No one is too small Maat Saxophone Quartet

• 1Jansen: Anger to Anguish08:38
• 2Antunes: Let's face it07:21
• 3Gustavs: Mãe02:13
• 4Vigh: Metamorphose08:52
• 5Gustavs: A língua que ele fala04:03
• 6Menino: Rising Tide in Man's Folly06:10
• 7Gustavs: Desenhei uma almofada05:14
• 8Tinoco: Dreaming of the unseen08:52
• Total Runtime51:23

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Maat Saxophone Quartet with their third album "No one is too small".

The Dutch/Portuguese Maat Saxophone Quartet, winners of the Dutch Classical Talent Award 2022, brings a fresh and unique approach to the saxophone quartet genre. So much so that Luister Magazine wrote of their debut CD Ciudades: “promising, devilishly good and heavenly infectious.” For this concert, they put together a programme around the theme of climate change.

Under the title No one is too small, the Maat Saxophone Quartet wants to call for action against climate change. Through a musical performance with new music by young composers, together with drawings and light design, Maat wants to inspire and show that every action counts.

“They speak the same language, literally and musically! Very high technical level, organic playing and an insanely tight presentation” (Dutch Classical Talent)

“We can be brief over the playing of Maat: promising, devilishly good and heavenly contagious” (De Luister)

MAAT Saxophone Quartet:
Daniel Ferreira, soprano saxophone
Catarina Gomes, alto saxophone
Pedro Silva, tenor saxophone
Mafalda Oliveira, baritone saxophone

Please Note: we do not offer the 192 kHz version of this album, because there is no considerable or audible difference to the 96 kHz version!

Maat Saxophone Quartet
Daniel Ferreira on soprano saxophone, Catarina Gomes on alto saxophone and sometimes singing, Pedro Silva on tenor saxophone and Mafalda Oliveira on baritone saxophone. Welcome to our website!

We have been playing together since 2018 and with each step, we discover more about each other’s talents and ideas as saxophone players, but also as "maatjes". In the projects we do, we look for the connection between our individual personalities, our ideals as artists and our strength as a group. Just as important is the connection to the world and society that surrounds us.

In 2018 we were winners of the “Prémio Jovens Músicos”, one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in Portugal, where we come from. Our quartet was however formed in Amsterdam, while we were studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp.

Although we play pieces from all kinds of ages and environments, we have a passion for new music. We are excited about finding our own sound-world, and to do that we work regularly together with composers.

In April 2020 we released our debut CD “Ciudades” under the label 7 Mountain Records. De Luister magazine published beautiful words about it: "we can be brief about the playing of Maat: promising, devilishly good, and heavenly contagious in all works.”

In 2022 we won the Dutch Classical Talent Award.

In 2023 we released our second CD called "Renascer", featuring Portuguese guitarist António Carlos Costa, combining traditional Fado and contemporary music.

In the season 2023/2024 we premiered our own production “No one is too small” about the topic of climate change, combining the music of 6 different composers, light installation, paintings and theater. “No one is too small” is also the name of our third CD, released in 2024 on 7 Moutain Records.

In the season 2024/2025 we will premiére a new virtual opera with the theater company Diamantfabriek, create a new dance theater production with AYA Danstheater, perform the piece “Takadaaap!” with Oorkaan and have international tours in Brazil and China.

This album contains no booklet.