Living "in the shadows" represents the essential condition to being able to develop our own crea-tive power, to find peace and to keep our integrity. The artistic creation needs to be a free act, without specific goals, a path towards the deepest knowledge of ourselves.
 
The piece is divided into two parts:
 
CLARO: a simple melody exposed in numerous occasions throughout the piece, with different in-tentions, characterized by a natural, simple sound and changing dynamics and feelings.
 
OSCURO: a change towards another ambiance, another color, a darker pitch. An immersion to-wards the knowledge of our inner selves. In this part, dense with arpeggios and harmonic changes, and played entirely with circular breathing, the sax seems to be transformed into a harp or a string orchestra all of the sudden. The pitch starts getting lighter until it reaches its initial melodic charac-ter.


OSCURO (EN LA SOMBRA)

The initial idea of SURPRISE! was born in July 2014, although it was a year later, after it was re-corded, when I revisited it.  Scale games and sounds in B mayor tone are alternated with unex-pected pungs produced by the “slap tongue” effect and multiphonics or chords produced by the in-troduction of the simultaneous voice. Just like a child, unwrapping a present very carefully to dis-cover what’s inside, the audience will find in the central part of the piece a burlesque melody that will transport them to another place, another style, another sound.

SURPRISE!

Live concert in Italy - Festival "Solisti di Confine"
Recorded in July, 2017.

Fulvio Dose: conductor
Walter Geromet: curved soprano saxophone
Orchestra fiati Val d' Isonzo: wind ensemble
John Williams: composer

Theme from "Schindler' s List" for Soprano sax & Wind Ensemble

Extract prof CD "Walter Geromet plays J. S. Bach"

PARTITA BWV 1013, Allemande - J. S. Bach

Extract from CD "Walter Geromet plays J. S. Bach".

Ouverture N. 3 BWV 1068, Air - J. S. Bach

Live concert in Italy - Festival "Solisti di Confine"
Recorded in July, 2017.

Fulvio Dose: conductor
Walter Geromet: alto saxophone
Orchestra fiati Val d' Isonzo: wind ensemble
John Williams: composer

Theme from "Catch me if you can" for Alto sax & Wind Ensemble

COACH IT!

Composed by Walter Geromet in 2011.

Played by:

Paco Marquez - soprano saxophone
Walter Geromet - alto saxophone
Daniel Rouleau - tenor saxophone
Costanzo Laini - baritone saxophone

Coach it! - Walter Geromet (for saxophone quartet)

Am I Blue - WSA BIG BAND (voz Cris de la Osa, direction & sax Walter Geromet)

Feeling good - WSA BIG BAND (voz Cris de la Osa, direction Walter Geromet)

Stompin' at the savoy - WSA BIG BAND (claqué John O' Brien, direction Walter Geromet)

WHY INCOGNITO?

The title INCOGNITO is a reference to the ambiguity of our destiny: we shouldn´t be spending all our time planning the future, because we would end up missing what really matters, which is the present moment.  Instead, we should spend more time doing what we like most, what makes us happy, what stirs our passion up (respecting people around us, of course), letting the world unfold for us automatically, as a natural consequence of our well being.

Only this way, the world will guide us towards the discovery of our true destiny through its constant changes, a destiny which we will only take its corse if we let our instincts and sensations led us.

The CD includes pieces I have composed over the last two years, performed with the sax my parents gave me when I started my studies. It is a very special sax: a 1980's curved soprano Ram-pone & Cazzani, an instrument of great sentimental value for me and characterised by a distinctive sound.

I chose to return to my first sax after so many years in order to convey the musical message I had in mind, as if after a long road of musical and vital experiences, I came back to my "origins".

The style reveals a strong influence of popular, traditional Eastern music, as well as jazz, rock and contemporary classical music. I use techniques such as circular breathing, multiple sounds, quarter-tones, "non-pure" sound, effects with keys and air, trumpet-sound (without mouthpiece), vocal sounds and changes in timbre, with a constant awareness of the essence of traditional composition and the message I want to convey.


BIOGRAPHY:

Sax player, composer, musical director and teacher,  Walter graduated cum laude in saxophone at the Conservatorio Tartini (Trieste, IT) with M. Donninelli in  2005 and subsequently studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid as well several Masterclass throughout Europe with important classical and modern soloists.  The Italian has received awards at several national and international contests of musical execution and given more than 500 performances in Europe and the United States.  Walter´s teaching experience includes several international courses and conferences:  Corsi musicali estivi Eurydice (Levico, IT), Masterclass at Stanford University (S. Francisco, EE.UU), XVI World Saxophone Congress (Ljubljana, SLO), Masterclass Saxinsieme (Trieste, IT), I, II, III Masterclass cittá di Latisana (Latisana, IT), 3º Saxophone Festival (Pontebba, IT).

In 2006 he recorded his first CD,  TWO FANTASTICS with the pianist R. Silvestre.  The CD includes some of the most representative contemporary pieces for piano and sax, contaminated by popular cultures from different countries (T. Yoshimatsu, P. Iturralde, I. Gotkowsky, A. Corghi, J. Takács) and received excellent reviews from composers and musicians around the world.

In 2007 he settled in Madrid where he currently lives with his family and created the Walter Sax Big Band, now a stand-out jazz band in the Madrid scene, and the Walter Sax Academy.  The school fo-cuses on the study of the saxophone (at different levels) and the creation of instrumental combos, significant meeting points for students and professionals. The goal of the Academy is to offer not only individual lessons to their students, but an opportunity to play in bands and give concerts, an essential part of their musical enrichment and crucial to nurture their enthusiasm.


WALTER GEROMET

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