Saxophonist interpreter and improviser, Alfonso Lozano (Valencia, 1974) is an artist engaged in musical creation.  He interprets the music of his time and is engaged in the search for new playing modes, new musical languages and gestures throughout the multiple aesthetics of written and improvised music.  His main artistic concerns are the on-stage use of space and the interrelationship between body, instrument and gesture.

 

After having received the First Prize of the CSMD in Alicante, in 2001, he is admitted as a post-graduate in Contemporary Music in the saxophone international class at the CRR of Bordeaux.

 

Artistic director of the Takloy ensemble since its creation in 2001, he works through exchanges with other composers and cooperates with other artistic groups such as Compagnie La Renverse Les Imprvisibles, Lux-Nox-Mix Proxima Centauri or the Bordeaux National Orchestra. Hers actions are developed in partnership with Festivals, Theaters, National Scenes, Music Schools and Conservatoires, and other organizations linked to the promotion of music.

 

In parallel, Alfonso Lozano is engaged in a large educational work in the Aquitaine region.  In 2009, he passes the French national exam for Arts Professors (Concours de Professeur dEnseignement Artistique).

 

Alfonso Lozano is a member of Temp՗ra <http://www.tempora-site.org>

This project aims at encouraging the knowledge of cultures of countries around the world through the development and broadcasting of events related to the music of our time.

These actions are developed in partnership with Festivals, Theaters, National Scenes, Music Schools and Conservatoires, and other organizations linked to the promotion of music.

 

Some examples of international exchanges:

 

-Madrid, 27/10/08 : concert at the Reina Sofia National Arts Museum Auditorium with Sigma Project

-Amsterdam, 10/06/06 : improvisation performance at Overtoom 301 with cie Magpied

-Budapest, 15/02/06 : Orphe at Palotja Museum for the Kurtg80 Festival with LuxNoxMix

-Valencia-Bordeaux, 10/11/05 : tour with the duet DoubleFaze (saxophone and violoncello)

-Rotterdam, 20/03/03 : concert at the III Biennial of Contemporary Music

 

Some examples of exchanges in France :

 

-Bordeaux, 17/05/09 : music and dance performance at the Grand Thtre-ONBA with La Renverse

-Toulouse, 14/10/07 : cinema-concert at the Cinmathque with LuxNoxMix ensemble

-Saint-milion, 22/09/06 : recital at the Monolithe Church with the duet DoubleFaze

-Albi, 20/05/06 : performance at the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum for the Night of Museums

-Bordeaux, 12/06/04 : residence at Molire Theater, monographic concert Franois Ross

 

 

 

 

Alfonso Lozano is one of those determined artists who try to defend the music of their time.

 

This saxophonist refuses to express himself in a conventional musical language, he makes research, he experiments and he performs the best thoughts of the composers with whom he collaborates. This creates special and fertile relationships.

 

The work that results is very open-minded, full of talent and determination. This artist wants to bring saxophone to the center of the contemporary impulse.

 

I congratulate  him.

 

 

                                                                      Jean Marie LONDEIX