Well done!  A very interesting piece with enough familiarity but also with satisfying surprises, with hints of Berio.

Awesome Igor! Your brass play always shines, incredible progression 🌟🙏

minimalistic yet i can see that there is a story behind it

Harmonies in the beginning are challenging. Relief comes later and the journey carries on in different ways.

I like it. The tone is alluring and in general it's got elements of ambience and calmness.

Very pleasing. I really like how feral the saxes are at the beginning and the primal suspense as the story unfolds.

@eugenepienkowski: Thank you!! I worked a lot on balance here indeed!

This piece has been performed at the Conservatory of Amsterdam Oosterdokskade 151 at 12.30 on November  the 3rd 2011 at the New Music Arena  by the "Oblivion" saxophone quartet: Paul Lamarque -soprano, Evgeny Novikov-alto, Juan Manuel Dominguez-tenor, Emilie Chabrol – baritone

A Sharp Note

Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series

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