ABOUT
ME
INTERNATIONAL
CONDUCTOR
&
MUSICIAN
My name is Saul Zaks and I am a professional conductor and musician from Buenos Aires,
Argentina, living in Denmark. Multicultural and multilingual – Spanish, Hebrew, English,
Danish, Scandinavian, I provide music to life and inspiration to souls.
I develop projects, foster attitudes, and shape patterns of behaviour through unique
communications skills and trusted leadership, creating performance-based results and
transforming relationships. In doing so, I aim to communicate ways of organising a society
grounded in my personal core values: positive energy, proactivity, intuitive learning and
creativity through music.
My motto “Conductor – human – cooperation” helps to inspire and enrich, to move and
innovate, and to shape practices that bring genuine value to all stakeholders: groups,
organisations, communities – and people.
Cultural understanding, social and environmental entrepreneurship and cross-cultural
communication are important to me. And music. Always.
I have the skill, experience and network to design and deliver projects for a wide range of participants including choirs, orchestras, ensembles, festivals, youth programmes, schools, universities, foundations, charities, and cultural institutions. Drawing on my experience as conductor, performer, educator and composer, and on my body of work across musical traditions and artistic disciplines, I shape ideas and bring them to life through collaboration, creativity, and trust.
A Free of Bullying society in which all children feel part of a community. The workshops are based on the values and the model of the classical music orchestra.
Misatango Festival
CONDUCTOR &
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Special Concerts
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln
Center,
Musikverein, Konzerthaus,
Berliner Philharmonie, Teatro Colón
ENSEMBLES
CONDUCTOR &
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival Vienna
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The University of Southern Denmark Symphony Orchestra was formed in 2002 by conductor Saul Zaks as the first university symphony orchestra in Denmark's history. The orchestra consists of music students, young musicians and students at the Royal Danish music conservatories. The orchestra is under the direction of the Argentine-born conductor Saul Zaks, who single-handedly manages and seeks support for various projects, events and concerts. The orchestra has won awards at competitions and performed in the most prominent concert halls in the world such as Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin and Musikverein in Vienna. In 2016, the University of Southern Denmark Symphony Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Tango Album - "Sax to Tango" -, together with Pablo Ziegler who was pianist at Astor Piazzolla´s legendary quintet..
We offer an enriching pedagogical and artistic experience that provides aesthetical, expressive and
technical knowledge of Tango music.
The training follows an intense pedagogical activity, proposed by university institutions.
We will explore and deepen through research the questions and challenges of the Tango genre, while
contributing to the production of new works created by the students, as well as the editions,
recordings, concert programming and dissemination of these new compositions in platforms and media.
Sephardic and Ashkenazi music for choirs and ensembles
This project aims to provide individual singers, choirs and audiences worldwide the opportunity to
research, engage with, and explore Jewish Ashkenazi and Sephardic choral and instrumental music and
culture in many of its diverse forms and manifestations together with Ensemble Kramim and Grammy Award
Nominee conductor Saul Zaks.
The project aims to create a non-judgmental creative arena in which choirs and audiences can develop
their academic and performance skills and creative goals. The project has a two pronged approach
combining theoretical and ethnographic content with practice-based learning on Jewish music from
Sephardic & Ashkenazi traditions.
Lelo Nika Trio and Saul Zaks offer youth orchestras the possibility to perform original chamber &
orchestral music repertoire together in concerts throughout the whole world. The repertoire is composed
by Thommy Andersson & Lelo Nika ́s works and includes original music in the area of Romanian, Swedish,
and Serbian folklore tradition.
The ensemble will be performing together with Lelo Nika (accordeon), Thommy Andersson (bass), George
Mihalache (cimbalom) and is conducted by Grammy Award Nominated Maestro Saul Zaks, artistic director of
the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival.