Performances scheduled in 2008/2009
2003-2008
Delta Saxophone Quartet Ensemble In Residence at Kington University
Its activities concentrated on three areas:
1.Undergraduate work including leading workshops,masterclasses, recordings and rehearsals.
2.Intensive recording policy working closely with the University resident composers.
3.Outreach/Special projects developing the quartet's and Universities National and International interests.
Many concerts and public performances will be given throughout the period of this residency with full details and links being posted on this page. Often these events will also be broadcast live over the internet.
In September or 2008 the quartet was invited to become an Ensemble of association with Kingston University continuing much of its work since 2003
Delta Saxophone Quartet touring set of Dedicated To You...
Set list to include arrangements and adaptions of:
Dedicated to you, Out Bloody Rageous, Mousetrap, Noisette, Kings + Queens, Floating World, Everything Is You, Aubade, Facelift etc..
2008
October/November
Completed the recording of its next CD/DVD Uneasy Dreams
works by: Goss, Finnissy, Ewers/Searby and Barry
(release date Spring 2008-FMR label)
December
14/12/2008
Hugh Hopper benefit concert 100 Club, 100 Oxford St.London
A benefit concert at London’s
100 Club will be held on Sunday December 14th 2008, taking place mainly
because of his colleagues in Soft Machine Legacy (plus other musician
friends), and made possible thanks to John Etheridge and The 100 Club.
The entire profit will go to Hugh Hopper, who has been diagnosed with
and is being treated for leukaemia.
The Benefit will feature some of Hugh’s friends and fellow musicians:
SOFT MACHINE LEGACY (filling for Hugh: FRED BAKER on bass)
DELTA SAXOPHONE QUARTET
PHIL MILLER IN CAHOOTS
BASH QUARTET feat. ALEX MAGUIRE, PATRICE MEYER, FRED BAKER & LIAM
GENOCKEY
SOPHIA DOMANCHIC & SIMON GOUBERT DUO
YUMI HARA-CAWKWELL
2009
January
20/01/2009
14hrs, Kingston workshop-students year 3 + MA
29/01/2009
Box Clever film recording, MA Film composers course. Kingston
30/01/2009
Box Clever film recording, MA Film composers course. Kingston
March
03/03/2009
Turner Sims Concert Hall
Southampton
Songs For Tony Mvt 1- Nyman
New York Counterpoint - Reich
Mishima - Glass
Alaric I or II - Bryars
Soft machine set
April
10-18th/04/2009
April Spring Friendship Art Festival (Confirmed)
Pyongyang, D.P.R. Korea
Special programme in Partnership with Frank van der Kooij (tenor sax + soprano sax) NL
Programme:
Dedicated- Hopper
Double Entry *** - Frank van der Kooij
Aubade- Jenkins
Mini Luv - Hopper
Everything Is You - Hopper arr. Englishby
Mousetrap - Hopper
Virtually - Hopper arr. Caldwell
Arirang- trad Korean folk song
Danny Boy - trad Irish folk song
Doraji - trad Korean folk song
Blues Ten - Hopper arr. Caldwell
The Tale Of Taliesin- Jenkins
Facelift - Hopper
Further details can be found on this special Blog spot.
19/04/2009
Delta Duo with Frank van der Kooij
Marwood Theatre, Beijing, China
28/04/2009
Batignano trio
Throwleigh Festival, Devon, UK
Susie Hodder Williams - flute/picc
Graham Roberts - Guitar
Chris Caldwel l- sop/alto saxes + bass clarinet
Programme from:
Bach, Bartok, Piazzolla, Gregorian Chant etc...
Providence Chapel, @ 11am
May
01/05/2009
Delta Saxophone Quartet
Workshop, Kingston University
24/05/2009
Batignano trio
Siddlesham, Nr. Chichester
Programme tbc
July
Delta saxophone Quartet
05/07/2009
Kingston University
Provisional
New Commission by Mike Westbrook for quartet and vocal.
Commission support provided by the PRSF.
12/07/2009
Delta saxophone Quartet
Soft Machine set.
Delta Saxophone Quartet
14/07/2009
Italy
Notes:
Uniting a profound passion for
the arts and the environment in a natural amphitheatre without equal in
the world: the mountains of Trentino.
The Sounds of the Dolomites is a programme of concerts celebrating the
freedom and nature of places of extraordinary beauty, where music is in
complete harmony with the surrounding environment.
The Festival features internationally renowned artists who, instruments
on their shoulders, display their shared regard for the environment by
joining the public in walking to the concert venues, on what is both an
art and a nature trail.
Tiziano Mellarini
Councillor for Agriculture, Commerce and Tourism for the Autonomous Province
of Trento
04/09/2009
Delta saxophone Quartet
St Hugh's Festival, Grimsby UK tbc
Songs for tony Mvt 1-Nyman
Mishima (1,2,4,+6 )-Glass
Bryars - Alaric I or II
Reich - New York Counterpoint
Soft Machine Set including world prem performance of Morgan Fishers' Outrageous Moon
New DSQ project/ commissions for 2009/2010
DSQ new album/DVD release of: UK/Irish composer disc.
Delta Sax Quartet/Kate Westbrook
New Mike Westbrook Song Cycle.
Under discussion: DSQ 25th anniversary season 2009-10
Performances in Moscow, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, China +D.P.R. Korea (watch this space!) + tours of UK and Europe with new Mike Westbrook project + Sam North (new) short story project set to music.
2010
Delta Saxophone Quartet
September/October
Leer, Germany
Delta sax quartet/Westbrook project.
