Music in the Exil – Escape to Exile VI

Are you familiar with Bernhard Heiden? Wolfgang Jacobi? Or Erwin Schulhoff’s Hot Sonata? It’s such a joy to enter a concert hall, knowing you’ll discover new musical worlds that are still unfamiliar! Especially with instruments like the saxophone, which is still finding its place on the international stage, we have the privilege of experiencing this more and more often.

This is thanks in no small part to a new generation of musicians, including Ukrainian-German saxophonist Asya Fateyeva. As the daughter of exiles, she feels a deep connection to composers who, like her, experienced displacement, such as Gershwin, whose family fled St. Petersburg, or Hindemith, who had to escape to the United States and later to Switzerland due to political turmoil.