Luís Salomé
Alpen Classica Prize winner 2022
Luís Salomé is a saxophonist born in Guarda, Portugal. He initiated his musical studies in Banda Filarmónica de Pínzio and soon after he started studying at Conservatório de Música de São José da Guarda. Then, he in University of Minho with Professor Luis Ribeiro. In 2019, he began his Master degree at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles with Professors Vincent David, Nicolas Arsenijevic, Pieter Pelles and Asagi Ito.
He has obtained the 2nd prize in the fourth edition of the Competition Sons da Cabral in the fourth category in 2016, which took place in Belmonte. Has also won the 2nd prize in the International Saxophone Competition Buffet Crampon in the category C, in the year of 2017 in the city of Braga. He was awarded the 1st prize at Competition of Saint Cecilia that occurred in the University of Minho, Braga in 2019. One year later, he has received the 2nd prize in the Concours International Léopold Bellan. In July 2021, he won the 3rd prize of VIII International Saxophone Competition “Vitor Santos”. Last year, he won 2nd prize in the Alpen Classica Saxfest Competition.
He has participated in several masterclasses with different teachers such as Antonio Belijar, Arno Bornkamp, Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach, Carlos Gontijo, Fernando Ferreira, Jérôme Laran, João Pedro Silva, Marcus Weiss, Miha Rogina, Otis Murphy, Philippe Portejoie and Tomás Munera and also in chamber music with Morphing Quatour and Omar Zoboli.
He has participated in a workshop of Electroacustics with Pure Data taugh by João Pais in 2013 in TMG (Guarda). He has also participated in several editions of the Musical Festival of Beira Interior, having played as a soloist with the orchestra of the Conservatory of Guarda. During the Dias da Música in Belém (Lisbon), he participated in the event Projetar o Futuro com Arte. Moreover, under the baton of Francesco Bellí, he played in ESPROART (Mirandela) and Casa da Música (Oporto) in 2012 with the Symphonic Orchestra of ESPROART. Furthermore, he has presented himself in several saxophone congresses, having played with the EURO Sax 100 Orchestra in SaxOpen in Strasbourg, later with SaxUm Quartet and the Saxophone Ensemble of the University of Minho in Eursax in Oporto and finally with Quimera Quintet in the World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb. He has made a solo recital in Teatro Aveirense integrated in Aveiro_Síntese 2018. He was part of the project “Sente-me, Ouve-me, Vê-me” integrated in the arts festival BoCA 2019. He took part in the projet Incentivart, which concluded with the premiere of 3 pieces for solo saxophone by Portuguese composers, inspired by Guarda’s poetry.
He was a member of the Belgian Saxophone Choir and he is a founding member of Hodiernus Ensemble and Merus Ensemble playing regularly with these groups and working with composers on the development of the repertoire.