Chris Swithinbank

After pre­mier­ing Schat­ten­spiel [Up­date, 12/4: now ti­tled some­thing golden in the night] with sax­o­phon­ist Haruka Inoue at IRCAM on Sat­ur­day night, I am in Dram­men, Nor­way, for tonight’s per­for­mance of the same piece by Aus­tralian sax­o­phon­ist Joshua Hyde at this year’s Scan­di­na­vian Sax­o­phone Fes­ti­val. The fes­ti­val runs all week and fea­tures above all a se­ries of mas­ter­classes for young sax­o­phon­ists. Tonight’s con­cert is ti­tled ‘Sax­o­phone Today’ and Josh is also play­ing works by Sam An­dreyev, Chris Dench, Liza Lim, Dai Fu­jikura, Philip Ven­ables, Bruno Maderna and Lu­ciano Berio. I’m also look­ing for­ward to the ‘Late Night In C’ on Wednes­day, though I might need my earplugs…

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