Joan Martí-Frasquier
He is a dynamic musician, feels deeply engaged with new music and is always open to new artistic experiences.

He chose the baritone saxophone because of its large sonority, timbre richness and its great flexibility to be able to play any style of music with a very special personality.

He has premiered more than fifty works of different genres of music (as a soloist, with electronics, chamber music, opera and orchestra) by composers from all over the world, such as Joan Bagés, José Luis Campana, Timothy Harenda, Enric Riu and Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjaerg, among others. Of particular note was the “Concerto for Baritone Saxophone, Piano and String Orchestra” by Albena Petrovic at the Luxembourg Philharmonie in June 2018.

He has performed in Andorra, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland and the United States in festivals such as Mixtur Barcelona (2018), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2017), Tallinn Music Week (2015), Rc4 (Rio de Janeiro, 2015) and Classical:NEXT (Vienna, 2014).

His varied music projects focus mainly on new music, but also extend to some early music and free improvisation, in addition to electronics and visual arts.

Before starting his solo career in 2011, he was a member of several chamber music groups such as the saxophone quartet SAX 3+1 (1994-2013), SIGMA woodwind trio (flutes, clarinets and saxophones, 2004-2007) and different contemporary music ensembles and other formations. Currently, he collaborates with the ensemble of contemporary music Morphosis and Barcelona Modern and also with Camera Musicae Symphonic Orchestra.

He has recorded two solo albums, MADE IN BCN (2018) for the labels La Mà de Guido and BELIEVER (2015) for INS Records that contain some of the more outstanding works for baritone saxophone. In addition, he recorded three CDs with SAX 3+1 and also collaborated in other recordings.

He plays with Selmer-Paris saxophones, Carbonissimo ligatures and necks and D’Addario Woodwinds reeds.