Vertigo Sargas Duo

• Pier Damiano Peretti (b. 1974):
• 1 Vertigo 17:01
• Paul Creston (1906 - 1985):
• 2 Rapsodie, Op. 108a 10:36
• Hannes Kerschbaumer (b. 1981):
• 3 Steme 11:15
• Henri Sauguet (1901 - 1989):
• 4 Oraisons 12:15
• Hippolyte Escudié (1816 - 1881):
• 5 Andante No. 1 for Alto Saxophone & Organ 03:43
• 6 Andante No. 3 for Alto Saxophone & Organ 02:31
• 7 Andante No. 4 for Alto Saxophone & Organ 05:28
• Maarten De Splenter:
• 8 Soprano Saxophone Concertino 11:46
• Total Runtime 01:14:35

Info for Vertigo

VERTIGO: The SARGAS DUO's debut album (Massimiliano Girardi - saxophone & Luca Lavuri, organ) is one of the few productions that only includes original compositions for saxophone and organ. Noteworthy is not only the deliberate exclusion of transcriptions, but also the matter of course with which the SARGAS DUO could combine such different, even diametrical stylistic attitudes.

Sargas Duo

Hannes Kerschbaumer
born in 1981 in Brixen (South-Tyrol, Italy). He studied composition with Gerd Kühr, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer and Georg Friedrich Haas. His music has been performed in festivals such as Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt, Wien Modern, musikprotokoll at the steirischer herbst, Wittener Tage neuer Kammermusik, Wien Modern, Festival Transart, Klangspuren Schwaz, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, World Saxophone Congress 2012, the Opera Graz, Festival Traettorie, live concerts in the broadcast “Zeitton” on the OE1 a.o. Collaboration with ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, Ensemble PHACE, Ensemble Schallfeld, TENM (Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik), Ensemble neoN and musicians such as Krassimir Sterev, Caroline Mayrhofer a.o.

In 2009 he was awarded the Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz, 2012 the Startstipendium of the bm:ukk, 2013 the Hilde-Zach-Förderstipendium der Stadt Innsbruck, 2014 the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Kompositionsstipendium des Landes Steiermark, 2015 the SKE Publicity Preis, 2016 the Staatsstipendium für Komposition, finalist of the 5th, 6th and 7th Johann-Joseph-Fux Competition for Opera Composition Graz. Composer in Residence 2015 at IZZM (Carinthia). In 2017 he’s awarded the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis.

Winner of the 1° edition of OPER.A 20.21 Composition competition of the Haydn Foundation (2017). He is co-founder of the ensemble chromoson, artistic director of “hörbar! – tag der neuen musik” and member of the electronik-trio “dark matter”.

He lives as a freelance composer in Absam (Austria).

Luca Lavuri
In 2012 he took his diploma with maximum marks in piano under Professor Limongelli and in organ under Maestro Giovanni Mazza at the Music Conservatory “G. Verdi” in Milan.

A versatile and polyhedric musician, he devotes himself actively to his repertoire in the broadest possible fields. From ancient to contemporary music, in his twofold role of an organist and a pianist, and as a soloist or in the framework of chamber music.

A brilliant student in his own Conservatory, he was awarded a variety of prizes in his own academy, among which: the Forziati Prize (2007), second place for the Lina Bodini Prize (2011) and first place on an equal footing for the Rancati Prize (2011) in chamber music, in a duo with flautist Giorgio Consolati. He took part in the bicentennial of the birth of Schumann and Chopin (2010) and of Liszt (2011) organized by the Milan Music Conservatory in co-operation with TvSat 2000. He continued his studies in Vienna, obtaining the qualification of Master of Art in piano (2012-2015) at the Musik und Kunst Privat Universität Wien, concluding in September 2015 with a Master course dissertation on two “cruel nocturnes” (2001) for piano by Salvatore Sciarrino. He also got the title of Magister ad Artium (2012-2016) in organ at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst under the guidance of Maestro Pier Damiano Peretti, with a final dissertation on an elaborate repertoire for saxophone and organ. He devotes himself actively to contemporary music, either as a soloist and in ensemble, and carries out first performances of pieces dedicated specifically to him. He took part in the world competition “Jugend musiziert”, and was first prize winner in a duo with flautist Alessandro Baticci in the “Contemporary Music” category (2008) and special prize (Sonderpreis des Deutschen Musikverlag-Verbandes) for the best performance of a piece composed by the performer (Sonata SIRIUS for Flute Piano prepared Mimica and Electronic tape by Alessandro Baticci 2007). In 2011 and 2012 he cooperated with the contemporary music laboratory of the Milan Music Conservatory “G. Verdi” under the guidance of Maestro Bonifacio, where some portraits of Italian composers such as Riccardo Malipiero (2011) and Niccolò Castiglioni (2012) were realized, in co-operation with Radio 3. In 2012 he took part in the performance of the second Symphony for 21 pianos by Daniele Lombardi. He was first prize winner at the competition “Città di Treviso” in the category Contemporary Music (2011) as a soloist, getting the highest result in his category (2011 e 2015). In 2013 he played in an Ensemble directed by Marino Formenti in the framework of the project “Kons goes Marino’s Party” at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. In 2015 he performed with the Ensemble PHACE at the Konzerthaus in Vienna on the occasion of the opening concert of the music season. In 2015 he cooperated with the Ensemble The Black Page Orchestra performing several première at he Unsafe+Sounds festival. He is presently attending PPCM (Performance Practice in Contemporary Music) for contemporary music at the Kunst Universität Graz. The project Klangforum Wien was set up in 2009 as an opportunity for young musicians to get trained and specialised in the soloistic, chamber- and ensemble- repertoire of the XX-XXI centuries. Since 2013 he has been playing in a duo with saxophonist Massimiliano Girardi. The sargas duo performs in a sax-piano and sax-organ combination. The duo devotes itself to the contemporary repertoire performing première in both instrumental combinations. In the Chile-Argentina tour of summer 2015 he performed an exclusively Italian programme, with several first nights throughout the continent (M.Azzan, L.Schiavo, P.D.Peretti).

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