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ARNO BORNKAMP / Frank Martin - Tres Danzas para SaxofónSoprano, Arpa, Quinteto de cuerdas y Orquesta de cuerdas

Dutch saxophonist Arno Bornkamp (1959) is the archetype of the modern virtuoso, feeling equally at home in traditional and contemporary repertoire. Hailed as a lyrical musician with a great sense of performance, Bornkamp studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Ed Bogaard and graduated in 1986 with the highest distinction. He has won many awards, the 'Silver Laurel of the Concertgebouw' and the 'Netherlands Music Prize' among the most noteworthy. The latter enabled him to go abroad, studying in France with Danií«l Deffayet and Jean-Marie Londeix, in Japan with Ryo Noda as well as working with composers as Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Since his 1982 solo debut in Rome, performing the 'Concertino da Camera' by Jacques Ibert, he has played more than 250 concerts with orchestras and ensembles around the world. Chamber music is also a great love of Arno Bornkamp. He has a long-standing duo with pianist Ivo Janssen and is part of the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet (one of the world's most acclaimed saxophone quartets), which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008.

Arno Bornkamp's many activities (including concerts, festivals, masterclasses, lectures) have taken him to many countries in Europe, the USA, the Far East and South America. The many CD's he has made since 1990 on various labels have garnered national and international praise. Arno Bornkamp is a renowned teacher, leading an international saxophone class at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In the summer he teaches at the 'International Saxophone Masterclass in Laubach' (Germany) and at the 'Université d'Eté Européenne pour saxophone' in Gap (France).

Trois Danses for Soprano Saxophone, Harp, String Quintet and String Orchestra - Frank Martin

Trois Danses (1970) for Soprano Saxophone (orig. oboe), harp, string quintet and string-orchestra by Frank Martin (1890-1974). Frank Martin contributed generously to the repertoire for saxophone: he wrote two Ballades, one for alto- and one for tenor saxophone. Furthemore he included the saxophone regularly in his orchestrations. The version of the 'Trois Danses' for soprano saxophone is made by Christoph Enzel in 2009 on the instigation of saxophonist Arno Bornkamp and got the approval of Frank Martin's widow Maria Martin. This version was premiered by Bornkamp, together with the 'Residentie Orkest The Hague', conducted by Etienne Siebens, in April 2009. About the piece: It is amazing how in his last creative years Frank Martin broke free of the restrictions imposed on him by popular taste and adopted a new, harmonically and rythmically intensified language, full of youthful fire and far removed from the resignation of the 'wise old age'. Inspired by his daughter Marie-Thérèse, a successful Flamenco dancer, Frank Martin (at the age of 80!) based the 'Trois Danses' on Flamenco. The first dance is a 'Seguiriya', the most characteristic of all Flamenco-dances because of it's typical succession of binary and ternary rythmical cells. Fidelity to this fundamental structure does not exclude some tempo-changes, but precludes any kind of local rubato.The second danse is called 'Soledad', meaning 'solitude', and it's a free, personal interpretation of the Flamenco-style.The third danse, 'Rumba', is based on the wellknown, lively rumba-rythm. It gets a special 'treatment' from Frank Martin and sounds absolutely original.

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