HUGO SIEGMETH is a European jazz musician for whom it is a matter of course also to exploit classical music as a field for improvisation. Born in Banat (Arad/Romania), he emigrated to Germany in 1976. As early as during his studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, he was awarded the Bavarian Promotion Prize in 1998 and Bavarian Radio’s New Generation Award in 2001. As a soloist, Siegmeth has advanced to become one of the most autonomous representatives of the saxophone by virtue of his characteristic colouring in the field of tension between jazz, classical music and world music. In 2015, he was awarded the Promotion Prize of the City of Munich for this achievement. His work as a soloist and artistic director leads to many radio and CD productions as well as appearances at international festivals such as Montreux, New York (Lincoln Center), Singapore (New Arts Festival), to tours through North and South America as well as through Central Asia and Sudan on the behest of the Goethe Institute. He can be heard in as varied orchestras as the Hugo Siegmeth Ensemble, in duo with the lutenist Axel Wolf and with Clark Terry, Michael Wollny, the Ensemble Sarband or the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz under the baton of Markus Poschner. Since 2006, he has regularly composed for soundtracks like Sag mir, wo die Schönen sind (Berlinale, 2008), Geheimnisse Asiens (Arte, 2013) or Kill me today, tomorrow I ́ m sick! (Montreal World Film Festival, 2018). www.hugo-siegmeth.de