Quatuor Habanera

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Quatuor Habanera
MembersChristian Wirth, Sylvain Malézieux, Fabrizio Mancuso, Gilles Tressos

Quatuor Habanera is a saxophone quartet established in 1993. Composed of players from the Conservatoire de Paris, the quartet has won seven international prizes and recorded six albums. Their ability to adapt to varied musical styles is noted, recording contemporary music of Ligeti, Xenakis, Donatoni as successfully as earlier works by Glazunov, Grieg and Dvorak. They have collaborated with jazz musicians, most notably Louis Sclavis and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer.

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International Prizes

1st Prize at the International Jean-Marie LONDEIX, Bordeaux 1996

1st Prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre, Illzach 1997

1st Prix du 3ème Internationaler Musikwettbewerb für Junge Kultur, Düsseldorf 1997

1st Grand Prix du Concours International de Musique Française, Guérande 1997

1st prize in the Musical Sets Europeans Privas 1998

1st Prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre "Gaetano Zigetti", Sanguinetto 1999

Grand Prix du 12ème Forum Musical de Normandie, 1996

Discography

Saxophone D'aujourd'hui et de demain (Concours International J.-M. Londeix, Bordeaux 1997)

Les révélations classiques (l'ADAMI 2000)

HABANERA - Quatuor de saxophones

Mysterious Morning (Alpha 010)

Grieg, Glazunov, Dvorak (Alpha 041)

L'Engrenage (Alpha 518)

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