Projects
Solo Projects
How do you imagine a concert with only a Baritone Saxophone on stage? Or playing a CONCERTO for Baritone Saxophone?
You will actually discover an instrument with a large sonority, timbre richness and great flexibility that make it able to play any style of music with a very special personality.
You will also strike the audience of your festival or concert series with it. Trust me!
21st CENTURY MUSIC FOR BARITONE SAXOPHONE
We artists have a duty of playing the music of out time. This project includes solo works originally written by composers from all over the world.
I presented this project (my very first one!) in Catalonia, Andorra, Portugal, Luxembourg, Italy and Scotland.
AS A SOLOIST
I have premiered two Concertos for Baritone Saxophone and Orchestra:
- TRES PIEZAS by Argentinian composer Fernando Lerman [ca. 20:00] with Orquestra Camerata XXI – Ciutat de Reus, conducted by Gustavo Rivero Weber (Teatre Fortuny de Reus, November 2024)
- CONCERTO by Luxembourguish composer Albena Petrovic [ca. 17:00] with Sabine Weyer (piano) and The Sofia Soloists conducted by Plamen Djouroff (Philharmonie de Luxembourg, June 2018)
There are other beautiful works for Orchestra or Band, ready to be discovered. Do you feel like playing them together?
Morphosis Duo
Music should not always produce a calming effect on us. Sometimes,
it must shake and provoke in order to activate our senses and mind.
Morphosis Duo, with sound artist and composer Joan Bagés i Rubí (electronics), is the basic version of Morphosis Ensemble, a flexible collective engaged in the dissemination of electroacoustic music, a genre representing a step forward in the (r)evolution of music of the 20th-21st centuries.
THIS IS NOT A FAD!
The programme is open and entirely consists of original works by female composers.
Whilst a past in which the role of women in music (especially in the field of composition) has been so marginal cannot be changed, we have a responsibility to eradicate any type of discrimination (including gender) and lay the foundations for new generations of artists.
SCRATCH
Scratch (since 2016) aims to spread the works by composers and sound artists involved in the exploration of new languages and sonorities.
We have presented this is project at the festivals Musica d’Ara (Barcelona, 2016), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (the USA, 2017) and Bruits Blancs (France, 2021), amongst others.
Our projects do not let anyone indifferent:
“Morphosis Duo presented an entire concert at the 2017 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, playing numerous works from Catalonia. Frasquier plays with incredible energy and his performances were an exhausting display of contemporary saxophone techniques.”
Hubert Howe, Director and co-funder of the NYCEMF (New York, June 2017)
“The concert was outstanding: I didn’t lose my interest in it in anytime. First, Joan MF, because of your interpretations and presence on stage and, on the other hand, because of Joan B is an electronics player crack.”
Sergio Fidemraizer, Composer (Barcelona, October 2016)