As a rule in the island concerts of classical music have an audience of foreigners, is not your case, you fill your concerts, but not of tourists. What you attribute to this phenomenon?
SS: First, I think it is the novelty effect. Once we are familiar faces in the music school, because we all worked here, this was the first impact and then our project captivated by being musically different and thankfully has gone well. (Laughs)
AIR: Everyone is very curious to hear a saxophone, violin and piano together and that is the truth.
Because it is so unusual?
SS: It is not a frequent formation.
AIR: There is a violinist who takes one of our pieces and makes a whole concert. Now, the same score with this trio, that is unusual, at least in Portugal.
SS: We did a survey, there is indeed another group, very recent, but the purpose of this group was a final exam and then ended.
AIR: From there we do not know if there is activity in this trio at the national level, in international terms there is one or two trios very active. Comodo trio is very famous and works in Europe, but not only develops a trio work, because during a concert they do solos, never do an entire program as we do.
So talk to me the process of choosing the scores in order to make the concert audible and pleasing to the viewers?
AIR: When we started we had a period of repertoire choice very long. We decided we were going to investigate and choose well. The research was done through Google, of course. (Laughs), which is an excellent way to search and mainly thesis of master's degree of saxophonists, where there are many scores written and it was from there that we found the first three parts of the concert.
SS: About 50 minutes of music. We also tried listening to recordings.
AIR: For the pieces we contacted directly with the composer during this process and choose what we play, but we must like it.
SS: If we do not like it, we don't work them.
AIR: We hear a lot of repertoire that are out of the question, for several reasons. Then we have to be aware that the audience will find it interesting is the impact when listening, or the development of the piece itself.
SS: It is essential that we like it, if not for sure will not please the audience.
Then you are going to keep this formation? Are you thinking in the future to add more instruments?
SS: Not for now. Has resulted and will continue so.
There have been invitations to play off the island or not?
AIR: Not yet, because we have not published our work in this aspect. We are teachers and musicians at the same time, it requires time and dedication. On the island we tried to have it both ways.
SS: We have to make our schedules compatible in order to permit weekly basis rehearsals, because if there is a failure, we are unable to keep up the routine tests and the work gets a little lost, even with individual effort.
