Juan Ferrer & Romain Guyot Presented by Liszt Academy

The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music organizes the Klaxo 2022 clarinet-saxophone festival between 12–15 March. At this international gathering on the Solti Hall stage of the Liszt Academy, we can welcome the most significant clarinettists and saxophonists on the classical and jazz scene, in addition to which there is an exhibition of instruments, master classes and a teacher extension training programme to further enhance this four-day series. Instrument makers such as Buffet Crampon, Selmer, Schwenk & Seggelke and Yamaha take part in the organization of the event. Daily tickets are available for the festival. A Spanish and a French clarinettist take to the stage of Solti Hall at the festival’s second concert. Juan Ferrer is one of the most active and multifaceted clarinettists of his generation. He has given numerous master classes and concerts around the globe both as soloist and conductor, he has taught in Europe, Asia and South America. Since 1994 he has been first clarinettist with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra as well as a member of the quintet made up of soloists of the ensemble. He has worked with prestigious conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Harding, Sir Neville Marriner, Osmo Vänska, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, James Conlon, Jesús López Cobos and Christoph Eschenbach. Ferrer is the official representative of Buffet-Crampon and Vandoren. Romain Guyot was just 16 when he was appointed first clarinettist of the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. In 1996 he won the New York Young Artist International Auditions, and – as a member of Debussy Wind Quintet – the Munich ARD competition. Between 1991 and 2001 he was principal instrumentalist with Orchestre National de lʼOpéra de Paris, and he has been first clarinettist of the European Chamber Orchestra since 2008. Guyot is currently a professor of Haute École de Musique de Genève.

The full programme of the festival can be viewed at lfze.hu/klaxo.