This program proudly presents new works by some of the most innovative and celebrated UK composers working today; Peter Wiegold, and Christopher Fox. It also includes a new work by Matt London.
Event type: Conferences & Workshops
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.
Nexas Recital – quartet
The Nexas Saxophone Quartet presents the world premiere of E. Kats-Chernin’s “From Anna Magdelana’s Notebook”, originally for string quartet and arranged especially for SaxOpen.
Conversations by Frank Porto – solo
This lecture-recital will focus on various methods and strategies to learn and perform this complex solo.
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.
Mothertongue Ensemble Performance
The Mothertongue Ensemble, composed of Boston-based saxophonists Emily Cox and Charles Larson, is committed to exploring challenging new music for different combinations of two saxophones.
New Stories – duo (alto saxophone & piano)
Saxophonist Joseph Lulloff and Pianist Yu-Lien The will present the European Premiere of “New Stories” composed by Canadian composer Dorothy Chang for Joseph Lulloff.
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.
Line Dances and Heavy Metal
Angela Space will perform two pieces inspired by popular music : San Antonio by J. Harbison and a world premiere of her own piece Full Stop Suicide, with piano and electric guitar.
Bach in Image
Arno Bornkamp makes us rediscover transcriptions of solo pieces by J.S. Bach, accompanied by videos of James Murray that will make this concert a total experience.