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Contemporary and classical saxophone in Cambridge

Contemporary and classical saxophone in Cambridge

Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge University will be the venue for a lunchtime concert combining the classical and the contemporary for saxophone, electronics and piano on Saturday 6^th February 2010.

As part of the Wolfson College recital series, saxophonist Nicola Pennill and electronic wind instrument (EWI) specialist and pianist Alistair Parnell will present a diverse programme of music from the early nineteenth to the twenty first centuries.   The programme includes Vincenzo Bellini’s Oboe Concerto in Eb, performed on soprano saxophone.  Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera and brings the same flowing melodic lines to this beautiful concerto.   Contrast that with Jacob van de Teurven’s (Jacob TV’s) ‘Billie’ for saxophone and ghetto blaster, which uses samples of Billie Holiday’s voice to depict aspects of her offstage life and performance anxieties, and you have a potent mixture of styles, equally suited to the versatile voice of the sax.

Other works include John Adams’ atmospheric  ‘Consuelo’s Dream’ for alto sax, EWI and track, the beautifully poignant Sang till Lotta for baritone sax and piano, and Duende by contemporary composer Craig Rickards.

This short concert will provide a great vehicle for the chameleon-like nature of the saxophone.

Wolfson College Music Society provides a wide range of concerts throughout the year. This concert is presented as part of a regular lunchtime concert series held on Saturdays at 1.30pm in the Lee Hall.

Wolfson College, Cambridge

Saturday, 6th February 2010

Lunchtime recital

1.30 -2.30 pm

Admission free, retiring collection

Wolfson College 01223 335900

Music Society 0781 197 18689

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