Carinthia saxophone quartet
The Carinthia Saxophone Quartet is an Austrian classical saxophone quartet based in Carinthia .
About the ensemble
The Carinthia Saxophone Quartet has been enlivening Carinthia's cultural life since 1988 ( Carinthian Summer , Millstatt Music Weeks , St. Pauler Kultursommer , Wiener Konzerthaus ...) and over the years has repeatedly acted as cultural ambassadors abroad - for example in 1997 with an America tour in Las Vegas, New York, Washington and Chicago to present contemporary Austrian music for classical saxophone quartet, in 2005 at the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival, where the program also included arrangements of Carinthian songs, or in collaboration with the “Teatro Potlach” or the “ Odin Teatret ” in Italy , Great Britain and Denmark. The quartet's repertoire focuses on maintaining the original French literature for saxophone quartet, premieres of contemporary compositions - mainly by Austrian composers - as well as arrangements of music from different epochs and styles.
The musicians of the quartet
- Gilbert Sabitzer - soprano saxophone
- Gerhard Lippauer - alto saxophone
- Rudolf Kaimbacher - tenor saxophone
- Günter Lenart - baritone saxophone , arrangements
activities
- Concerts
- Children's programs
- Framing of events
- World premieres of works by mainly Austrian composers: Günther Antesberger, Franz Cibulka , Stephan Kühne, Günter Lenart, Guido Mancusi , Günther Mattitsch, Hannes Raffaseder , Michael Rot , Hans-Jörg Scherr and Alfred Stingl.
- Cooperation with the Roman TeatroPotlach on the major international project "Cittá Invisibile"
- Previous concert activity in Austria, Australia, Egypt, Bosnia, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Turkey and the USA
Special stations and highlights of the quartet
- 1997: American tour together with the pianist Johannes Brummer. Stations: Las Vegas, New York, Washington and Chicago to present contemporary Austrian music for classical saxophone quartet
- 2000: Environmental protection award from the state of Carinthia together with Michael Rot and his "environmental children's play" The very little wolf & the story of the sad forest .
- 2005: Canberra International Chamber Music Festival
- 2015: Game of the national anthem before kick-off for the Austrian Bowl XXXI in the Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt
- 2016: Musical accompaniment for the opening of the 40th Days of German-Language Literature ( Bachmann Prize ) in the ORF regional studio Carinthia in Klagenfurt
Discography
- The world is open - music by Günther Mattitsch, Carinthia Saxophone Quartet, Hortus Musicus and Ensemble Kreativ, 1995
- Music by Austrian composers , Carinthia saxophone quartet and Johannes Brummer (piano), 1996
- A la carte . Carinthia saxophone quartet with arrangements of classical as well as popular pieces and Carinthian songs, 1999
- The very little wolf and the story of the sad forest by Michael Rot, Carinthia saxophone quartet with Wolfgang Hartmann as narrator, 2000
- A bold CD of works by the Villach composer Stephan Kühne for saxophone in various formations (together with Johannes Brummer - piano and Berndt Thurner - marimbaphone ), 2002
- Musicke for Dauncing Judicially by Howard Harris, Carinthia Saxophone Quartet together with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , 2004, on: Joel Eric Suben (Conductor): Orchestral Excursions: Music by Marga Richter and Howard Harris (CD - Leonarda # 351)
- Where you are not - encounter with Schubert Carinthia Saxophone Quartet and Gabriel Lipuš (tenor), 2017