Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
| Raschèr Saxophone Quartet | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Art music |
| founding | 1969 |
| Founding members | |
| Carina Rascher (1969-2002) | |
| Sigurd Rascher (1969–1980) | |
| Bruce Weinberger (1969-2014) | |
| Linda Bangs (1969-1992) | |
| Current occupation | |
Soprano saxophone |
Christine Rall (since 2002) |
Alto saxophone |
Elliot Riley (since 2001) |
Tenor saxophone |
Andreas van Zoelen (since 2014) |
Baritone saxophone |
Oscar Trompenaars (since 2019) |
| former members | |
Alto saxophone |
John-Edward Kelly (1981-1991) |
Alto saxophone |
Harry Kinross White (1989-2001) |
Baritone saxophone |
Kenneth Coon (1992-2019) |
The Raschèr Saxophone Quartet is a professional saxophone quartet in the classical line-up with soprano , alto , tenor and baritone saxophone . Members of the quartet are Christine Rall (soprano saxophone), Elliot Riley (alto saxophone), Andreas van Zoelen (tenor saxophone) and Oscar Trompenaars (baritone saxophone).
history
After Marcel Mule had dissolved his forty year old saxophone quartet Quatuor de la Garde Républicaine , Sigurd Rascher (1907–2001) founded that in 1969 in his house in Shushan (Ney York) together with his daughter Carina (Karin) as well as Bruce Weinberger and Linda Bangs Fast Saxophone Quartet . Guest tours brought the ensemble, which was still based in the USA, with this line-up to West Germany for the first time in the early 1970s . The quartet finally changed its name in the mid-1990s to the accented spelling, which had been used since 1980, and is now based in Freiburg .
Over the years, various composers, e. B. Bernd Franke , Anders Nilsson or Erland von Koch , chamber music pieces and orchestral works for the quartet.
From 2003 to 2007 the quartet was Ensemble in Residence at Theater Kiel .
Kenneth Coon (baritone saxophone) died on May 14, 2019. The Dutch saxophonist Oscar Trompenaars succeeded him in September 2019.
Web links
- Website of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
- Andreas van Zoelen: 50 years of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet. In: Reed. 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .
- Raschèr Saxophone Quartet at Discogs (English)
- Raschèr Saxophone Quartet at Allmusic (English)
- Portrait of the quartet's 50th anniversary - recording of an SWR2 broadcast (MP3, approx. 63 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry White. (No longer available online.) Harrywhitetrio.net, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; accessed on April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal: LIKE THE CLAIMING WAY OF THE WIND - About the saxophone in classical music - MARCEL MULE OR THE DREAM OF FOURFOLD BREATH. (No longer available online.) Hjs-jazz.de, 1997, archived from the original on April 30, 2003 ; accessed on April 15, 2019 .
- ^ Hans-Dieter Grünefeld: The saxophone classic . The Raschèr Quartet - a portrait for the 40th anniversary. In: Neue Musikzeitung . 57th year, no. 12/2008 . ConBrio-Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 2008 ( nmz.de [accessed on April 15, 2019]).
- ↑ Anders Lundegård: Sigurd Rascher . In: BACKGROUND AND EMERGENCE OF THE SWEDISH SAXOPHONE CONCERTO - LARS-ERIK LARSSON, Op.14 . Evanston, Illinois 1995 ( classicalsaxophonist.com [accessed April 15, 2019] dissertation).
- ↑ Oliver Stenzel: Early Music, New Poetry . On May 25, 2015 at kn-online.de , accessed on April 15, 2019
- ↑ Friends of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet: News 2019. Accessed on November 5, 2019 .