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Concert to mark Canada’s National Day

NEW DELHI: To commemorate Canada’s National Day, the Canadian High Commission here, the Delhi Music Society and India International Centre are presenting a concert by saxophone-piano duo Claudia Schaetzle and Monique de Margerie at India International Centre here this Wednesday.

“The Dancing Saxophone” will include pieces by 20th Century composers, several of whom are not often heard in India -- Jacques Ibert, Mathieu Lussier, Jerome Naulais, Andre Jolivet, Pedro Itturalde, Paul Ben-Haim, Rudy Wiedoeft and Marcel Perrin. The performance will also include more familiar works such as a piano solo piece by Claude Debussy.

“For me it is very important to introduce the beauty and the great repertoire of the classical saxophone to a larger audience,” said Schaetzle about the duo’s upcoming performance in the country. Montreal-based Schaetzle plays the soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Her passion for music was ignited at a young age when she was an altar girl at a church, and went on to study music in Canada, France and Germany.

One focal point of Schaetzle’s musical activity involves performing contemporary music as a soloist, including performances at “Days for New Music” in Germany, at the “Music of Japan Today III” symposium in New York and at the World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana.

Monique de Margerie, a pianist from Quebec, teaches at Universite Laval in Quebec as a piano teacher and accompanist. She started taking her piano lessons at the age of five and pursued her European career from 1986 to 2003 as a pianist and teacher in Germany and France.

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