Mick Foster

Saxophones ∙ Composer

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John Zorn Bagatelles - Sam Eastmond

  • Festival Cervantino Guanajuato Mexico (map)

The London-based composer, arranger, and trumpeter offers a new perspective on a selection from John Zorn's Bagatelles cycle, composed of three hundred short pieces. Through a contemporary chamber ensemble, he explores these works from an open, collaborative, and expressive perspective, maintaining their experimental essence and rhythmic and harmonic character.

The concert traces a journey of contrasts: between the violent and the subtle, the structured and the spontaneous. Each piece becomes a starting point for a different interpretation, with room for improvisation and collective play.

For Eastmond, these compositions burst into his daily life like a "flock of green parrots in the West London sky": an unexpected flash that transforms the landscape. In them, he finds fertile ground, where each performance opens the door to new possibilities and a never-ending wonder.

Earlier Event: October 2
Quartz Saxophone Quartet
Later Event: October 17
Quartz Saxophone Quartet