2/6/23 Guest Artist Series

Guest Artist Series

Monday I February 6, 2023 I 7:30 pm

Recital Hall

Hayato Ikegaya, saxophones and piano

Ricardo Martinez, saxophones

Urban Development (2017)

Ricardo Martinez, alto saxophone

Hayato Ikegaya, alto saxophone

Duet for Alto Saxophones (1990)

Nina Shekhar (b. 1995)

David N. Baker

Fast (1931–2016)

Slow

Fast

Ricardo Martinez, alto saxophone

Hayato Ikegaya, alto saxophone

Canon en aire de joropo (2011)

Ricardo Martinez, alto saxophone

Hayato Ikegaya, alto saxophone

Intermission

Rythmes lyriques (1982)

Hayato Ikegaya, soprano saxophone

Ricardo Martinez, tenor saxophone

Fuzzy Bird Sonata (1991)

Rolando Budini (b. 1976)

Lucie Robert (1936–2019)

Takashi Yoshimatsu

Run, Bird (b. 1953)

Sing, Bird

Fly, Bird

Ricardo Martinez, alto saxophone

Hayato Ikegaya, piano

Morricone Paradiso (1988; 2012)

Ricardo Martinez, alto saxophone

Hayato Ikegaya, piano

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020)

arr. Toshio Mashima

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Ricardo Martinez is assistant professor of practice in saxophone at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music. He was selected as grand-prize winner of the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition and firstprize winner in the 2017 Chicago Woodwind Ensemble Competition. He has played concerts internationally in France, Scotland, and Japan and has performed at the International Saxophone Symposium, North American Saxophone Alliance, American Single Reed Summit, and World Saxophone Congress.

Martinez has performed with Classical Tahoe, the California Symphony, the Evansville Philharmonic, and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and has recorded at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County. He has also been a featured soloist with the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose, Stanford Summer Symphony, University of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University Guitar Ensemble, and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de CergyPontoise Wind Ensemble. A supporter of new music, Martinez frequently participates in consortiums, collaborates with composers, and has performed at the Society of Composers, Inc., and Midwest Composers Symposium. He serves as a clinician in Northern California and actively adjudicates solo and ensemble festivals with CMEA (California Music Educators Association) Bay Section.

Having begun his saxophone studies in the Bay Area under David Henderson of Stanford University and William Trimble, Martinez earned degrees at the University of Minnesota, studying with saxophone virtuoso Eugene Rousseau, and in France at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise, where he studied with Jean-Yves Fourmeau. He received the Conservatoire’s Médaille d’Or in saxophone and graduated with honors in chamber music. He later completed graduate work at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of Otis Murphy and studied with the esteemed Japanese saxophonist Nobuya Sugawa at the Hamamatsu International Wind Academy and Festival. As an educator, Martinez has served as associate instructor in saxophone at Indiana University and been invited to teach and perform at the Indiana University Summer Saxophone Academy, Stanford University, and CSU (California State University) Summer Arts. Martinez is an endorsing artist for Legere Reeds and BG France.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Born in Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture, in 1985, Hayato

Ikegaya is a graduate of Shizuoka University. He began attending Yamaha music classes at age five, studying piano performance, music nomenclature, and other elements of music theory and composition. He took up the saxophone at age twelve.

Ikegaya has built an impressive record as a performing saxophonist. He participated in the 16th Hamamatsu

International Wind Instrument Academy and Festival seminar and was honored for excellent performance at the Premium Concert highlighting that event. Ikegaya has also peformed at the Eighth Virtuoso Concert and at the New Faces Concert of the Japan Saxophone Association.

Ikegaya’s saxophone teachers have included Shintaro Yabe and Atsuyasu

Kitayama, and he studied piano with Noriko Sugiyama and Mariko Nemoto. He has participated in saxophone masterclasses and lessons given by Hiroshi Hara, Yasuto Tanaka, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Nobuya Sugawa, Otis Murphy, Claude Delangle, and Fabrice Morietti and in piano masterclasses and lessons given by Mitsutaka Shiraishi.

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Honors Recital

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