Marcus Weiss
Professor of saxophone and chamber music, Music Academy in Basel
Switzerland

Marcus Weiss is born in 1961 in Basel, studied saxophone with Iwan Roth at the city’s Music Academy, and subsequently with Frederick L. Hemke at the Northwestern University in Chicago. He received the Soloist Prize from the Swiss Musicians’ Association in 1989. He performed with various European orchestras and as a chamber musician with Trio Accanto and Xasax Ensemble. Georges Aperghis, Aldo Clementi, Beat Furrer, Stefano Gervasoni, Vinko Globokar, Manuel Hidalgo, York Höller, Toshio Hosokawa, Michael Jarrell, Hanspeter Kyburz, Helmut Lachenmann, Detlev Müller-Siemens, Giorgio Netti and Salvatore Sciarrino have written works specially for him. The recordings of some of them are available on cd. His discography also includes pieces by Schönberg, Berio, Webern, Wolpe, Cage, Scelsi, Netti, Ablinger and Sciarrino.
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