Chic and charismatic, Sax Summit is contemporary sax at its best.
Sydney’s slickest saxophone quartet, Sax Summit screams sax appeal. With a sharp and varied programme covering all your favourite rock, pop, jazz and big band hits, Sax Summit is high energy virtuosic playing from four of Sydney finest young saxophonists. With a broad and versatile repertoire Sax Summit will suit a range of events from stylish dinners to explosive showcase performances. All members of Sax Summit are graduates of both the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and the European Summer Saxophone University and perform regularly across Sydney and Australia.
For more information please visit our website: Sax Summit
|
Nexas was formed in 2002 when Ben Carey, Andrew Smith, Nathan Henshaw and Jay Byrnes (then studying for their Bachelor of Music Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) joined forces to create one of Sydney’s most promising young chamber music groups. Since it’s formation, the quartet has been active in supporting new Australian music, providing young and established composers with an outlet for their compositions to be work-shopped and performed. In recognition of their work, in 2003 Nexas was awarded the Wal Hardwick Memorial Scholarship for excellence in chamber music by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Association. Nexas are an open-minded ensemble that shows no fear in exploring the polymorphic nature of the saxophone. This was aptly demonstrated by their 2004 collaboration with the PACT theatre group. Here Nexas performed music written by Margery Smith, as well as utilizing contemporary improvisation in the work ‘Song’s of Ghosts’. In July of 2004 Nexas attended the European University for the Saxophone, held in Gap, France. Here the quartet gave performances of French and Australian music, including European premieres of works by Paul Stanhope, Stuart Greenbaum and Margery Smith. Nexas has been privileged to perform in master-classes with Claude Delangle (Professor of Saxophone at the Paris Conservatoire), and the Diastema Quartet (Paris).
Please visit our webpage: Nexas Quartet
|
The eXa Project is an artistic collaboration between Nathan Henshaw and Andrew Smith, who started playing together in 2002 as members of the Nexas Saxophone Quartet. Since then, the pair has undertaken a variety of different musical ventures with a particular focus on new music. In 2006 Nathan and Andrew co-composed/improvised/performed the music for PACT Theatre’s production Toxic Dreams, which according to a RealTime Arts review was a “superbly effective exploration of the potential of new music in performance.” The eXa Project incorporates all members of the saxophone family (as well as electronics and other traditional instruments) in a variety of composed and improvised music. These include original works for saxophone as well as transcriptions, such as their 2006 performance of the Poulenc Trio with David Miller AM. These undertakings have seen the duo perform concerts of 20th/21st century music from countries such as France, Germany, Japan and Australia, often performing Australian and World premieres. The eXa Project is currently working towards a series of concerts in 2008 and a recording project for the end of that year.
For more details please visit our website: The eXa Project
|
Here are links to other ensembles/musicians Nathan performs with:
|
