančič and a team of sued a particular creative vision. Through parents. Along the JAZZ section, another the years, SONSAX has maximized all the fruit of our carefully planned labour with diferent qualities and possibilities of the young musicians is the Saxplode ensem- saxophone and percussion, instruments ble, an octet of our most experienced that due to its versatility allow performing orchestra members which has already set all diferent styles and rhythms that exist out on an independent musical journey. in the diferent musical languages around The orchestra performs classical, jazz, and the world. The Montreal International Jazz pop scores, and is often accompanied by Festival describes: “Costa Rican band renowned soloists and conductors, such as SONSAX is a “world saxophone quartet” Alain Crepin, Philippe Geiss, Oto Vrhovnik, in every sense of the word. The sax part is Jan Gričar and others. Notable perfor- the four principal members of the family mances: “SOS Junior 200” Tour, Belgrade (baritone, tenor, alto, soprano plus percus- Saxperience Festival, Sax Herbst Festival, sion), and the son can be from anywhere: International Saxophone Meeting Nova sometimes cool, sometimes frenzied, Gorica, 2nd AS International Music Festival sometimes laid-back lounge, sometimes in Bled, Saxophobia Festival in Bratislava, pure funk and always with enough Latin 3rd AS International Music Festival in Bled. lavor to move you to dance or dream.” SONSAX has become one the most inlu- SOS saxophone orchestra ential saxophone ensembles from Latin The SOS saxophone orchestra was found- America, performing hundreds of concerts ed on the initiative of Roberto Buttus, re- in countries such as Russia, Japan, Canada, nowned producer and musical instrument United States, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, repairer. The members are renowned sax- France, Germany, United Kingdom, Méx- ophonists from Slovenia, Croatia, Poland ico, and Central America, among others. and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 2011, SONSAX has released 4 recordings and a at the initiative of Buttus and Lev Pupis, DVD of exceptional breadth and creativi- the orchestra began to perform. They ty making many appearances in diferent are most revered and successful educa- radio and TV shows in Latin America and tors, soloists, musical arrangers, jazz and has presented clinics and Master classes in chamber musicians and composers. The many universities around the world. SOS saxophone orchestra’s mission is pre- senting to the audience with the supreme SOS Junior Saxophone Orchestra music, whether it is a transcription of the The SOS Junior Saxophone Orchestra is a masterpieces of classical music, originals youth saxophone orchestra which consists or new works, standard jazz music or the of approximately 45 young saxophonists sound of big-bands. One of the main pe- coming from 15 Slovene music schools. Its culiarities of the orchestra is the fact that primary goal is educating young players it performs without a conductor. This is an in orchestral performance and providing added advantage, despite a large number a creative environment which additionally of its members, since the orchestra can motivates young musicians to engage in perfectly apply the idea of chamber music. creating and performing music. Alongside One special feature of the SOS orchestra is our pedagogic and socializing goals, we certainly that, from the very beginning, it at the Sekvoja Cultural Association wish to has been educating its own personell and enable the young to gain as much artistic youth. The SOS Junior orchestra contains experience as possible, which is why we 35 members and is mentored by members often perform with the SOS Junior or- of the SOS themselves. The SOS orchestra chestra. The artistic leader of the Sekvoja fosters close associations with many ac- Cultural Association is Lev Pupis, soloist claimed soloists and so far it has had many and saxophone professor at the Music guest appearances, including Jean–Yves and Ballet Conservatoire of Ljubljana with Fourmeau, Tymur Melnyk, Marco Pierobon, biografIES

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Ljubiša Jovanović, Jože Kotar, Ognjen ry Club Porto Award - Foz/ Veloso&Troca, Popović, Oto Vrhovnik, Matej Grahek and Lda” (prize for the best student of ESMAE others. 2010/2011). Later, in 2016, he completed his Master’s Degree in Music Teaching at the Sound Afair Duo University of Aveiro, with the dissertation Jenni Watson is a freelance Saxophonist, “Expanded Techniques as a Resource and Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist. She as a Technical Development of the Reper- balances composition commissions in the toire for Tenor Saxophone”. He attended contemporary classical genre with her own several courses – with Claude Delangle, instrumental/electronica recording proj- Arno Bornkamp, James Houlik, Antonio ects. Studying BMus and MMus with Rob Belijar, Mario Marzi – and played with con- Buckland and Andy Scott at the RNCM ductors such as Heinz Holligger, Jan Cober, (UK), she achieved the highest recital Douglas Bostock. Jorge collaborated with mark in the Woodwind department’s his- the Oporto Symphonic Orchestra, the Por- tory. Her inal Masters recital was entirely tuguese Saxophone Orchestra, the FLUX self-composed - a irst for the RNCM. She Ensemble and with Portuguese Symphonic has recorded several CDs of original mu- Band, playing all over the world. Peda- sic, breaking genre conventions to create gogically speaking, Jorge is developing a unique and engaging soundworld. She his class at Academia de Música de Costa performs with varied groups including Cabral in Oportoandat Escola Proission- Kaleidoscope Quartet, BBC Philharmonic al de Música de Espinho. At the same Orchestra and the Tenor Saxophone Col- time, he is a member of the Portuguese lective. Her compositions receive interna- Symphonic Band and ARMAB, orchestras tional performances and she also founded with which he performs regularly. Lately, BASS (the British Annual Saxophone Sym- Jorge’s work is focused on contemporary posium). music, namely Jacob TV’s pieces for Tenor Martin Jacoby is known as a highly suc- Saxophone. cessful artist and composer in his own right. Notable performances include solo Space, Angela recitals at Steinway Hall London and the Dr. Angela Space is a saxophonist, com- Nottingham Theatre Royal, an appearance poser and songwriter. She currently teach- in the ‘Relections on Debussy’ festival at es at the University of Southampton (UK). the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and She has had a wide variety of performance concertos with UK-wide orchestras. Hav- experience with ensembles such as the ing a particular passion for the French New World Symphony, the Florida Phil- repertoire, Martin devised his own show harmonic, the South Bend Symphony, the ‘Debussy and Ravel: Earth and Water’, Temptations, Ensemble X, the All American with which he made his London debut to College Band at Disneyland and her own a critically acclaimed 6-show run. Due to three-piece punk band Rainbow Reservoir. popular demand this was re-run. He was Her music has been played on BBC ratio also Musical Director for a 21-show theatre 3 and 6, her band has performed on Indi- run for 2012’s Edinburgh Festival. Martin etracks and Wilderness Festivals and she studied at the RNCM (UK), gaining BMus has an LP coming out in January on Odd- and MMUs degrees with support of a full box Records. Dr. Space graduated from scholarship. Martin records a wealth of the University of Massachusetts Amherst solo piano works for Spotify and currently with a dual degree in music education and has over 400,000 monthly listeners. saxophone performance studying with saxophonist Lynn Klock and composer Sousa, Jorge and Chen, I-An Sal Macchia. She earned a Master of Music Jorge Sousa (1990) joined the Aveiro’s from Ithaca College where she was teach- Conservatory CalousteGulbenkian in 2004 ing assistant to Steven Mauk, and a Doctor where he would inish the Basic course, of Musical Arts from the University of Mi- studying with João Figueiredo. In 2011, he ami studying with Gary Keller and serving graduated in Saxophone Performance at as an adjunct saxophone faculty. She has ESMAE – Oporto’s Superior Music School performed on multiple saxophone con- – under the guidance of Fernando Ramos gresses and conferences as both a soloist and Henk van Twillert, receiving the “Rota- and member of the Pioneer Saxophone

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Quartet and was formerly a inalist at the Stambler, David North American Saxophone Alliance Clas- Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, sical Competition. She has served on the saxophonist Dr. David Stambler has es- faculties of Florida International University, tablished himself as a dynamic and active Indiana University South Bend, and the performer throughout the United States, State University of New York at Oswego performing both jazz and classical music. where she directed the concert band. In His concert activities include recitals and 2009 she moved from Oswego to Oxford appearances as a symphonic soloist, as well where she still lives. Currently she is writ- as “on-call” engagements as saxophonist ing songs and composing music for elec- with many orchestras including the Annap- tric guitar and saxophone and performing olis Symphony, the Bay Atlantic Symphony, with Rainbow Reservoir. the Richmond Symphony, the National Gallery Orchestra, the Baltimore Sympho- Spanish-American Quartet ny, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and The Spanish-American Quartet includes others. He has performed extensively inter- two Spanish saxophonists and two saxo- nationally and has appeared with dozens phonists from the United States. Nacho of orchestras across the United States as Gascon, professor of saxophone at Escola saxophonist and manager of the renowned Superior de Música de Catalunya, Alfonso saxophone ensemble, the Capitol Quartet. Padilla, International Relations Manager A veteran of thousands of professional at the Conservatorio Superior de Música performances, he has performed at concert Manuel Castillo of Seville, Cliford Leaman, halls and jazz festivals throughout the U.S. Distinguished Professor of Saxophone at Stambler has recorded with Capitol Quar- the University of South Carolina, and Tim- tet, Baltimore Symphony, the Baltimore othy Roberts, Professor of Saxophone at Chamber Orchestra, numerous pop artists, Shenandoah Conservatory are members of and has played clarinet and saxophone on this ensemble. dozens of nationally broadcast radio and television commercials, soundtracks and Speranzo, Joey video games. Dr. Stambler studied clarinet Joey Speranzo is currently a student at at the Oberlin Conservatory and then re- the Frost School of Music at the University ceived his Bachelor of Music degree in sax- of Miami earning his Masters of Music in ophone from The University of Michigan, Saxophone Performance while studying where he was a student of Donald Sinta. with Dale Underwood. Previously, he com- He is currently Professor of Saxophone at pleted his Bachelors of Music in Music Ed- Penn State University. ucation with a Performance Certiicate at Shenandoah Conservatory while studying Steiner, Hans-Peter and Katholnig, Rudi with Dr. Timothy Roberts. As a student, Rudi Katholnig and Hans-Peter Steiner are Joey has had the opportunity to work with two Austrian musicians, composers and esteemed saxophonists, such as Claude teachers. Living in the south of Austria, Delangle, Lars Mlekusch, Cliford Leaman, next to the Slovenian and Italian border, and the Ellipsos Quartet, and renowned their music relects this outstanding mul- composers such as David Lang, John Cor- ticultural scenery. Tango Nuevo, New Mu- ligiano, David Maslanka, Eric Whitacre, sette, Jazz and Classical music are brought Kevin Puts, and Carter Pann under the together in a style related to Richard Gal- direction of Dr. Damon Talley, Dr. Timothy liano and Michael Portal. The debut album Robblee, and Dr. Robert Carnochan. Joey “First Inspiration” uniquely echoes the is a current member of the Frost Wind musician’s passion for euphony. Ensemble, Saxophone Ensemble, and Saxophone Quartet. While at Shenandoah Stepanova, Anna and Seleljo, Irén Conservatory, Joey was a inalist in the Anna Stepanova is one of the leading sax- regional round of Music Teachers National ophonists of Ukraine. She graduated from Association Chamber Music Competition Russian Academy of Music named after and the runner-up in the state round of the Gnesin (class of People’s Artist of Russian Young Artist Competition. Federation Margarita Shaposhnikova). She is a founder and president of the Interna- tional Golden Saxophone competition, a biografIES

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Selmer Paris and BG France Artist and a Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine and the USA. winner of numerous international com- He tours with pianists Roger Admiral, Ian petitions. Stepanova is a teacher at the Chen and Viktoria Reishwich-Dapp and South Ukrainian National Pedagogical the Quatuor International de Saxophones, University named after Ushinskiy, soloist of emphasizing the importance of both solo the Odessa Municipal brass theatre named and chamber music making. From 2009 to People’s Artist of Ukraine A. Salik and a 2013 he served as Associate Dean of the soloist of the Odessa Philharmonic Society. Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta She gives recitals and masterclasses both and from 2013 to 2015 he was Associate in Ukraine and abroad (Russia, Belarus, Dean of Humanities and the Arts at San Moldova, China). Stepanova’s repertoire Jose State University. In 2015 he was ap- includes music of various styles, from Ba- pointed Professor and Chair of the Depart- roque music to music of the 21st century, ment of Music at the University of Alberta. dedicated to her by Ukrainian and Italian Viktoria Reiswich-Dappis an award-win- composers. ning pianist with love for art song and the delicate musical intimacy of performing Street, William and Balcetis, Allison in small chamber music ensembles. Her Dr. William Street is the Chair of the De- artistic inesse across a wide range of partment of Music at the University of genres and styles has earned her rec- Alberta. He has performed throughout ognition around the world, and she has Europe, Asia, and North America, and performed as soloist, with orchestras, and has lead such eforts as the Jean-Marie in various chamber music formations in Londeix International Saxophone Compe- Canada, Austria, Germany, Israel, Italy, tition in Thailand and the North American Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Saxophone Alliance. He performs regularly Turkey and Uzbekistan. Viktoria has lived as a soloist, with his quartet the Quatuor on three continents and studied piano in International de Saxophones, and with the Russian, German, and North American pianist Roger Admiral. His published work traditions. She studied at the University includes the English translation of Hello! of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Uni- Mr. Sax, ou les Paramètres du Saxophone versity of Music Frankfurt/Main, and the (Leduc) by Jean-Marie Londeix, Elise Boy- University of Alberta from where she holds er Hall, and The Life of Elise Boyer Hall in a Doctor of Music degree. Besides winning Les États Géneraux Mondiaux du Saxo- numerous national and international prizes phone. and scholarships from an early age, she is As an avid contemporary saxophonist, the irst and only performer who has won Dr. Allison Balcetis has given the world the highest Canadian graduate scholarship, premieres of over 70 new works solo saxo- the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate phone or chamber ensemble. Her chamber Scholarship. She has recorded several CDs groups include being a former member of and has extensive teaching and coaching Anubis Quartet, the Edmonton Saxophone experience. Quartet, damn magpies (a free improvi- sation sextet), and UltraViolet (quartet Sugawa, Nobuya, Koyanagi, Minako and of piano, cello, lute, and saxophone). A Yamaguchi, Takako champion of others’ art, she serves as Nobuya Sugawa studied saxophone at President of New Music Edmonton and Tokyo University of Arts with the late Yui- is the co-curator of the interdisciplinary chi Omuro. He has won the highest prizes SubArctic Improv concert series. She is a in the Wind Instrument Category in the full-time faculty member at the University 51st Music Competition of Japan and for of Alberta, teaching saxophone, chamber the Saxophone category in the 1st Japan music, aural skills, and woodwind tech- Wind and Percussion Competition. He has niques. received the Idemitsu Music Award and the Muramatsu Award. He has made about Street, William and Reiswich-Dappis, 30 CD albums on diferent Japanese and Viktoria overseas labels. He has performed with William Street has performed and lectured almost all orchestras of Japan including in Belgium, Canada, Federation of Russia, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo. He has France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Spain, performed with BBC Philharmonic, Würt-

346 biographies | S-S | tembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, also performed recitals and presented Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Eastman masterclasses at events such as Dean Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra d’Harmonie Sorenson’s Jazz Festival, hosted at the de la Garde Républicaine. Since his debut, University of Minnesota. She has been the composers have written new pieces for recipient of numerous scholarships, grants, him. He has assumed a role of the concert and awards including prizes from Schubert master of Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra for Club, Music Teachers National Association almost 22 years from 1989 through 2010. (MTNA), Minnesota Music Teachers Asso- He performs as a member of Trouvère ciation (MMTA), Downbeat Magazine and Quartet (Saxophone Quartet). He also Vandoren. Wheeler is currently pursuing a serves as the resident conductor of Ya- Master of Music degree at the University of maha Symphonic Band, music adviser of Minnesota where she is a recipient of the Shizuoka City Shimizu Cultural Hall, music prestigious Berneking Fellowship. She re- director of Marinart Winds, and is a visiting ceived the Bachelor of Music degree from professor of Tokyo University of the Arts the University of Minnesota in Music Edu- and Kyoto City University of Arts. cation. Her primary teachers are Preston Minako Koyanagi’s career as a pianist de- Duncan and Eugene Rousseau. serves high praise for her chamber music Kyriaki Gkoudina is a PhD student in Com- performances. As the wife of saxophonist position at the University of Minnesota. Nobuya Sugawa, she has been performing Gkoudina earned her bachelor’s degree in with him for more than 30 years. She has Film Studies at Aristotle University in Thes- played the piano parts of almost all duo saloniki (Greece) in 2015. While she has a pieces written by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Aki- specialization in Film Music, she has also ra Nishimura, Jun Nagao, and many others. intensely studied harmony and 16th centu- She has worked in countries such as USA, ry counterpoint at a private conservatory. Canada, UK, Italy, France, Netherland, In addition to her work as a composer, Spain, Austria, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, she is also an active researcher. Gkoudina South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, has co-authored the book “Basic Music Russia, Mexico, Malaysia, and Thailand. Technology” with Dr. Guerrino Mazzola, Koyanagi’s greatest charm is her sensibil- composition professor at the University ity of capturing the subtleties of emotion of Minnesota and published a research and her lexibility to play along with those article entitled “The Origin of the Universe: emotions of various players. A case study” regarding music and astro- Takako Yamaguchi, percussionist, is active physics in the “Collective Papers of Acade- as a soloist with orchestra such as the NHK my of Arts” journal in Serbia. Furthermore, Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Sym- Gkoudina’s work does not only include her phony Orchestra, and as a joint soloist with research and compositions for plays, ilms, various orchestras in Japan and abroad. documentaries, chamber groups, solo She has appeared on NHK-FM radio pro- instruments and voice, but she is also a grams and has participated in recordings sound designer for interactive performanc- in her broad music ield. She belonged to es and ilms. Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra from 2005 to 2016. She is currently a lecturer at Tokyo Symphonic Wind Orchestra of Croatian Gakugei University and Showa University Armed Forces, Alain Crepin, conductor of Music. She is a from the Department of The Croatian Armed Forces Band is a Music at the Tokyo National University of representative orchestra of the Republic Fine Arts and Music. of Croatia, founded in 1991. Besides per- forming the protocol tasks, the orchestra Suspirium Duo has performed various concerts within Kendra Marie Wheeler is a soloist, cham- the framework of the Concert Season in ber musician, improviser and music educa- the Concert Hall "Vatroslav Lisinski" in tor that frequently works and collaborates Zagreb. The main part of the repertoire is with artists in a wide range of settings and made up of original compositions for wind styles from classical to jazz to funk and be- instruments, and special notice is given yond. She has performed at major venues to the irst performances of the Croatian all over the Midwest, including The Ordway composers as well as the Croatian irst and Roy Wilkins Auditorium. Wheeler has performances of the pieces which are part biografIES

347 biographies | S-S | of world's heritage. The orchestra is com- Szaller, István and Seleljo, Irén posed of the young academic musicians, István Szaller started playing the saxo- and besides the Concert Band, there are phone in 2003. He performed with nu- also various Chamber Ensembles, Brass merous groups and ensembles in several Band, Big Band, and Marching Band. The countries of Europe. He also played as a orchestra has been led by many respected soloist with the Győr Symphonic Band and conductors, where as many eminent Cro- the Budapester Vonósok-Streichorchester. atian and foreign soloists have performed István played in project of the kons.sax. with the orchestra. The cooperation with wien ensemble and the Stockhausen Ver- other Croatian musical ensembles is lag, which was followed by a CD. Szaller customary. Besides the concerts during performed in Vienna in Musikverein, Kon- the concert season, the orchestra has zerthaus, Muth, Stephansdom, Karlskirche, performed at various Croatian summer and in Budapest in Liszt Akademy, Palace festivals (Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Osor, of Arts, Magyar Rádió. Krk, Hvar), at Varaždin BaroqueEvenings Irèn Seleljo is a requested chamber musi- and Music bienalle Zagreb. Worth men- cian and plays regularly concerts with var- tioning are also the guest performances ious instrumentalists. Her repertoire covers in Lourdes, Budapest, and at the Moscow several classical music styles, however in autumn festival. Besides many recordings the past years she developed a special for the Croatian Broadcast, the orchestra attention to the contemporary music. Be- has recorded several CD-s containing Cro- sides the concerts with her chamber music atian music. groups Duonarchie and Seleljo Duo, she Alain Crepin is professor of saxophone performed as soloist and chamber music at the Brussels ‘Conservatoire Royal de partner in prestigious festivals and recitals Musique’ and professor of orchestration in Hungary, Austria, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and conducting at the Conservatory of Rumania and Chile. Since 2013 she is work- Music of Esch-sur-Alzette (Grand Duchy ing as piano accompanist at the Kunstuni- of Luxemburg). Since 1983 he is a military versität Graz and at the Musik und Kunst bandmaster with the rank of an oicer Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien. and for 21 years he was musical director of the Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Air Force. King Albert II promoted Alain Šarović, Aleksandar Crepin to the rank of major on Decem- Dr. Aleksandar Šarović was born in 1972 ber 26th 2004 and on until August 31th in Belgrade. He graduated clarinet in 1996 2008 he was appointed artistic director from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (the of all the bands of the Belgian Army. As a class of professor Milenko Stefanović). He soloist or conductor he has recorded some graduated saxophone studies from the 60 compact discs and performed all over Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2013 in the world. He accompanied the greatest the class of Gordan Tudor, with whom he saxophone players at the European Sax- completed his master studies in 2014. In ophone Days at Dinant in 1990 and at the October 2017, he received a PhD with an World Saxophone Congresses in Minneap- excellent mark on the topic “Semiotics of olis (Minnesota 2003) and Ljubljana (Slo- electronic dance music as a phenomenon venia 2006). As a virtuosos saxophonist he of monoculture” at the Faculty of Culture was also Vice President of the (Association and Media in Belgrade. He works as a pro- Internationale pour l’Essor du Saxophone) fessor of saxophone in music school “Mar- and he is currently a board member of the ko Tajčević” in Lazarevac. During the years “A.SAX” (Association pour le Saxophone). of education, Šarović received several Since 1994, Alain Crepin is also an active awards at various competitions and festi- member of the “AIAS” (Association In- vals. He plays, as a soloist and a member ternationale Adolphe Sax / International of diferent groups at numerous concerts Adolphe Sax Association) at Dinant. He throughout his home country as well as was secretary of the jury of the Interna- abroad. Šarović also performs music on tional Saxophone Contests at Dinant in saxophone in numerous city clubs, and he 1994, 1998 and 2002, and since 2005 he is is a resident artist of the “White Night Sen- president of this jury. sation” festival, organized by famous DJs from Amsterdam in Vodice (Croatia). He

348 biographies | S-T | participated in the 17th World Saxophone Conference on the Arts & Humanities in Congress in Strasbourg in 2015 as a lec- Waikiki Beach. Her debut compact disc turer with the topic Gypsy music on saxo- recording “The LYNX Duo: Music for Saxo- phone in the Balkans. He publishes works phone & Percussion” was released through devoted to music in scientiic journals. Mark Custom Recordings. Dr. Taylor earned both a Master of Music degree in Wood- Širec, Simon winds Performance and a Doctor of Musi- Simon Širec was born in 1987 in Novo cal Arts degree in Saxophone Performance mesto, Slovenia. He studied saxophone from the University of Georgia. at the Conservatory of music and ballet in Ljubljana in the class of professor De- Team Bando is a chamber group that jan Prešiček. Further studies led him to consists of three saxophonists, all of who Vienna where he enroled in the studio of are family members, and one pianist, Rie professor Lars Mlekusch. After inishing his Yokota, who has played with Team Bando Bachelor degree Širec went to study with many times. professor Gerald Preinfalk at the University Kuninobu Bando graduated from the of Music in Graz, where he concluded his Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. He is saxophone education with masters degree highly sought after as a concerto soloist, in 2014. Parallel to saxophone studies Širec chamber musician, teacher, and most re- also studied musicology at the University cently as a conductor. He performs regu- of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. For his master larly with the Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo thesis he was exploring the history of sax- Metropolitan Symphony, Tokyo Symphony ophone music in Slovenia. After graduating Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Gun- in the ield of musicology he published an ma Symphony and Sapporo Symphony extended version of the research in the Orchestras. book “Development of the Slovenian Saxo- Junko Saito-Bando graduated from the phone Repertoire”. He actively performs as Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and a soloist, chamber or orchestra musician. Shobi College of Music Diploma Course. His great passion is the research of elec- Her past performances range from cham- tronic artistic music combined with saxo- ber music to contemporary and studio phones, EWI and loop station, while using work and her orchestral performance ex- advanced playing techniques such as slap perience includes the Sendai Philharmonic tongue, beatbox, multiphonics and usage Orchestra, Mari Chamber Orchestra, Tivoli of voice while playing the saxophone. His Wind Ensemble and Saxopen in Stras- innovative approach has been highly ap- bourg. preciated in the academic ield as well as Naoto Bando is currently a primary school by a wider audience. student, who started playing saxophone at the age of four. Naoto was awarded First t Prize at the 13th Kurashiki International Saxophone Competition Section of Prima- Taylor, Caroline ry School Students. Caroline Taylor is a Professor of Music Rie Yokota graduated from Kunitachi at Ouachita Baptist University. Active as College of Music where she studied un- both a performer and clinician, Dr. Tay- derneath the tutelage of Izumi Komoriya, lor has premiered works for saxophone Tunemi Naraba and Syoko Kuma. Rie throughout the United States and Europe. leased the album Fra Holbergs Tid with As a founding member of the Arkansas Trio Akkort in 2011, on which she played Saxophone Quartet, she has performed the saxophone, euphonium and piano. extensively all styles of chamber music ranging from transcriptions to avant-gar- Teleion Sax Ensemble de contemporary music. Dr. Taylor has The Teleion Sax Ensemble is a group of enjoyed frequent invitations to perform at young musicians established in 2015 by the the World Saxophone Congress, numerous saxophonist and teacher Daniele Panzitta. conferences of the North American Sax- The ensemble consists of 6 saxophonist ophone Alliance, the Navy Band Interna- and 2 percussionist whose sound is very tional Saxophone Symposium, the College colourful and whose performance is always Music Society, and the Hawaii International full of humor. They usually play jazz and biografIES

349 biographies | T-T | funky music, but sometimes they also per- Texas A&M University-Commerce Faculty form classic tunes and transcription. Woodwind Trio Chris Beaty is Associate Professor of Saxo- Tenor Saxophone Collective phone at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Comprised of twelve established saxo- teaching applied saxophone lessons, phonists from across the world the Tenor coaching quartets and conducting the Saxophone Collective is delighted to re- saxophone choir. Additionally, he directs turn after their acclaimed debut at SaxO- Jazz Ensemble I and teaches courses in pen (2015) and recent success at EurSax17 jazz improvisation, pedagogy and history. (Porto). Past and current members include; He holds degrees from the University of Arno Bornkamp [Netherlands], Joåo Pe- Memphis (DMA-saxophone performance), dro Silva [Portugal], Jenni Watson [UK], University of Cincinnati College-Conser- Isabel Anjo [Portugal], Nathan Henshaw vatory of Music (MM-saxophone perfor- [Australia], Andy Scott [UK], Rodrigo Villa mance) and Austin Peay State University [Spain], Rob Buckland [UK], Henrique Por- (BS-music education). His principal teach- tovedo [Portugal], Erin Royer [Australia], ers include Allen Rippe, Rick Van Matre, Gilly Blair [UK], Luis Riberio [Portugal], and Stephen Clark. Some career highlights Matt London [UK], Niels Bijl [Netherlands], include being selected as a 2011 Fulbright Christoph Enzel [Germany], Erik-Jan de Teaching Scholar to Latvia and the release With [Netherlands] and Peter Leung of his irst solo jazz CD (Sax in Santa Fe) [Australia], Alfonso Padilla [Spain], Kyle in 2009 hailed by the Santa Fe Jazz Ex- Hutchins [USA], Pilar Montejano [Spain] aminer. and Nicki Roman [USA]. Presenting new Flutist Julee Kim Walker remains an active and original works exclusively for the performer and pedagogue in the Dallas-Ft. tenor saxophone the group plunder and Worth metroplex. She is Assistant Profes- explore the great depths and versatility of sor of Flute at Texas A&M University-Com- the instrument in this unique and exciting merce. Prior to her appointment, she held setting. The group exists as a showcase teaching positions at Southeastern Okla- for the tenor saxophone, and is proudly homa State University, Grayson College, supported by The Tenor Saxophone Index Eastield College, and the University of a dedicated online repertoire database for North Texas. Dr. Walker received her Bach- original tenor saxophone works launched elor of Music degree from the University at WSC 2012 St Andrews. of Texas at Austin and her Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Tepper, Tina Music. She received the Doctorate of Mu- Born in 1998, Tina Tepper started her sical Arts degree from the University of musical career with piano lessons at the North Texas. Dr. Walker has served on the music school “Gebrüder Graun” in Finster- Board of Directors in the Texas Flute Soci- walde at the age of 5. Since 2007 she has ety and the Oklahoma Flute Society, and is been receiving saxophone lessons. Finally, the Director of the annual Texas Summer she has set her focus on that instrument Flute Symposium. when she attended school in Dresden – at Dr. Mary Alice Druhan is serving as Pro- the special school for music “Carl Maria fessor of Clarinet at Texas A&M University von Weber”. Subsequently, she started – Commerce after holding previous teach- studying Music and English at the Univer- ing positions at James Madison University sity of the Arts Berlin and the Humboldt (VA) and Louisiana State University. She University Berlin. Since then she is part of became an oicial member of the Dallas the saxophone class of Johannes Ernst. Wind Symphony in 2003 and has since Tina Tepper was an annual awardee of the also performed with the Dallas Festival national competition „Jugend Musiziert“ of Modern Music, Triforia Winds, Shreve- and won various prizes at the competition port Symphony, Shreveport Opera, East „EnviaM – Musik für Kommunen“. Master Texas Symphony, etc. Mary served as solo classes by among others Jean-Yves Four- Eb clarinetist with the U.S. Army Band, meau, Philippe Geiss or Timothy McAllister “Pershing’s Own” and formerly as Eb clari- contributed to her musical development netist with the Baton Rouge and Acadiana such as the participation in various orches- symphonies, both in Louisiana. tras and chamber music formations.

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Three Reeds Duo The members are all highly motivated pro- With co-founders Leah and Paul Forsyth, fessional saxophonists, active in the Tokyo the Three Reeds Duo is a unique ensem- area, who play on saxophones made in the ble consisting of solely an oboe and sax- 19th century, including the 1861 Adolphe ophone. This duo, formed in 2005, has Sax original. begun building a repertoire ranging from baroque and classical transcriptions to Trans-Tasman Saxophone Orchestra contemporary concert literature. Three The Trans-Tasman Saxophone Orchestra Reeds has performed in a variety of ven- draws together leading saxophonists from ues throughout the United States and the across Australia and New Zealand. It has U.K., ranging from NASA Conferences and been formed to perform superimpOsi- World Saxophone Congresses to tradi- tion2, Martin Kay’s work for improvisers tional wedding ceremonies. In 2015 Three and animated score. The members are Reeds was the winner of the Alford Profes- curated by Martin Kay, an eclectic Aus- sorship at Northwestern State University, tralian saxophonist and composer. Martin where they are both professors on their Kay is studying for a Doctorate of Musical respective instruments. This professorship Arts through the Sydney Conservatorium allowed them to record their debut CD, of Music. His research explores the pos- signals cross. Released in the summer of sibility of an improvisational approach to 2016, this is the irst CD ever recorded of Spectralism. Each member of the octet is oboe/saxophone duos. The Three Reeds an original and accomplished musician: Duo has commissioned works for oboe/ Dr. Diana Tolmie is a soloist and full-time saxophone duo from such composers as lecturer at the Queensland Conservato- Kyle Blaha, Marcus Maroney, Peter Lieuw- rium of Music. Nathan Henshaw is tenor en, and Gregory Wanamaker. saxophonist for Nexas saxophone quartet. Michael Jamieson is a saxophonist for Tiebout, Nele and Van Benden, Bart the Royal New Zealand Navy Band and Bart Van Beneden and Nele Tiebout met head of woodwind at Auckland Univer- each other at the Royal Conservatory sity. Mark Hobson is a saxophonist with in Brussels in 2009. There was a good the Royal New Zealand Navy Band. The connection between them and soon they group is robust and may include surprise started playing together. With their duo, guests. Samantha Mason is a graduate founded out of love for music and for each of the Queensland Conservatorium with other, they want to make the audience a Bachelor of Music in performance, Sa- experience the beauty of the saxophone mantha’s focus lies in the commission and and duo-playing. performance of contemporary saxophone repertoire. Joseph Lallo is an associate Tokyo Rock’n’ Sax is an famous rock band saxophone teacher at the Melbourne Con- in Japan. It consists of a saxophone octet servatorium of Music at the University of and a drummer. Mostly they play the rock Melbourne, where he also completing his music of the 1970-ies and 1980-ies. All PhD. He performs internationally as a so- members have professional, award-win- loist and chamber musician. Mary Osborn ning backgrounds. Tokyo Rock’n’ Sax are: is a classical saxophonist based in Sydney, Yo Matsushita, Hideki Azuma, Tomoyuki and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium Yamashita, Keito Maruba, Tenta Chino, of Music with Christina Leonard on a full Ryuma Kawachi, Jun Shiozuka, Tomoki scholarship. Andrew Ball is a composer Kaneko, saxophones, and Nobuharu Yama- and saxophonist based in Brisbane, Austra- da, drums. lia. With a bold and unique compositional voice described as highly kinetic, visceral, Traction Avant Period Saxophone Consort rhythmically intricate, and harmonically is led by Shinichi Miyazaki, saxophone his- colourful, Andrew draws inspiration from torian and specialist of Period Saxophone. an eclectic variety of jazz and improvised This ensemble originated from Traction music, contemporary classical, avant-gar- Avant (“Front wheel drive” or “traction de, and electronic musics. Saxophonist, a vent” = air pressure) and was formed arranger and educator Jay Byrnes, is one in 1999. They have had many concerts, of the most pre-eminent faces in the Aus- including a lot of premiere performances. tralian music scene. Specialising in the biografIES

351 biographies | T-T | performance of both transcriptions and records, Arizona University Recordings new works for saxophone Jay has become and MSR Classics. As an advocate for new renowned for his interpretations of music music, Tse has had over thirty works ded- from Bach to Piazzolla and beyond. Jay is icated to him by notable American com- acclaimed for his dynamic stage presence posers as well as international composers. and rigorous attention to stylistic perfor- His articles have been featured in the Sax- mance. Nick Russoniello is one of Austra- ophone Journal, The Instrumentalist, Fan- lia’s most dynamic young artists, enjoys fare Magazine, Saxophone Symposium and an exciting and varied performance career others. Tse has founded the Hong Kong both in Australia and abroad. Dr. Emma International Saxophone Symposium. He Di Marco is an Australian contemporary is currently Professor of Saxophone at the musician, educator, artistic director, pho- University of Iowa, Past-President of the tographer, and blogger. She holds a PhD North American Saxophone Alliance, and in Musicology and a Bachelor of Music in serving his third term in the International Advanced Performance with 1st Class Hon- Saxophone Committee as President. ours. Ashleigh Porter is a graduate from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Tsujimoto, Sumika Griith University. She received a Bachelor Born in Nara (Japan), Sumika Tsujimoto of Music majoring in Saxophone, Instru- began her saxophone studies at the age mental Music Pedagogy and Conducting. of 12. She studied at the Takamado music In 2012 Ashleigh completed her Graduate high school with Suwako Iwata and at the Diploma of Education at the Queensland SOAI university with Masahiro Maeda. She University of Technology. Michael Duke has won numerous awards including the completed his Bachelor of Music degree 3rd prize in the solo division and the en- with honors at Victorian College of the semble division at the OSAKA Internation- Arts under the instruction of saxophonist al Music Competition, 1st prize in the saxo- Graeme Shilton. He then received both phone division at the Japan classic music master’s and doctorate degrees in mu- competition, and the president prize at sic performance from Indiana University, SOAI University. She is now studying at the studying under renowned classical saxo- Conservatoire in Strasbourg (France) un- phonists Eugene Rousseau, Thomas Walsh, der Philippe Geiss with a particular interest Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Arno Bornkamp. in the “cross over” and “improvisation” repertoire. Linked to this work on impro- Tse, Kenneth visation and innovation is her work on the Kenneth Tse is widely recognized as one Aerophone. With this new instrument, Su- of the leading classical saxophonists in the mika has been able to create her own per- world. He burst on the scene in 1996 as the sonal identity as an international artist with winner of the prestigious New York Artists followers from around the world, constant- International Award, which resulted in an ly being blown away by the capacities of acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall. this new instrument. Her performances on The Alex Award from the National Alliance the Aerophone have captivated audiences, for Excellence led to another Carnegie Hall not only for the newness of the concept performance. These are but two of the but also for her technical and musical multitude of awards that Tse has garnered. prowess. Sumika is a founding member of He has been a frequent soloist in ive con- the ‘Quatuor AVENA’, a vibrant young sax- tinents and a guest clinician at conferences ophone quartet based in Strasbourg. hosted by the California Band Directors’ Association, Iowa Bandmaster’s Associa- Tudor, Gordan tion and the Midwest International Band Gordan Tudor is one of his generation’s and Orchestra Clinics. Prestigious univer- leading musicians, active as a soloist, com- sities and conservatories worldwide have poser and educator. Tudor performed all invited him to give master classes. Tse over Europe and North America in various has been an active recording artist since chamber ensembles as well as a soloist his irst CD for Crystal Records at age 23. with many orchestras. He is the artistic There are now a total of seven Crystal CDs, director of the New Music Days Festival as well as eight other releases and more in Split which annually hosts eminent in process on RIAX records, Enharmonic musicians from all over the world. Gor-

352 biographies | T-T | dan Tudor is a multiple award winner on orations and performances with chamber national and international competitions music artists such as Lidija Ljubičić, Gor- (PBZ Zagreb Philharmonic Award, Rec- dan Tudor and Bruno Philipp, as well as by tor’s Award, Judita Award, Marenostrum helping numerous students in their devel- - Berlin, Lions Club Grand Prix, Rudolf and opment and musical formation. Margita Matz Fond Award) and ive times winner of Porin award. As a performer, he Turygin, Andrey premiered more then thirty compositions Andrey Turygin, honored artist of Russian of Croatian and foreign authors, and as Federation, saxophone player, composer, a composer experimented with various band leader, was born 31. 05. 1968 in No- genres and combinations of instruments. vosibirsk (Russian federation), in Academy Besides leading international saxophone city. He inished Novosibirsk state con- class at the Arts Academy in Split, he is a servatorie at 1994 and inished graduate part-time saxophone teacher at the Mu- school at 1996 at the class of professor sic High School Josip Hatze in Split and Vladimir Tolkachiev. He has a great experi- a guest professor of Saxophone at the ance in playing of jazz and classical music Art Academy in Novi Sad (AUNS). He is as well. He had a concerts and creative often asked to give masterclasses and is projects with Andrey Kondakov, Anatoly a frequent member of juries on interna- Kroll, Bobby Watson, Carmen Bradford, tional saxophone competitions. Gordan is Andre Villiger, Denise Perrier, Arno Born- a member of the highly acclaimed Papan- kamp, Vincent David, Nicolas Prost and dopulo Quartet and the Trio GIG. Tudor many others. He played also with Ernie studied with eminent professors, including Watts and Igor Butman. He is solist and Dragan Sremec, Arno Bornkamp, Claude leader of the group of saxophones of jazz Delangle and Eugene Rousseau. In 2015 he big band by Vladimir Tolkachev, of Concert published his irst album with new Croatian brass orchestra of Novosibirsk philarmonic. music for Saxophone, released by CANTUS He is a teacher of Novosibirsk musical col- and won 3 Porin Awards including one for lege and special musical school - liceum. Best Interpretation in Classical Music. He He has a lot of winners and laureates of spent summer of 2011 in residence at the international competitions. He is creator of Bang on a Can Summer Festival – Massa- Siberian saxophone quartet. He is partici- chusetts Museum of Contemporary Art pant of "NewTone" group and "Romantic (North Adams, MA). jazz quartet". He has "Andrey Turygin sex- tet" playing his own music in the diferent Tudor, Gordan and Batoš, Ivan styles of jazz. He has a lot of solo concerts Gordan Tudor is one of his generation’s with classical music in Novosibirsk philar- leading musicians, active as a soloist, com- monic with piano, organ and harpsichord. poser and educator. Tudor performed all Also, Andrey Turygin has a classical con- over Europe and North America in various certs as solist with Novosibirsk Symphony chamber ensembles, as well as a soloist orchestra, Novosibirsk Chamber orchestra, with many orchestras. As a performer, he Siberian Brass and others. premiered more then thirty compositions of Croatian and foreign authors, and as a composer experimented with various TWO for NEW Duo genres and combinations of instruments. The saxophone and piano duo TWO for Besides leading international saxophone NEW was formed in 2011 with the aim to class at the Arts Academy in Split, he is a promote, alongside the traditional reper- member of the highly acclaimed Papando- toire of training, cross paths that include pulo Quartet and Trio GIG. pieces of contemporary classical music, Ivan Batoš (Split, 1979) is the artistic asso- popular repertoire and jazz standards. ciate and pianist of the Wind Instruments Particularly attentive to the new material, Department of the Zagreb Music Academy. the two musicians (winners of national and His career has been inluenced by all his international awards) are dedicatees of piano teachers equally: Ivana Oreb, Đuro numerous compositions by Federico Bis- Tikvica, Lovro Pogorelić and Arbo Valdma. cione, Dear Alberto, Paolo Coggiola, Ales- Ivan Batoš’s personal musical proile is sandro Cusatelli, Sandro Fazzolari (CAN), now additionally deined through collab- Alessandro Lucchetti, etc. To their credit biografIES

353 biographies | T-U | several compact discs and prestigious 2016 was a great success with all unac- performances in Italy, the in United States companied works at the BC Concert. He (New York) and in France (Strasbourg continues to challenge new repertoires and World Saxophone Congress). pursues all possibilities of the saxophone. Giovanni De Luca graduated with honors His irst CD album “Massage to ADOLPHE” from the Conservatory Stanislao Giaco- was released in 2014. The following year, he mantonio of Cosenza under the guidance released a CD with Panda Wind Orchestra of Paul Trampetti. Subsequently, he studied where he is concert master. 2017 saw his under the guidance of the prestigious Mas- debut CD with The Rev Saxophone Quartet. ters Mario Marzi, Claude Delangle and Fab- His third solo album is “Breath”, with the rice Moretti. Winner of numerous national unaccompanied Bach, 2017. Kohei has also and international competitions, he per- appeared in various medias including the formed in numerous concerts as a soloist, in Japanese popular TV program “Untitled duo with piano, in duo with accordion and Concert” and ” Houdou Station” . He is a sax quartet proposing. He currently teaches lecturer at Showa College of Music. He is at the Academy “Gustav Mahler” of Trebi- a member of The Rev Saxophone Quartet sacce agreement with the Conservatory of and concert master of Panda Wind Or- Music “Fausto Torrefranca” of Vibo Valentia. chestra. Francesco Silvestri, pianist and cembalist, is winner of numerous competitions of cham- Ukrainian Saxophone Ensemble ber music, including “BRAHMS Chamber The Ukrainian Saxophone Ensemble Music competition” of Portchach (Austria) had its debut performance on the 6th of and “Premio Città di Caltanissetta.” He November - Adolphe Sax’s birthday. The performed throughout Italy and Germany, performance took place during the Grand Switzerland, France, Romania, Spain, Por- inal of the Vinnytsia Adolphe Sax Fest. tugal and Australia. He has a live-recording Maestro Alain Crepin himself conducted the for the Bayerischer Rundfunk of Monaco ensemble that night. There is no better start (2004) and recordings for RAI 3 (2007). for a brand new music team. The following Born in Vibo Valentia, he attended the artistic experience was performed in col- Conservatory of Music of Vibo Valentia, laboration with a young French conductor Rome, Brescia and Reggio Calabria, grad- and composer Roman Zante. Together, the uating with honors in piano, harpsichord, musicians presented their programme in chamber music and music education. He is Kyiv and Vinnytsia, one of the biggest cities a Professor at the Conservatories of Tri- of Ukraine. The ensemble unites 12 young este, Rovigo and Trapan. Ukrainian saxophonists, whose alma mater is Petro Tchaikovskyi National Music Acad- u emy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory). The aim of this ensemble is to present the mu- Ueno, Kohei sic of modern Ukrainian composers to the Born in Japan, Kohei Ueno started playing audience from all over the world. the saxophone at the young age of eight in his school band. He graduated from United Saxophone Ensemble of Tokyo University of the Arts, instrumental Universities and Music music department. Kohei had attracted Conservatories in China public attention from an early age and The United Saxophone Ensemble of Uni- made his debut while still in school. Re- versities and Music Conservatories in Chi- views include: “Listening to just one note, I na was formed for the performance at the knew Kohei was specially gifted” - Kazuki World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb. The Yamada, conductor; “I have never heard performers are teachers and students from such sounds from a saxophone. He is Central Conservatory of Music, China Con- an eye-opener” - Keith Lockhard. Kohei servatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory of made a sensational senior debut winning Music, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, SIAS 1st prize at the 28th Japan Wind and Per- International University, Shanxi Normal Uni- cussion Competition, youngest ever in its versity, Tianjin Normal University, Guiyang long history. In 2014, he won a prestigious College, Yunnan Arts University Wenhua 2nd prize at 6th Adolphe Sax Internation- School, Harbin Normal University, Huanghe al Competition in Belgium. His recital in Science and Technology College.

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Urbanski, Krzysztof Region 4 conferences in Norman, OK Krzysztof Urbanski is an internationally (2015), Stillwater, OK (2017) and NASA multi award winning jazz saxophonist. Biennial in Lubbock, TX (2016). The en- During his career, which spans over 17 semble performs a variety of music in local years, Krzysztof is well known for taking schools and functions on and of campus part in concerts, jazz competitions, mas- as a large ensemble and also individual terclasses and workshops all around the quartets. They are looking forward to this globe. In 2010 Krzysztof recorded his de- performance and their irst experience at a but album named simply Urbanski which World Saxophone Congress. was very well received by the critics. This album was sold in the number of 15.000 U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Quartet CDs in whole Europe and the United The U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Quar- States. With his bands he has performed tet features Musicians Jonathan Yanik, at many festivals like: London Jazz Fes- Patrick Martin, David Babich and Dana tival, Getxo Jazz Festival / Spain, Honda Booher on saxophones. The quartet has Jazz Festival in Wrocław, Soia Jazz Club performed at various venues across the Sopot Jazz Festival, Gouvy Jazz Festival in United States, including featured concerts Belgium, Frankfurt Musikmesse, Taichung at the U.S. Navy Band International Saxo- Jazz Fest, Houili, Taipei Jazz Fest, Gent phone Symposium and the Midwest Clinic. Jazz Fest, Chicago Mid West Clinic, Chica- The ensemble regularly performs public go Jazz Showcase, Hoeilaart Jazz Festival, recitals in the Washington, D.C. area and Scarborough Jazz Fest, Honda Jazz Fest, presents a unique program to children at Jazz Jamboree, JnO, Blue Note, Cleethor- local schools as part of the Navy Band’s pe Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Royal Northern “Music in the Schools” educational out- College of Music, Sax.co.uk, Manchester reach program. The quartet plays music in Jazz Festival, Thelonious Monk Institute many diferent styles, ranging from stan- of Jazz at UCLA / Los Angeles, Ronnie dard concert saxophone quartet literature Scott’s Jazz Club London, Roma Theatre / to contemporary and jazz, tailoring the Warsaw... In 2010 Krzysztof moved to En- musical selections to a wide range of au- gland where he founded his new Quintet diences. Members of the quartet have won Urban Jazz Society. He started to work prizes in several international and national with some of the most innovative musi- competitions including the North Ameri- cians in the UK including Sam Gardner, can Saxophone Alliance solo competition Sam Vicary, Will Harris, John Turville, Ash- and the Heida Hermanns International ley Henry, Stuart McCallum, David Preston. Woodwind Competition. The members Together they create a fresh sound of jazz have also performed with top ensembles using and incorporating elements of mod- including La Garde Républicaine (Paris), ern styles like hip-hop, urban, electronic, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington and R&B. National Opera, Baltimore Symphony Or- chestra, National Philharmonic and Pitts- UTRGV Saxophone Ensemble burgh Opera. Individually, quartet mem- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley bers have earned degrees while studying (UTRGV) Saxophone Ensemble students with Frederick Hemke, Otis Murphy, John are undergraduate music education ma- Sampen and Donald Sinta. jors and minors. The ensemble is directed by UTRGV saxophone professor, Cynthia v Cripps, and combines saxophonists from the universities formerly known as Uni- Vagues Saxophone Quartet versity of Texas – Pan American (UTPA) The Vagues Saxophone Quartet is an and University of Texas Brownsville (UTB) Avant-garde project made up by four tal- both located in Deep South Texas, in the ented Italian saxophonists that have met USA. Before the universities merged the each other at Conservatory of Milan. Made ensembles performed at several NASA as an innovative laboratory-ensemble, the regional conferences and in recent years, quartet promotes not only new music, the UTRGV Saxophone Ensemble has but also new performance. They are in performed at the Texas Music Educators constant research and technical experi- Association Conference in 2016, NASA mentation, working step by step with com- biografIES

355 biographies | V-V | posers. Rewarded of many national and Vlaanderen and Brussels Philharmonic international competitions, they performed Orchestra. With the latter he played, at in diferent Countries all over the world the Festival Musiq’3 and participated on a (Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, tour in Germany. He played classical music France, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, with orchestra’s, chamber music ensem- Estonia, Belgium, China, Serbia, Lithuania). bles, and improvised in folk, (free) jazz as They recently participated in the 25th Mila- well as in classical settings. Next to being no Musica Festival and Luigi Nono Festival a top level musician, Jeroen is an equally 2017 (Torino). passionate educator and shares his knowl- edge and experience as a saxophonist with Valade, Pierre-André young and old. Pierre-André Valade was born in Corrèze, The Zerkalo Quartet (2014) is a string France in 1959. In 1991 he co-founded the quartet based in Brussels. They are ex- Paris based Ensemble Court-Circuit of panding the codes of classical music and which he was Music Director for 16 years exploring its place in society today. The until 2008. He currently has an active work of Zerkalo Quartet has been critically career as a guest conductor whilst con- acclaimed with awards such as the Super- tinuing his relationship with Athelas Sin- nova 2014, Vocatio 2015 and the Honour- fonietta Copenhagen as a regular guest able Mention of the Jury in the Janaçek conductor. He is especially admired for his Competition 2015. Zerkalo Quartet has performances of repertoire from the 20th performed at prestigious venues and fes- and 21st centuries, and receives regular tivals in Belgium as well as at festivals and invitations from major festivals and orches- concert halls abroad (France, Germany, tras in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain). Zerkalo Quartet have beneit- New Zealand and Japan. Current and fu- ted from the advice of eminent music pro- ture highlights include his debut with La fessors such as Günter Pichler from Alban Scala Orchestra in Milan as well as a collab- Berg Quartett, Oliver Wille from Kuss oration with L’Orchestre Philharmonique Quartett, etc. and has worked with com- de Radio France in the 14/15 season. A posers such as Hosokawa, Sciarrino and regular guest conductor with the Tonhalle Widmann. The Quartet produces its own Orchester Zürich, other orchestras include series of concerts in Brussels and has set BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, up important pedagogical projects. Zerka- Royal Northern Sinfonia, Luxembourg Phil- lo collaborates with Jeunesses Musicales harmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Göteborgs Belgique, and is currently in residence at Symfoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de the Primary School of Ligugé. Radio France, Montreal Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orches- Van Goes, Paula and Dierlam, Casey tra della RAI Torino, Ensemble Intercon- Paula Van Goes is “a virtuoso saxophonist temporain, London Sinfonietta, and many that possesses excellent technical attri- others. His more recent CDs include works butes and a deep understanding of the by Hugues Dufourt (winner Diapason d’Or music [she] performs” (Ovación). She and Choc du Monde de la Musique), and enjoys a career as a chamber musician, Harrison Birtwistle’s Theseus Game for soloist and educator. Serving as the In- Deutsche Grammophon, a piece he pre- terim Professor of Saxophone at Univer- miered in Duisburg and conducted at the sidade de Brasília Dr. Van Goes is the irst Southbank Centre, BBC Proms, Hudders- American and the irst woman to teach ield Festival, Lucerne International Festi- saxophone within the university system val and in Berlin. in Brazil. Paula has toured and lectured throughout Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Can- Vanbever, Jeroen and Zerkalo Quartet ada, China, France, Italy, Peru, Scotland, After Jeroen Vanbever (Belgium) com- Ukraine and the United States with recent pleted his classical saxophone studies at solo appearances at the 5th International LUCA School of Arts in Leuven, he studied Festival and 2nd Youth Saxofone Competi- jazz saxophone at the same institution tion PERUSAX-2016 in Huánuco, Peru, the and at KASK Conservatory of Ghent. As a 2016 Toronto International Electoracoustic freelance saxophonist, he has been invited Conference in Canada, the III EncuentroIn- several times to play with Symfonieorkest ternacional de Saxofonistas in Argentina,

356 biographies | V-V | and Saxofoneado 2016 in Santa Cruz, Bo- the Month” in the Austrailan Clarinet and livia, SaxOpen the 2015 World Saxophone Saxophone Magazine. All three of Vernon’s Congress in Strasbourg, France, the 2015 sopranino CDs received excellent reviews Faenza Saxophone Festival in Italy, and in the Saxophone Journal. Vernon has 50+ at Soochow University in Suzhou, China. arrangements and compositions listed with Recent engagements include a recital at Dorn Publications. Casa Thomas Jeferson, the cultural in- stitute of the United States Embassy in Vickers, Jefrey and Creviston, Hannah Brasília, a United States tour with recitals Jefrey E. Vickers (USA) is Associate and master classes at the University of Professor of Music at Northern Michigan Miami, the University of Memphis, Belmont University. He has commissioned and pre- University and Clalin University as well as miered over forty works for saxophones, performances at the College Music Society many of which seek to emphasize and Great Plains Festival and the University of expand the repertory of the tenor saxo- Nebraska-Kearney New Music Festival. phone. He maintains a keen interest in the promotion of contemporary music, and Vergari, Diego and Guest Cellist he has collaborated with composers such Diego Vergari was born in Feltre in 2003 as Lemay, Lauba, Kuehn, Kerger, H. Itoh, and is now a resident of Cutroiano, Italy. Gotkovsky, Alla, and Michans. Dr. Vickers Here he started the clarinet study with Gi- completed his Doctoral and Master’s de- acobbe Doria and Rafaele Vecchio. During grees at Indiana University. He obtained the school years he has participated in his BM in education from the University of several competitions where he obtained Mississippi. An internationally recognized excellent results. He won irst prizes at the artist and teacher, Dr. Vickers was a jurist 4th International Music Competition “Erik for the 4th Jean-Marie Londeix Interna- Satie” in Lecce, ‘’Donato Russo Prize” Mu- tional Saxophone Competition in Thailand, sic Competition, etc. He has also attended 2014. He has performed in over two dozen mastercalsses with Otis Murphy, Claude states, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, France, Delangle and others. In 2016 he attended and numerous national or international the pre-academic course of Saxophone conferences. In 2014, Dr. Vickers was a with Fabio Sammarco at the “Niccolò Pic- guest instructor at Spanish conservatories cinni” Music Conservatory of Bari. in Oviedo, Palma, and Alicante. He was also a featured artist at the NASA Region 9 Vernon, James Farrell Conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in Dr. James Farrell Vernon is Associate 2015. Dr. Vickers is the founder of Resolute Professor of Saxophone & Jazz Studies at Music Publications, a publishing company Purdue University-Fort Wayne, and a 20 that specializes in modern music publica- year veteran as a university professor. Dr. tions. Vernon taught Saxophone & Jazz Stud- ies at Southeastern Louisiana University, Vif Duo James Madison University and the Univer- Duo Vif is a clarinet-saxophone duo based sity of Northern Colorado. Vernon holds in Western Maryland. Both faculty mem- degrees from Indiana University, Univer- bers in the music department at Frostburg sity of Denver and University of Northern State University, Mark Gallagher and Brent Colorado. He has performed at numerous Weber began playing together in Spring NASA conferences, and World Congresses of 2013. Their varied repertoire consists in Minneapolis (US), Bangkok (Thailand), of music from several stylistic periods in- St. Andrews (Scotland) and Strasbourg cluding works by Georg Philip Telemann, (France). Additionally, Dr. Vernon has Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Francis Poulenc performed in Monte Carlo (Monaco) and to the more contemporary literature of Rome (Italy). His classical CDs include Roshanne Etezady, Gregory Wanamaker, three sopranino releases: Convergence, David DeBoor Canield, William Albright, High Notes and The Forgotten Saxophone, Nikola Resanovic, and Violet Archer. The as well as The Music of William Schmidt group did a recent tour of Southern Ore- with the Sempre Saxophone Quartet on gon and future tours are scheduled for the alto. His 2013 sopranino saxophone re- southeastern United States and France and lease, Convergence, was chosen as “CD of Spain in 2015. biografIES

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Saxophonist Brent Weber has enjoyed a with D. Stanley Hasty and a Doctor of Mu- diverse musical journey as a performer sical Arts from the University of Wiscon- and educator. After earning degrees in sin-Madison. Dr. Gallagher has performed saxophone performance from Southern with the Washington Contemporary Music Oregon University (BA) and University of Forum, Musique Vivante de Paris, United Georgia (MM) Mr. Weber joined the faculty States Navy Band, Milwaukee Symphony as Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the Orchestra, Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, Sichuan Conservatory of Music in the cap- Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Washington itol of China’s Sichuan province, Chengdu. Opera, Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, Cincin- After two incredible years teaching and nati Chamber Orchestra, Bronx Symphony, freelancing in Southwest China, Brent New York City Ballet Orchestra, Wisconsin returned to the U.S. to pursue his Doc- Wind Orchestra, and the Skylight Opera torate in Musical Arts at the University of Theatre Orchestra. In addition to a busy Georgia. From 2009-2012 he had the op- performance schedule, Dr. Gallagher is an portunity to study with teachers Kenneth active teacher and clinician. He lectures on Fischer, Eugene Rousseau, Joseph Wytko, occupational health issues for musicians and Connie Frigo. Brent completed his and the Alexander Technique. He is pres- doctoral studies in the spring of 2014 with ently an Associate Professor of clarinet at a dissertation detailing music for saxo- Frostburg State University and has held phone and cello duos. Experienced in mul- faculty positions at the University of Wis- tiple genres of music from classical to jazz, consin-Milwaukee, Carroll College, and has rock ‘n’ roll and beyond, Brent advocates been director of faculty at the Semplice versatility. His work with the contemporary Harbor Music Settlement on Washington jazz group Jake Mowrer Quartet featured Island, Wisconsin, artistic director for the him performing and recording throughout Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and Northern Georgia. As a concert saxophon- director of the Savage Mountain Summer ist, he is active with the North American Arts Academy in Maryland. Saxophone Alliance performing in con- ferences in Minnesota, Louisiana, Florida, Vincent, David Oregon, and Georgia. In 2007 Brent pre- David Vincent is the leader of a gener- sented the European premiere of Todd ation of saxophonists who develops the Barton’s Diastems II at the World Saxo- musical and technical possibilities of his phone Congress XIV in Ljubljana, Slovenia. instrument. Having won three international As a winner of the University of Georgia awards during his studies, he is an accom- Concerto Competition, he performed In- plished and complete musician. As a solist, golf Dahl’s Concerto for Saxophone and he has performed with Philharmonique Wind Ensemble. Most recently Mr. Weber Orchestra of Radio France, National Or- was part of the 2012 Naxos release Street chestra of Strasbourg, Orchestra of Suisse Song featuring the University of Georgia Romande, Ensemble Inter Contemporain, wind Ensemble under the direction of Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, National Dr. John Lynch. Currently Dr. Weber is an Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Philharmo- Assistant Professor at Frostburg State nique Orchestra of Stuttgart, Navy Band University in Western Maryland. At FSU he Orchestra of Washington, Scottish Cham- maintains the saxophone and bassoon stu- ber Orchestra and many more. He collabo- dios as well as coordinate the jazz studies rated with many composers Luciano Berio, program. Brent is active in the community Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Gérard Grisey, helping resurrect the Cumberland Jazz Philippe Hurel, Michael Jarrell, Mauro Society and acting as a board member for Lanza, Philippe Leroux, Bruno Mantovani, the Tristate Community Music School. Matalon Marin, Yann Maresz, Marc Monnet, Clarinetist Mark Gallagher, is a graduate of Mathias Pintscher, Yann Robin, Alberto the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where Posadas, Bernhard Lang… Composer and he received a Bachelor of Music degree conductor, he has composed for his in- in clarinet performance and studied with strument, solo pieces but he also wrote Lawrence McDonald. He also holds a Mas- Jazz duets and quartets. He is also active ters of Music in Performance and Litera- in improvised music (jazz, contemporary) ture with a Performer’s Certiicate from the through encounters with musicians such as Eastman School of Music having studied Pierrick Pedron, Christophe Monniot, Jean-

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Charles Richard. His discography consists of: „Troisième Round“ by Bruno Mantovani w soloist with the ensemble TM +, „Boulez / Wang, Zhe and Bidin Marco Berio“, „Crossover“ and „French Style“, and Zhe Wang is one of the most active young „Fireworks“ but it also has two instruction- saxophonists in both China and Germany. al CDrom Musiki ‘t. He is also director of He graduated from the State University of collection with Editions Billaudot. Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, and the College of Music, Mahidol Univer- VitaDuo and Artiom Shiskov sity. During many years of his saxophone Vitaly Vatulya (saxophone) and Maria education, he has performed in the master Nemtsova (piano) duo has been rec- classes of William Street, Jean-Pierre Bara- ognized as one of the most interesting glioli, Keiji Munesada, Richard Dirlam, Jan ensembles performing in the chamber Schulte-Bunert, Tong Yang and Jean-Marie music world today. The rare combination Londeix. Wang has performed with South- saxophone – piano was formed in 2006, east Asia Youth Wind Ensemble, Württem- when the Duo won their irst Prize at the bergische Philharmonie Reutlingen (WPR), prestigious festival in Moscow. Later they Echtzeit Ensemble of HMDK and the Stutt- have founded the famous “Music - for gart Saxophone Ensemble. As a soloist, he Peace” Project, which is an international performed many concerts such as Singa- charitable musical project, and it mission pore Saxophone Symposium in 2011, Kam- is to beneit young musicians who live mermusiksaal at HMDK since 2014, etc. in the postconlict zones. The “Music for He participated in the 2015 Osaka Interna- Peace” Project used the convening pow- tional Music Competition and advanced to er of music as a vehicle to maximize the the inal round where he also received the beneits of international and cross-cultural “Urkunde” as one the best Semiinalist in contacts between youth and young adult Vienna Co-host city. populations. Through music, MfP aimed to Marco Bidin is an Italian composer, or- bring individuals from all backgrounds and ganist and harpsichord player. After grad- social statuses together into a relaxed and uating in Organ and Organ Composition natural environment. Constantly in search from the Conservatory of Udine (Italy), of new music, arrangements and diverse he studied Organ and Early Music at the directions of the classical saxophone rep- Trossingen University of Music (Germany). ertoire, they have performed in more than He completed the Master in Contempo- twenty countries all over the world such as rary Music, in Composition and in Com- Russia, Netherlands, Israel, Czech Republic, puter Music at the University of Music of Germany, Armenia, Georgia, and other. As Stuttgart. He is currently Postgraduate individual soloists their carriers have seen Student and has been appointed as Tutor concerts all over the world. for the Studio for Electronic Music at the Artiom Shishkov was born in Minsk in 1984 University of Music of Stuttgart under the and started to play violin at the age of ive supervision of prof. Marco Stroppa. He is with Janna Kutchinskaya as his teacher. also PhD Candidate at the Huddersield He studied at the Republic Music College University (UK) under the supervision of and later at the Belarus State Academy Dr. Mary Bellamy and prof. Aaron Cassidy, of Music with Eduard Kutchinsky and as a and he works as Research Assistant at the postgraduate student at the Vienna Uni- University of Music of Karlsruhe under the versity of Music and Performing Arts with supervision of prof. Marlon Schumacher. Dora Schwarzberg. He is laureate and prize winner of 15 International Competitions in Weintraub, Katherine Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Czech Re- Katherine Weintraub is a decorated per- public, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine former, passionate educator, and doctoral and Belarus. He performs a lot both as candidate at the Eastman School of Music. soloist and chamber musician and combin- She made her solo debut at the age of 15 ing his intense concert life with teaching performing Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da and giving master-classes. Camera with the Florida Orchestra. Known for her sensitive musicianship, Weintraub

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359 biographies | W-W | music and creative transcriptions of bor- Logrande, McKinney, Reed, and Reilly. He rowed works. She holds Bachelor and Mas- was a two-term Treasurer of NASA and ter of Music degrees from the University of received degrees studying with Londeix, Michigan. While attending the University, Rousseau, Fischer, and Reilly. she was named winner of the school’s A native of Iowa, John Krebs holds de- Graduate Concerto Competition. As a doc- grees in piano performance from North- toral student, she was awarded irst prize western University, the University of at the International William C. Byrd Young Illinois, and the University of Maryland. Artist Competition and she was a national After teaching at Central Missouri State inalist in the MTNA Young Artist Compe- University, Prince George’s Community tition. In 2014, Weintraub was the winner College, and Luther College, he has been of the Eastman School of Music Concerto at Hendrix College since 1992. At Hendrix, Competition and shortly after, she was his teaching duties have included music named irst-prize winner of the Interna- theory, music history and literature, an op- tional Saxophone Symposium and Com- era survey course, jazz history, and studio petition in Columbus, Georgia. She has piano. He has also served as chair of both performed at notable venues such as the the Hendrix music department and human- Shanghai Grand Theater, the National Cen- ities area. An avid collaborative pianist, ter of the Performing Arts in Beijing, China; Krebs has performed in Canada, Iceland, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Germany, Slovenia, Scotland, and Thailand. and the Kennedy Center in Washington, He has been an active member of Music D.C. She has also been featured as a soloist Teachers National Association at the local, with the University of Michigan Philharmo- state, and national levels, and in 2011 he nia, the Flint Symphony Orchestra, and the was named an MTNA Foundation Fellow. illustrious Eastman Wind Ensemble. Wist Duo and Kate I-Hsin Kang Wen, Andy and Krebs, John The Wist Duo formed in 2015 as a result Dr. Andy Wen is an Associate Professor at of a concert tour across several countries, the University of Arkansas Little Rock. He including Austria, France and Taiwan. Their is a founding member of the Arkansas Sax- debut album “Formosa Fantasy” was re- ophone Quartet and plays Principle Saxo- leased in 2015. phone in the Little Rock Wind Symphony. Dr. William Chien was born 1977 in Taipei He has performed in twenty-ive states (Taiwan). He has performed throughout and eleven countries, with bands and or- the United States, Asia and Europe. In- chestras, solo, and chamber ensembles. cluding the performances in 16th World He has premiered ive concertos that were Saxophone Congress in Scotland (2012), written for him and has recorded two CDs. Navy International Saxophone Symposium He presented the irst saxophone recital (2011), North American Saxophone Alliance in the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Tai- Biennial Conference (2010, 2014) and Tai- wan. He has performed at conferences of wan National Recital Hall (2013). Dr. Chien the North American Saxophone Alliance; holds PhD in music performance from the World Saxophone Congress, Association University of North Texas. Dr. Chien is also de Saxophone de France; Southeast Com- the author of “Saxophone Learning for posers League; Hawaii International Con- Novices” and is assistant professor in Tai- ference of Arts and Humanities; American pei Fu-Jen University (Taiwan). School Band Directors Association; Etats Stefan Skrilecz was born 1978 in Graz Generaux Mondiaux du Saxophone; Navy (Austria). He started playing the guitar at Band International Saxophone Symposium; the age of six. He received irst prizes at and Music Teachers National Association the national competition Musik der Jugend (MTNA) where he was the 1990 MTNA Na- in the categories solo and chamber music. tional Collegiate Artist Competition winner. During and after his studies at the Univer- His performances have been broadcast sity of Music Graz with prof. Dr. Leo Wito- in Arkansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas. szynskyj, he performed at various concerts Wen has premiered over forty composi- with solo guitar, chamber music and or- tions including those by Baker, Bell, Boury, chestra. In 2004. he was art director for a Brandon, Chaudoir, Flory, Fox, Fuste-Lam- series of concerts at the summer festival bezat, Griebling, Harbison, Kechley, Lauba, “Classics in the City”. Skrilecz is teach-

360 biographies | W-W | ing at the Conservatory of Graz, where Windgauge Duo he is also the head of the Department of Duo Windgauge is formed by Kuninobu Plucked Instruments. Bando and Taku Ueda. Kate I-Hsin Kang received her bachelor’s Kuninobu Bando is an honored graduate and master’s degrees in piano perfor- of the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. mance from New England Conservatory, He performs regularly in orchestras such under Gabriel Chodos and Victor Rosen- as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the baum. She has taught at Hwa Kang Arts Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, School and Kuang Jen High School. Kate etc. In addition to holding professorships Kang has collaborated in performance, at the Kunitachi College of Music, Sapporo recitals and competitions in University of Otani University and Tokyo school of Mu- North Texas, University of Texas at Arling- sic. He also serves on the Japan Saxophon- ton and the Texas State Solo-Ensemble ist Association’s Steering Committee. He Contest. In 2016, she performed with world received a special award while competing acclaimed saxophonists Kenneth Tse and at the Gustave Bumke International Sax- Stephen Page in irst Asian Saxophone ophone Competition in Dortmund, Ger- Congress at Chiayi (Taiwan). many, and has appeared numerous time as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Whekau Trio Orchestra and Eastman Wind Ensemble. The Whekau Trio was formed, initially for a Mr.Bando received the highest training in one of performance, in early 2016, but has Japan under the tutelage of Yushi Ishiwata, since performed regularly in the chamber Keiji Shimoji, Yoshiyuki Hattori and Akinori music scene throughout New Zealand. Naraoka. Mark Hobson is based in Christchurch, Taku Ueda, saxophonist and musicologist. New Zealand. Major earthquakes in 2011 After his graduation from Kunitachi Col- devastated Christchurch and as a result lege of Music, Taku Ueda went to France to drastically efected the local arts commu- study with Fabrice Moretti at onservatoire nity. Hobson was then ofered a full time Hector Berlioz of Paris where he received position as principal saxophonist for the the irst prize then University of Bordeaux Royal New Zealand Navy Band in Auck- III for master’s degree of musicology; the land. He regularly performs in various thesis “Japanese Music and Occidental chamber music ensembles – his Jazz Trio, Music, around Toru Takemitsu. From 1997 Tango band and more. to 1999 he has studied on a research grant Craig Bradield studied at the Victorian from the Rotary Foundation. He received College of the Arts in Melbourne and by the highest training in Japan and in France his last year he had secured positions in under the tutelage of Yushi Ishiwata, Yuichi the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra and Omuro, Masato Kumoi, Keiji Munesada, in the Third Military District Concert Band. Fabrice Moretti and Marie-Bernadette He founded the Opus Chamber Ensemble Charrier. Mr. Ueda is the member of the and he is currently completing a Doctor Japan Saxophonist Association’s Steering of Musical Arts on baroque bassoon at Committee. Waikato University under the tutelage of Lyndon Watts. Winzen, Steph Alison C. Holden is a concert pianist, ac- Steph Winzen studied classical saxo- companist, repetiteur and teacher. She phone with the famous saxophonist Linda received her Masters degree and the Bangs-Urban at Mainz, Germany. Her lyr- Certiicate of Post Graduate Studies from ical and multifaceted saxophone playing the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and brought her together with artists like Giora Drama, a First Class Honours degree and Feidman, Raul Jaurena, Bobby Watson, Diploma in Arts from Victoria University, John Stubbleield, John-Edward Kelly and a Bachelor of Music degree majoring in Arno Bornkamp. She is awarded as the Musicology from Canterbury University Mainzer Stadtmusikerin 2017. Steph plays and the F.T.C.L diploma in solo piano per- with diferent symphonic orchestras and formance. plays the baritone saxophone at the Saxo- phonequartet Mainz 04. She teaches at the conservatory of Mainz and established the Saxophone Orchestra Mainz in 2013. biografIES

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Wójcicki, Łukasz and Stefański, Robert Wright, Alastair Łukasz Wójcicki is a polish saxophonist – British saxophonist Alastair Wright has a soloist, chamber and session musician been praised by Classical Voice of North – and is currently a PhD student at the Carolina for his “dulcet-like tone...with a Music Academy in Łódź (Poland). He is a luminescent sheen.” As a soloist, he has laureate of many national and international performed with the Thailand Philharmonic competitions such as 3rd prize at the In- Orchestra (as inalist in the Fifth Jean-Ma- ternational Competition for Contemporary rie Londeix International Saxophone Com- Chamber Music in Cracow (2005), a spe- petition), Convivium Singers, the Thallein cial award of 1st Saxophone Competition Contemporary Ensemble and the Univer- in Łodz (2009), a prize of 3rd International sity of North Carolina School of the Arts Master Competition for Music Teachers in Symphony Orchestra, and has presented Warsaw (2015), Vice Award of Chamber recitals of new music throughout the US, Competition in Bydgoszcz (2015). He is UK and at the 2015 World Saxophone also a scholarship recipient of the Polish Congress in Strasbourg, France. He has government (Grand 2015). His projects seen success with Trio Dionysus and Dasch are focused on the promotion of Polish Quartet in national and international com- music – both, the more famous compo- petitions and can be heard on Dasch Quar- sition in new versions and the music of tet’’s recently released debut album, “Nec- young contemporary composers. He works essary Edges” Alastair is a current doctoral with many polish composers, including student at the University of Missouri Kan- Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski, Krzesimir sas City and holds performance degrees Dębski, Marcin Stańczyk, Tomasz Kamie- from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, niak, Grzegorz Duchnowski, Jakub Kow- UK and the University of North Carolina alewski and Zuzanna Niedzielak. School of the Arts. He teaches saxophone Robert Stefański graduated in 2005 with at the University of Central Missouri. honors from the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, in the Wright, Andy clarinet class of the senior lecturer Ryszard Andy Wright serves on the faculty of Ryczel. He completed postgraduate stud- Grayson College in Denison, TX where he ies at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of conducts the band and ofers saxophone Music in Katowice, in the clarinet class of lessons. Prior to this appointment, he Prof. Andrzej Janicki. He is a prizewinner of maintained a studio of over 50 students in national and international music competi- the DFW area. These students often earn tions, where he performed as a soloist and positions in the All-State and All-Region chamber musician. He cooperates with the bands along with positions in local ensem- Polish Chamber Orchestra, the ‘New Art’ bles such as the Lone Star Youth Orchestra Radio Philharmonic, the Camerata Mazovia and the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Wind Symphony. Additionally, his students Opera, the Chamber Orchestra of Radom have been semi-inalists for competitions and the Philharmonic of Łódź. He is the at the North American Saxophone Alliance founder and member of some known en- biennial conference. As a saxophonist sembles as ‘Acoustic Duo’, ‘Bacewicz Duo’, based out of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, ‘Family Duo’, ‘Jedyne Takie Trio’ and ‘Subi- Dr. Wright has been guest soloist with to Quartet’. His recordings can be found on the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Grayson a few CDs, featuring works of F. Poulenc, College Concert Band and the University J. Brahms, B. K. Przybylski, T. Szczepanik, of North Texas Symphonic Band. He has S. Zamuszko, published by the Academy appeared with various ensembles, mostly of Music in Łódź and the Warsaw Autumn notably the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, the Festival chronicles. He works on the posi- North Texas Wind Symphony, the Plano tion of adiunkt [assistant professor] at the Symphony Orchestra, Odysseus Chamber Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy Orchestra and the Les Elgart Orchestra. of Music in Łódź; he also teaches at the Along with numerous solo recitals, Dr. State Primary Music School in Zgierz. Wright has performed and presented lectures at various North American Sax- ophone Alliance conferences and World Saxophone Congresses. He can be heard

362 biographies | W-X-Y | as a featured soloist on multiple recordings extremely upbeat and exciting piece which from the North Texas Wind Symphony was very well received by the public. They including: Canvases, Composer’s Collec- had their irst completely sold-out recital tion: George Gershwin, Reconstructions in December 2016 entitled Back to Basics. and Conclave. Dr. Wright has shared the In 2017, they were invited by The Philhar- stage with Ray Charles, Chris Vadala, Steve monic Winds to perform the groovy Astor Houghton, Marc Nuccio and Andy Martin. Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango arranged for Dr. Wright received his doctorate degree saxophone quartet at their concert entitled in saxophone performance from the Uni- A Music Tapestry. Shortly after, they were versity of North Texas studying with Eric invited to perform at the Esplanade upper Nestler. He holds a Masters of music de- concourse as part of their Cool Classics gree in jazz studies from the world renown series. jazz program at the University of North Texas, studying with Jim Riggs along with y a Bachelors in music education from the University of Central Arkansas under the Yang, Tong & Guests tutelage of Jackie Lamar. Beijing born Tong Yang is currently leaving his footprints of masterclass and recital x throughout Europe, USA and Asia with appearances at London Trinity Laban Xin Saxophone Quartet Conservatoire UK, Hochschule fur Musik A highly versatile chamber group, Xin und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Guest- Saxophone Quartet (XSQ) is one of Sin- Professor) Germany, Mary Peppert School gapore’s leading professional saxophone of Music at Duquesne Univeristy, USA, quartets. Found in 2016, the name Xin Forbidden City Hall, Beijing, Shenzhen Saxophone Quartet plays on the Chinese Concert Hall, Tian Jin Grand Theater, Hong character for Heart and also the irst Kong City Hall, Taipei National University character in Singapore’s Chinese name. of Arts, etc. He is considered to be one of It is their goal to represent Singapore by the foremost saxophone pedagogues in always performing with sincerity from China. In addition to his love of the Con- the heart - hence the name! An addition- cert Saxophone repertoire, he is also keen al reason for the name is the all love for on developing and proliferating saxophone performing new music, commissioning contemporary music through contact with Singaporean composers – Xin also means many of today’s composers. From 2001 new in Chinese. As advocates for new mu- to 2008, he studied at Russian Gnesin’s sic, they have a resident composer for the Academy of Music with Professor Yury quartet, Jay Ong. Xin Saxophone Quartet Valonsov. During his time at the Academy, comprises of Singaporean musicians from he received 1st Prize of D.E.M. Saxophone diferent walks of life: Michellina Chan who from Conservatoire de National de Bor- graduated with Bachelor of Music with deaux in the class of Marie Bernadette First Class Honours from the University of Charrier, and was awarded a Master of Arts Melbourne, Melbourne Conservatorium of Diploma de Concert from Conservatoire Music, Alexis Seah who graduated with a de Lausanne Switzerland under the guid- Bachelor of Music with Honours from the ance of Pierre-Stéphane Meugé. In 2012 he Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in collab- is invited to be in jury for the Hong Kong oration with Royal College of Music. Yi Youth Symphonic band Competition and in Xiang Ang is a regular with the SAF band 2014 for the Macau Youth Musicians Com- and also a regular soloist with the Philhar- petition by Culture Department of Hong monic Winds. Last but not least, Samuel Kong and Macau Government. In 2011 he Phua, a recent graduate of the Singapore became Tenured Professor of Saxophone School of the Arts, is the irst local saxo- at Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. phonist to perform as a soloist with the In 2016 he became vice chairman of Hong prestigious Singapore Symphony Orches- Kong International Single Reed Associa- tra. The Quartet debuted at the 6th Sin- tion. gapore Saxophone Symposium in 2016 as guest artists performing the 5th movement Yang, Young Wook of David Maslanka’s Recitation Book, an Young Wook Yang studied saxophone biografIES

363 biographies | Y-Y | performance at College of Music Seoul Na- awarded 2nd prize at the International sax- tional University (with Daewoo Kim). After ophone quartet competition in Strasbourg, graduation, he moved to Paris to pursue SaxOpen. Following this they performed further studies and earned diplomas (Fin notably at the festivals of Vigan, Moissac, de Cycle 3, Cycle Professionnel) from Cha- La Baule and d’Aulnay as well as in Alsace renton/St.-Maurice Civic Conservatory and at Domain Gross. Their performance in Val-de-Marne State Conservatory (with Gaëlle Le Gallic’s broadcast on France Jean-Jacques Moity). Also, he completed Musique in September 2015 allowed them artist diploma (Cycle Concertiste, Niveau to continue there collaboration with vir- professionnel) studies at Charenton/ tuoso jazz-man Baptiste Hérbin, realising St.-Maurice Civic Conservatory (studied a “crossover” mixing romantic music with with Jean-Jacques Moity). As one of prom- improvisation. The quartet have recently inent saxophonists in Republic of Korea, completed their master’s degree in cham- he performed with SNU Symphonic Band ber music from the Conservatoire National (Ronald Binge’s Concerto for Alto Saxo- Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris phone and Band), Universal Saxophone (CNSMDP), where they studied with David Ensemble (Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Walter. Camera for Alto Saxophone with 11 Saxo- phones: Jean-Marie Londeix Version) and YMD Duo Jeju National University Symphony (Roger YMD is not only the initials of Yoshihiro Boutry’s Divertimento). He was invited by Egawa, Makoto Asari and Duo, but also it Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing comes from the concept of Haruomi Hoso- (China) to perform Alexander Glazunov’s no of Yellow Magic Orchestra as known as Saxophone Concerto in Eb Major. He was YMO globally in 1980’s. invited by the University of Cincinati in Yoshihiro Egawa is a saxophonist and a Ohio where he also had a Master Class, founder of J-SAXER QUARTET. He stud- as well as by the University of Illinois at ied the saxophone with Prof. Arata Saka- Champagne in Illinois and Miami University guchi at Musashino Academia Musicae in Ohio. As an educator, he taught at the in Tokyo and with Dr. Fredrick Hemke at College of Music Seoul National Universi- Northwestern University in Illinois, USA. He ty. He currently teaches at the College of performed at the 14th World Saxophone Music, Jeju National University. Congress in Ljubljana, and 15th World Sax- ophone Congress in Bangkok including a Yendo Quartet world premiere piece for saxophone quar- Regularly invited to perform at France tet. He is active as a soloist and a leader of Musique, the Yendo Quartet has rapidly saxophone quartet and quintet. become known for its strong identity unit- Makoto Asari is a saxophonist, a founder ed by a common musical ideology from of Vive! Saxophone Quartet, and a mem- the quartet’s multiple European origins. ber of J-SAXER QUARTET. He studied The quartet has recently released its irst the saxophone with Prof. Makoto Suda at CD titled Utopicos, a project born from the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo. He adaption of Danzas Españolas for piano by performed at the World Saxophone Con- Enrique Granados. In parallel the quartet gress in Ljubljana, in Bangkok and in Stras- commissioned a new work from Argen- bourg. He has been invited as a guest so- tinian composer Luis Naón, a series of loist performing in USA, France, Thailand, dances that can be played alongside those Singapore and Hong Kong, and is active of Granados. A co-commission of Radio both in Japan and abroad. France, the premiere of Tangos Utopicos by Luis Naón took place in October 2015 Younglove, Matthew on Radio France during Anne Montaron’s Award-winning concert saxophonist and broadcast Alla Brève. After several perfor- pedagogue Matthew Younglove has per- mances at the Cité Internationale Univer- formed concerts and recitals across the sitaire de Paris, Yendo interpreted Phillipe United States, France, and the UK. He Geiss’s concerto United colors of saxo- currently serves on the faculty of Wayne phone at the Joseph Kosma auditorium, State University in Detroit, MI as Lecturer CNRR de Nice with the city of Nice Wind of Applied Saxophone and Athletic Bands. Orchestra. In June 2015 the quartet was Additionally, he has served on the faculties

364 biographies | Y-z | of the University of South Carolina and “Gavin Bryars: The Fifth Century” (avail- Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Youn- able on ECM Recordings). As an active so- glove is a Presser Scholar and graduated loist and clinician, Dr. Young has appeared Summa Cum Laude from the University in residence as a guest at several institu- of South Carolina where he earned his tions across the United States; including Bachelor of Music degree in Saxophone The University of North Texas, University Performance studing with the Charles J. of Michigan, University of Missouri-Kansas Mungo Award-winning Distinguished Pro- City, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, fessor Cliford Leaman. He holds a Doctor and Pennsylvania State University. He of Musical Arts degree specializing in holds degrees from the University of South contemporary music from Bowling Green Carolina (BM) and the University of Mich- State University where he was the saxo- igan (MM, DMA) where he studied with phone teaching assistant for Distinguished Cliford Leaman, Donald Sinta, and Andrew Research/Artist Professor John Sampen, Bishop. and a Masters of Music degree in saxo- phone performance from Northwestern Yun, Yeomin University, where he studied with Frederick Dr. Yeomin Yun is the irst Korean saxo- Hemke, the Louis and Elsie Snydacker Eck- phonist to receive the DMA in saxophone stein Professor of Saxophone. Younglove performance from the United States. For has commissioned and/or premiered works his doctoral degree, he studied saxophone by many composers. As a soloist he has with Dr. James Bunte and Prof. Rick Van- performed with the Bowling Green State Matre at the University of Cincinnati. He University Wind Symphony, the Wayne earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees State University Wind Symphony, the Mi- at the Korea National University of Arts not Symphony Orchestra, the Florence and a Graduate Certiicate in Performance Symphony Orchestra (SC), and the Motor at the University of Southern California. City Symphony Orchestra, and recently He was selected as saxophonist for “Pow- performed his international debut with der Her Face” together with USC Opera the International Symphony Orchestra, and LA Philharmonic under directing by performing concerts in Port Huron, MI and Thomas Adès. Some of Dr. Yun’s high- Sarnia, ON. Younglove’s recent research, lights in performance include EBS Space culminating the publication as a disserta- Concert, KBS Open Concert, WASBE tion, explores the intersection of free-jazz Conference, NASA Conference, and World improvisation and contemporary classical Saxophone Congress. He has performed music, speciically in new works for the with many world renowned saxophonists saxophone by composers Alex Mincek and including Nicolas Prost, Nobuya Sugawa, Eric Wubbels of the NYC-based Wet Ink Arno Bornkamp, Philippe Portejoie, Tom Ensemble. As a member of the award-win- deVette, James Rotter, Nathan Nabb, and ning Assembly Quartet he frequently tours Timothy McAllister. Dr. Yeomin Yun served the US and abroad performing concerts as Instructor of Music at Korea National and engaging in educational outreach University of arts and Assistant Professor performances. of Saxophone at the GyeongJu University in South Korea. He is currently Full-time Young, Robert Lecturer of Music at the Korea Science Robert Young is an accomplished perform- Academy of KAIST. er and teacher. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the z Arts in the fall of 2016, and has collaborat- ed and performed with many celebrated Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra artists and ensembles throughout his ca- The Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, an reer. Highlights include performances with orchestra with a 140-year-old tradition the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, of masterly music making in Zagreb and Chris Potter, Ravi Coltrane, Uri Caine, The Croatia. Without a doubt, the no. 1 sym- Crossing, and PRISM Quartet. As a guest phony orchestra in the country and one of artist with the PRISM Quartet, Robert the most well-known ones in the region. A Young could be heard on The Crossing promoter of musical art throughout Croa- choir’s GRAMMY Award winning album, tia and cultural ambassador of Croatia in biografIES

365 biographies | z-z | the world.A cultural landmark of the city Zagreb Saxophone Quartet with Bojan it resides in, a musical institution of glori- Gorišek & Milko Lazar ous past and grand tradition, embodying The graduates of the University of Za- the urban image of Zagreb as a Central greb Academy of Music in the class of European musical, artistic and cultural Prof. Josip Nochta founded the Zagreb center.As early as 1871 the professional Saxophone Quartet, which has been per- orchestral activity started in Zagreb, with forming with the present members since the Orchestra receiving the name it bears 1989. The Zagreb Saxophone Quartet are: today in 1920. Ever since it was established, Dragan Sremec, saxophone professor and the Orchestra is bringing the best classical vice dean at University of Zagreb Acade- music to the Croatian capital, having its my of Music - soprano saxophone, Goran history written by irst-rate chief conduc- Merčep, chamber music professor at Uni- tors Friedrich Zaun, Milan Horvat, Lovro versity of Zagreb Academy of Music - alto von Matačić, Mladen Bašić, Pavle Dešpalj, saxophone, Saša Nestorović, chamber Pavel Kogan, Kazushi Ono, Frank Shipway music professor at University of Zagreb and Vjekoslav Šutej.Numerous renowned Academy of Music - tenor saxophone, and soloists performed alongside the Zagreb the Slovenian but a Zagreb pupil Matjaž Philharmonic - Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Drevenšek, saxophone professor and vice Rostropovich, Aldo Ciccolini, Igor Oistrach, dean at University of Ljubljana Academy Henryk Szeryng, Emil Giljels, Luciano Pa- of Music - baritone saxophone. ZSQ has varotti, Barbara Hendrix, Mischa Maisky, Ivo performed in Europe (Albania, Austria, Pogorelich, Montserrat Caballé, Placido Do- Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, mingo, Jose Carreras, Shlomo Mintz, Ruža Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Pospiš-Baldani, Dunja Vejzović, Renata Latvia, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Pokupić, Zoltan Kocsis, Philippe Entremont, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzer- Denyce Graves, Agnes Baltsa and others. land, Turkey, UK), Asia (Hong Kong), South All these names as well as numerous re- America (Argentina, Chile), Canada, and nowned conductors - Lorin Maazel, Zubin the USA (Arizona, California - Los Angeles, Mehta, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Valeri Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois - Chicago, Gergiev, Leopold Hager, Dennis Russel Da- Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, vies, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Dmitrij Kitajenko - Michigan, Minnesota - Minneapolis, Nebras- conirm the great tradition and reputation ka, New York, New York City, North Car- of the Orchestra.The Zagreb Philharmonic olina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Orchestra holds its regular concert sea- Texas, Utah, Washington DC., Wisconsin, son in Zagreb, gives numerous successful Wyoming).They have been soloists with or- concerts as well as distinguished guest chestras in Croatia, Slovenia, France, USA, performances from St Petersburg and Vi- and Hong Kong, and performed at festivals enna to the Far East and North America. In in Berlin, Dubrovnik, Ljubljana, Munich, addition, they are regular guests at leading Novi Sad, Ohrid, Orsay, Paris, Podgorica, domestic festivals. Over the decades, the Riga, Split, Zagreb; also at several World Orchestra has been encouraging Croatian Saxophone Congresses. Numerous Croa- composers by performing, premiering and tian as well as foreign composers dedicat- recording their works. The Orchestra is also ed more than 50 pieces to them. Quartet proud of its numerous CD releases record- has recorded for the HRT, ÖRF, RTL, RTV ed for renowned Croatian and international Slovenia, Radio France, Radio Spain, WDR, labels, which have received many recog- and released 15 CDs (in Croatia, Slovenia, nitions such as the Croatian music award and USA), which have won seven Croatian Porin. In the new millennium, the Orchestra discography awards “Porin”. has extended its portfolio to include some Bojan Gorišek was born in Celje, Slovenia interesting crossover and multi-media in 1962. He graduated from the Academy programs to attract wider audiences, es- of Music in Ljubljana, Slovenia and com- pecially younger generations.Under the pleted his studies with Herbert Henck in leadership of the new chief conductor Mo Cologne, Germany. Milko Lazar was born David Dammar and the artistic consultant in 1965 in Maribor, studied jazz and classic Mo Dmitry Kitten the Zagreb Philharmonic piano and saxophone at the Hochschule Orchestra continues with its successful für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, concert activities. Austria; and cembalo at the Koninklijk

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Conservatorium Den Haag.The coopera- ists, for example – Henryk Szeryng, Alfred tion and joint performance by Lazar and Brendel, Christian Ferras, Pierre Fournier, Gorišek is best described as a high-level Leonard Rose, James Galway, Jean-Pierre musical partnership and mutual respect, Rampal, Aldo Ciccolini, Katia Ricciarel- resulting in the creative need for separate li, Lily Laskin, Zuzana Růžičková, Mario artistic paths after the period of intense Brunello, Isabelle Moretti, Guy Touvron and cooperation between 1999 and 2011. Both many others.Zagreb Soloists’ perform- musicians received many awards for their ing repertoire entails baroque, classicist, work, among others, the Prešeren Fund romantic and contemporary music, with Award. During the mentioned period, the particular attention given to Croatian com- musical comrades recorded 6 albums, posers – both of those who represent the touring Slovenia and abroad. The years musical heritage and those of the younger after the intense duo-experience were generation. followed by fruitful independent creative periods for both artists. Bojan Gorišek per- The Zahir Quartet was born in 2015 out formed solo shows at home and abroad, of a beautiful artistic and human encoun- playing primarily newer and older works by ter. These four saxophonists are currently composer Philip Glass, while also recording studying at the Paris Conservatory of for Dutch label Audiophile Classics. Milko Music and Dance where they followed the Lazar composed intensively, mostly for advice of Laszlo Hadady (Oboe solo at the various orchestras at home and abroad. At Inter-Contemporary Ensemble 1980-2010) the same time, he also worked closely with and received numerous awards. In 2017, Edward Clug. During this period, they cre- the Zahir Quartet won the 9th Internation- ated ifteen ballet performances, primarily al Chamber Music Competition in Osaka for foreign opera-ballet houses (Lisbon, (Japan), gaining international recognition. Zürich, Sankt Petersburg, Augsburg, Stutt- Supported by the Fondation Mécénat Mu- gart, Netherlands Dance Theatre, etc.). As sical Société Générale and the Jeunes Tal- a pianist and harpsichordist, Lazar also ents association, the Zahir Quartet is also regularly played with various groups and the winner of the International Chamber musicians. Music Competition of FNAPEC in 2016 and is sponsored by Jean-François Zygel after Zagreb Soloists his passage on France2 in the “La Boîte Founded in 1953 as a Radio Zagreb en- à Musique”. It is the sharing of the same semble under the artistic leadership of the sensitivity, an acute demand and the desire renowned cellist Antonio Janigro, Zagreb to renew the musical landscape that unites Soloists gained reputation as one of the this ensemble. Whether by revisiting the world’s most outstanding chamber orches- original repertoire, through their meetings tras.Besides their conspicuous work with with many composers such as Alexandros Maestro Janigro Zagreb Soloists have also Markeas, Alexis Ciesla and Stanislav Ma- collaborated with concert-masters Dragu- kovsky, or through numerous transcrip- tin Hrdoljak, Tonko Ninic, Andelko Krpan, tions (Borodine, Bernstein, Piazzolla and and Borivoj Martincic-Jercic.Since 2012 the Ligeti), these musicians show their curiosi- ensemble performs under the leadership ty and their creativity. of Sreten Krstic who is also the leader of the Munich Philharmonic.Since their incep- Zervas, Athanasios tion the Zagreb Soloists gave over 4000 Athanasios Zervas is a composer, theorist, concerts on all continents and in many saxophonist, and conductor. He holds a prestigious venues such as the Musikverein DM in composition and a MM in saxophone (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), performance from Northwestern Universi- Royal Festival Hall (London), Berlin Phil- ty, and a BA in music from Chicago State harmonic Hall, Tchaikowski Hall (Moscow), University. He studied composition with Santa Cecilia (Rome), Carnegie Hall (New Frank Garcia, M. William Karlins, William York), Opera House (Sydney), Victoria Hall Russo, Stephen Syverud, Alan Stout, and (Geneva), Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Co- Jay Alan Yim; saxophone with Frederick lon (Buenos Aires), etc. They have regular- Hemke, and Wayne Richards; jazz sax- ly performed at the major music festivals ophone and improvisation with Vernice playing with numerous distinguished solo- “Bunky” Green, Joe Daley, and Paul Ber- biografIES

367 biographies | z-z | liner. Dr. Athanasios Zervas is an Associate Real Conservatorio Superior Víctoria Eu- Professor of music theory-music creation denia in Granada. The group group studied at the University of Macedonia in Thessa- with many renowned saxophonists, includ- loniki Greece, Professor of Saxophone at ing Daniel Defayet , Jean-Ives Formeau, the Conservatory of Athens, editor for the GillesTressos, Pedro Iturralde and Manuel online theory/composition journal mus-e- Miján. Together with Pedro Iturralde they journal at www.muse.gr, and founder of the have toured, performing his arrangements Athens Saxophone Quartet. and compositions based on Spanish clas- sical music, lamenco and jazz fusion. Zhao, Jiaqi Among several recognitions, the Ziryâb Jiaqi (Kevin) Zhao is currently a irst year Saxophone Quartet was awarded second Doctorate student at Eastman School of prizes at the Concurso Permanente de Music, majoring in Saxophone Performance JóvenesIntèrpretes of Jeunesses Musicales and Literature with Dr. Chien-Kwan Lin. Spain and the International Music Contest There he received his bachelor’s degree (Córdoba, Spain, 2006), and irst prize and pursued his master’s degree at the at the Francisco Salzillo Contest (Murcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spain, 2007). Ziryâb has recorded 2 CD’s (UIUC) under professor Debra Richtmeyer. titled Miscelanea (1997) and Tetraphone He is also an accomplished pianist and (2007) The quartet has toured Spain, Italy won prizes for both piano and saxophone and Morrocco. during his high school years. During his college and graduate years, he won 1st Zürich Saxophone Collective, Lars prize in the LISMA Woodwind Competition Mlekusch – conductor (2013), 2nd prize in Vandoren Emerging The Zürich Saxophone Collective brings Artist Competition (2015), was a inalist together a unique mixture of musical in North American Saxophone Alliance cultures and traditions, with members Solo Competition (2016) and 4th place in coming from all four corners of the world; the 5th Jean-Marie LONDEIX International Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Israel, Saxophone Competition (JLMISC) held in Switzerland, France, Spain, Poland, Lat- Bangkok (2017). During his second year via, Hungary and Norway, to name a few. of master degree, he won Concerto Com- All members of the ensemble are highly petition at University of Illinois at Urban trained musicians in the ields of Classi- Champaign and was invited to play Henri cal and Contemporary Music. As artistic Tomasis Concerto with University of Illinois director and conductor of the collective, Symphony Orchestra in October, 2017. Lars Mlekusch aspires to express this plu- Zhao has played in masterclasses for Grif- ralism and diversity of cultures by creating in Campbell, Claude Delangle, Otis Mur- a musical program that presents a wide phy, Timothy McAllister, Kenneth Tse, Car- spectrum of styles and aesthetics, ranging rie Kofman, Nikita Zimin and Jean-Michel from premiering works of well-known con- Zhao. Together with the Finja Saxophone temporary composers to transcriptions of Quartet at Eastman, he won 1st prize in the symphonic masterpieces. Lars Mlekusch, 198th Army Band Ensemble Competition who was also the founder and artistic di- (2013) and 1st Prize in the MTNA National rector of the Vienna Saxophonic Orchestra, Wind Chamber Music Competition (2014). formed The Zürich Saxophone Collective As member of the Eastman Saxophone with his arrival to Zürich, where he has Project for four years, he performed in been teaching saxophone and chamber many places including the Kennedy Center music since 2015 at the Zürich University in Washington, D.C. of the Arts. The ZSC aspires to explore dif- ferent sound and physical spaces, whether Ziryâb Saxophone Quartet through unusual venues, spatial perfor- The Ziryâb Saxophone Quartet, found- mances or interdisciplinary projects. ed in 1998, has a long life on the musical scene in Spain being one the irst quartets Zygar, Dirk created and still active. Its members are Dirk Zygar, born 1964, lives in Hamburg saxophone teachers at Conservario Superi- and grew up in Liberia, Westafrica. He or Rafael Orozco in Córdoba, Conservato- studied saxophone under John Tchicai. rio Superior Manuel Castillo in Sevilla and Besides being an instrumentalist, he is a composer, arranger, music teacher for

368 biographies | z-z | saxophones clarinets, and musicology in Berlin and Hamburg. He is the leader and baritone-saxophonist of the Ber- lepsch-Saxophone-Quartett in Hamburg. He is interested in research of musical heri- tage of West African and Northern German ethnic music. For some time he has been living as a new-wave-musician in Berlin wandering in-between European musical cultures and jazz. Zygar is composing works for saxophone quartet and solo saxophone, for schooler-ensembles and publishes workbooks for saxophone. Žužak, Tomislav

Tomislav Žužak (1978) is one of Croatia’s most prominent saxophonists. As an artist of exceptional proiciency and performing technique, he cultivates a wide range of styles in his repertoire, especially tending to contemporary music. He has held a range of chamber music recitals and solo performances with orchestras and has recorded several CDs with sax quartet and solo. Since 2008 he has worked in- tensely as a member of the Papandopulo Quartet. Having graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb, in the class of Dra- gan Sremec, Tomislav Žužak completed his educational training at Paris conser- vatories with Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Philippe Portejoie, and through workshops held by maestros Jean-Marie Londeix, Eu- gene Rousseau and Claude Delangle. He has won various awards at competitions in Croatia and abroad. Today, Tomislav Žužak teaches saxophone at the Zagreb University, Sarajevo University and at the Music school in Samobor, Croatia. He has been the creator, founder, co-organizer and supervisor of The Saxophone School in Jaska, and manages the workshops of Croatian Music Youth. Žužak, Tomislav, Cheli, Jasen and Fak, Filip Renowned Croatian chamber musicians Tomislav Žužak, Jasen Cheli and Filip Fak gathered in trio which enjoys playing clas- sical and contemporary music. They often use possibility of refreshing their presenta- tion with duet intermissions in all possible combinations of this three instruments. biografIES

369 Technical organizer Spektar putovanja Professional Congress Organizer Ul. Andrije Hebranga 34 HR-10000 Zagreb www.spektar-putovanja.hr

Student team Marta Barić-Pilić, Luka Bilić, Jana Blažanović, Mirta Borovac, Josip Bostjancic, Kristian Bošković, Antonio Ceković, Marija Cestarić, Marijan Conjar, Lucija Cvitan, Magdalena Cvi- tan, Toma Cvrtila, Klara Ćavar, Marina Ćosić, Grgur Damiani, Sonja Domitrović, Dunja Đurđević, Nina Franulović, Janko Franković, Dominik Grgić, Ana Gross, Ema Gross, Mar- ta Haraminčić, Ana Horvat, Hrvoje Horvat, Sara Jakopović, Ana Jazbec, Monika Jukić, Barbara Kajin, Sara Kalanj, Suzana Komazin, Ana Korade, Ana Kovačić, Barbara Kšenek, Krešimir Kottek, Petra Kukavica, Barbara Lalić, Petra Merle, Ema Milenković, Ema Miličević, Luka Mohač, Luka Norac, Katarina Oršolić, Andrija Penezić, Luka Petričić, Mia Pleša, Nives Rački, Eva Radiković, Ana Rebić, Marko Rušn- ov, Valentina Sertić, Nikola Smetko, Bartol Stopić, Katarina Tešija, Nina Vučemilović, Mar- ija Vukšić, Hana Zdunić, Martina Župan, Nives Županić Tica XVIIIth World Saxophone Congress

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