Competition result

The Organizing Committee of the 2nd Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition proudly announces the result of the prizewinners.

Biography information:

Alexandre

Alexandre Doisy débute l’apprentissage de la musique et du saxophone à l’âge de 6 ans à l’Ecole Municipale de Musique de Privas et attire rapidement l’attention des professionnels qu’il côtoie par son aisance technique, son expressivité et sa musicalité. La confirmation arrive lorsqu’il est admis, à 15 ans, au CNSM de Paris, où il obtient le diplôme de formation supérieure mention très bien – 1er prix de saxophone à l’unanimité – et effectue un cycle de perfectionnement de deux ans, tout en poursuivant l’apprentissage du piano et en s’initiant à la direction d’orchestre.

Il est lauréat de prestigieux concours internationaux : il remporte notamment le 1er grand prix Adolphe Sax du 2ème concours international de Dinant (Belgique) en 1998 et le 2ème prix – 1er nommé – du 50ème concours international de l’ARD à Munich en 2001. Il est également lauréat de la Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe en 2000 et lauréat de la fondation Groupe Banques Populaires en 2001.

Alexandre Doisy se produit régulièrement en tant que soliste, accompagné par des orchestres tels que l’Orchestre de la Radio de Munich, le MDR Simphonieorchester de Leipzig, l’Orchestre symphonique de Saint-Pétersbourg ou l’Orchestre Pasdeloup ; en récital avec piano ou en musique de chambre. Ces prestations l’ont déjà conduit un peu partout en Europe, mais aussi au Maroc, au Canada, au Japon et en Russie.

Il joue également au sein d’orchestres de renommée internationale (Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Ensemble InterContemporain). Depuis 2006, il est appelé à jouer régulièrement avec l’Orchestre National de Lyon et l’Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon.

Depuis 2003, il est musicien à l’orchestre d’harmonie des gardiens de la paix de la Préfecture de Police de Paris.

Titulaire du Certificat d’Aptitude aux fonctions de professeur de saxophone, il enseigne au Conservatoire Municipal du VIème arrondissement de Paris et donne fréquemment des master class en France, en Espagne et au Japon.

Depuis 2006, il est conseiller artistique auprès de la société Vandoren.

Douglas

Douglas O’Connor

Winner of Astral Artistic Services’ 2003 National Auditions, 24-year-old American Douglas O’Connor was also recently named 1st Prize National Winner of the MTNA Young Artist Woodwind Competition, as well as heralded by American Symphony Orchestra League magazine as a 2007 Emerging Artist. His teachers include Chien-Kwan Lin, Dale Underwood and Timothy Roberts.

In 2005 he received his Bachelor of Music Performance degree in saxophone from the University of Maryland, where he was also music director and conductor of its Philharmonia Ensemble chamber orchestra. Mr. O’Connor has performed across Europe and the U.S., including appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. He was named the winner of the 2004 National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists Competition, the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra's Mary Graham Lasley Competition.

His ambitions include performing as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician around the world, sharing music with all audiences. Astral Artistic Services, a Philadelphia non-profit classical artist development agency, has presented O'Connor in over 60 recitals for community centers, schools, and senior homes, and also in ticketed events in many major USA concert venues: a world-premiere program featuring other Astral artists at Philadelphia’s new National Constitution Center, as soloist in the Glazounov Saxophone Concerto on its “Rising Stars” series at Philadelphia's Trinity Center, as well as in recital at the Trinity Center, the Kimmel Center, and Merkin Hall in New York City.

Mr. O'Connor is currently finishing his M.M. degree at the Eastman School of Music, where he performs with the prestigious Eastman Wind Ensemble and coaches the undergraduate saxophone quartet program.

Miha

Miha Rogina

Miha Rogina (1980) stands out as one of the most remarkable representatives of the upcoming new generation of classical saxophonists. After obtaining his diploma at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, studying under Professor Matjaž Drevenšek, he continued his studies in Paris, where he graduated from the CNR de Cergy-Pontoise (class of prof. Jean-Yves Fourmeau) and the CNR de Versailles (class of prof. Vincent David). He has also studied at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) with Professor Chien-Kwan Lin.

In June 2006, he graduated with the highest honours from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he studied with Professor Claude Delangle.

In September of the same year, he passed an entrance exam in perfectionnement cycle at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which brought him to the concert halls in Paris and abroad.

Rogina has won nine first prizes at international competitions and two first prizes at the national competition in Slovenia. Among those especially worth mentioning are: 1st prize at the International Saxophone Competition of Marco Fiorindo (Italy 2003); 1st prize at the International Competition for Wind Instruments Pacem in terris in Bayreuth (Germany 2003); 1st prize at the International Competition of A. Sax (Paris, 2006); 1st prize at the International Competition for Wind Instruments in Benidorm (Spain), and finally, 1st prize at the International Saxophone Competition Saxiana (Paris, 2006).

He has performed concerts all over Europe, as well as in Tunisia, Libya, China, USA and Japan. He has played as a soloist with orchestras such as the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, Hoffer Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Maribor Philharmonic Orchestra (Slovenia). He has performed at festivals such as Bregenzer Festspiele, Vienna festival of modern music, Carinthischer Sommer (All in Austria), Nei Suoni dei Sluoghi (Italy), International Imagine Festival (Croatia), and The Lent Festival... In 2006 he performed the world premier of Claude Pascal’s concerto that was dedicated to him.

Rogina has been chosen for the promotional program “Tremplin Jeunes” by French saxophone maker Selmer. He works as a mentor at the international summer festival in Nova Gorica and acts as a member of the jury at the international saxophone competition “Alps-Adria-Danube” as well as the national competition of the republic of Slovenia. Rogina received the prestigious Preseren’s prize for his artistic achievments.

Sean

Sean Patayanikorn

Sean Patayanikorn, born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Bowling Green State University under John Sampen. In 2006, he was awarded the 1er prix from the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt with Jean-Michel Goury.

In 2004, Sean received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music with Distinction from the University of Alberta under William Street and was also featured as a soloist as the winner of the University of Alberta Concerto Competition.

Sean has performed for numerous musicians such as Jean-Marie Londeix, Jonathon Helton, Y’Chko Seffer, Alain Bouhey, Ross Ingstrup, Nobuya Sugawa, Richard Ducros, Christian Lauba, Serge Bertocchi, Marie-Bernadette Charrier and François Rossé.

Vincent

Vincent Daoud

Vincent Daoud, born in Rennes, France, in 1978, started studiyng the saxophone at the age of eight, in Saint Brieuc with Emmanuel Hody. At the age of nineteen, he goes to Paris to study with Jean-Michel Goury.

There he developped an interest for improvisation, and played with singer and oud player Marcel Khalife in London, Beyrouth, Amman, with Steve Potts, Ramon Lopez in Paris, Paul Hanmer at Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Fabrice di Falco in Martinique, Christian Wolff in Montreuil, Yoko Miura in Tokyo...

Daoud received several prizes during those years in Paris, most notable amongst them were the first prize and special prize for contemporary piece at the international competition for young soloists in Gap, second prize at the "concours de musique en Picardie", and third prize at the international Music competiton Penderecki in Krakow.

In 2001, Vincent Daoud pursued his musical education with Pierre-Stephane Meugé in the Lausanne Conservatory, and graduated in harmony, history of music, analysis, and saxophone. He also took lessons with Alain Damiens during the "Centre Acanthes" 2004 and other members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain during the Lucerne festival academy in august 2006, and also with Garth Knox, Claude Delangle, George Lewis...

Concert activities as soloist and with chamber groups brought him to festivals like Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, International Music Festival in Rabat in Maroco, Klangspuren in Austria, Transart'04 in Italy, "Musiques démesurées" in France...He worked with musicians like Pierre Boulez, Georges Aperghis, Armin Jordan, Beat Furrer, Jean Deroyer, Steven Schick, Marino Formenti, collaborated with ensembles like the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, ensemble Contrechamps and Centre International de Percussions in Geneva, 2e2m in Paris, ensemble Car de Thon in Geneva....

Collaboration with composers takes an important part in his musical activities. He worked with Claude Ballif, Betsy Jolas, Mathias Pintscher, premiered pieces of Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Essl, Elizabeth Adams, Ernest H. Papier, Hans-Yurg Meier, Miroslav Srnka, Beat Fhelman, Florian Folkmann, Valentin Marti, Andrea Molino...

He is a member of the ensemble Hic et Nunc, 4tenors saxophone quartet and Wiener saxophone quartet.

Since 2005, he has studied musical theatre with Georges Aperghis at the Bern Conservatory in Switzerland, where he graduated in sept. 2007 with highest honors, fagott with Lyndon Watts and Paul Riveaux, and has been a teacher at the "Ecole Sociale de Musique" in Lausanne.

In 2008, he will be artist in residence in Biel in Switzerland, invited by the Office of Culture of the State of Bern.