The World Saxophone Congress is a bi-annual conference event of all things saxophone related. Students, professionals, composers, instrument makers, and saxophone enthusiasts in general from all over the world attend the Congress. The event features nearly non-stop simultaneous performances, lectures, and demonstrations for five straight days, a key venue for world-premieres of new compositions and exposure to the absolute highest levels of saxophone playing.
This year's Congress was held July 7-12 in Bangkok, Thailand, at the Mahidol University School of Music. The Red Line Sax Quartet performed American composer David Maslanka's Recitation Book at the Congress. Red Line's presence at the international event demonstrated the high standards of saxophone playing of America's young saxophonists.
In addition, our quartet completed a concert tour of China: our virtuoso tenor player, Gai Qun, is a Chinese citizen from the northern Chinese city of Dalian, and our quartet has already been invited to play several concerts in China again next summer. The trip was immensely enriching for not only our quartet, but for all of our supporters, educators, and audiences in general. Photos from this tour can be found at a more casual site, our Picasa photo album (click here).
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