EMMA Concert Association presents the internationally acclaimed Italian Saxophone Quartet on Sunday, October 5, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College, 14 Granada Street in St. Augustine. Tickets are $30.00 ($5 for students) and may be purchased in advance at www.emmaconcerts.com, by phone at 904-797-2800, or at the door. The box office opens one hour before the performance.

In 1982, four friends, each an established saxophonist soloist with a distinguished career, formed a quartet with the express goal of performing chamber music for their beloved instrument at the very highest artistic level. They have played to wide acclaim in more than 1,000 concerts in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Japan, USA, Sweden, Lebanon, Bermuda and Russia. The quartet’s concerts have been recorded and broadcast by the Italian RAI-Radio 1 and RAI-Radio 3 as well as by Swedish, German, Japanese and American national radios, and they have produced three popular CDs. In 1984 and 1985 the quartet won a number of important chamber music competitions and were awarded a special prize for their performance of contemporary music. They have been recognized both for the uniqueness of their instrumentation and for the quality of their performances. Since 2002 the ISQ’s annual tours of the United States have brought them to New York, California, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Idaho and Alaska. The international press is smitten: “seductive and impassioned” . . . “a scintillating whirlwind of a performance, shifting from muscular sonorities to delicate wisps of sound” . . . “jaw-dropping virtuosity.”