XASAX
Biography XASAX
XASAX
Founded in Paris in 1991, after two encounters in Vienna and Rotterdam, since then, the ensemble proposed to
widen the repertoiry, the action range and eventually the image of this traditionnal formation of chamber music : the saxophone quartet. On one hand promoting a contemporary repertory still little known (Xenakis, Donatoni, Cage, Sciarrino etc.), commissionning many new pieces for a formation voluntarily mobile and open to all combinations or permutations offered by the large familly of the saxophones, and on the other hand XASAX explores less academic lands such as compositions originating in Jazz or improvised music, as well as in a une re-reading of the «Art of the Fugue» by BACH, of rennaissance franco-flemmish polyphonies, or Ars Subtilior from the XIVth century.
XASAX played in diverse festivals and institutions such as the Konzerthaus, Vienne (Autriche) - Jauna Muzika, Vilnius (Lithuanie) - West Deutscher Rundfunk, Cologne - Festival de Witten - ZKM Karlsruhe (Allemagne) - Musique Action, Vandoeuvre - E.N.A. , Strasbourg - Auditorium des Halles, Paris - Musicavoix, Evreux - Ulrichsberg Festival (Autriche) - Neue Muzik Rümlingen (Suisse) - Institut Cervantes, Toulouse - Festival Meslanges de Printemps, Dijon - Festival 2 days & 2 nights, Odessa (Ukraine) - East-West Kazan (Tatarstan) -Festival Archipel, Genève - Maison des Cultures du Monde, Berlin - Festival d’Automne, Paris - Festival d’Edimbourg - Darmstadt - Chicago - Salzburg - Milano Musica - Abbaye de Royaumont - Contempuls Prague ...
