Concert: SIGMA Project (saxophone quartet)

If the string quartet was the quintessential chamber music formation in past centuries, then perhaps in the 21st century, this role can be claimed for the saxophone quartet! The Madrid-based SIGMA Project, winner of the prestigious BBVA Foundation’s Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Musical Creators, is unquestionably much more than a mere saxophone quartet. Praised by the press as “the real Ardittis of the saxophone”, the SIGMA Project is a crucial conduit for the instrumental music of the 21st century, having performed more than 150 concerts in illustrious auditoriums and festivals across the world – extensively in the US and Europe, as well as in Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Bogotá (Teatro Mayor), Mexico City (Palacio de Bellas Artes), Santiago de Chile (Auditorio GAM), amongst others. For their debut in Cyprus, as part of the 15th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival, the SIGMA Project saxophone quartet will perform a unique programme of works by Iannis Xenakis, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mauricio Sotelo, Helga Arias, Jesús Torres, and a newly commissioned piece by the London-based Cypriot composer Effy Efthymiou. The concert is supported by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and is organised in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain.


The concert is supported by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)



The
concert is organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

XAS (1987)

 

Helga Arias (b.1984)

Milk Spilt On A Stone (2017)

 

Effy Efthymiou

New Work

 

Jesús Torres (b.1965)

Tenebrae (2012)

 

Salvatore Sciarrino (b.1947)

Quadrangoli d'autunno (osservazioni su una cellula sonora) (2021)

 

Mauricio Sotelo (1961)

 

Cantes de viento y nieve – espirales de llanto (2024)

SIGMA Project (saxophone quartet)
Saxophone Quartet
Standard
€20
Concessions & Members
€15