22TH SEASON !

For this new season, the Ellipsos Quartet and #SaxophoneFamily will come much closer to you :

chamber music must be accessible to all and prepare future generations !

In concert halls as well as school, the 2024/2025 season will be that of SPACE for the Ellipsos Quartet :  

• Ellipsos Quartet, new ambassador of Yanagisawa : video

• New sound space with the recording of a new album at Nantes (44)

• Guest of honor for the second time in JAPAN for the next La Folle Journée de Tokyo

Japanese premiere of "A Dream for Artemis"* composed by Fabien Waksman, with texts by Jean-Philippe Uzan, on May 3, 2024 at the Tokyo International Forum (with Emmanuel Strosser, piano). Anticipatory concerto on the upcoming space epic of the Artemis mission, next mission to the Moon ! 

  • World premiere of "Les Planètes" by Gustav Holst with the Trio Chausson live on France Musique

• 15th edition of Festival du Souffle - Académie Ellipsos-Eurasic at Abbaye Royale de Celles-sur-Belle (79)  

  • Master-class at the Conservatory of Annemasse, Saint-Foy-les-Lyons and Nantes

• USA : world premiere of the Concerto "A Dream of Artemis" by Fabien Waksman for saxophone quartet and symphony orchestra. With the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra (conductor Matthew Aubin) in Benton Harbor, Jackson and Chicago

• Germany : Wave Gothic Treffent (WGT) will host the Ellipsos Quartet for the first time in a Gothic space !

• Masters-class in the US, Japan and Belgium

• Publication by Gérard Billaudot of new educational scores. 

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Forward the Music! 

 #SaxophoneFamily

Quatuor Ellipsos 

* " A Dream for Artemis" is a concerto written by Fabien Waksman written specially for the Ellipsos Quartet on the occasion of his 20th Birthday ! 

World premiere was at the Festival international de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron on August 4, 2023 with our friend Marie-Josèphe Jude on piano. Commissionned by Roque d'Anthéron Festival and Nice Classic Live Festival.

AVAILABLE FROM 23rd FEBRUARY 2018 !

To celebrate 15 years of career, the Quatuor Ellipsos wished to pay tribute in the harmony orchestras which gather so many amateur musicians all around the world.

Brilliant brass instruments, swing of the jazz, the South African rhythms and the sounds come from Asia, without forgetting a point(headland) of tango and fiddle Irish …

"United Colors", it is the melting pot of the sax culture.

A 5th album placed under the sign of the pleasure of the game and sharing, involving new creations for quartet of saxophones and partitions with harmony orchestra, in the side of Nantes Philharmonie.

 EP 💿 "SAX & GOSPEL"

The Ellipsos Quartet offers here a meeting between the saxophone, which is reminiscent of the timbre of the organ, and the vocal quartet thus illustrating the art of fugue par excellence, through the repertoire of sacred music, gospel music or works for organ that characterize so well Churches Music.
 
Recognized for their quality arrangements, innovative and unique, the Ellipsos have fun playing music Yesterday and Today.

In this third opus, BOLERO💿, somewhere between the piano and the orchestra, this real " symphonic quartet " revisit pieces of the big French directory with boldness and sincerity.

By putting the theme of the dance at the heart of this recording,

these four saxophonists also appropriate

original works of Thierry ESCAICH, Gabriel PIERNÉ or still Jean FRANÇAIX with an interpretation(performance)

of any sharpness(delicacy) and virtuosity.

Their incredible and eclectic tones present the instrument invented by Adolphe SAX like a "chameleon" where,

in particular in the Bolero,

He can easily become confused with a small clarinet,

Be transformed into a cor anglais, embody a perched high bassoon

Or still metamorphose into the whole symphony orchestra!

Introduced by Thierry Escaich

Recorded in 2009, Peer Gynt 💿 invites the listener to rediscover known composers as Grieg, difficult at first sight for some as Prokovieff or Bela Bartok and others were forgotten as

Glazounov or Vittorio MONTI (resumed nevertheless in one of Lady GAGA's most famous songs!), in a rich musical universe, printed by colors from the east of Europe.

An european recital, in the positive and moving energies

for all the public !

Medina 💿 is the first album of the Quatuor Ellipsos.

It was recorded on May 12th, 13th and 14th, 2007,

to the Academy of Paris, in the Cité de la Musique.

This album dedicated to the musics of the world will make you vibrate in the Hispanic rhythms of saxophones and accordion.

With Philippe GEISS (Sax sopranino), Florian TATARD (accordion), and the musicians of the Gamelan of the Cité de la Musique.

DISPONIBLE LE VENDREDI 23 FÉVRIER 2018 !

Pour célébrer ses 15 ans de carrière, le Quatuor Ellipsos a souhaité  rendre hommage aux orchestres d’harmonie qui réunissent tant de  musiciens amateurs partout dans le monde.

Cuivres éclatants, swing du jazz, rythmes sud-africains et  sons venus d’Asie, sans oublier une pointe de tango et de fiddle irlandais…

« United Colors », c’est le melting pot de la sax culture.

Un 5e album placé sous le signe du  plaisir du jeu et du partage, mêlant nouvelles créations pour quatuor  de saxophones et pièces avec orchestre d’harmonie, au côté de Nantes Philharmonie.