Marcus Weiss
Marcus Weiss (born 1961 in Basel, Switzerland) is a saxophonist and teacher. His repertoire includes all epochs, from the beginnings in impressionistic France to the present.[1][2]
As a soloist, Weiss worked with many European orchestras[3] and ensembles of contemporary music.[4][5] He has been invited to major festivals in Europe, the US and Asia. As a chamber musician, Weiss is primarily working with his two ensembles, Trio Accanto (Nicolas Hodges, piano and Christian Dierstein percussion)[6] and Quatuor Xasax in Paris (with saxophonists Serge Bertocchi, Jean-Michel Goury and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé.[7]
Since 1995 he has taught saxophone and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Basel,[8][9] where he also directs a Masters program for contemporary music.[10] He is regularly giving masterclasses at various international universities (London, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Palma, Porto, Boston, New York, Chicago,[11] Takefu, Sevilla.). Weiss is a regular teacher at the "Darmstaedter Ferienkurse fuer neue Musik“[12][13] as well as at IMPULS (ensemble academy) in Graz, Austria.[14]
He studied saxophone with Iwan Roth at the Hochschule für Musik Basel and Frederick L. Hemke at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.[15] In 1989, he was awarded the soloist’s prize of the Swiss Tonkuenstlerverein.[16]
World premieres
    
    Solo
    
- Mark Andre ''iv 12'' (2013)
 - Georges Aperghis ''Alter Ego'' (2001)[18]
 - Alex Buess ''Audio-Konstrukt Arch. II'' (1989)
 - Gérard Buquet ''L’astre échevelée'' (2009)
 - Shigeru Kan-no ''Work'' (1995)
 - Valentin Marti ''Charon'' ( 2007)
 - Giorgio Netti ''Necessità d'interrogare il cielo'' (1995–98)[19]
 - Giorgio Netti ''Ultimo a lato'' (2005)
 - Mauricio Sotelo "Argos" (1997)
 - Mauricio Sotelo ''Muros de dolor'' (2005)
 - Karlheinz Stockhausen ''Edentia'' (2007)
 
Solo with ensemble/orchestra
    
- Georg Friedrich Haas ''Baritonsaxophonkonzert'' (2008) b.sax and orch[20][21]
 - Jürg Birkenkoetter ''Tripelkonzert'' (2002/03) sax, pno, perc and orch
 - Manuel Hidalgo ''Romance de Le Châtelier'' (1994) sax (a/b) and ens
 - Toshio Hosokawa ''Herbst Wanderer'' (2005) s.sax, pno, perc and strings
 - Hanspeter Kyburz ''Cells'' (1993/94) sax (SATB) and ens
 - Roland Moser ''Wal'' (1980/83) five sax and orch
 - Salvatore Sciarrino ''Graffito sul Mare'' (2003) s.sax, pno, perc and orch
 - Mauricio Sotelo ''Wall of light Black'' (2003/06) sax and ens
 - Johannes Maria Staud ''Violent Incidents'' (2005) sax (s/t), wind orch and perc
 
Chamber music
    
- Peter Ablinger ''Verkündigung'' (1990) t.sax., fl, pno
 - Mark Andre: ''durch'' (2005/06) s.sax., perc and pno
 - Georges Aperghis: ''Crosswind'' (1997) viola and satb
 - Georges Aperghis ''Funambule'' (2014) a.sax, pno and perc
 - Georges Aperghis ''Zeugen'' (2007) musical theatre
 - Alex Buess ''Hyperbaton'' (1991) ttbb
 - John Cage ''Five 4'' (1991) s.sax, a.sax and 3 perc
 - Alvaro Carlevaro ''Quiebros'' (1993/94) satb
 - Aldo Clementi ''Tre Ricercari'' (2000) sax, pno perc
 - Stefano Gervasoni ''Rigirio'' (2000) b.sax, pno and perc
 - Vinko Globokar ''Terres brulées, ensuite...'' (1998) sax, pno and perc
 - Wolfgang Heiniger ''Lamento III'' (2003) kb.sax, per and self playing drums
 - Wolfgang Heiniger ''"Desafinado"'' (2005) s.sax, self playing drum and tape
 - Toshio Hosokawa ''Vertical Time Study II'' (1994) t.sax, pno and perc
 - York Hoeller ''Trias'' (2001) s.sax, pno, perc
 - Rudolf Kelterborn ''Musik in vier Sätzen'' (2014/15) viola and satb
 - Thomas Kessler ''Is it?'' (2002) soprano and s.sax
 - Jo Kondo ''A Shrub'' (2000) a.sax, pno and marimba
 - Helmut Lachenmann Sakura (2000) a.sax, pno, perc
 - Bernhard Lang ''Song Book'' (2004) voice, sax, pno, perc
 - Fabien Lévy ''Towards the door we never opened'' (2012) satb
 - Thomas Müller ''Secco'' (1993) sax, pno, perc
 - Giorgio Netti ''avvicinamento'' (1998) satb
 - Giorgio Netti ''due lune pù in là'' (2001) cl, sax, vcl, pno and perc
 - Brice Pauset ''Adagio dialettico'' (2000) s.sax, pno and perc
 - Stefan Prins ''Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3)'' (2014) sax, pno, perc and electr
 - Wolfgang Rihm ''Gegenstück'' (2006) kb.sax, pno and perc
 - Yuval Shaked ''40malige Gegenwart und Rueckmeldung'' (1998) sax, pno, per
 - Karlheinz Stockhausen ''Erwachen'' (2007) s.sax, trp and vlc
 - Hans Thomalla ''Fracking'' (2013) a.sax and string trio
 - Hans Thomalla ''Lied'' (2017/8) t.sax, pno, perc
 - Manos Tsangaris ''3 Orte'' (1998) sax, pno, perc
 - Walter Zimmermann ''The Paradoxes of Love'' (1987) soprano and s.sax
 
Publications
    
- The Techniques of Saxophone Playing (2010) published by Bärenreiter ISBN 978-3-7618-2114-5
 
Recordings
    
- Georges Aperghis "works for saxophone and viola“ (0012942KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
 - Karlheinz Stockhausen "Edentia“ (Stockhausen Verlag CD 98)
 - Marcus Weiss "Swiss contemporary music for saxophone“ (MGB CTS-M 86)
 - So near so far - Trio Accanto (edition zeitklang)
 - Vykintas Baltakas (KAIROS/Vienna, 0015004KAI)
 - J.M.Staud Portrait (KAIROS/Vienna (0012672KAI, Vienna)
 - Sciarrino "Pagine“ Xasax (ZIG-ZAG TERRITORIES PARIS, ZZT 031001)
 - Mauricio Sotelo with Musik-Fabrik (0012832KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
 - Giorgio Netti "necessita d’interrogare il cielo“ (DURIAN Vienna, 020-2, LC 02520)
 - Trio Accanto (assai, 222502 – MU750)
 - Mark Andre (12732KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
 - Elena Mendoza (0012882KAI, Kairos/Vienna)
 - CONQUEST OF MELODY hat(now)ART CD 6178 (1997)
 - ARS SUBTILIOR Xasax hat(now)ART 107 (1998)
 - KYA Music by Giacinto Scelsi hat(now)ART 117 (1999)
 - Counterpoise Xasax and Trio Accanto hat(now)ART 136 (2000)
 - XASAX EROL Records 7019 (1994)
 - Alfred Zimmerlin (Musiques suisses, MGB CTS-M 115)
 - Hanspeter Kyburz Klangforum MGB CTS-M 52 (1997)
 - Neue Musik für Saxophon XOPF Records 10 (1991)
 - Detlev Müller-Siemens WERGO, WER 6648 2 (1999)
 - MUSIKFABRIK NRW
 - "Traum“ by Gerhard Staebler CPO 999 259 2 (1994)
 - Nikolaus A. Huber BVHAAST CD 9407 (1994)
 
References
    
- Krieger, Irene (2002). "Neue Saxophonkonzerte und ihre Widmungsträger: Eine Auswahl". Rohrblatt: Magazin für Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Saxophon.
 - Aff, Rebekah. "Mark Dresser Modular Ensemble and Mark Dresser & Marcus Weiss Duo". JazzReview.com. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
 - "Orchestral Concert 1 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra". BBC Music Events. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - "Ensemble (History) - Klangforum Wien (EN)". Klangforum Wien. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - "Zeit-Ton extended". ORF (broadcaster). Retrieved 31 August 2016.
 - Wieschollek, Dirk (2011). "So near so far". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
 - Derks, Thea (1998). "Odessa: Music as a Means for Emancipation". Tempo.
 - "FHNW - Prof. Marcus Weiss - Tätigkeiten und Funktion in Forschung, Dienstleitung und Lehre - Hochschule für Musik". Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - "Donaueschingen: Orgel und Sopransaxophon brillieren - Donaueschingen". Schwarzwälder Bote. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
 - "Contemporary Music". Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - "The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Contemporary Art Museum: Nora Schultz, parrottree-building for bigger than real". Renaissance Society. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - Freydank, Sylvia. "Weiss, Marcus (Saxophone)". Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - "Pedro Pablo Cámara gana el premio Förderpreis de la Fundación BOG". Doce Notas. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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 - "Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music". Northwestern University. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
 - "D'Addario Strings". d'Addario. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
 - "D'Addario Woodwinds : Artist Details : Marcus Weiss". d'Addario. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
 - "Zeit-Ton extended". ORF. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
 - Mallorca, Diario de. "Giorgio Netti, Simaku y Sánchez-Verdú en el Festival Internacional". Diario de Mallorca. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
 - "News Section". Tempo. 62 (245): 83–85. 2008-07-01. doi:10.1017/S0040298208000223. JSTOR 40072845.
 - Kunkel, Michael (2010). "Quasi un attraversamento: Saxophonmehrklänge in Kunst und Forschung von Giorgio Netti, Marcus Weiss und Georg Friedrich Haas". Dissonance: Schweizer Musikzeitschrift für Forschung und Kreation.