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Andrés Gomis Soprano Saxophone
Angel Soria Alto Saxophone
Miguel Romero Tenor Saxophone
Josetxo Silguero Baritone Saxophone
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Alex Gómez Live electronics and Video Art
Hanna Lee Piano
Juanjo Llopico Percussion
Coro Bonsón Production

from Spain

October 2007: under the name SIGMA PROJECT, four renowned saxophone soloists, firmly committed to musical creation –Andrés Gomis, Josetxo Silguero, Ángel Soria, Miguel Romero–, decided to revolutionize the landscape of Spanish chamber music… and enjoying themselves doing so.

Their commitment to renew not only the saxophone repertoire –with particular interest in symphonic works– but also the space and the staging of concerts, has aroused the interest of many composers, whose close collaboration with SIGMA PROJECT, have produced unusual premieres, such as those created for four bass saxophones!: Lalibela, for 4 bass saxophones and Symphonic Orchestra, by Xavier Carbonell or Chaman for saxophone quartet and electronics by Thierry Allá.

Always open to new projects, collaborations and interactions with other disciplines, SIGMA PROJECT continues to emphasize its thinking, study and research of sound, constantly seeking and implementing new technologies, without ever despise a good conversation until dawn ...

After its debut at the Kursaal Auditorium (69ª Musical Fortnight, San Sebastian, 2008), wearing rigorous and Stockhausen-like white clothes (color that will become his usual trademark) Maestro LUIS DE PABLO wrote:

"If I had to summarize in two words the personality of the saxophone quartet SIGMA PROJECT, I would not hesitate: originality and perfection. Originality, in the young inventive way of approaching the ceremony of concert and the performed works; perfection, because that playful, daring spirit not only adds to the rigour and depth, but increases the strength and passion. It is a pleasure, a joy to share music with them: they communicate it, give it life." Luis de Pablo (Madrid, December 2008)

Since then, with unanimous recognition of promoters, public and critics, Sigma Project has performed at many of the most important Spanish venues (National Auditorium of Music, Teatros del Canal, Reina Sofía National Museum for Contemporary Art Reina Sofia in Madrid, International Music Festival of Alicante, Fundació Pilar i Joan Plama de Mallorca; Ensems of Valencia and BBVA Series of Contemporary Music and Musikaste (Basque Country)… In 2012, they are also expected in Italy, Scotland and Mexico.

They have surprised with premieres and first performances in Spain of composers like Sofia Gubaidulina, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Philippe Leroux, Massimo Botter...; they have performed with Maestros Arturo Tamayo (RTVE) and José Ramón Encinar (ORCAM), among others, and have received works by composers of the stature of Felix Ibarrondo (Aikan, that earthly force!), Juan José Eslava (sinuous poetic sound in L'Oeil…), José Manuel López López (fascinating his musical imagination in Simog/Civitella!), Jesus Torres, Ramon Lazkano Tthey have all sent their scores enough in advance from opening day!

Soon, SIGMA PROJECT will "whiten" works by José María Sánchez-Verdú, Alberto Posadas, Hector Parra, Raphael Cendo and Maria Eugenia Luc.

Future releases will be concerts by Felix Ibarrondo: IZARBIL (January 21, 2013, Auditorium of Madrid, with the Orchestra of Community of Madrid -ORCAM) and Concert per a quatre, by Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny (season 2013/14 of the Orchestra of Barcelona and Catolonia, under the direction of A. Tamayo), both composed for saxophone quartet and orchestra, and dedicated to SIGMA PROJECT.

Essentials: their two self-produced DVD (one of Spanish music and another dedicated to the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina).

SIGMA PROJECT performs with SELMER instruments and VANDOREM accessories.

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Tenebrae (2012) - Jesús Torres

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Transitus - Jose Maria Sanchez-Verdú

This composition is a praise of the phenomenon of passing, of movement, of "traffic". The work and its musical matter obeys transition as a condition of movement, not only in its material and development but also for its projection in space. Traffic in musical materials, in the spatial and architectural development of the piece, in the unfoldings and paradoxes created, having multiplied the original source in infinite mirrors, on having exported the "original one" towards new and countless "copies".

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Igloos - Alex Gómez

Igloos is written in an only movement, articulated in three big sections, each of which reaches a maximum point of tension accumulated, generating a structure named by the composer "accordion's bellows". In this piece, there is rhythmic character and utilization of the widespread techniques of the instrument. On the other hand the accumulation and easing of the tension is a reflection of energy exchanged between the saxophone, the live-electronics and the projection of video.

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Fragments of profound boredom (2012) - Yair Klartag

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Ergosphere: about expression of movement (2012) - Javier Quislant

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Jalkin (2012) - Ramón Lazkano


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