Dialog

Farewell event after 18 years of «Dialog»

After eighteen years of intensive curatorial work, Marcus Weiss bids farewell to the «Dialog» series at Gare du Nord with this evening. As host, musician and presenter, he has had a decisive influence on the concert series and promoted the exchange of ideas about contemporary music with artists and audiences alike. The concert marks the festive conclusion of this special chapter.

Marcus Weiss studied saxophone at the Basel Academy of Music under Iwan Roth and philosophy and saxophone at Northwestern University in Chicago under Frederick L. Hemke. In 1989, he was awarded the Soloist Prize by the Swiss Musicians' Association.
As a soloist, he performs with numerous European orchestras and ensembles. As a chamber musician, he performs with the Trio Accanto and the saxophone ensemble Xasax Paris. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with numerous composers who have written works especially for him, including Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Péter Eötvös, Beat Furrer, Vinko Globokar, Georg Friedrich Haas, Toshio Hosokawa, Yu Kuwabara, Hanspeter Kyburz, Helmut Lachenmann, Misato Mochizuki, Giorgio Netti, Stefan Prins, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nadir Vassena.
In 2010, Bärenreiter Verlag published his specialist book «The Techniques of Saxophone Playing».

Marcus Weiss has been Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at the University of Music in Basel since 1995. Together with Sarah Sun and Yaron Deutsch, he directs the Master’s programme «Creative Interpretation in New Music».
He regularly gives masterclasses at European and American universities, including in Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin, Vienna, Porto and Riga. For many years, he was a lecturer at the «Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music» and at the «IMPULS» Ensemble Academy in Graz. He is a member of the programme committee for the «Festival Rümlingen».

With

Sarah Sun (soprano); Marcus Weiss (saxophone); Christian Dierstein (drums); Stefan Wirth (piano); Maurizio Grandinetti (electric guitar); Uli Fussenegger (double bass); Andreas Eduardo Frank (electronics/moderation)

Program

Giorgio Netti (*1963) from: «…affretandosi verso la luce risonante» (1998) for soprano saxophone

Nadir Vassena (*1970): «piccole, piccolissime cose» (2025) for alto saxophone, percussion and piano
Two songs for tenor saxophone and electric guitar

Conversation with Andreas Frank

Thomas Kessler (1937–1924): «Is it?» for soprano and soprano saxophone

«Set for three» for saxophone, double bass and electronics

Info

«Dialog» is a concert series organised by the FHNW Academy of Music and sonic space basel, a platform for composition, performance, audio design and research, in collaboration with Gare du Nord.

Duration

75 minutes, no break

Prices

CHF 15.-/10.-/5.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission for students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Department of the University of Basel

Links

→ marcusweiss.net