JEAN-MARIE LONDEIX / Debussy y la "Rapsodia" para Saxofón
Jean-Marie Londeix
JEAN-MARIE LONDEIX is "considered one of the world's greatest saxophonists and professors of saxophone, his influence has been felt in the international musical community" (Gerald Danovitch); "one of the greatest musicians of our time" (Edison Denisov); "the most revered of French saxophonists, he made the Bordeaux Conservatory the world's center of saxophone studies (Washington Post); "perhaps after Adolphe Sax and his teacher Marcel Mule, the most important 'inventor' of the modern saxophone" (Francesco Salime). Londeix has become known and appreciated as a concert artist, teacher, lecturer and author of numerous pedagogical and historical works. He performed more than 600 times as a soloist appearing around the world, frequently inaugurating the first saxophone concerts and recitals in many of the world's finest concert halls. In the early 1950's he was one of the first wind instrumentalists to perform full recitals. He has been frequently recorded and has 13 LPs, 10 compact discs and a number of DVDs to his credit. Well over one hundred important works for saxophone were written for and dedicated to him and more than 150 foreign students traveled from around the globe to study with him at the Bordeaux Conservatory of Music. Among these former students, now concert artists and musical ambassadors in their own right, many teach at major schools of music and perform internationally. Londeix is frequently invited to teach in the conservatories and universities of Europe, Asia, the US, Russia, Canada, Scandinavia, or to lecture in well known pedagogical centers. He was Honorary President of the Association of Saxophonists of France and President of the International Saxophone Committee of the World Saxophone Congress; he has also organized numerous international festivals: World Saxophone Congress, Conference on the General State of the Saxophone and several international competitions. He created the Ensemble Internationale de Saxophones and commissioned and premiered over 100 original works of quality with that group. Jean-Marie Londeix is also the author of over twenty important pedagogical works for saxophone. He has written books on the history of the saxophone, most notably Le Saxophone: Cl. Lattes, Paris and Hello! Mr. Sax: A. Leduc, Paris. Jean-Marie is an "example of courage, hope and passion" (Keiji Munesada). "His extensive output is known far and wide, not only for the quality of his musical performances, but for his contribution to teaching and his profound insight and thought. He deserves the deepest admiration for the quality of his work, but even more importantly for his very 'modern' position concerning all that touches the saxophone, both near and far "(François Rossé). |
Debussy and the 'Rhapsody for Saxophone' |
The VIDEOS |
