PRESS REVIEWS

*FLOOD OF PREMIERES: ...The Sax-Ensemble presented five recent scores at the Auditorio Nacional de Música conducted by José Luis Temes, who added some lines to an impressive career, always serving the newest and most admired music.

LA RAZÓN, 23-12-2006 Álvaro Guibert

*WONDERFUL TRIP BY TOMÁS MARCO: Brilliant performance of the three voice soloists – Pilar Jurado, Mª José Suárez and maybe in the lead, Alfonso Echevarría- each of them forced to play different characters; as brilliant was the performance of the model "Sax-Ensemble group" conducted by Francisco Martínez...

ABC 1-10-2002 Leopoldo Hontañon

*SAX-ENSEMBLE: LONG LIVE OUR MUSIC: The Sax-Ensemble, this group of saxophones, piano and percussion conducted by Francisco Martínez, performed in the Auditorio a varied programme with American, Russian, English and Spanish music. It is not a matter of shouting long live our music, but the fact is that the most interesting, the most beautiful and refreshing of this programme was Spanish music... the Sax-Ensemble performed everything with their well-known quality and enthusiasm.

LA RAZÓN, 15-11-2001, Álvaro Guibert

*THREE PREMIERES AT THE SAX-ENSEMBLE CONCERT: On Monday, we attended one of the concerts that the Sax-Ensemble, conducted by Francisco Martínez, is carrying out in the region of Madrid. The concert took place at the Teatro Monumental and it began with the premiere in Spain of the "Concerto Piccolo", by Denisov, of which the Sax-Ensemble ,conducted this time by José de Eusebio, offered a fantastic version, not only precise but also expressive. In fact, the whole concert was interpretatively of top-level.

ABC 22-12-99, José Luis García del Busto

*GRANADA, A MEETING WITH MUSIC AND DANCE: The Minister of Education and Culture, Esperanza Aguirre, gave yesterday the National Awards for Music and Dance 1997 to the composer José García Román ,to the Sax-Ensemble group for interpretation and to the dancer José Antonio in Dance... In her speech, the Minister stressed the fact that, in interpretation, "it is the first time in history that this award is obtained by a chamber group, and I want to express my special satisfaction for this fact".

AGENCIA EFE, 20- 6-97.

*THE SAX-ENSEMBLE, NATIONAL MUSIC AWARD FOR INTERPRETATION: For ten years the notes of the Sax-Ensemble have burst in festivals and arts centres throughout the world: "trying to give qualify to the saxophone literature and take Spanish contemporary art wherever necessary".

ABC, EL PAÍS, EL MUNDO etc. 20-11-97

*THREE HEAVYWEIGHTS: The concert hall of the Club Diario Levante and the audience gathered there were presented last Friday with the presence of three heavyweights of Spanish contemporary music: the performers Francisco Martínez and Kayoko Morimoto and the composer Zulema de la Cruz. The concert revealed some keys to the performing profession such as fully believing in what is performed – believe in the music contained in the scores performed – a high technical and musical qualification allowing to tackle without difficulty any of the pieces written today with current composing languages and codes and, finally, the constant, univocal and necessary dialogue with the composers, which is the real original of so many masterpieces of 20th century music.

DIARIO LEVANTE, 27-4-97 José Luis Galiana

*DIALOGUES WITH THE SAX-ENSEMBLE: The Sax-Ensemble, group conducted by Francisco Martínez and made up of a saxophone quartet, piano and percussion, gave a concert on Wednesday for the cycle "20th Century Music of the Symphonic Orchestra" of RTVE. In the programme, six Spanish compositions were performed, all of them recent and written for the Sax-Ensemble... In the whole, it was a wonderful concert, very well interpreted and which received satisfied applause from the audience.

ABC, 16-4-94 Álvaro Guibert