Alessandro Malagnino, saxophone and Neda Hofman, piano

This concert is part of the 11th International Festival Belgrade Saxperience. Alessandro Malagnino is an Italian saxophonist born in 1998. He first studied at the Tito Schipa Conservatory in Lecce, then at the CRR in Versailles and finally at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris in the class of Mr. Claude Delangle where he obtained the 2nd cycle prize with honors at unanimously with the congratulations of the jury in 2022. For his Belgrade performance Serbian pianist Neda Hofman will join him.

Program:
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Rhapsody for saxophone and orchestra

Alfred Desenclos (1912–1971)
Prelude, Cadence et Finale

Dejan Despić (1930)
Stara pesma, for clarinet and piano

Claude Debussy
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune

Vincent David (1974)
Mirages

Biographies:
Alessandro Malagnino (1998, Casarano, Italy) first studied at the Tito Schipa Conservatory in Ceglie Messapica with Mr. Alessandro Trianni, where he obtained the master’s degree in Saxophone with the mention “110/110 con lode e menzione d’onore”, also thanks to the precious advice of Mr. Juan Jimenez Alba who marked him deeply during a year at the Manuel Castillo Conservatory in Seville.
Afterwards, he decided to perfect his skills in France at the Regional Conservatory of Versailles with Vincent David and his assistant Nicolas Arsenijevic and then at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris in the class of Claude Delangle where he obtained the Prize for the 2nd Higher Cycle with the mention “Very good unanimously with the congratulations of the jury” in 2022.
Alessandro is a laureate of several international competitions such as the Andorra Sax Fest Competition, the Adolphe Sax Competition of Hay-Les-Roses, the 3rd International Saxophone Competition Exigentia, the “Marco Fiorindo” competition, the “France Music Competition 3rd edition” and others.
Alessandro plays in concert as a soloist, and with other chamber music formations such as the Ensemble Next du 3e cycle at the CNSMDP. He has collaborated with various orchestras such as the Jonico Salentina Wind Orchestra, the Orchester National D’île-de-France, the ICO “Tito Schipa” orchestra from Lecce.
He is also invited to give master classes as a teacher in Italy at the XXVII International Saxophone Stage in Fermo and at the Conservatorio di Musica Pietro Mascagni in Livorno, as well as abroad at Herceg Novi in Montenegro.

Neda Hofman-Sretenović (Belgrade) graduated in the class of prof. Arbo Valdma at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (1999). In the same class, she completed her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (2002) as a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) scholarship holder. She received her master’s degree in the class of prof. Rita Kinka at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (2004). In 2015, she received her doctorate in chamber music in the class of prof. Zorica Ćetković at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, on the subject of Problems of interpretation and technical realization of electroacoustic works. She performs contemporary music. In 2011, she founded The Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble, with which she has held over thirty concerts in the country and abroad (Lithuania, Montenegro, Croatia, Israel) since its inception. As a soloist and chamber musician, she performed in Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. She performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television of Serbia, the Chamber Orchestra St. George Strings, the Belgrade String Orchestra Dušan Skovran, the Camerata Academica String Orchestra, as well as the women’s academic choir Collegium musicum. She recorded with the Radio Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, for the production of the Music Information Center, the production of The Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble, and for the Musicological Society of Serbia. She is the winner of the “Aleksandar Pavlović” award for the promotion of Serbian music in the country and abroad, awarded by the Association of Composers of Serbia (2017, 2020).
She is employed as a senior artistic associate at the Department of String Instruments at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.