Simone Movio: Tuniche / Col Legno Records
Zahir V (2011–2012) for saxophone quartet 
SIGMA Project (Andrés Gomis, Josetxo Silguero, Ángel Soria, Miguel Ángel Lorente)

About Zahir V. Interview with Simone Movio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXRyu1C61-8

A co-operation of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and Col Legno.
CD recording, here:
https://www.col-legno.com/en/shop/40410-simone-movio-tuniche

Zahir V (sax quartet)

"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.

Fundamental for his experience were and are the meetings with Beat Furrer, with whom he studied at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz (2005/2006), Rostock Summer Campus 2009 and IMPULS 2005, 2007,  2009.
After his studies with Renato Miani in Udine (Italy) he attended the IRCAM Cursus 1 in composition and computer music 2010-2011, the  Pierluigi Billone’s seminar/course Klangwege at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz (Austria) and the Stefano Gervasoni’s masterclass at the TEMA Academy in Milan (Italy).

Simone Movio received the “Komponisten-Förderpreise 2014” of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, he has been chosen as composer in residence at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg (Germany) concerning the season 2016/2017.

He won (among others) the Wiener Konzerthauses Composition Contest “Towards the Next 100 Years” (2012) - String Quartet (Wien, Austria), the "International Composition Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music 2011" (Graz, Austria), the "IVME International Composition Contest 2011" (two first prizes in the two different categories - Antwerp, Belgium), the “Gianni Bergamo Music Award 2007 – Composition” (Lugano, Switzerland), the “Hamburger Klangwerktage 2007 – 2nd International Composition Contest, Lied Unlimited” (Hamburg, Germany)

He has been selected for the "9e Forum de la Jeune Création Musicale 2011" (SIMC – Clamart, France) and “IMPULS 2009” (Wien/Graz, Austria) as nominated composer.

He held composition seminars in the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz (Austria),  the institute Creama Hanyang University of Seoul (South Korea), National University of Music Bucharest (Romania), L. Cherubini conservatory in Firenze (Italy), the J. Tomadini conservatory in Udine (Italy).

Some of his pieces have been performed by important artists and ensembles (such as Beat Furrer, Enno Poppe, Clement Power, Klangforum Wien, Szymanowski Quartet, Ensemble Recherche, Sigma Project) in several events and places such as: Festival Présences-Radio France (Paris, France), Wiener Konzerthaus (Wien, Austria), Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (Italy), Tage für neue Musik (Zürich, Switzerland), KLANG Festival Copenhagen (Denmark), IRCAM (Paris, France), Festival GAMO (Firenze, Italy), Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow, Russia), Helmut-List Halle (Graz, Austria).

The Austrian label “col legno” has just released his first portrait CD “Tuniche”, performed by Klangforum Wien and SIGMA Project.