SIDERA SAXOPHONE QUARTET
BIOGRAPHY
The Sidera Saxophone Quartet was founded in 2020 by four musicians active in the Italian contemporary scene with the aim of enriching and disseminating the contemporary and experimental repertoire for saxophone quartet, spanning from historical modernity to the most recent works, including those involving electronics.
Although recently formed, the Sidera Saxophone Quartet has performed at prominent festivals and venues such as Festival Mixtur (Barcelona), Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), Nuova Consonanza (Roma), Orizzonti Festival - Amici della Musica (Perugia), Amici della Musica di Modena, Area Sismica (Forlì), Festival Musicale Piceno. The quartet was recently selected as the only Italian ensemble (out of nearly 100 proposals) to perform at the Mixtur Festival 2024.
Strongly committed to the dissemination of contemporary repertoire, the Sidera Saxophone Quartet is the dedicatee of numerous compositions, including Quadrangoli d'Autunno by Salvatore Sciarrino—commissioned with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation—, Improvviso Statico III by Carmine Emanuele Cella (for saxophone quartet and augmented percussion), Alizarin by Alexander Khubeev, Falling lights / Silence by Nicoletta Andreuccetti.
Recently the Sidera Saxophone Quartet released Koinè – Musica contemporanea italiana per quartetto di saxofoni (Ema Vinci, 2022), which was described as "a recording that is literally a door to elsewhere" (Nazim Comunale, Blow Up Magazine).
Koinè has been recognized among the best CDs of 2022: included in the Top 5 recordings of the year by Il Manifesto newspaper, the A list of musical references for 2022 by Percorsi Musicali blog, and the 2022 Playlist by Blow Up Magazine.
The quartet will soon release a new CD featuring works dedicated to them by Sciarrino and Cella, along with a historical piece by the American composer James Tenney.
Although recently formed, the Sidera Saxophone Quartet has performed at prominent festivals and venues such as Festival Mixtur (Barcelona), Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), Nuova Consonanza (Roma), Orizzonti Festival - Amici della Musica (Perugia), Amici della Musica di Modena, Area Sismica (Forlì), Festival Musicale Piceno. The quartet was recently selected as the only Italian ensemble (out of nearly 100 proposals) to perform at the Mixtur Festival 2024.
Strongly committed to the dissemination of contemporary repertoire, the Sidera Saxophone Quartet is the dedicatee of numerous compositions, including Quadrangoli d'Autunno by Salvatore Sciarrino—commissioned with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation—, Improvviso Statico III by Carmine Emanuele Cella (for saxophone quartet and augmented percussion), Alizarin by Alexander Khubeev, Falling lights / Silence by Nicoletta Andreuccetti.
Recently the Sidera Saxophone Quartet released Koinè – Musica contemporanea italiana per quartetto di saxofoni (Ema Vinci, 2022), which was described as "a recording that is literally a door to elsewhere" (Nazim Comunale, Blow Up Magazine).
Koinè has been recognized among the best CDs of 2022: included in the Top 5 recordings of the year by Il Manifesto newspaper, the A list of musical references for 2022 by Percorsi Musicali blog, and the 2022 Playlist by Blow Up Magazine.
The quartet will soon release a new CD featuring works dedicated to them by Sciarrino and Cella, along with a historical piece by the American composer James Tenney.
«Sidera Saxophone Quartet honors its name both in the sense of drawing from stellar regions and in the sense of truly superior excellence.» (M. Gamba, Il Manifesto)
