Marcus Weiss (born 1961 in Basel, Switzerland) is a saxophonist and teacher. His repertoire includes all epochs, from the beginnings in impressionistic France to the present. [1] [2]
As a soloist, Weiss worked with many European orchestras [3] and ensembles of contemporary music. [4] [5] He has been invited to major festivals in Europe, the US and Asia. As a chamber musician, Weiss is primarily working with his two ensembles, Trio Accanto (Nicolas Hodges, piano and Christian Dierstein percussion) [6] and Quatuor Xasax in Paris (with saxophonists Serge Bertocchi, Jean-Michel Goury and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé. [7]
Since 1995 he has taught saxophone and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, [8] [9] where he also directs a Masters program for contemporary music. [10] He is regularly giving masterclasses at various international universities (London, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Palma, Porto, Boston, New York, Chicago, [11] Takefu, Sevilla.). Weiss is a regular teacher at the "Darmstaedter Ferienkurse fuer neue Musik“ [12] [13] as well as at IMPULS (ensemble academy) in Graz, Austria. [14]
He studied saxophone with Iwan Roth at the Hochschule für Musik Basel and Frederick L. Hemke at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [15] In 1989, he was awarded the soloist’s prize of the Swiss Tonkuenstlerverein. [16]