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30th of November 2011

• Signum Saxophonquartett in “ENSEMBLE” (December 2011).
  

  

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30th of November 2011

• Signum Saxophonquartett in “Clarino”.
  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

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14th of November 2011

• We are just back from Lithuania, where we stayed for three days in the beautiful city of Kaunas. There we played a very special concert which will be in our memory for a long time. The concert was in the big Philharmonic Hall. The hall has been renovated recently and it is an amazing atmosphere and fantastic acoustics in there. The audience was very thrilled by our performance and at the end we got standing ovations. An amazing feeling.
  Signum would like to thank Zita Bruzaite and Egidija Medeksaite for the great work and perfect organization. See you soon Lithuania!

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2nd of November 2011

• Gašper Konec is a young Slovenian composer with whom two of our members (Blaž and Alan) are connected by friendship since their early youth. More than five years later we sat in a bar with the quartet and the idea came up of commissioning a piece. It should be played at a concert in September 2011 for our project SignumFIVE. We all agreed to asking Gašper and called him the same night only a few minutes later.
  Despite the fact that the composer was tired due to the unusual time of our call he was very interested. One month later we already were rehearsing the piece and two months later it was premiered.
  We want to thank Gašper Konec because he creates a fantastic atmosphere in “Journey” with a simple but effective structure. It is a challenge for us to play such a piece always fresh and with new inspiration and playing it is always fun. “Journey” impressed the audience as well as the critics and therefore we will also play it in upcoming concerts.

  Thank you Gašper, we are looking forward to working with you!

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8th of October 2011

• Review – Usedomer Musikfestival – Published in Nordkurier, 10/01/2011

  “ The concert started with a price of the “Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung “, being worth 10.000 Euro, which was handed over by artistic director Thomas Hummel to the four young musicians from Germany and Slovenia. They immediately started the program with Edvard Grieg’s “Holberg Suite“. They played by heart which is not usual at all for ensembles and which enabled them to concentrate entirely on sound, expression and ensemble playing. The quartet has a fascinating huge width of sounds – it may sound round and full, sharp and succinct, but also very soft, tender and airy.
  With “Stilness – Musical landscape after Ciurlionis“ Lithuanian composer Zita Bruzaite (*1966) had composed a work exclusively for the “Signum Saxophonquartett“. The piece starts with tender and calm chords and the four create the chords at the première out of complete silence and motionless. One hardly feels a beginning but then the piece blossoms magnificently. In the middle there is a polyphonic network of the voices but executed sensitively. […]
  Signum played opus 85 from Max Reger and succeeded in creating the impression of the streaming sound of a huge organ in the Prelude but also the tenderness in the Fugue. And everything polished to the smallest details.
  But the four could also rock good and proper! Like they did in a folkloristic and virtuoso manner with Béla Bartok’s “Romanian Folk Dances“. […]
  Those who still weren’t gone into ecstasies by then cheered and applauded at the end of the official programme and sparked off fireworks of three encores. “
  

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16th of July 2011

• We met wonderful people on our concert trip in Tuskany and Lombardy and are happy about a future cooperation with the AMC Agency in Italy. The “Signum Saxophonquartett” wants to thank Franco Panozzo and Edoardo Strabbioli for their support and interest in our music.

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11th of July 2011

• Due to the invitation of the “Deutscher Musikrat” we are happy about our participation at the 56th Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Campus from 07th to the 18th of September 2011 where we will have the opportunity of working with reknown fantastic musicians like Gerhard Schulz (Alban Berg Quartett), the Vogler Quartett, Heime Müller and Matthias Kirschnereit.

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1st of June 2011

• Signum Saxophonquartett in “ENSEMBLE” (Magazin for chamber music).
  

  

  

  
  

  

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30th of May 2011

• We just returned from Saint Petersburg where we had an unforgettable concert at the 16th International Festival Musical Olympus in the sold out ,,State Academic Cappella”.
  We want to express our thanks to Irina Nikitina and the whole organizing committee for a great weekend in one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
  

  

  

  
  

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19th of May 2011

• We thank the “Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung” for the prize of the “Usedomer Musikfestival” 2011 which enables us to perform at this beautiful and reknown festival on September 29th.

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11th of May 2011

• We are looking forward to the cooperation with the company Rico as “RICO ARTIST” and want to thank Alexander Reiners who made this possible.
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  The “Signum Saxophonquartett” is playing Rice Reserve reeds.
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10th of May 2011

• Our first Masterclass was a success: After a wonderful and sold out concert in the fantastic town hall Zittau we teached two days which had been full of Saxophone, music and much inspiration. We thank the over 30 participants and Ragnar Schnitzler who made this all possible in the first place.
  We are looking forward to our next Masterclass!
  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

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4th of May 2011

• Finally we are proud to announce:

  Our first CD ( “Debut” ), published by the Label “Ars Produktion”, has been put on the market! The programme includes Suites by Grieg and Ravel as well as works of the 20th century by Bartok, Shostakovitch, Escaich and Iturralde. The CD will be presented in Germany and in several European countries within the context of a concert tour.

  To get an impression of our CD you are invited to listen to a few exerpts here on our homepage.
  

  

  

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30th of March 2010

• The Signum Saxophone Quartet has won a scholarship of the competition “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb” which took place in Berlin in March 2011.
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  After three rounds and a jury consisting of more than 30 reknown musicians we are happy about a three-year promotion and many resulting concerts.

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8th of November 2010

• Interview on WDR3 (WDR3 TonArt)



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27th of September 2010

• After four final rounds, fantastic and pleasant competitors and many hours of waiting in late summer we are proud to announce:
  The Signum Saxophone Quartet won the

  1st Prize

  at the 14th Torneo Internazionale di Musica (TIM) in Verona.

  See you soon, Italy!

  Grazie!
  

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23rd of August 2010

• Review, Radio Slovenia, Program ARS, 14th of July 2010

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“In Edvard Grieg’s Holberg suite the saxophone quartet replaced the string orchestra wonderfully. Not only did we correctly hear all the voices of the melody and accompaniment but the young saxophonists also gave a personal note to the composition.
In contrast to this beautifully presented romantic suite was the work Lamentatio by the contemporary Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür, where the young saxophonists’ great articulative skills were pronounced. We were also impressed by the excellent articulation and nice coordination in their interpretation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Polka, adapted for saxophone quartet. [...]
In Astor Piazzolla’s piece Four for Tango we were fascinated [...] by the dedicated, sometimes even vehement delivering which lifted the audience to its feet.
The first encore, Pequena Czardas by the Spanish composer Pedro Iturralde heated up the audience even more. So the second encore followed, a short movement in the joyful style of Klezmer.”

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22nd of July 2010

• 60. Young Arists Bayreuth – Opening Event (video)

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9th of June 2010

• Signum Saxophonquartett on “SlovenianTour” in July 2010 (Bled, Ljubljana, Portorož).

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7th of June 2010

• Signum Saxophonquartett in “ENSEMBLE” (Magazin for chamber music).

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25th of March 2010

• Watch the brand new film about the Signum Saxophone Quartet by Martin Teschner.

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26th of January 2010

• Broadcasting of a live concert on WDR3 at 8:05pm (CET) played on October 6th of 2009 in the “Apollotheater Siegen”. Works by Grieg, Levy, Bach, Schostakowitsch and more.

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1st of January 2010

• The Signum Saxophone Quartet has agreed to be under contract at the concert and artist agency Jens Gunnar Becker.

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15th of Dezember 2009

• The Signum Saxophone Quartet presents Alan Lužar as his new member.

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13rd of Dezember 2009

• The Signum Saxophone Quartet wants to thank Monika and Jörg Helpenstein for their support over the last years.

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