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b. Pedro Depestre Gonzalez, June 1945, Cienfugos, Cuba, d. 8 Apr 2001, Basel, Switzerland. Depestre performed violin from age five, and was just 13 when he became a member of the popular Orquesta Aragón in Havana, Cuba. A dazzling and exhilarating instrumentalist, then worked with additional rings in Havana and …

A leader of and participant in different free of charge jazz, avant rock and roll, and contemporary chamber ensembles because the 1970s, Swiss saxophonist Markus Stauss founded the Spaltklang quartet in 2001. In German, Spaltklang approximately means “split audio,” reflecting Stauss’ fascination with developing a 21st hundred years incarnation from …