Saxophone professors

Hayrapet Arakelyan was praised as one of the leading saxophonist of his generation during his performance at the Eurovision young musicians competition in 2010.

Mr. Arakelyan has appeared in numerous international music festivals in Paris, Boston, St. Petersburg, Aberdeen, Zurich, New York, Singapore , Berlin. In 2011, he was invited by the Italian Saxophone Association to conduct a master class and a solo recital at the XVII Stage Internationale del Saxofono di Fermo. In addition, he has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at many music festivals, including the Mosel Festival, the Beethoven Fest Bonn, Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, the Bachfest Leipzig, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Musikfestival Graffeneg the Schumann Festival in Dusseldorf, the Emilia Romanga Musicfestival and the New York Chamber Music Festival.

Nicolas Arsenijevic is one of the most talented saxophonists of his generation. He graduated from the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) in Claude Delangle's class in 2016. For several years, he has been paying his divided attention to contemporary creations, original as well as transcribed compositions, traditional music or even musical theatre.

A multiple prizewinner in numerous international competitions, such as The Gap European Saxophone Competition (France, 2008), the Nova Gorica International Saxophone Competition (Slovenia, 2011), the Chieri International Competition (Italy, 2011), the Flaine Academy (France, 2012), the Andorra Sax Fest International Competition (2015), the prestigious Adolphe Sax International Competition (Dinant, Belgium, 2014), he regularly performs in Paris (Musée Jacquemard-André, Salle Cortot, Théâtre du Châtelet) and throughout Europe ( The Netherlands, Scotland, Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro) teaching a number of master classes on the spot as well.

A member of several chamber ensembles (Quatuor Laloy, the Saxback Ensemble, the Kosmopolitevitch Orkestar, The Oct'opus Ensemble), Nicolas Arsenijevic devotes part of his time to contemporary creation. His work with young composers at IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) and CNSMDP (the Paris Conservatoire ) has produced original compositions like Four Bodies in Search of An Author that was created in Paris in 2014.

With pianist Françoise BUFFET, he recorded a CD in 2017 that was devoted to Brahms’s cello and clarinet sonatas transcribed for saxophone and that was met with great acclaim. The pre-release concert took place in November the same year  at the Salle Gaveau.

His next CD (on the Chapeau l’Artiste label) is scheduled for release in June 2020 and will feature a transcription of Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet as well as related contemporary pieces commissioned for the occasion (Riccardo Nillni, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet).

Holding a CA (Certificat d’Aptitude, French equivalent for M.Mus ), Nicolas Arsenijevic is a teacher at the Aulnay-sous-Bois Conservatoire (CRD, Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental) as well as at the Versailles Conservatoire (CRR, Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional), where he is in charge of a class jointly with Vincent David. He also teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

Nicolas Arsenijevic is a Selmer artist and has been a laureate of the Cziffra Foundation since 2013.

Saxophone Professor Of Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing.

Beijing born in 1982, Tong Yang is currently leaving his musical "footprints” throughout Europe, USA as well as Asia with appearances at London Trinity Laban Conservatoire UK, Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Guest Professor) Germany, Mary Peppert School of Music at Duquesne Univeristy USA, Conservatori Superior de Musica de ILLES BALEARS Spain,Melbourne Conservatorium of music,Forbidden City Hall Beijing, Shanghai Conservstory of  Music,Shenzhen Concert Hall,TianJin Grand Theater,Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts,Hong Kong City Hall, Taipei National University of Arts, Thailand Siapakorn University, Malaysia University and Manilla College of Music. He is considered to be one of the foremost saxophone pedagogues in China.

In addition to his love of the Concert Saxophone Repertoire, he is also keen to develop and proliferate saxophone contemporary music through contact with many of today's composers. These composers include Mauricio Kagel, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Ida Kotkovsky, Betsy Jolas, Francois Rossé, Qi Gang Chen, Robert Lemay, Chao Ming Tung, Etienne Rollin and Christian Lauba.From 2001–2008, he studied at Russian Genesins Academy of Music with Professor Yury Valonsov. During his time at the Academy, he received 1st Prize of D.E.M. Saxophone from Conservatoire de National de Bordeaux in the class of Marie Bernadette Charrier, and was awarded a Master of Arts Diploma de Concert from Conservatoire de Lausanne Switzerland under the guidance of Pierre- Stéphane Meugé.