I am glad that I got the opportunity to work with Nigel Hitchcock who is the leading saxophonist of the world and a very talented composer. Suite "Memory of the Heart" which will premiere in SATOB, will be a great event not only for Kazakhstan but also for the world cultural community.

The SONY BMG company plans to release a record of this work and is confident in the success of the project. I think that Almaty listener will be pleased with the unusual combination of jazz and classics. I am sure that musicians of the “TuranAlem” orchestra will perform this composition with a great pleasure.

Many thanks to TuranAlem Bank for the opportunity to work with a great orchestra and famous composers.

Nigel Hitchcock is recognized as one of the most talented musicians of his generation. Established himself as a musician and recognized as one of the best saxophonists for today, Nigel has a unique talent of a composer combining classical music with modern variations of jazz, ethno and folk genres.

Nigel has been a composer for all his life - he always improvises with such an inspired imagination that transforms someone else's music into something completely new. This is the hallmark of the “real” musician and Nigel has been gifted with this exceptional talent, which he demonstrated at a young age. In Nigel’s motherland in the UK there are a lot of different stories about his phenomenal saxophonist and improviser gifts, showed up in 13 years, and his work with National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Since then he has devoted his life to music and work with various stars of world scale in the pop, jazz and classical genres. While his new vocation is realizing through large-scale projects, his career of the composer has already strengthened and promises to bring inspired and unique works on concert stages and on the screen - his music in any genre has the ability to touch people’s hearts around the world.

In virtue of collaboration between Marat Bisengaliev and TuranAlem orchestra Sony Classical studio will release two records of Nigel in 2007 and 2008.

Simon’s career as a conductor began in 1994 in Stockholm with the premiere of Concerto for the Bone which he wrote for Christian Lindberg. A little later he accompanied Gidon Kremer at the Royal solemn hall in London during the Laurie Anderson's Meltdown festival, then he conducted Chamber Orchestra of Europe during the performance of his own overture Fourscore. Simon flew to Texas to direct the execution of his performances in Dallas and San Antonio, also he worked in Baden Baden and Vienna as a musical director of his own operas A Day Close to Summer, Jiggery Pokery and The Secret Agent which had a huge success. Simon is recognized as an innovator in the preparation of concert programs - most recently he participated in a tour with the State Orchestra of Cyprus and a program consisting of a mix of works by Stravinsky, Haydn and Zelenka. His talent to conduct the orchestra always arouses admiration. Kazakhstan is already 51st country where he played. Premieres of The Secret Agent in Greece and Germany, as well as performances in Japan and America are in his plans.

His greatest composer success was work in a musical theater. Jiggery Pokery had a scandalous success since its premiere in London's South Bank in 1999, and controversial comedy A Day Close to Summer prepared for the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden in 2003 generated much controversy and demonstrations in the theater. In 2004 he wrote Die Bruck am Tay for the Feldkirch Festival in Austria. The composition had success among the public and critics and was later presented in France and the UK. At the same time Songs for Unseen Singer was presented at the Cheltenhem International Festival. 2004 ended for Simon by performance of his works Prelude and Fugue about Quem Pastores Laudavere by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Berliner Philharmonie.

The year 2005 was devoted to work on two major works. Sinfonietta for Strings was presented in both American continents.