Concert: Wednesday, 09.04.2025, 7:30 p.m

Asya Fateyva, Saxophon & Valerya Myrosh, Klavier

“La Femme Fatale” with works by Paule Maurice, Fernande Decruck, Ida Gotkovsky and Francois Borne

Paule Maurice „Tableaux de Provence“ 14‘

I. Farandoulo di chatouno
II. Cansoun per ma mio
III. La boumiano
IV. Dis alyscamps l'amo souspire
V. Lou cabridan

Fernande Decruck Sonate 15‘

I. Tres modéré, expressif
II. Noël (Andante)
III. Fileuse
IV. Nocturne et Rondel

Ida Gotkovsky „Brilliance“ 11‘

I. Déclamé
II. Desinvolte. Avec humour
III. Dolcissimo
IV. Final

Francois Borne „Fantaisie brilliante sur des airs de Carmen“ 11‘


Asya Fateyeva, Saxophon

Asya Fateyeva brings the saxophone back into the focus of musical life: with innovative programmes and great skill. Classically trained and multi-award-winning, Asya Fateyeva loves to explore a wide variety of musical styles and eras. Asya Fateyeva, born in the Crimea, dedicates herself to a broad repertoire. This includes original works for her instrument as well as works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods.

At the same time, she is expanding her repertoire and the network of musicians with whom she works, performs and works on new programmes. In addition to classical concerts with orchestra and solo recitals, she tries out everything that interests her, especially in chamber music. Whether an early­baroque programme or Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for cello, accordion and saxophone, music from the 1920s by Erwin Schulhoff and contemporaries or an encounter between organ and saxophone - anything is possible. Also projects with jazz and world music. Asya Fateyeva sees herself as a musician who feels and works multiculturally. Her playing combines diverse influences.

The classically trained saxophonist is one of the most outstanding representatives of her profession and has won numerous awards. In 2014, for example, she was the first woman to reach the final of the renowned International Adolphe Sax Competition in Belgium, where she took third place. In the same year, music critic Harald Eggebrecht wrote about her in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: ‘The young Asya Fateyeva plays the alto saxophone so elegantly and confidently that the beauty of the sound she conjures up in Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Piano beguiles everyone.’

Asya Fateyeva performs with numerous orchestras. For example, under the direction of Robin Ticci-ati with the Deutsches-Symphonie­orchester Berlin, Dirk Kaftan with the SWR-Symphonie­orchester, Michael Sanderling, Kristjan Jarvi with MDR, John Axelrod, Sébastien Rouland, Christoph Mattias Müller with the Göttinger Symphoniker, Vladimir Fedoseyev with the Wiener Symphoniker at the Musikverein Wien. She has performed several times with the Moscow Virtuosi under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov. She has also made guest appearances with the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with orchestras in Bonn, Frankfurt/Oder and Kassel.

Her concerts at festivals in Lucerne, Colmar, Moscow, Cologne and St Petersburg as well as at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Dresden Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the MDR Music Summer and the ‘Spannungen’ music festival in Heimbach were very well received.

After two years as a junior student with Professor Daniel Gauthier at the Cologne University of Music, Asya Fateyeva began her regular studies there at the age of 17.

Study visits to France with Claude Delangle in Paris and Jean-Denis Michat in Lyon, among others, provided important impulses. She also completed a postgraduate course in chamber music at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. She currently teaches classical saxophone at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre and the University of Music in Lübeck.

Further information can be found at www.asyafateyeva.com