Italian Saxophone Quartet
Performance April 13, 2025
The Italian Saxophone Quartet was founded in 1982 by four saxophone soloists, close friends determined to join together to perform chamber music for saxophone at the very highest artistic level. Now nearing the thirty-year mark as a group… The quartet has won a number of important chamber music competitions including the unanimous First Prize, plus a special prize, at the prestigious “Premio Ancona” in Italy.
They are so obviously consummate virtuoso musicians, but delightful and charming performers as well, able to walk the tightrope between serious music played with subtlety or passion, and lighter music played with wit and humor. In other words, they pleased our entire audience from connoisseurs of chamber music to those out for a fun afternoon of musical entertainment, without straying from the essential values of the music they played so beautifully.
---Diane Mitchell, Director, Hemet Community Concert Association
WOW was it terrific! The four of them had such a great time on stage. Not only was their playing impeccable, but their musicianship, their choice of repertoire, their stage presence, and their communication with the audience was superb!
---Brenda Montiel, Fallbrook (CA) Performing Arts
The artists receiving these outstanding reviews are Frederico Mondelci, Soprano, Silvio Rosomondo, Tenor, Julian Brodski, Alto, Michele Paolino, Baritone. The Herald Tribune wrote that the Saxophone “Quartet rocks the house…with a program that spanned the globe of musical styles. From Scarlatti to Gershwin the quartet made their own gems of transcriptions. One could even forget the original orchestrations when hearing their version. “
The Italian Saxophone Quartet will provide a rich, adventurous and rewarding chamber music concert presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. Come enjoy the concert.
Tickets are $30 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2:00 pm, 30 minutes before the concert. Students of any age are admitted free.
The audience is invited to participate in a question and answer program with the artists in the concert hall following the concert.
Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with Pacific and its Conservatory of Music. For a brochure or more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 209-956-2868 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.
The Italian Saxophone Quartet is represented by Lisa Sapinkoph Artists, www.chambermuse.com