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FRRepeat, a piece by the Portuguese Composer Jorge Salgueiro, with the goal to get the World Guinness Record of the biggest saxophone orchestra: 16 saxophonists on the same stage.
Event style: discovery
MUSICAL COLOR: Destreza sonora para saxofón
Two exhibitions: one pedagogic for teachers and one practical for students saxophonists. Presentation of the first book in the series “MUSICAL COLOR: Sound Dexterity
for Saxophone ». As part of the Today’s beginner saxophonist: Towards a new pedagogy seminar.
Sax aux kids
This conference will allow the children to discover the various types of saxophones and the principles of functioning and the story of the instrument.
Sculptures Sonores & Improvisations
Improvisation session with sound sculptures, for a quartet of pupils with possible participation of the audience.
Welcome to ASAX: Introducing the Saxophonists’ Association
Meeting with the association A.SAX, its history, functions, members and partners to discover a new cohesion of the saxophone landscape in France and outside borders.
Performance impromptue
Unexpected and staged performances, in the streets or a corridor, by saxophone duo Miradas Cruzadas (Argentina-France).
SOUNDS AT AN EXHIBITION – Listening to the paintings
Sounds at an exhibition is an interactive visit, conceived as an itinerant concert, where an unusual guide, a saxophonist, comments through the voice of her instrument the museum’s works of art.
There is a limited number of seats: you need to book by e-mail at musees-serviceeducatif@strasbourg.eu before July 11, 6pm.
Isabella Fabbri will perform as part of World Sax Day (www.worldsaxday.com)
HINTERLAND / PROJET AVATAR
Hinterland joins with the composer Damien Charron to play “Avatar”, for saxophone trio. Extended, put in space, the original piece is confronted with improvisations on sound sculptures.
LA MACHINE
Works of Damien Charron, Bruno Giner, Philippe Laval, Yochk’ o Seffer… commissioned for a quartet of very young saxophone pupils to integrate sound sculptures.
The dual role of a composer-performer and new Australian music
Australian saxophonist-composer, Katia Beaugeais, will present her new saxophone concerto ‘Terra Obscura’, in reference to her Doctorate research about the dual role of a composer-performer.