Arcis Saxophone Quartet

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The Arcis Saxophone Quartet is a Munich- based chamber music ensemble.

history

The members of the Arcis Saxophone Quartet got together to play ensembles during their studies at the Munich University of Music and Theater in 2009 . They are trained to perform classical music and appear in public with a diverse repertoire. This ranges from arrangements of older works to compositions from the 19th and 20th centuries to contemporary music, in part composed especially for them, which is of particular concern to them.

From 2013 to completing their master’s degree in the summer semester of 2016, they studied chamber music at the Berlin University of the Arts in the class of the Artemis Quartet . The Arcis Saxophone Quartet has been an ensemble of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) since 2015 and is artistically sponsored by this institution. The quartet made international debuts with concerts in the hall of the Tschaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (Sep. 2013) and in the Wigmore Hall in London (Jan. 2016). In November 2016, the Arcis saxophone quartet was presented on ARTE in the program Stars von Morgen with Rolando Villazón .

occupation

Prizes and awards

  • First prize at the music competition of the Kulturkreis Gasteig eV (Munich, 2013; additional audience award)
  • First prize at the Concorso Argento International Music Competition (Italy, 2013)
  • First prize at the First Classical Music International Internet Festival "Chance Music" (Russia, 2013)
  • Third Prize at the 13th International Chieri Music Competition (Italy, 2013)
  • Second prize in the chamber music competition of the Alice Samter Foundation (Berlin, 2014)
  • First prize at the 4th international Contest - Festival of Chamber Ensemble Performance named after TA Gaidamovich in Magnitogorsk (Russia, 2015).
  • First prize at the 1st Rising Stars Grand Prix 2016 - International Music Competition Berlin.
  • Bavarian Art Prize 2016, Music and Dance section.

Discography

  • Arcis Saxophone Quartet plays Enjott Schneider , Ambiente Audio (2013)
  • "Rasch", an album with music by JS Bach (own arrangement of the Italian Concerto in F major BWV 971 ), George Gershwin ( Porgy and Bess Suite arranged by Sylvain Dedenon) and Franco Donatoni ( Rasch II for saxophone quartet, percussion and piano). Genuin classics , Leipzig, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait with links to available video examples
  2. ↑ Artist profile of the Arcis Saxophone Quartet on the website of the Concert Directorate Hörtnagel
  3. ↑ Stars of tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazón: Golda Schultz, Arcis Saxophone Quartet, Anatoli Sivko, Mayumi Kanagawa. (No longer available online.) ARTE media library, archived from the original on November 20, 2016 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Claus Hierluksch (soprano saxophone). Live Music Now, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ricarda Fuss (soprano saxophone). Live Music Now, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Jure Knez (soprano saxophone). Live Music Now, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Press release from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture on the 2016 Art Prize