During its 10th anniversary international tour in 2018, the BBVA Foundation acknowledged SIGMA Project's excellence by awarding the quartet the prestigious Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Musical Creators.
Based in the Basque Country and Madrid since its foundation, SIGMA Project, actual ‘Ardittis’ of the saxophone (Scherzo magazine) gives concerts in auditoriums and festivals halfway across the world: in the United States of America, Jamaica, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Bogotá (Teatro Mayor), Ciudad de Mexico (Palacio de Bellas Artes), Santiago de Chile (auditorio GAM), Germany, France, Scotland, England, Italy, Poland, Romania, Croatia and Tunisia, as well as in its own circuit in Spain.
SIGMA Project’s members see themselves as creative explorers that manage to stimulate the composers who approach their sound, generating new grammars in a real sound laboratory. More than 60 world premieres have been carried out so far by composers renowned.
They passionately develop their multidisciplinary work with other arts. Video, dance, literature, theatre or painting are naturally integrated into their concerts, rescuing as well music from the past with which they have an utopian relationship.
So far they have 8 recordings and in 2022 they will present two new CDs, dedicated to new music by Mexican composers (Mode Records label, New York) and a monograph on the music of the National Music Prize winner José María Sánchez-Verdú (Verso label, Germany).
