About

The Area 9 Quartet is a Boston-based ensemble dedicated to exploring the rich, diverse and ever growing chamber music repertoire for saxophone. Recent performances have included works by Bach, Debussy, Glazunov and Vaughan Williams, as well as compositions by Sidney Bechet, Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury and Herbie Hancock. Area 9 is also proud to have commissioned and debuted new works by contemporary composers, including Jun Feng’s “Somehow, Tango”, performed at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA in 2015, and Michael Kosch’s “Castle in the Air”, which Area 9 premiered at the Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC in December of 2016.

Music

Area 9 Saxophone Quartet performs a variety of styles including but not limited to the following:

Classical, Baroque, Contemporary, New Music, Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll, in addition to a large selection of arrangements and transcriptions.

Recent Program: Gals & Grooves

'String Quartet in E-flat Major' by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

'Saxophone Quartet' by Ida Gotkovsky

'Revolutions' by Marc Mellits

'Saxophone Quartet' by Aldemaro Romero

'Struttin' with some bbq' by Lil Hardin Armstrong

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Audio