Summary: Canadian Daniel Gauthier has performed throughout the world as a concerto soloist and as soprano saxophonist with the internationally acclaimed group, Alliage Quintet. He founded this ensemble in 2004, and together they have recorded seven albums including several for SONY Classical. After studying in Montreal and Bordeaux, Daniel Gauthier completed his studies in Canada earning his doctoral degree. He has presented masterclasses in major European music capitals and has also served as a jury member in many international saxophone competitions. Daniel has been an elected member of the International Saxophone Committee, he held the first saxophone professorship in Germany and since 2003 has been teaching at the Cologne Faculty of Music. During Daniel’s recent tour with Alliage in Australia, I was able to catch up with him for an entertaining conversation full of laughs and insight.<br> <br> Show Notes: I came to the saxophone in a completely different way. A music lesson was $3. I met Jean-Marie Londeix at a summer camp. I moved to France for one year. I was selling croissants during the day and in the evening learning Denisov by memory. I decided to go back to Canada and to maybe even quit the music. I got the job as the first saxophone professor in Germany. Three cultures are all part of my way to make music now. I was very focused on new music, contemporary music because Londeix was very forceful about that. We are musicians because we want to go on stage and not play in our living room for ourselves. It was not an option for me to repeat what other peoples have done. It’s more interesting for me to work in a group. Try to find what you are and what you want to do. Jean-Marie Londeix is the one who opened to a new dimension of the repertoire. If you have something to say, be patient enough to wait until that time comes, and it will happen. Touring with Sabine Meyer. I would like very much to get some original repertoire for the quintet.
