Projects & News SON DOS ON 3sat WEDNESDAY 18.04.2007 - 8.45pm Die Stadtgängerin Magazin from Renata Schmidtkunz Wien tönt anders - Vienna sounds different Vienna the city of music- away from Strauß, waltz and Co. Daisy and Milagros - Interview SON DOS & SASS     Son Dos and Sass have already toured to great acclaim in Belgium, Norway and Austria. „Ireland, Cuba & New York“, a new work especially written for them by Tristan Schulze, has proved to be an astounding composition, versatile in it‘s stylistic approach, full of originality in sound and texture - and above all a totally new experience for the orchestra, audience and soloists alike! Download Folder (PDF, 1,1 MB) SON DOS & SASS Daisy JOPLING (GB)- Violin, Voice Milagros PIÑERA IBACETA (CU) – Guitar, Voice, Percussion Jon SASS (US) – Tuba Son Dos and Sass is in a class of it's own with three extaordinarily talented world class musicians who really burn on their instruments! They originate from 3 corners of the world; New York,Cardenas Cuba and London. A Tuba,Violin and a Guitarist/Singer/Percussionist together make up Son Dos and Sass. The combination of instruments sounds perhaps a bit unusual but when you hear them play they wipe away any doubt of what to expect and bring the listeners to a joyous experience. Jon Sass Jon Sass was born in 1961 in New York City. He spent his early childhood with his grandmother in Virginia, returning to his family in Harlem when it was time for him to start school. At the age of 15 he began to study music with Sam Pilafian, who happened to be the neighbor of a co-student in Jon's school orchestra. He was admitted to the famous "Music and Art High School" which is now called the "Laguardia School of Performing Arts" in Harlem at the age of 16. He formed the "Sassafrass Brass Quintet" with his friends and played on the streets of New York about two or three times a week. While admiring Howard Johnson's music and following him around and listening to his mother’s records and following the bass lines of groups like "Earth, Wind and Fire" or James Brown with his tuba, Jon continued his classical studies with Sam Pilafian. Howard Johnson, Joe Daley, Warren Deck, Bob Stuardt and Roger Bobo were among his early influences. When Jon received his High School diploma in 1979 at the age of 18, he started touring almost immediately thereafter with the Vienna Art Orchestra in Europe. He returned to the States a month later and continued to study with Sam Pilafian at Boston University. He was awarded a scholarship and, his studies being interrupted by various European tours, received his Bachelor's Degree in 1985, a B.A. in Tuba Performance. With the choice of continuing a blooming career in Boston and New York, Jon decided to move to Europe and join the Vienna Art Orchestra for a longer time. Once in Vienna, he teamed up with Dutch blues guitarist Hans Theessink as well as with the popular brass quintet "Art of Brass Vienna". He still continued to commute to New York to play with his now famous friends. Until the present he has been playing with world class artists such as Ray Anderson, Boston Symphony Brass – Empire Brass, Art of Brass Vienna, Butch Morris, David Murry, Erika Stucky, Michelle Rosewoman, Leon Thomas, Gideon Kremer, Bobby Shew and many others. He also recorded with hit producer Peter Wolf. He has traveled literally all over the world with his instrument, from Brazil to Japan and from Africa to Russia, where he was able to share his rich musical heritage as an American Cultural Representative.