Doneda/ Rose & Morimoto/ Yamada

SIMON ROSE (UK/DE) is a musician-composer, researcher and author. He’s a recognised baritone saxophonist with a main interest in open improvisation and appears on over forty music releases. He performs regularly as a soloist and in numerous collaborations in Europe and North America. Additionally, he frequently performs in interdisciplinary settings with dancers, visual artists and others. He holds a PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University and has authored two books: ‘The lived experience of improvisation: in music, learning and life’ (2017) and ‘Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance and Contemporary Art’ (2024).

Press ‘Procession’ [solo saxophone CD] is one of the finest statements from the saxophone I have ever had the pleasure to experience.’ Marc Medwin, CADENCE. ‘Rose gifted the audience with a beautiful performance, full of nuances, circular breathing and something like a theatrical attitude, but very near the essence and far from rhetoric. Gian Paolo Galasi http://londonresonance.blogspot.com/

MICHEL DONEDA

Michel Doneda is a French soprano and sopranino saxophonist. He began playing the soprano saxophone at the age of fifteen, performing in orchestras in his native region. In the early 1980s he began to meet and collaborate with many people: he founded the Hic et Nunc saxophone trio in Toulouse with Didier Masmalet and Steve Robins, worked with GRIM in Marseille, and took part in the Tour de France organised by Louis Sclavis, where he met the singer Beñat Achiary, with whom he worked for many years. Later he took part in the Chantenay-Villedieu festival and worked with the Nato company, meeting musicians from a wide range of backgrounds such as Fred Van Hove, John Zorn, Lol Coxhill, Raymond Boni, Phil Wachsmann, Ravi Prasard, Joëlle Léandre and many others. In 1986 he formed a trio with Daunik Lazro on alto saxophone and Ninh Lê Quan on percussion. Until the early 1990s he worked with Alain Joule, Barre Phillips, Dominique Regef, Elvin Jones and others. In 1993 he travelled to Gabon, where he discovered the local music, and on his return played with Elliot Sharp and Jin Hi Kim.

In 2007, accompanied by Mats Gustafsson on tenor saxophone, he played in Paris with the independent rock band Sonic Youth. In 2010, he published ‘Miettes’ in the Entre-deux collection from Mômeludies Éditions. His highly personal style has been nurtured by his many exchanges in a wide variety of artistic fields, both in music (traditional music, jazz, free improvisation, experimental rock) and in other fields (theatre, cinema, literature, poetry, etc.).