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.

As a soloist, Weiss worked with many European orchestras and ensembles of contemporary music. 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) and Quatuor Xasax in Paris (with saxophonists Serge Bertocchi, Jean-Michel Goury and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé.

Since 1995 he has taught saxophone and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, where he also directs a Masters program for contemporary music. He is regularly giving masterclasses at various international universities (London, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Palma, Porto, Boston, New York, Chicago, Takefu, Sevilla.). Weiss is a regular teacher at the "Darmstaedter Ferienkurse fuer neue Musik“ as well as at IMPULS (ensemble academy) in Graz, Austria.

He studied saxophone with Iwan Roth at the Hochschule für Musik Basel and Frederick L. Hemke at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In 1989, he was awarded the soloist’s prize of the Swiss Tonkuenstlerverein.

Weiss is a d'Addario artist

World premieres

Solo Mark Andre (2013) Georges Aperghis (2001) Alex Buess Audio-Konstrukt Arch. II (1989) Gérard Buquet (2009) Shigeru Kan-no (1995) Valentin Marti ( 2007) Giorgio Netti (1995–98) Giorgio Netti (2005) Mauricio Sotelo "Argos" (1997) Mauricio Sotelo (2005) Karlheinz Stockhausen (2007)

Solo with ensemble/orchestra Georg Friedrich Haas (2008) b.sax and orch Jürg Birkenkoetter (2002/03) sax, pno, perc and orch Manuel Hidalgo (1994) sax (a/b) and ens Toshio Hosokawa (2005) s.sax, pno, perc and strings Hanspeter Kyburz (1993/94) sax (SATB) and ens Roland Moser (1980/83) five sax and orch Salvatore Sciarrino (2003) s.sax, pno, perc and orch Mauricio Sotelo (2003/06) sax and ens Johannes Maria Staud (2005) sax (s/t), wind orch and perc

Chamber music Peter Ablinger (1990) t.sax., fl, pno Mark Andre: durch (2005/06) s.sax., perc and pno Georges Aperghis: Crosswind (1997) viola and satb Georges Aperghis (2014) a.sax, pno and perc Georges Aperghis (2007) musical theatre Alex Buess (1991) ttbb John Cage (1991) s.sax, a.sax and 3 perc Alvaro Carlevaro (1993/94) satb Aldo Clementi (2000) sax, pno perc Stefano Gervasoni (2000) b.sax, pno and perc Vinko Globokar (1998) sax, pno and perc Wolfgang Heiniger (2003) kb.sax, per and self playing drums Wolfgang Heiniger (2005) s.sax, self playing drum and tape Toshio Hosokawa (1994) t.sax, pno and perc York Höller (2001) s.sax, pno, perc Rudolf Kelterborn (2014/15) viola and satb Thomas Kessler (2002) soprano and s.sax Jo Kondo (2000) a.sax, pno and marimba Helmut Lachenmann Sakura (2000) a.sax, pno, perc Bernhard Lang (2004) voice, sax, pno, perc Fabien Lévy (2012) satb Thomas Müller (1993) sax, pno, perc Giorgio Netti (1998) satb Giorgio Netti (2001) cl, sax, vcl, pno and perc Brice Pauset (2000) s.sax, pno and perc Stefan Prins Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3) (2014) sax, pno, perc and electr Wolfgang Rihm (2006) kb.sax, pno and perc Yuval Shaked (1998) sax, pno, per Karlheinz Stockhausen (2007) s.sax, trp and vlc Hans Thomalla (2013) a.sax and string trio Hans Thomalla (2017/8) t.sax, pno, perc Manos Tsangaris (1998) sax, pno, perc Walter Zimmermann (1987) soprano and s.sax

Publications The Techniques of Saxophone Playing (2010) published by Bärenreiter

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)