Festival

Spectrum Saxophonquartett

Florian Bauer saxophones

Daniel Dundus saxophones

Severin Neubauer saxophones

Stephanie Schoiswohl saxophones

 

 

Gerald Preinfalk La Gammonaira (2023)

Yulan Yu Mägen, for saxophone quartet (2017)

Friedrich Cerha Saxophonquartett (1995)

Olga Neuwirth Ondate, for saxophone quartet (1998)

Georg Friedrich Haas Saxophonquartett (2014)

 

Further program information

Energetic - impulsive - dynamic! This is how the Spectrum Saxophone Quartet, formed in 2020, sees  itself. All of its members received their artistic training through studies in classical and contemporary saxophone at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Prof. Gerald Preinfalk, some of them also studied contemporary music with the renowned Ensemble Klangforum Wien or jazz and popular music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Since their studies in Graz, they have not only shared a long-standing personal friendship, but also an interest in various genres and aesthetics. The aim of their joint quartet work is to elicit the instrument's wide spectrum of rich colors and sound innovations and to perform an impressive variety of music – from classical to contemporary saxophone music, jazz, minimal music, avant-garde and experimental, tango, standards and arrangements of early music – with verve and enthusiasm.

Despite its short existence, the quartet can already look back on successes and concerts in their home country and abroad, and with its current CD "en dehors" it has once again clearly focused on its musical goals.

Both the CD and the concert program pay tribute to Gerald Preinfalk, their teacher and mentor, to Friedrich Cerha, a doyen of Austrian music, and with Georg Friedrich Haas and Olga Neuwirth to two more internationally highly renowned Austrian composers. Their compositions are supplemented live with "Mägen", a work by Yulan Yu, who, like the four musicians, also studied in Graz.