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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.

Rovinj, Croatia

Delta Saxophone Quartet

14/07/2009

festival Suoni delle Dolomiti

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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