_Trajectoires

_{Tour du monde en 80 minutes}

Nicolas Allard
_{SOPRANO SAXOPHONE}

Born in the French Alps, Nicolas Allard started the saxophone at the Tallard music school before furthering his studies at the conservatories of Gap and Lyon respectively. In 2016 he was accepted to study at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg where he obtained his bachelor’s degree saxophone performance. Having always particularly enjoyed chamber music, he co-founded the Avena saxophone quartet in 2016 with whom he went on to obtain his master’s degree in 2020 specializing in chamber music at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin and the University of Strasbourg.
An impassioned jazz musician himself, Nicolas Allard decided to further widen his musical universe, exploring the vast realm of improvised music. On top of graduating with a Bachelor’s degree specializing in jazz and improvisation at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in 2019, he now performs regularly in a vast variety of musical ensembles. In parallel with his saxophone studies, Nicolas Allard maintained a strong interest in pedagogy, ultimately graduating in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in saxophone pedagogie. He currently teaches saxophone in numerous music schools in towns such as Eckbolsheim, Oberhausbergen and Wintzenheim and has managed to create a direct correlation between his teaching and his artistic projects.

FAbio cesare
_{Alto SAXOPHONE}

As a musician, Fabio Cesare has been described as creative, curious and multi-talented. Born in Benevento in 1995, Fabio Cesare started his musical studies in the same city at the Nicola Sala conservatory, under the guidance of maestro Paolo Regliari. After moving to France in 2016 he graduated from the saxophone department of the Strasbourg conservatory with a distinction awarded unanimously by the jury. In 2020 he obtained a master’s degree specializing in chamber music at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg alongside the Avena saxophone quartet. He has participated in numerous masterclasses and has won over 12 national and international music competitions both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He has performed in theatres and festivals in Italy, France, Luxemburg, Japan, Bulgaria, Croatia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and many more. Since 2015 he has regularly been invited to perform with the Benevento Philharmonic orchestra, and since 2017 holds the post of saxophonist in the famous San Carlo orchestra in Naples. He has performed under the baton of conductors such as; Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Oren, Juraj Valčuha, Timothy Brock, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Valerio Galli and Elio Boncompagni amongst others.

Sumika tsujimoto
_{tenor SAXOPHONE}

Sumika Tsujimoto epitomises the modern day artist, invested in her YouTube channel « [Sumika.] Saxophone » which currently has 90 000 subscriptions and well over 10 million total views. Her CDs, recorded with piano, Oto-no-jisho and Oto-no-Ame, are born from her collaboration with young Japanese composers.
Born in Nara, Japan Sumika Tsujimoto started the saxophone at the age of 13. After studying at the Takamado music school she continued her studies at the Soai University Faculty of Music in Osaka, studying under Suwako Iwata and Masahiro Maeda. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious university’s President’s Prize, 3rd prizes in both the solo and ensemble divisions at the Osaka International Music Competition (2012, 2015) and winner in the saxophone division at the Japan Classical Music Competition. After studying in Japan, she moved to France to continue her studies with Philippe Geiss at the Strasbourg music Conservatory. She graduated from the saxophone department with a distinction awarded unanimously by the jury. She has recently finished her masters specializing in chamber music at the Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, from where her flowering musical career continues to flourish.

ADAM campbell
_{Baritone SAXOPHONE}