Guest artist

 After studying at both Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal (Canada) and Bordeaux (France) Daniel Gauthier completed his studies at the Université de Montréal where he earned a doctoral degree.

At the age of twenty-four Gauthier became the first saxophonist to win the Grand Prize at the International Stepping Stone of the Canadian Music Competition.  In addition, he was a laureat at the Ancona International Music Competition in Italy.  

Gauthier has performed over the world in Washington (D.C.), Newport, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Paris, Munich , Berlin, Hamburg, Verona, Roma,  Madrid, Athen, Ljubljana, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Moscow, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Salzburg etc.

Gauthier presented master classes  in almost all european music capitals and also served as a jury member on all  important international saxophone competitions in the world.

In 1997 he was appointed to a professorship at the Detmold Faculty of Music (Germany).  In 2003 he changed to the Cologne Faculty of Music.

In 2000 and 2006 Gauthier was elected member of the International Saxophone Committee.

As soloist he played among others with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn,  the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Radio Orchestra Stuttgart, the Lubljana Radio Orchestra, 

l’ Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, the Jena Philharmony Orchestra, the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Cologne, the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières, the WDR Rundfunk Orchestra Cologne, the Südwestfalen Landes Orchester, the Capella Istropolitana, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, the Würtembergisches Chamber Orchestra.

In the last 20 years he was especially successful with the Alliage Quintett. With this chamber ensemble he appeard several times on differents European TV Net-work and the group recorded five cds for the label “SONY classical”. The group collaborate with musicians such as Sabine Meyer, Alban Gerhardt, Simone Kermes, Jozsef lenvay, Daniel Behle and others.

He received three times the famous German CD Award “Echo klassik”, with the Alliage Quintet in 2005 (for “Una voce poco fa”) and 2014 (for “Dancing Paris”) and as soloist in 2006 (for “Spirito latino”).