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Daniel Kientzy is unanimously considered as the hero of the contemporary saxophone.
First price at the unanimity in saxophone and chamber music to the Conservatory of Paris, it does not satisfy the repertory and stereotyped utilizations in vigor, it undertakes researches without preceding, discovering new playing technics and new expressive possibilities that have revolutionized the saxophone.
He is the only saxophonist who regularly plays all seven members of that family, from the minnow sopranino to the Behemoth contrabass. Collaborating closely with tens of composers, Daniel Kientzy has aroused a repertory without preceding works for the seven saxophones (more than 400 pieces have been written for him).
Its treaty "The multiphonics", appeared to Publishing Salabert, has obtained the Great Price SACEM 1982, "L’art du saxophone " (1993), and the monumental book "SAXOLOGIE" (1990).
He is Doctor the University Paris VIII and Doctor Honoris Causa at the Bucarest Music University.
Actually Daniel Kientzy has published (2006) 72 records in differents countries : France, Spain, Rumania, Russia, United States, Danemark, Corea, Portugal, etc…
He has given to the saxophone a presence and a new scenic dimension. He is considerate as the "inventor"of the contemporary saxophone
url: http://www.kientzy.org
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