Maat Saxophone Quartet is a 100% Portuguese ensemble, founded and based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Prize-winners of the most prestigious classical music competition in Portugal “Prémio Jovens Músicos”, finalists of the “Grachtenfestival Conservatorium Concours” and winners of Storioni Competition in Eindhoven, the ensemble combines four musicians from the same country, having already perform in halls such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg, Staadsgehoorzaal Leiden, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Casa da Música in Porto, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. The quartet works regularly with new and young composers, promoting the development of new saxophone quartet repertoire, as well as the development of the new pieces for this formation by young composers, such as Nuno Lobo, Adam Lukawski and Ramin Amin Tafreshi. Maat Saxophone Quartet has the desire to bring abroad and develop the great music found in Portugal, as well as bring with them the great music found in the Netherlands, making this artistic and cultural connection through the music.
They play the following repertoire during this concert:
Old Hungarian Dances – F. Farkas
The Wordsworth Poems – Guillermo Lago
Sozale – Ramin Amin Tafreshi
Rêverie – Claude Debussy
Adagio for Strings – Samuel Barber
String Quartet nr. 12 “American” (II and IV movements) – Antonin Dvorak