Marius’s latest work Changes will be performed as part of the London Jazz Festival on 20 November 2025. The work combines himself and drummer Anton Eger as jazz musicians with five London Sinfonietta players, exploring where improvised and notated composition meet. Known for his ecstatic compositional style, the Norwegian saxophonist takes a defiantly maximalist approach, placing his spontaneous saxophone playing alongside lush orchestral arrangements. In this new work, his relentless improvisations are accompanied by the pulse and precision of the London Sinfonietta’s musicians.
This new work is support by the Cockayne Foundation Grants for the Arts.
More About Marius Neset:
Neset made an astonishingly powerful impression when he first emerged onto the European jazz scene as a young saxophonist of protean gifts more than a decade ago. The intervening years have seen him bring his huge creative energy to so many roles in different contexts. He has received and fulfilled a flow of major commissions for substantial pieces for large ensembles and orchestras. Neset’s dynamism and his organisational capacity are such that this substantial activity as composer runs in parallel with a busy touring schedule as both leader and sideman. It is just part of a substantial and growing discography.
The common thread running through Neset’s career is that both his compositions and playing have consistently attracted other world class musicians, not only the jazz-scene, but from many different genres in the musical world to want to work. The result is that the sheer breadth of Marius Neset’s activity at the top level in all kinds of musical contexts is astonishing and is still broadening.
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