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FRKUG-SAX-SIPPIA, a student-collective 13-piece Sax Orchestra, founded by Gerald Preinfalk, offers a work especially composed for the ensemble mixing classical, contemporary and jazzy influences.
Event style: crossover
Shimmer
Working with four leading Australian composers – Timothy Tate, Thomas Green, Chris Healey, and Andrew Ball – Emma Di Marco presents exciting, eccentric, and eclectic works written especially for her.
RoadBook – solo
Solo cycle of short pieces inspired by the various countries visited by the composer. Mix of the traditional instruments and the classic sound.
Ad Lib perfomance
A percussion and saxophone duo performing new Australian music with classical and jazz influences. They present recently premiered work but also established australian repertoire
pieces.
Original pieces for saxophone duo
Saxophone duet with Steve Stusek (USA) and Laurent Estoppey (CH). Original pieces composed for the duet by Wei Dai (China) and Nick Rich (USA) with digital media (CH) and live electronics.
The Healing Rain
The Riga Saxophone Quartet (RSQ) made its promising debut in 1992. Its repertoire mainly consists of works written specifically by Latvian composers. In 1999 it received the Latvian Great Music Award.
João Pedro Silva and Pedro Santos – Saxophone and accordion
Stylistic diversity that promises a close relationship between the contemporary and the tradition for accordion and saxophone inspired by Jorge Salgueiro, Lino Guerreiro and Paulo Jorge Ferreira.
Opus Band
“Opus Band”, an unusual brotherhood of monks, between the sacred, the profane, rock, Gregorian chants, the Middle Age or electrofunk will involve you in this “trip saxofonico on the way to heaven.”
Opus Band will perform as part of World Sax Day (www.worldsaxday.com)
Duo migrateur (saxophone & accordéon)
A contemporary ball : creations around the mambo, tango and twist , as well as rock proposed by the composers Sylvain Kassap, Thomas Gubitsch ,Thierry Escaich and Laurence Huck.
World premiere of a third stream composition for tenor saxophone and piano. A composition by the Belgian composer J. D’hoe.
Jeroen Vanbever presents a world premiere by composer Jeroen D’hoe, from the musical genre Third Stream, which combines improvisation and the vitality of jazz with composition techniques of occidental music.