Idée Fixe
Idée
Fixe Wind Quintet was founded in 2003 as an ensemble for a chamber music
concert of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. Following the success of their
initial collaboration, they began building repertoire and planning further appearances.
Since then, Idée Fixe has performed in various concerts in the city of Tampere
and its surrounding areas as well as recitals in Helsinki, Ikaalinen, Lohja, Sammatti, Kerava and
Uusikaupunki. The ensemble has also
been featured as soloist with the Tampere University Symphony Orchestra. In
June 2006 the quintet made a four-concert tour of Japan, performing in Tokyo,
Takamatsu and Saitama.
Idée
Fixe’s repertoire ranges from music of the classical era, works by Franz Danzi
and Mozart, to 20th century masterpieces by Carl Nielsen, Jean
Françaix, Jacques Ibert, and others.
The ensemble has premiered newly commissioned works including “E pari, e te tai” (2006) by New Zealand
composer Chris Watson, and Seppo Pohjolas’ Wind
Quintet (2007). While established
as a quintet, the composition can vary from duos to sextets with piano. The versatile group has recorded its own
arrangements of Christmas music for children and Nielsen’s Wind Quintet for the
Finnish Broadcasting Company.
All
the members of the quintet are professional musicians in the leading Finnish
symphony orchestras. Idée Fixe has received grants from the Alfred Kordelin
Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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