The Ensemble 2.13 Sax comes from the Superior Conservatory of Castile and Leon. The sax class has become a reference class in Europe in its more than 10 years of tradition. Its members understand music as a shared experience, where the mix of different instrumental sonorities stands out above individuality. The concert is understood as a creative space that interacts with the public, fostering reflection on creation and current sound art. The relevance and prestige that this chamber group is acquiring is reflected by the awards received in different contests and prizes, such as the 1st Prize of the "IX Concurso de Jóvenes intérpretes extremeños", 1st Prize of the "V Ramón Guzmán Saxophone Competition" of Santiago de Compostela, 1st Prize in the "VIII Concurso Nacional de Interpretación Intercentros-Melómano" in the category of Superior Degree, 1st Prize in the "Concurso de Música de Cámara ciudad de Ávila", 2nd prize in the "Concurso de Juventudes Músicales de España"in the category of soloist. This relevance is also shown by the presence of its members in conservatories throughout Europe, such as the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, the Conservatoire régional CRR Versailles, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste or the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. The conductor of the ensemble is Ángel Soria, one of the most eminent musicians of his generation. He is a soloist and a member of the renowned saxophone quartet SIGMA Project. 

 

Aljaž Razdevšek (Slovenj Gradec, 1991) graduated from The Maribor Conservatory of Music and Ballet under prof. Peter Kruder in 2010 and from Music academy Zagreb, under prof. Dragan Sremec and assistent Tomislav Žužak in 2016. In the academic year 2013/14 he studied at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under prof. Miha Rogina as a part of bilateral exchange programme. From 2015 to 2017 he studied at Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon under prof. Jean Denis Michat. He attended several competitions: he won 1st prizes at the Woodwind competition in Požarevac , 11th International Competition Davorin Jenko competition, 1st Varaždin International Woodwin & Brass competition, etc. He is also winner of multiple honours. He attended numerous international seminars with world-renowned saxophonists: Matjaž Drevenšek, Lev Pupis, Miha Rogina, Marcus Weiss, Claude Delangle, Jean Denis Michat, Philippe Geiss, etc. Abdul-Aziz Hussein (Bucharest, 1992) is currently enrolled in doctoral studies at Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in Versailles in class of Philippe Cuper. He has graduated at Zagreb Music Academy in class of Davorin Brozić. He won a total of 7 1st prizes at Croatian national music students competitions.  He is also winner of multiple honours including Rector’s award from Zagreb university and Croatian composer’s guild award. He held many recitals in Croatia and abroad, most important being Osor musical evenings and Zagreb Biennale. As a soloist he played with HRT Symphony Orchestra and Croatian Armed Forces Wind Orchestra. He worked with eminent world clarinettists such as Guy Deplus, Philippe Cuper, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Jože Kotar, Radovan Cavallin, Sharon Kam, Nicholas Cox, Chen Halevi, Nikola Srdić, Luis Gomes. He is a clarinettist at the Croatian chamber orchestra and  at Zadar clarinet quartet.

 

The ACMH - Alicante Saxophone Ensemble started its activity in 2005. The goal, that led to the constitution of this Ensemble, was to offer young saxophonists the possibility of tapping into great training to increase their playing skills. The Ensemble consists of graduates of professional and superior conservatories. They have performed several concerts in Spain: Cloister of the Cortes Valencianas (Valencia), Theater of l'Orfeó Maonés and Esglessia des Socors (Menorca-Balearic Islands), Capitol Theater of Rojales, Houses of Culture of Xixona, Agost, Castalla, Novelda and El Campello or for audiences of the city of Alicante in the ADDA, in Theater Arniches of the Generalitat Valenciana, in the Museum MUBAG. They performed across Italy and in 2017 they participated at the EurSax in Porto (Portugal). The ENSA is impelled by the teachers José A. Antón Suay (saxophone professor, Conservatory "Ana María Sánchez" of Elda), Juan C. Sempere (saxophone professor, Conservatory "Tenor Cortis" of Denia) and Javier Carrillos (saxophone professor, Professional Conservatory of Elche).

 

Acrobatic Sax Quartet was born in 2016 when four young Calabrian saxophonists joined together to make a new exciting experience. The aim of the group was clear right from the beginning: as an acrobat knows how to move through a lot of troubles, the Acrobatic Sax quartet always tries to juggle in many kinds of music:Classical, Jazz, Latin, Pop Tunes. Every genre of music mixes as in a  sort of kaleidoscopic trip.

 

Dr. Adam McCord is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Louisville School of Music. He previously served on the faculties of Miami University, Ohio Northern University, Wittenberg University, Wake Forest University, and Indiana University. He completed the Doctor of Music degree at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where his primary studies were with Otis Murphy. He received the Master of Music degree and a Performer's Certificate also from IU and received the Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, in Saxophone Performance and Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where his teachers were Steven Stusek and Craig Whittaker. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and the Lexington Philharmonic, among others.                  

SSG Paul Tucker has been a member of Pershing's Own since 2006. Prior to joining the Army Band, Tucker studied in Paris at CNR Cergy-Pointoise, where he was awarded the Superieur Musique de Chambre and the Perfectionnement degree, the highest performance degree awarded in France. He also holds a Masters of Music in saxophone from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tucker maintains an active performance and teaching schedule. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, and was guest clinician at the 2008 Taiwan Saxophone Summer Festival. Most recently, he recorded a CD of saxophone music by Neil Thornock, composition professor at Brigham Young University, which was just released on the Navona classical label. He also maintains an active private teaching studio in Northern Virginia.

http://www.adammccord.com/

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The members of Adam Quartet are four Japanese saxophonists who have graduated from Showa University of Music. The Quartet was founded in February 2015 in Tokyo. In the same year Adam Quartet has won 1st prize - "The Grand Prix" at the Mozart International Chamber Music Competition in Salzburg.

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Adrianne Honnold teaches popular music history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Maryville University. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she studied with Debra Richtmeyer and Chip McNeill, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Popular Music Studies (Musicology) at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Ms. Honnold has appeared regularly with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra since 2004, and has also performed with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the USAF Band of Mid-America, Sessions Big Band, and the St. Louis Jazz Orchestra.  She was a founding member and Artistic Director of Chamber Project St. Louis from 2007 to 2015. She has been a featured performer and clinician at various North American Saxophone Alliance conferences as well as the Missouri Music Educators Conference, and has performed world premieres at the World Saxophone Congresses in St. Andrews, Scotland and Strasbourg, France.

http://www.adriannesaxophone.com

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The Alah Quartet is comprised of four aspiring saxophonists from Shanghai, China. “Alah” means “we” in Shanghainese dialect. While the four members have various education backgrounds, they love to play all kinds of saxophone quartet music and strive to deliver exceptional performances. The Alah Quartet performs regularly in concert halls in Shanghai, such as Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall, Oriental Arts Center, Poly Theater, Shanghai Museum, and Parsons Music Hall. In October 2017, they performed an entire show on four electric saxophones made by Roland at Music China Exhibition. They continue to discover new works for saxophone and make them accessible to Chinese audiences. Aside from making the China premiere of Patchwork by Philippe Geiss, and they worked closely with Jianqiang Xu, composition professor at Shanghai Conservatory, to commission and premiere his compositions such as Da Hu Shang Shan, and Gui Yuan TianJu, both of which received numerous accolades from audiences in Shanghai. 

Hailed as a “pioneering instrumentalist and writer” and praised for his “surpassingly beautiful music” and “undoubtedly brilliant mind”, British saxophonist Alastair Penman is a dynamic and versatile performer and composer, presenting contemporary music in new and exciting ways. Having earned masters’ degrees in both Information and Computer Engineering (University of Cambridge) and Saxophone Performance (Royal Northern College of Music), Alastair has a strong interest in the fusion of live saxophone performance with electronic effects, backings, and enhancements to create often previously undiscovered sound-worlds. As a soloist, Alastair has performed at venues including St Martin-in-the-Fields, St John’s Smith Square, Milton Court, Trinity College Chapel (Cambridge), The Forge and Clapham Omnibus. He has been a guest recitalist at the RNCM and Canterbury Christ Church University Saxophone Days and at EurSax17 (the 2017 European Saxophone Congress at Consevatório da Música do Porto). In an ensemble setting, Alastair performs with the award-winning Borealis Saxophone Quartet (soprano saxophone) and Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet (baritone saxophone). Alastair has performed with the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Orpheus Sinfonia, Ardente Opera, The Beethoven Ensemble and Cambridge Touring Opera. He has also appeared with jazz groups at Montreux and London Jazz Festivals, as well as at jazz clubs across Europe. Alastair has had the pleasure of working with conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Baldur Bronnimann, David Hill and Stephen Cleobury, and has performed with jazz greats Mike Gibbs, Clare Teal, Steve Waterman, Mark Nightingale, Gareth Lockrane, Julian Arguelles, Liane Carroll, Issie Barratt and John Helliwell.http://http://www.alastairpenman.co.uk

British saxophonist Alastair Wright has been praised by Classical Voice of North Carolina for his "dulcet-like tone...with a luminescent sheen." As a soloist, he has performed with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (as finalist in the Fifth Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition), Convivium Singers, the Thallein Contemporary Ensemble and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, and has presented recitals of new music throughout the US, UK and at the 2015 World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, France. He has seen success with Trio Dionysus and Dasch Quartet in national and international competitions and can be heard on Dasch Quartet''s recently released debut album, "Necessary Edges" Alastair is a current doctoral student at the University of Missouri Kansas City and holds performance degrees from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He teaches saxophone at the University of Central Missouri.