Duonità’s success is rooted in its extraordinary ability to enrapture the listener with an intuitive blend of harmonies in Baroque, popular, and contemporary music. Saxophonists Claudia Schätzle and Volker Ax leave a lasting impression on their concert audiences as they flaunt their flexibility and diversity while experimenting with widely varying genres and forms of expression. The duo displays unparalleled agility as it moves from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to its own arrangements of popular Italian and French music, even soaring to the avant-garde tones of ad hoc improvisation.

Claudia Schätzle and Volker Ax have been combining their musical talents since 1993. They have performed together with various saxophone ensembles and symphony orchestras in Europe, the USA and Canada, appearing with the Tetraphonics Saxophone Quartet in the Knitting Factory and at the German Consulate General in New York, the Palace of Tears (Tränenpalast) in Berlin (transmitted live on German television), and with the Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, just to name a few. In 2001 the duo began conducting saxophone-orchestra courses together in Italy, which became a must for a number of saxophonists. Duonità has appeared in Italy, throughout Germany, and at the invitation of the Goethe-Institutes in Slovenia and Vietnam.

In summer 2009, Duonità succeeded in obtaining the drummer, percussionist, and performer of live electronics, Christoph Hillmann, for a new improvisation project that was greatly influenced by Duonità’s concert trip to Asia. This session, with its contemporary sounds, World Music and Jazz Beats, culminated in a CD entitled “Hotspots”.