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Artist
Daniel Kientzy
12+ albums
contemporary classicalinstrumentalAvant-Gardebeautifulsaxophone
about
Daniel Kientzy was born in Périgueux in 1951. A professional musician before the age of 16, he played the bass guitar in dance and pop bands. Later, by chance, and almost beyond the age limit, he came into contact with classical music, entering the saxophone class of the Limoges Conservatory thanks to M. Decouais who admitted him in the middle of the academic year. While attending the Paris Conservatory, he studied the double bass at the Versailles Conservatory. A year or two later he was playing this instrument with a provincial opera company. He also studied early music and period instruments: the viola da gamba, the crumhorns, the cornamusen, recorders, forming the ensemble Musica Ficta, the repertory of which covered the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods.Various circumstancesled him to study acoustics, electro-acoustics, recording techniques and signal processing. This also led him to take a doctoral degree in aesthetics, sciences and art technology. His training in contemporary music took place with the composers themselves . When the necessity arose, in 1978/79, of devoting himself entirely to contemporary music, he chose the saxophone(s) as sole instrument(s). His identification with the avant-garde and the absence of a repertory very soon led him to become the ‘inventor’ of the modern saxophone. He undertook unprecedented research into the seven members of the saxophone family. Thanks to impeccable logic, a rare eye for detail and remarkable intuition, he su
