AGENDA
NEWS
We have a new album - "No one is too small
The official release of the new album is on the 19th of April, but on the 20th we will do a release concert with an after-party. Are you joining us?
STICHTING
MAAT SAXOPHONE QUARTET
RSIN/ANBI fiscaal nummer: 862840144
KvK nummer: 83350209
DE 3 CODES
Stichting Maat Saxophone Quartet past de Governance Code Cultuur, de Code Diversiteit & Inclusie en de Fair Practice Code toe.
Bestuur Wilfred Schovers - Voorzitter
Jonas Bisquert Dominguez - Secretaris
Hugo Levie - Penningmeester
stichtingmaatsaxquartet@gmail.com
Beloningsbeleid bestuur: bestuursleden ontvangen geen vergoeding of vacatiegeld.
Beloningsbeleid directie en personeel is conform de CAO Muziekensembles.
PROJECTS
"No one is too small" is a project inspired by climate change. Music by 6 young composers, 6 large drawings on stage and a light installation. Curious?
No one is too small
Young girls have a vibrant energy. And we're going to celebrate it! Because white socks are there to get dirty.
WILD
Fado, a Portuguese guitar and a saxophone quartet. “Renascer” gives name to a project where a new life is given to the Portuguese musical genre, on a full Portuguese collaboration.
Renascer
Light, video-projections and new music. A production with Hendrik Walther for the Dutch Classical Talent competition. It should be an energetic experience for everyone: people may like it or not, as long as they do not stay neutral.
... and we still dance!
SHOP
Ciudades CD
Ciudades is the debut album of the Maat Saxophone Quartet and brings stimulating musical episodes of “normal days”, urban scenes such as a local bus ride or a busy market. An energetic fusion of clear melodies and occasionally extremely complex but infectious rhythms. Guillermo Lago (Willem van Merwijk) wrote an extension of his famous work of the same name for saxophone quartet and string quintet especially for Ciudades. New, inviting music by the equally young and hard-working composers Ramin Amin Tafreshi (Iran) and Nuno Lobo (Portugal) and an arrangement of Albeniz' famous 1st Spanish Suite complement this debut.
Renascer CD
For this Renascer (“reborn”) the Maat Saxophone Quartet brings together the music of the iconic Carlos Paredes, who needs no introduction, with that of António Carlos Costa, with whom the Maat Saxophone Quartet crossed paths in Amsterdam. Nuno Lobo appears for the second consecutive time on a CD of the quartet, and Arnold Marinissen carries the connection between Portugal and Holland, as this Dutch composer/ percussionist lived in the city of Porto for a part of his life. Finally, Alejandro Erlich Oliva and Hugo Correia, debut collaborations with MSQ, present their new compositions, both deeply influenced by their relationship with popular music.
In a clear generational and language contrast, bringing together the tradition of Fado with the innovation of contemporary music, we present Renascer.
“They speak the same language, literally and musically! Very high technical level, organic playing and an insanely tight presentation”
Dutch Classical Talent
“We can be brief over the playing of Maat: promising, devilishly good and heavenly contagious”
De Luister
We are the Maat Saxophone Quartet:
Daniel Ferreira on soprano saxophone, Catarina Gomes on alto saxophone and sometimes singing, Pedro Silva on tenor saxophone and Mafalda Oliveira on baritone saxophone. Welcome to our website!
We have been playing together since 2018 and with each step, we discover more about each other’s talents and ideas as saxophone players, but also as "maatjes". In the projects we do, we look for the connection between our individual personalities, our ideals as artists and our strength as a group. Just as important is the connection to the world and society that surrounds us.
In 2018 we were winners of the “Prémio Jovens Músicos”, one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in Portugal, where we come from. Our quartet was however formed in Amsterdam, while we were studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp.
Although we play pieces from all kinds of ages and environments, we have a passion for new music. We are excited about finding our own sound-world, and to do that we work regularly together with composers.
In April 2020 we released our debut CD “Ciudades” under the label 7 Mountain Records. De Luister magazine published beautiful words about it: "we can be brief about the playing of Maat: promising, devilishly good, and heavenly contagious in all works.”
In 2022 we won the Dutch Classical Talent Award.
In 2023 we released our second CD called "Renascer", featuring Portuguese guitarist António Carlos Costa, combining traditional Fado and contemporary music.
In the season 2023/2024 we premiered our own production “No one is too small” about the topic of climate change, combining the music of 6 different composers, light installation, paintings and theater. “No one is too small” is also the name of our third CD, released in 2024 on 7 Moutain Records.
In the season 2024/2025 we will premiére a new virtual opera with the theater company Diamantfabriek, create a new dance theater production with AYA Danstheater, perform the piece “Takadaaap!” with Oorkaan and have international tours in Brazil and China.
For a complete biography please click in “Download” below.
ABOUT
We are the Maat Saxophone Quartet:
Daniel Ferreira on soprano saxophone, Catarina Gomes on alto saxophone and sometimes singing, Pedro Silva on tenor saxophone and Mafalda Oliveira on baritone saxophone. Welcome to our website!
We have been playing together since 2018 and with each step, we discover more about each other’s talents and ideas as saxophone players, but also as "maatjes". In the projects we do, we look for the connection between our individual personalities, our ideals as artists and our strength as a group. Just as important is the connection to the world and society that surrounds us.
In 2018 we were winners of the “Prémio Jovens Músicos”, one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in Portugal, where we come from. Our quartet was however formed in Amsterdam, while we were studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp.
Although we play pieces from all kinds of ages and environments, we have a passion for new music. We are excited about finding our own sound-world, and to do that we work regularly together with composers.
In April 2020 we released our debut CD “Ciudades” under the label 7 Mountain Records. De Luister magazine published beautiful words about it: "we can be brief about the playing of Maat: promising, devilishly good, and heavenly contagious in all works.”
In 2022 we won the Dutch Classical Talent Award.
In 2023 we released our second CD called "Renascer", featuring Portuguese guitarist António Carlos Costa, combining traditional Fado and contemporary music.
In the season 2023/2024 we premiered our own production “No one is too small” about the topic of climate change, combining the music of 6 different composers, light installation, paintings and theater. “No one is too small” is also the name of our third CD, released in 2024 on 7 Moutain Records.
In the season 2024/2025 we will premiére a new virtual opera with the theater company Diamantfabriek, create a new dance theater production with AYA Danstheater, perform the piece “Takadaaap!” with Oorkaan and have international tours in Brazil and China.
For a complete biography please click in “Download” below.
ABOUT
“They speak the same language, literally and musically! Very high technical level, organic playing and an insanely tight presentation”
Dutch Classical Talent
“We can be brief over the playing of Maat: promising, devilishly good and heavenly contagious”
De Luister
Light, video-projections and new music. A production with Hendrik Walther for the Dutch Classical Talent competition. It should be an energetic experience for everyone: people may like it or not, as long as they do not stay neutral.
... and we still dance!
Fado, a Portuguese guitar and a saxophone quartet. “Renascer” gives name to a project where a new life is given to the Portuguese musical genre, on a full Portuguese collaboration.
Renascer
Young girls have a vibrant energy. And we're going to celebrate it! Because white socks are there to get dirty.
WILD
"No one is too small" is a project inspired by climate change. Music by 6 young composers, 6 large drawings on stage and a light installation. Curious?
No one is too small
PROJECTS
Renascer CD
For this Renascer (“reborn”) the Maat Saxophone Quartet brings together the music of the iconic Carlos Paredes,
who needs no introduction, with that of António Carlos Costa, with whom the Maat Saxophone Quartet crossed paths in Amsterdam. Nuno Lobo appears for the second consecutive time on a CD of the quartet, and Arnold Marinissen carries the connection between Portugal and Holland, as this Dutch composer/ percussionist lived in the city of Porto for a part of his life. Finally, Alejandro Erlich Oliva and Hugo Correia, debut collaborations with MSQ, present their new compositions, both deeply influenced by their relationship with popular music.
In a clear generational and language contrast, bringing together the tradition of Fado with the innovation of contemporary music, we present Renascer.
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