The Latin-Sax Quartet began as a new collaboration in January 2008 among four up and coming saxophonists. Oscar Gongora, a graduate from Manhattan School of Music, the founder and director of LSQ had a vision to demonstrate the beauty of the classical saxophone by focusing on a largely unknown yet rich and colorful repertoire of Cuban and Latin American composers. The group was formed with the encouragement of the legendary Latin Jazz musician and classical composer Paquito D’Rivera. Recently the group made their debut at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York in a sold out concert entitled “Cuba, the Pioneers”, presented by the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York.

Here's what Paquito had to say about the Latin-Sax Quartet:

Inspired in Marcel Mule's French school, and followed in Havana by my father Tito and his 'Conjunto Sinfónico de Saxofones' in 1943, Oscar Góngora and his Latin-Sax Quartet are an ideal example of what the Cuban classical school of the Saxophone has become. The group offers a perfect balance between the academic discipline and the Typical charm and complex rhythms inherent to Cuban music.
A real Sax pleasure!
Paquito D'Rivera