Rialto Residency Will Focus on Wind instruments Coordinated by Saxophonist Hayden Chisholm

The Rialto Residency, part of the Rialto World Music Festival, continues this year its activities. For the second consecutive year Rialto Residency travels to the beautiful village Lofou, in collaboration with Lofou Community Council.

Coordinated by saxophonist Hayden Chisholm from New Zealand, this year's residency collaborates also with Windcraft Loud organisation and focus on wind instruments. The objective of the residency is to explore the technical capacity of wind instruments and their potential orchestration patterns and combinations within an ensemble. The residency will also focus on musical traditions in which wind instruments play a leading role, such as the music of the Balkans and New Orleans.

Hayden Chisholm is a New Zealand saxophonist and composer who has risen to become an utterly unique and world-renowned performer and educator. After studying in Cologne with a DAAD scholarship he continued his music studies in Japan in India. In 1995 he developed a new microtonal system for saxophone he termed "split scales" which he revealed on his debut solo CD "Circe".

Since then his compositions have been recorded by BBC and WDR radios and he has toured and recorded extensively worldwide. He has created music for several Rebecca Horn installations as well as composing scores for her films. In 2008 he was assistant director in the Salzburger Festspiele. He has taught at Universities throughout the world and gives yearly master classes in Greece.

Since 10 years he has curated the annual Plushmusic festival in Cologne and Bremen. In 2013 he released the 13 Box Set "13 Views of the Heart's Cargo" and received the German SWR Jazz Prize. In 2015 he was "Improvisor in Residence" in Moers and opened the Moers Jazz Festival. In 2016 he released his second 13CD box "Cusp of Oblivion" on the Moontower Foundation Edition and directed his first short film "Sisyphus Runs". Since moving to Belgrade in 2017 he has curated over 50 concerts and initiated the 'Dortjol Festival'. Alongside his music he is a passionate trail runner.

Musicians that participate @ Rialto Residency 2019: Elli Michael - saxophone, Christos Zenios - saxophone, Nicolas Georgiou - saxophone, Christos Loizides - trumpet, Yiannis Koudounas - trumpet, Stephen Walkley - trombone, Lefteris Lefkatis - percussion, Christopher Constantinou - percussion

Rialto Residency will take place in Lofou from the 28th of July to the 1st of August. In order to present their collective work, participants will give a concert οn the 1st of August in Lofou and later on the 11th of August at Windcraft Music Fest at Katidata village.

Concert: Thursday, 1st August @ Lofou Square, 20:30

Free Entrance, Information: 77 77 77 45, www.cyprusrialtoworldmusic.com