About this event

What if there was a saxophone from the Baroque era? With that in mind, he plays music.

Daisuke specializs in the baroque repertoire on the saxophone.In this concert he performs music from the late 16th to the 18th century, and collaborates with the early music specialists. It is a rare occasion that modern instrumentalists work together with early music performers, to play together in a historic church. You can enjoy and follow several kinds of early music repertoire such as Renaissance, French, Italian & German Baroque music on the saxophone.

○Players

Saxophone Daisuke Sakaguchi

Harpsichord Mimoe Todo

Viola da gamba Miguel Bonal Asensio

Violin Laura Alexander

○Program

Ancor che col partire /Cipriano de Rore

Trio sonata for 4 voices No10 / Henry Purcell

Suite for traverso No.1 op.2 / Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

[on the Alto Saxophone]

Recercare / Domenico Gabrielli

Sonata for cello RV44/ Antonio Vivardi

Suites for cello No.5 /J.S Bach

[Bon the Baritone Saxophone]

○Location

Old Catholic Church in the Haag

[Open 18:30 Start 19:00]

Daisuke Sakaguchi studied saxophone at the Tokyo University of Art with Nobuya Sugawa. In 2020 , he came to the Netherlands and started with his studies and research in early music performance on modern saxophone at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague. He is studying with Raaf Hekkema (Calefax Reed Quintet) , Eric Hoeprich (clarinetist in the 18th Century Orchestra) and Lucia Swarts (Netherland Bach Society).In Japan, he is active as a solo saxophone soloist and as a member of the Clover Saxophone Quartet, which has released 3 CDs till now.