L' OEIL (2010) for saxophone quartet and electronics max/msp by Juan José Eslava.
Work commissioned from SIGMA Project. 
Premiered on September 20, 2010 (Arniches Theatre, Alicante), in the XXVI International Music Festival of Alicante. 
SIGMA Project (Andrés Gomis, Angel Soria, Miguel Romero, Josetxo Silguero). 
Electronics: Juan José Eslava, Juan Andrés Beato & LIEM-Madrid.

About L´Oeil. Interview with Juan José Eslava:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Wn62mkljs

CD Utopías. New music for saxophone quartet
http://arsonal-arsonal.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/sigma-project-utopias-new-music-for.html
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"Gesture / Technology / Saxophone" is the title of the latest art and sound research initiative of SIGMA Project, premiered on September 20, 2010 (Arniches Theatre, Alicante), in the XXVI International Music Festival of Alicante. The program included the world premieres of three works commissioned by SIGMA Project to the Spanish composers Juan José Eslava (Navarra) and Juan Cue (Asturias) and the French one, Thierry Alla. The premiere of CHAMAN (T. Alla) meant the presentation of the first work in the history of music composed for bass saxophone quartet. 

The making off "Gesture / Technology / Saxophone" was recorded by the video artist Juan Rayos.
https://vimeo.com/19828479

L´OEIL (sax quartet & electronics)

Hailed as “the ideal collaborator for new music” and praised for his “beautiful tone and technique“ by Brutal New Music Review, saxophonist and new music curator Drew Hosler (he/him/his) is an advocate for contemporary music. Drew has commissioned, premiered, and collaborated on over 150 pieces by award-winning composers such as Andrew Mead, Jamie Leigh Sampson, David Heinick, Matthew Kennedy, and Marilyn Shrude. His upcoming debut solo album, delta waves, features thirteen world premiere recordings of 21st century works for the tenor saxophone funded in part by the EXCEL Enterprise Fund and ArtsEngine. His 2020 self-released EP Hope Will Carry Us COVID-19: Music for Solo Tenor Saxophone features eleven world premiere recordings from composers all over the world. It was featured on WSMR Florida’s Classical Music Station’s Modern Notebook hosted by Tyler Kline.

Drew is an avid performer as a soloist. In 2022, he gave the world premiere of Josh Trentadue’s tenor saxophone concerto, To fly and to fall with conductor Kim Fleming and musicians of The University of Michigan. Additionally, he has performed concerti by Walter Mays and William Albright with the Bowling Green Philharmonia and the BGSU Concert Band under the baton of Alexander Popovici and Bruce Moss respectively. He has also performed a variety of music for solo saxophone at the New Music Gathering, University of Kansas New Music Guild, 15-Minutes-of-Fame, New Music Mosaic, Boston New Music Initiative, as well as various North American Saxophone Alliance Conferences. He was awarded prize at the 2022 Vivaldi International Music Competition, the 2021 Charleston International Music Competition’s Contemporary Music Competition, the 2022 London Classical Music Competition, and the 51st Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Competition in Music Performance in 2017. Drew has also performed with ensembles such as the Saginaw Eddy Concert Band and the Lima Symphony Orchestra.

Drew is a founding member, saxophonist, and artistic director for the new music ensemble, The _____ Experiment. To date, the ensemble has worked with composers to premiere over 30 works for various mixed chamber instrumentations. In March 2020, The _____ Experiment released their debut album, Conversations, which includes seven world premiere recordings from five different composers which was funded partially by the Running Start Competition through Michigan State University. They were the guest ensemble for Praecepta’s New Music Mini-Fest at BGSU’s College of Musical Arts where they performed 10 pieces including 7 world premieres by BGSU graduate students and alumni. The ensemble has performed across the country, including the Michigan State University College of Music, SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music, the Flint Institute of Music, and Narloch Piano Studio in Chicago. In addition, the ensemble was awarded multiple prizes through the Charleston International Music Competition’s 2021 Contemporary Music Competition. This includes first prize for their performance of Jasper Sussman’s …nice box! “Oh So Square“ for tenor saxophone and harp. Upcoming engagements include performances with New Music Chicago and the University of Florida. In addition, Drew currently serves as the Assistant Managing Director for the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project. 

Drew holds a Master of Music in Saxophone Performance, a Master of Music in Chamber Music, and a Certificate in Arts Entrepreneurship & Leadership from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. He also holds a Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance from Bowling Green State University College of Music Arts. Prior to that, he studied at the Flint Institute of Music. His primary instructors have been Timothy McAllister, John Sampen, and Jeffrey Price.

"I arrived in Mexico city and was whisked off to a concert at El Colegio Nacional. It was the spanish quartet of 4 saxophones Sigma Project playing the world premiere of Alberto Posadas’s new three piece cycle 'Poética del Laberinto'. This was wonderful opportunity to catch up, with the magnificently accurate, inventive and awe inspiring performance by the spaniards. I thought this sort of precision could come only from a quartet of strings". 
Irvine Arditti (june, 2017)

SIGMA PROJECT www.sigmaproject.es is the New Saxophone in Europe, is more than a saxophone quartet. It is the realization of a wish came true, an essential vehicle for instrumental music in the 21st century. Just as the string quartet was the instrument par excellence for art music in past centuries, SIGMA Project claims this role in the 21st century for the saxophone quartet.
During its already long career, SIGMA Project has performed more than 150 concerts across half the world – not only in auditoriums in the United States, Argentina (Teatro Colón), Mexico (Palacio de Bellas Artes), Chile, Germany, Scotland, France, Italy, Poland and Romania but also in festivals such as the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, the Hannöversche Gessellschaf für Neue Musik, the Gare du Nord in Basel, the ENSEMS in Valencia, the Donostia-San Sebastían Musical Fortnight, the Música(s) Contemporánea(s) in the Teatro Central of Seville, the Temporadas of the CNDM, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Operadhoy-Musicadhoy in Madrid, among others.
SIGMA Project has its own record label, Sigmarecords, and has edited the CD Utopías: New Music for Saxophone Quartet and the DVD The Music for saxophone by Félix Ibarrondo. Additionally, they have recorded for WERGO (Alberto Posadas's 'Poetics of the Labyrinth' cycle), he BBVA Foundation (José Manuel López López and Gerardo Gombau monographs), Orpheus Classical (María Eugenia Luc monograph), Casa Velázquez-Académie de France in Madrid (Víctor Ibarra monograph) and, invited by the German Foundation Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung and with the label Col Legno, the Simone Movio monograph.
SIGMA Project’s work is supported by the Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, the Etxepare Basque Institute of the Basque Government and the German Foundation Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Compositor e improvisador
Toco batería y piano/teclado/sintetizadores

vladimirarandarosales@gmail.com

Composer. Coordinator Barcelona Modern International Composition Course. Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden. Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu de Barcelona

Ana Isabel Sánchez is a Spanish composer. She has learnt the study of harmony with Roberto Nieva, analysis and composition with Fernando Villanueva at the Conservatory of Music "Marcos Redondo", Ciudad Real. Later on, Ana started her Bachelor's degree in musical composition on 2012 at the Conservatory of Music of Salamanca (Castilla y León), under the tutelage of the Spanish composer Iñaki Estrada Torio and Juan José Eslava in electronic music. On 2018, she continues her studies at the Conservatory of Music "Rafael Orozco", Córdoba, where she studied with Juan de Dios García Aguilera.

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Furthermore, she has attended the lectures and seminars by eminent musicians like Héctor Parra, Luis de Pablo, Tristan Murail, Salvatore Schiarrino, Yan Maresz, Martin Matalon, Michael Jarrel, Achim Bornoeft, Javier Torres Maldonado, Kent Oloffson, Alberto Carretero, among others.



Her pieces have been performed by members of the Contemporary Music Workshop "Tacos" in Salamanca: Hastío (2013), Presencia
(2016) and Caminos (2016) and in Códoba by student of "taller de música contemporánea": Fantasy Somnium (2020).
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On 2019, her piece Caminos got to the final round to Kaledoskope Competition in LA.
 

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Two of her pieces has been performed by great saxophonists as Jesús Núñez and Javier Alloza. 


She combines her musical studies with European Volunteering such as Mille Cunti (2018) or Pigmalion association, where she takes active part since 2019. In this way she has participated in European project in Zagreb, Karlovak, Lecce and Malatya about several topics around Europe.

Brazilian composer, Rodrigo Lima is one of the most active composers of his generation, his music has been performed at festivals and concert halls in Latin America, Europe and the USA. His production includes orchestral music, chamber music, solo instruments, vocal music and works for choir.

In 2008, he was resident composer of the 5th International Forum of Young Composers in Paris with Ensemble Aleph. In 2015, his work Antiphonas for saxophone and ensemble premiered at the 17th World Saxophone Congress & Festival  in Strasbourg (France). In 2016, he received the order from the Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux (France) to compose the work Txury-ò: ‘caminho por onde vai o sol’ inspired by the cosmology of the Karajá Indians and dedicated to the french ensemble Proxima Centauri.

He has obtained some prizes in National and International Competitions:

·   Prize International Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter of Composition 2008 in Mexico.

·   Prize ‘Francisco Guerreiro Martín’ at the ‘XVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores 2006 Fundación Autor-CDMC’ in Madrid, Spain.

·   Prize for Classical Composition of the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE) 2010 in Brazil.

·   1ºst Prize of the National Competition Camargo Guarnieri of Composition 2005 in Brazil.

·   1ºst Prize Camargo Guarnieri of Composition, Campos do Jordão International Winter Music Festival 2009 in Brazil, and others.

Lima’s Music has been performed by the Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Linea (France), Proxima Centauri (France), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata de las Amércicas (Mexico), Sonor Ensemble (Spain), Orchestutropica (Lisboa-Portugal), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata Aberta (Brazil), University of São Paulo Symphony (Brazil), Claudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) and conductors Claudio Cruz (Brazil), Guillaume Bourgogne (France), Luis Aguirre (Spain), Cesário Costa (Portugal), Kirk Trevor (England) and Claudia Feres (Brazil). 

His main composition teachers were Estércio Marquez Cunha, Sergio Nogueira, Conrado Silva and Silvio Ferraz. Bachelor in Musical Composition Degree at the Department of Music University of Brasília and Masters in "Creative Processes" at the University of Campinas State in São Paulo. He also took courses with composers Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Claude Ledoux (Belgium) and Emmanuel Nunes (Portugal). 

             Rodrigo Lima is teacher of composition at the 'EMESP’- School of Music of São Paulo State. Lima is a member of the General Society of Authors and Editors ‘Sociedade General de Autores y Editores (SGAE)’ in Spain.