Coklea Saxophone Quartet performance
Website(s) : http://www.coklea.ch
COKLEA saxophone quartet finds its origins from the cultural particularity of modern Helvetia. It proposes pieces of Swiss composers and transcriptions.
Biography
Formed in 2010 of four former classical saxophone’s students of the Lucerne Conservatory, the quartet made its debuts at the conservatory auditions and concerts at various events around Lucerne. The main feature of this quartet is the representation of three linguistic regions of Switzerland in a set!
cokléa, what’s this?
This word comes from the Italian “coclea” or French the cochlea : indispensable part of our inner ear. Passed through linguistic machinery of the quartet, the word had taken the k “karakteristik” of the Swiss-German language and the é, letter created by the French language to annoy the rest of the world …
In 2012 the whole created a musical during its bachelor.
More information
Coklea Saxophone Quartet proposes a piece by Kaspar Ewald, a swiss composer, as well as a arrangement of Minimax, by Hindemith, and transcriptions of Bach and Mozart.