Marcus Weiss

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 , 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]

Weiss is a d'Addario artist^[17]

Selection of First Performances

Solo

• Mark Andre ''iv 12'' (2013)
• Georges Aperghis ''Alter Ego'' (2001)^[18]
• Alex Buess ''Audio-Konstrukt Arch. II'' (1989)
• Gérard Buquet ''L’astre échevelée'' (2009)
• Valentin Marti ''Charon'' ( 2007)
• Giorgio Netti ''Necessità d'interrogare il cielo'' (1995–98)^[19]
• Giorgio Netti ''Ultimo a lato'' (2005)
• Mauricio Sotelo "Argos" (1997)
• Mauricio Sotelo ''Muros de dolor'' (2005)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen ''Edentia'' (2007)

Solo with ensemble/orchestra

• Georg Friedrich Haas ''Baritonsaxophonkonzert'' (2008) b.sax and orch^[20][21]
• Jürg Birkenkoetter ''Tripelkonzert'' (2002/03) sax, pno, perc and orch
• Manuel Hidalgo ''Romance de Le Châtelier'' (1994) sax (a/b) and ens
• Toshio Hosokawa ''Herbst Wanderer'' (2005) s.sax, pno, perc and strings
• Hanspeter Kyburz ''Cells'' (1993/94) sax (SATB) and ens
• Roland Moser ''Wal'' (1980/83) five sax and orch
• Salvatore Sciarrino ''Graffito sul Mare'' (2003) s.sax, pno, perc and orch
• Mauricio Sotelo ''Wall of light Black'' (2003/06) sax and ens
• Johannes Maria Staud ''Violent Incidents'' (2005) sax (s/t), wind orch and perc

Chamber music

• Peter Ablinger ''Verkündigung'' (1990) t.sax., fl, pno
• Mark Andre: ''durch'' (2005/06) s.sax., perc and pno
• Georges Aperghis: ''Crosswind'' (1997) viola and satb
• Georges Aperghis ''Funambule'' (2014) a.sax, pno and perc
• Georges Aperghis ''Zeugen'' (2007) musical theatre
• Alex Buess ''Hyperbaton'' (1991) ttbb
• John Cage ''Five 4'' (1991) s.sax, a.sax and 3 perc
• Alvaro Carlevaro ''Quiebros'' (1993/94) satb
• Aldo Clementi ''Tre Ricercari'' (2000) sax, pno perc
• Stefano Gervasoni ''Rigirio'' (2000) b.sax, pno and perc
• Vinko Globokar ''Terres brulées, ensuite...'' (1998) sax, pno and perc
• Wolfgang Heiniger ''Lamento III'' (2003) kb.sax, per and self playing drums
• Wolfgang Heiniger ''"Desafinado"'' (2005) s.sax, self playing drum and tape
• Toshio Hosokawa ''Vertical Time Study II'' (1994) t.sax, pno and perc
• York Hoeller ''Trias'' (2001) s.sax, pno, perc
• Rudolf Kelterborn ''Musik in vier Sätzen'' (2014/15) viola and satb
• Thomas Kessler ''Is it?'' (2002) soprano and s.sax
• Jo Kondo ''A Shrub'' (2000) a.sax, pno and marimba
• Helmut Lachenmann ''Sakura'' (2000) a.sax, pno, perc
• Bernhard Lang ''Song Book'' (2004) voice, sax, pno, perc
• Fabien Lévy ''Towards the door we never opened'' (2012) satb
• Thomas Müller ''Secco'' (1993) sax, pno, perc
• Giorgio Netti ''avvicinamento'' (1998) satb
• Giorgio Netti ''due lune pù in là'' (2001) cl, sax, vcl, pno and perc
• Brice Pauset ''Adagio dialettico'' (2000) s.sax, pno and perc
• Stefan Prins ''Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3)'' (2014) sax, pno, perc and electr
• Wolfgang Rihm ''Gegenstück'' (2006) kb.sax, pno and perc
• Yuval Shaked ''40malige Gegenwart und Rueckmeldung'' (1998) sax, pno, per
• Karlheinz Stockhausen ''Erwachen'' (2007) s.sax, trp and vlc
• Hans Thomalla ''Fracking'' (2013) a.sax and string trio
• Hans Thomalla ''Lied'' (2017/8) t.sax, pno, perc
• Manos Tsangaris ''3 Orte'' (1998) sax, pno, perc
• Walter Zimmermann ''The Paradoxes of Love'' (1987) soprano and s.sax

Publications

• The Techniques of Saxophone Playing (2010) published by Bärenreiter ISBN 978-3-7618-2114-5

Recordings

• Georges Aperghis "works for saxophone and viola“ (0012942KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen "Edentia“ (Stockhausen Verlag CD 98)
• Marcus Weiss "Swiss contemporary music for saxophone“ (MGB CTS-M 86)
• So near so far - Trio Accanto (edition zeitklang)
• J.M.Staud Portrait (KAIROS/Vienna (0012672KAI, Vienna)
• Sciarrino "Pagine“ Xasax (ZIG-ZAG TERRITORIES PARIS, ZZT 031001)
• Mauricio Sotelo with Musik-Fabrik (0012832KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
• Giorgio Netti "necessita d’interrogare il cielo“ (DURIAN Vienna, 020-2, LC 02520)
• Trio Accanto (assai, 222502 – MU750)
• Mark Andre (12732KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
• Elena Mendoza (0012882KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
• CONQUEST OF MELODY hat(now)ART CD 6178 (1997)
• ARS SUBTILIOR Xasax hat(now)ART 107 (1998)
• KYA Music by Giacinto Scelsi hat(now)ART 117 (1999)
• Counterpoise Xasax and Trio Accanto hat(now)ART 136 (2000)
• XASAX EROL Records 7019 (1994)
• Alfred Zimmerlin (Musiques suisses, MGB CTS-M 115)
• Hanspeter Kyburz Klangforum MGB CTS-M 52 (1997)
• Neue Musik für Saxophon XOPF Records 10 (1991)
• Detlev Müller-Siemens WERGO, WER 6648 2 (1999)
• MUSIKFABRIK NRW
• "Traum“ by Gerhard Staebler CPO 999 259 2 (1994)
• Nikolaus A. Huber BVHAAST CD 9407 (1994)

References

External links

• Official website