Saturday, 25 October 2008, 8:00 P.M.
Muttart Hall, Alberta College Conservatory of Music
Tickets $15 (adults) and $10 (seniors and students) available at the door
 
 

DAOUD/NOGUCHI DUO
Vincent Daoud: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones
Yuji Noguchi: Bb and A clarinets, bass clarinet

Music by: Georges Aperghis, Jean-François Charles, Vinko Globokar, Luis Naón, Piotr Grella-Mozejko.

One would be extremely hard-pressed to find a more ethnically diverse pair of instrumentalists than French saxophonist Vincent Daoud and Japanese clarinetist Yuji Noguchi. Their creative artistic partnership grew out of their involvement in the Ensemble Hic et Nunc.

The Daoud-Noguchi Duo brings their special mutual dedication and commitment to collaborating with contemporary composers to the Edmonton stage in the second concert of the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society’s 2008-2009 New Music Alberta Concerts Series.

Their very specialized programme of works for the combination of tenor saxophone and bass clarinet is only the briefest of musical “’snapshots” of works by leaders of the European Avant-garde. Featured will be a music theatre work by Greek composer Georges Aperghis (with whom both Daoud and Noguchi had studied), entitled Commentaires for tenor saxophone and bass clarinet. Argentina will be represented by Luis Naón’s Monstres et princesses, which will be given its Canadian Première at his concert so close to Hallowe’en. Naón now makes his home in France. Also included will be the absolutely fascinating Voix instrumentalisée by Vinko Globokar, a French-Slovenian composer and trombonist, and the unique, stunning Bagict by French composer and clarinetist Jean-François Charles.

This concert is not to be missed if you enjoy music that stretches the ear and the mind, notwithstanding listening to the unusual and rare combination of tenor saxophone and bass clarinet.

Vincent Daoud, born in Rennes, France, in 1978, began studying the saxophone at the age of eight, in Saint Brieuc with Emmanuel Hody. At the age of nineteen, he went to Paris to study with Jean-Michel Goury. There he developed an interest in improvisation, and played with Marcel Khalife in London, Steve Potts, Ramon Lopez in Paris, Paul Hanmer at the Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Fabrice di Falco in Martinique, Christian Wolff in Montreuil, Yoko Miura in Tokyo, and others. Daoud received several prizes during those years in Paris, most notable amongst them were the first prize and special prize for contemporary piece at the International Competition for Young Soloists in Gap, second prize at the “Concours de Musique en Picardie”, and third prize at the Krzysztof Penderecki International Music Competition in Kraków, Poland.

In 2001, Vincent Daoud pursued his musical education with Pierre-Stephane Meugé at the Lausanne Conservatory, and graduated in harmony, history of music, analysis, and saxophone.

He worked with musicians such as Pierre Boulez, Georges Aperghis, Armin Jordan, Beat Furrer, Jean Deroyer, Steven Schick, Marino Formenti, collaborated with ensembles such as the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, ensemble Contrechamps and Centre International de Percussions in Geneva, 2e2m in Paris, ensemble Car de Thon in Geneva.

Collaboration with composers takes an important part in his musical activities. He worked with Claude Ballif, Betsy Jolas, Mathias Pintscher, premiered pieces of Luis Naon, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Essl, Eric Gaudibert, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, Elizabeth Adams, Ernest H. Papier, Hans-Yurg Meier, Miroslav Srnka, Beat Fhelman, Peter Streiff, Florian Folkmann, Valentin Marti, Andrea Molino, Aurelio Copes, Nicolas Tzortzis, Nehad El Sayed, Frédéric Perreten, and others.

He is a member of the ensemble Hic et Nunc, 4tenors Saxophone Quartet and Wiener Saxophone Quartet. Vincent Daoud is the 5th Prize-winner of the 2nd international Jean Marie Londeix competition that was held in Bangkok in January 2008. In 2008, he will be artist in residence in Biel in Switzerland, invited by the Office of Culture of the State of Bern.

Born in Kawasaki, Japan, Yuji Noguchi graduated with honours in 2000 from the Tokyo College of Music. After studying with Thomas Friedli in Geneva and receiving a soloist diploma under Frédéric Rapin in Lausanne in 2004, he entered the bass clarinet class of Ernesto Molinari at the Hochschule der Musik in Bern and received the Tschumi prize for the best soloist diploma of the year at his graduation in 2007.

Following his enthusiastic interest in contemporary music, including stage music and music theatre, Yuji studied at the Hochschule der Musik in Bern with the Franco-Greek composer Georges Aperghis and his assistant, percussionist Françoise Rivalland. Yuji is now Assistant to Aperghis and Rivalland in this specialisation.

Yuji also collaborated with young composers such as Raphaël Cendo, Miroslav Srnka, Alexander Sigman and Elizabeth Adams, among others.

He has taken master classes with Armand Angster and Alain Damiens at the Centre Acantes and has participated in festivals such as the Darmstadt Festival, Impuls in Graz, as well as the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Yuji Noguchi is a member of the Ensemble Hic et Nunc and the Ensemble Namascae.
 

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