The Element Quartet and its three dancers present a varied and visual program which hinges on many musical and choregraphic styles.
Event style: jazz
nOx.3
nOx.3 brings together three open and curious personalities wishing to turn jazz into a resolutely modern music. Their music generates an infinite variety of sound and leads to an indescribable trance.
Saxitude Performance
Saxitude explores every facet of music, from jazz to pop. They present a show that is full of energy, cheerfulness and excitement.
Saxitude will perform as part of World Sax Day (www.worldsaxday.com)
Dancing To Eternity: Five Grooves For Tenor Saxophone And Electroacoustic Brass and Percussion
Jordan Lulloff will perform a new commission by Charles Ruggiero that will be premiered at SaxOpen. His work combines live, real-time saxophone performance with prerecorded electroacoustic sounds.
Ragtimes and other new publications
Premieres of new ragtimes for pedagogical use by Sébastien Troendlé and other new publications composed by Philippe Geiss.
Netmoiré – saxophone trio & computer
Netmoiré is an electroacoustic improvisation trio juggling between free jazz and avant-garde musics, featuring Jason Charney and Josh Simmons on computers and Nick Zoulek on saxophones.
Gary Keller Performance
Wayne Shorter’s composition “Teru” arranged for saxophone and string quartet, performed by Professor Gary Keller. A slow ballad with improvised moments.
Céline Bonacina Trio
A program performed by Céline Bonacina (baritone – alto – soprano saxophone) and accompanied by an electronic bass and drums.
Bolton School Saxberries Performance
The Saxberries are a group of ten saxophonists and a percussionist who all attend Bolton School. Pupils within the Ensemble are aged between 13 and 19.
Clinical Pearls for Improving Saxophone Performance
Professor G.Keller of the University of Miami Frost School of Music, offers insights into stylistic flexibility and universal principles of saxophone sound and technique gained from 40 years of teaching.