Italian Saxophone Quartet
The Program
Antonio Vivaldi:
La Tempesta di Mare
Gioachino Rossini:
Sonata a Quattro No. 3 (1804)
Pedro Iturralde:
Suite Hellenique for saxophone quartet (2008)
Jean Françaix:
Petit Quatuor pour saxophones (1935)
Johann Bach:
Prelude and Fugue XVI, Well-tempered Clavier
Wolfgang Mozart:
Adagio, from Serenade No. 10, K361
Michael Nyman:
Song for Tony
Astor Piazzola:
Histoire du Tango | Oblivion | Libertango
The Musicians
Federico Mondelci,
soprano saxophone
Davide Bartelucci ,
alto saxophone
Pasquale Cesare, tenore saxophone
Michele Paolino,
baritono saxophone
The award-winning
Italian Saxophone Quartet
was founded in 1982 by four saxophone soloists, close friends determined to join together to perform chamber music for saxophone at the very highest artistic level. Since then, they have played to wide acclaim in more than 500 concerts for leading presenters in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Japan, USA, Sweden, Lebanon, Bermuda and Russia. The quartet’s concerts have been recorded and broadcast by the Italian RAI-Radio 1 and RAI-Radio 3 as well as by Swedish, German, Japanese and American national radios.
Among their important projects, the quartet has performed Luciano Berio’s “Outis” with the Symphony Orchestra of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. They appeared as soloists with the Malipiero Symphony Orchestra in works by Piazzolla and Dubois, and collaborated with the Fonè String Quartet on the creation a new arrangement of the Art of the Fugue by J.S. Bach for string and saxophone quartets, which was premiered at the XXII International Chamber Music Festival in Asolo.
The Italian Saxophone Quartet annual tours of the United States have brought them to New York City, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, and venues in California, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Idaho, Alaska and now Rhode Island.
A highlight of the current season is their Washington DC début with two concerts on the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks series. International activities include concerts at the Bermuda International Festival, the Alicante Festival (Spain), the Oleg Kagan Musikfest in Munich (Germany), the Palaces of St. Petersburg Chamber Music Festival (Russia), and the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut.
