Olivier Jaquiery

Heliotrope Bouquet

1906, Scott Joplin met the Creole pianist and composer Louis Chauvin. This encounter resulted in the creation of the rag tune Heliotrope Bouquet. The latter of the two, who could neither read nor write music, composed the first two parts, A and B. Scott Joplin assisted Chauvin with the notation and completed the joint composition by contributing the two additional parts C and D.

Olivier Jaquiéry
He graduated from the Music Academy of Basel/Switzerland with the saxophone as his main subject. As one of the founding members of the Quatuor de Saxophones du Rhin, he arranges the quartet?s complete repertory apart from writing his own compositions. Olivier Jaquiéry teaches saxophone at the Music Academies of Muttenz and Birsfelden as well as at the Hochschule für Pädagogik beider Basel (Basel College of Education) in Switzerland.