Kardjin Sax Quartet (CY/FR/IT/DE)

Evagoras Karageorgis studied music at the Aaron Copland School of Music (CUNY) with Allen Brings and Leo Kraft (1982-1988) - B.A. in Music and M.A. in Music Composition. During 1988-89, he continued postgraduate studies at N.Y.U.

Since 1989, he worked as music teacher for the Public Schools and from 2012-2023 he was a H.S. Principle. He composed music for theater (THOC, ETHAL, Satiricon, THEPAC, ΕΝΑ). In parallel, he worked with the CBS TV, writing music for various film series and documentaries.

His musical compositions cover a vast spectrum of styles: Art songs, music for theater and TV, music for small or chamber ensembles, symponic music, elctronic music, music concrete and other more experimental works.

So far, he puplished various recordings with his music and cycles of songs. For many years he has been giving performances with his own works in Cyprus, Greece, Crete, Germany, France, England, Italy, Albania, Slovakia and Czech Republic.

Born in Nicosia, Charis Ioannou studied saxophone performance and Jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston and earned his Master’s degree in performance from the New York University. Upon his return to Cyprus in 2005, he started collaborating with various musicians and appearing in all the major clubs and festivals around Cyprus as well as in various venues around the world. In 2007-2013 he collaborated with the American Embassy in Cyprus in the Bi-Communal Jazz programme “Jazz Futures”, and has led the quartet BopCy, that won the 2nd place in the first Greek jazz competition held in Athens in 2015. He has conducted numerous workshops in Cyprus, Lebanon, Greece and Italy. Charis is currently teaching the saxophone and the jazz idiom at The University of Nicosia and continues to perform and record as a leader as well as a sideman in Cyprus and abroad

Lasse Golz is a Saxophone Player based in Hamburg. Playing mostly Jazz and Jazz connected music, his concerts with various bands led him to Germany, Europe and some other countries in the world. Momentarily most of his musical work happens in the bands “NORLYZ”, “Rocket Men” and playing with the Hamburg Trumpet player Michel Schröder. Lasse also Teaches with great joy to bring the excitement for music to younger people.

Bruno Tomasello is an Italian saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who finds his musical investigation field in the relationship between the Alto Saxophone and the popular and ethnic music and instruments. He has been engaged for years in the research on total improvisation and on the development of extended techniques as well as new timbres for the saxophone. A personal artistic path and work that led him to collaborate with various artists in the recording of albums and live performances.

Thibault Galloy studied jazz music in Lyon (France) for several years. From 2010, he became passionate about Balkan music and created in 2013 the group Captain Stambolov which then became his main project for which he composed a lot. As a leader, Thibault is currently developing the Mb quatre saxophone quartet which will release its first album “Alumette” in September 2024 and the Balkan brass band Tzila Brass. An eclectic and passionate musician, Thibault now collaborates with several french groups: Mélotronic, The Butshakers, Thomas Kahn, La Pêche, Hélène Piris and more.