Nothing better than leaving it up to the composers, programmers, directors and musicologists themselves to draw a small sketch of SIGMA Project.
Here are the most important reviews:
“[…] magnificently accurate, inventive and awe inspiring performance by the spaniards. I thought this sort of precision could come only from a quartet of strings”.
Irvine Arditti (June, 2017)“Attending a concert by SIGMA Project is to experiment a musical journey, where the joy and wonder are always present. It is also to notice a sort of a new virtuosity, understanding this term in its original meaning of “virtue” and “virtuoso”, and not just as circus show of technical and personal skills“.
Mario Lavista (Award Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ibero-American Music 2013)
“In these difficult moments of artistic creation, the in-depth work with Sigma Project was an incredible opportunity for the development of my new quartet. All the research done at a distance, as well as the rehearsals and the premiere in Barcelona, allowed me to measure the extent to which Sigma’s musicians are involved in the creation. Thank you very much for your presence and creative strength”.
Raphaël Cendo (Silver Lion Venice Music Biennale, 2020“Is it really necessary to introduce SIGMA Project in 2020? The vast quantity of concerts the group has performed during its ten-year trajectory, mainly in Europe and Latin America, the number of works commissioned during that time period, and its participation in thirteen albums ratify its remarkable role as one of the busiest Spanish groups and as an ambassador of newly created music”.
José Luis Besada, IRCAM/Universidad de Strasbourg“If I had to summarize in two words the personality of the saxophone quartet SIGMA Project, I would not hesitate: originality and perfection. […] It is a pleasure, a joy to share music with them: they communicate, give it life”.
Luis de Pablo (National Music Prize)“While listening to SIGMA Project I had the sensation of being in front of musicians who were excavating the sound, I mean that they were searching for the purest thing in it: time denied, evocation and space sustained in the nothingness of things”.
Ramón Andrés (National Essay Award 2021), Pamplona, 25/IX2022