Saxofonist

The Latin verb concertare, meaning to fight or to contend, underwent a complete reversal of meaning on its way into the Italian language, where it came to mean to agree with one another, to work together. The concerto, a compositional model that developed in Italy at the dawn of the Baroque, makes this transformation audible: it presents virtuosically competing individual voices that are purposefully resolved into consonant harmony.

Sound of Democracy

St. Laurentius Michelbach

Asya Fateyeva is a trailblazing virtuoso saxophonist trained in Paris, Cologne, and Hamburg. In 2014, she became the first woman to reach the finals of the prestigious International Adolphe Sax Competition in Dinant, Belgium, where she secured third place. She regularly performs with leading European orchestras and boldly combines musical styles in her albums.

Fauré. Bach. Haydn. Ibert

Lobkowicz Palace

The Baltic Sea Festival’s grand finale invites you to an evening of drama and rich sonorities. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, baritone Peter Mattei, and saxophonist Asya Fateyeva. The program opens with Erkki-Sven Tüür’s new saxophone concerto – a work that looks toward the future – before Sibelius’s monumental Kullervo draws us deep into the mythic world of the Finnish epic. A closing night where contemporary sound meets Nordic legend in a powerful musical encounter.

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Fate & guilt

Berwaldhallen

This is going to be exciting! In 2021, Anna Clyne created a concerto featuring the saxophone as an unusual solo instrument, transporting us to mythical realms: "'Glasslands' conjures an imaginary world with three realms ruled by the banshee," says Clyne, "a female spirit who, in Irish folklore, announces the death of a family member by howling, shrieking, or wailing, usually in the stillness of the night." The soloist is Asya Fateyeva, a German saxophonist of Ukrainian descent. And Tchaikovsky's Fifth, one of his most popular symphonies, also features predestined events: "Total resignation to fate, or, what amounts to the same thing, to the inscrutable decree of providence," he wrote, referring to the first movement.

Glasslands

Stadthalle Göttingen

Next Level shatters all common stereotypes of a classical concert! This requires unconventional, experimental, and inspiring characters on stage and an open-minded audience that is curious about unusual program combinations, wants to be close to the concert hall with a drink in hand, and appreciates the dialogue with the musicians. Next Level, the other face of classical music – new, unsettling, exciting, intoxicating.

Baroque'n'Roll

Tobacco Quarter Hall 1

He was perhaps the greatest genius in music history, later eclipsed, if at all, only by the child prodigy Mozart. Yet Johann Sebastian Bach not only gifted posterity with numerous musical masterpieces, but also with several sons, some of whom followed in their all-powerful father's footsteps. First and foremost, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Sebastian Bach's second eldest son, whose "sensitive" style made him the most popular Bach of the second half of the 18th century—while Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, was famous during his lifetime primarily for his phenomenal improvisational skills on all keyboard instruments. When Asya Fateyeva and her fellow musicians perform Baroque sonatas by the Bach dynasty, they do so on an instrument that Bach himself could not have even known, for the saxophone was not invented until the 19th century. When the saxophonist approaches early music on a comparatively modern instrument, she does so in the spirit of Bach: He was not only interested in the compositional possibilities of new or improved instruments such as the "Well-Tempered Clavier," but was also extremely flexible in instrumentation questions in his masterful compositions.

Bach geniuses

CityPalais

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) celebrated her as a "sensation for the music world" – award-winning saxophonist Asya Fateyeva captivates with her multifaceted playing and unique sound. Originally invented by Adolphe Sax in 1840, the saxophone is often associated with jazz. But Fateyeva demonstrates that it can do much more: sometimes powerful, sometimes gentle, and reminiscent of the human voice...

Golden Swing & Silver Strings

Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen

Guest Concert

Tourist, Congress and Saalbau GmbH

Meistersingerhalle

The Worms Theatre

On October 12, 2025, the OPUS KLASSIK, the most important award for exceptional musical achievements in the field of classical music in Germany, will be presented by the Society for the Promotion of Classical Music non-profit GmbH.

OPUS KLASSIK Gala 2025

Konzerthaus Berlin

In the 2023/2024 season, the Duisburg Philharmonic, in their exploration of transcultural processes, already explored the Indian Nobel Prize-winning poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. The program for the second chamber concert, compiled by Kamalini Mukherji, now also follows the Europe-India axis, always looking in both directions. The Indian singer, who will also curate the "Eigenzeit – Music of Now" festival in the 2025/2026 season, is considered one of the leading exponents of the music of the Bengali-Indian polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped the culture and language of Bengal. In this unique concert, Tagore's music will be reinterpreted through various musical traditions. The performance begins with a traditional Indian ensemble – esraj, tabla/khol, and Indian flute. This is followed by bridge instruments such as the lavta and the bağlama from the Middle East, followed by a Western soundscape featuring flamenco guitar, saxophone, and other instruments. The concert culminates in a fusion of these musical worlds, reflecting Tagore's embrace of global influences.

When a traveler on an autumn night…

Music in the Exil – Escape to Exile VI

Church Gsteig

Works from Barbara Strozzi, Lana Del Rey, Lera Auerbach and others.

Asya & Luise

Glücksburg Castle

Saint Boniface Catholic Church, Lübeck

Die allseits beliebten Open-Air-Konzerte im Brunnenhof der Residenz atmen einen ganz besonderen Charme. Genau das Richtige für unseren Saisonabschluss! Dafür hat unser Chefdirigent Joseph Bastian wieder ein Programm zusammengestellt, das mit seinem Schwung wunderbar zur sommerlichen Stimmung passt. Diesmal geht es nach Südamerika: Der Brasilianer Heitor Villa-Lobos und der Argentinier Alberto Ginastera verbanden den rhythmischen Drive ihrer Heimat mit der kompositorischen Raffinesse der europäischen Moderne. Astor Piazzolla machte den vormals verruchten Tango Argentino konzertsaalfähig; in seinem wohl berühmtesten Stück verabschiedete er sich mit sehnsuchtsvollen Klängen von seinem Vater. Darius Milhaud galt in den 1920ern als enfant terrible der Pariser Musikszene; als Attaché des französischen Botschafters in Rio de Janeiro schnappte er lokale Sounds auf und integrierte sie in seine Werke. Mit der Saxofon-Virtuosin Asya Fateyeva ist eine dynamische Solistin mit von der Partie, die ebenfalls locker zwischen Klassik und anderen Musikstilen wandelt.

Es Werde Bunt

Perseusbrunnen

After Vivi Vassileva in 2023, this season we are once again putting a young instrumentalist at the center of the BaseCamp: Asya Fateyeva is a saxophonist born in Crimea who has been playing in the » premier league « since winning the German Music Competition in 2012. She won the ECHO Klassik in 2016. For this exceptional artist, there are no musical boundaries, just heaps of exciting music from all genres that she adapts. The focal point of our BaseCamp New Music is the fantastically beautiful saxophone concerto Saivo by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen. She sees music as a force of nature that can change lives – and calls for us to rethink and change our relationship with nature. Like Sauli Zinovjev (see Freitagskonzert 3), she is interested in ancient rituals, especially those of the Sámi people of her Finnish homeland: for the Sámi, Saivo is a sacred place where dialogue is possible beyond the boundaries of this world. The I and the you, water and stone, fire and ash and a descent to the spirits of the ancestors – Saivo is a great spiritual journey, made for the vastness of space in BaseCamp!

Neue Musik

BaseCamp Young Hostel

In a kind of mini-residency, we present saxophonist Asya Fateyeva, who will not only be our guest at BaseCamp on 17 May, but has also brought a colourful concert programme from the Baroque period with works based around the noble concept of hope to the Old Federal Council. But beware: » Hope, that’s a dangerous thing! «, as not only Lana del Rey sings, but as poets, writers and artists of all genres have been saying since ancient times! But that doesn’t stop composers from writing the most beautiful music on this subject. The unusual combination of saxophone with baroque harp and lute promises exciting sound journeys into the emotionally charged world of the baroque!

Hope is a dangerous thing

Quay Bonn-Bundeshaus

An open archive as philosophy and practice. Where material and resources are open to all, boundaries become new horizons – and scores become white canvases: Asya Fateyeva and Ensemble Resonanz explore creative ways of transformation with works by Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Luciano Berio and others.

resonances four »open source«

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

»open source«

Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium

Fazıl Say & Friends

St.-Bartholomäus-Kirche

Michaeliskirche - Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Kaltenkirchen

The enthusiastic and witty young saxophonist Asya Fateyeva is coming to Duisburg as an improviser - so she can do that too! We can look forward to a very spontaneous dialogue: Asya Fateyeva and Michael Gees are playing together for the first time today. A chamber music collaboration in the here and now, the only theme: finding common ground without looking for it.

KOMED is a format for the spontaneous, collaborative invention of contemporary music. In the text, in the noise, in the moment, we listen to sounds, put them under the magnifying glass of attention (meditation) and create connections.

We commit ourselves to starting something together for about an hour, to staying in touch and letting ourselves be guided by the idea we recognize as shared. Every acoustic event counts and contributes to the whole. The unexpected can happen at any time and challenge us to integrate. Ideally, and not infrequently, we discover music that none of us would have thought of on our own. Those present increasingly experience themselves and each other as participants: without them and their intentional listening, nothing would have been heard. After all, who would want to bear witness to the present if not those who are there?

ConcertMeditation

Messtechnik event hall

With Asya Fateyeva, we celebrate the New Year with an artist who, thanks to innovative programs, artistic fearlessness, and a distinctive timbre, constantly opens up new realms for her instrument. In Alexander Glazunov's  Saxophone Concerto, she will unleash the warm sonority and technical mastery that make her playing so unique. Glazunov—a compatriot and contemporary of Sergei Prokofiev—treated the then-young saxophone, rooted in jazz and military music, not much differently than more common solo instruments in a concerto, in the best late-Romantic tradition: sonorous, lyrical, and virtuosic. The concert evening opens with sparkling colors thanks to the Swiss harpist Tjasha Gafner, who interprets a true gem of the repertoire for her instrument: Germaine Tailleferre's Concertino . 

Silvesterkonzert mit Asya Fateyeva & Tjasha Gafner

KKL Luzern

With Asya Fateyeva, we celebrate the New Year with an artist who, thanks to innovative programs, artistic fearlessness, and a distinctive timbre, constantly opens up new realms for her instrument. In Alexander Glazunov's  Saxophone Concerto, she will unleash the warm sonority and technical mastery that make her playing so unique. Glazunov—a compatriot and contemporary of Sergei Prokofiev—treated the then-young saxophone, rooted in jazz and military music, not much differently than more common solo instruments in a concerto, in the best late-Romantic tradition: sonorous, lyrical, and virtuosic. The concert evening opens with sparkling colors thanks to the Swiss harpist Tjasha Gafner, who interprets a true gem of the repertoire for her instrument: Germaine Tailleferre's Concertino .

Saxofonist

Asya Fateyeva

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 31, 2026

Silvesterkonzert mit Asya Fateyeva & Tjasha Gafner · Zürcher Kammerorchester

Jan 1, 2027

Neujahrskonzert mit Asya Fateyeva & Tjasha Gafner · Zürcher Kammerorchester

Past events

Oct 22, 2026

Sound of Democracy · Fränkische Musiktage Alzenau

Oct 8, 2026

Fauré. Bach. Haydn. Ibert · Prague Philharmonia

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Orchestral Suite No. 2 by Bach

Bremer Philharmoniker

Saxophone in Concertino for Harp and Orchestra by Tailleferre

Zürcher Kammerorchester

Saxophone in Arpeggione Sonata by Schubert

Ensemble Resonanz

Saxophone in Concertino da camera by Ibert

Prague Philharmonia

Conductor in Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C minor by Bach

Bremer Philharmoniker

Conductor in Violin Concerto in A minor by Bach

Bremer Philharmoniker

Saxophone in Violin Sonata in C minor by Bach

Duisburger Philharmoniker

Saxophone in Kullervo by Sibelius

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Saxophone in Glasslands by Clyne

Göttinger Symphonieorchester

Conductor in Penny Lane by Beatles

Bremer Philharmoniker

Conductor in Orchestral suites by Bach

Bremer Philharmoniker

Saxophone in Les soirées musicales by Rossini

Konzerthaus Berlin

Saxophone in 6 Violin Sonatas by Mealli

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Saxophone in Concerto for saxophone and orchestra Saivo by Tarkiainen

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Saxophone in String Quartet by Say

Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Saxophone in Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano by Heiden

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Saxophone in The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Saxophone in Concerto for Saxophone by Tüür

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Saxophone in Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra in E-flat major by Glazunov

Zürcher Kammerorchester

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