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The SaxDay/Weekend Tutor Team currently includes
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Alistair studied saxophone and piano at the Royal College of Music. During his time there he won several performance prizes. He also formed and led the Mistral Saxophone Quartet.
Alistair now plays with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Northern Saxophone Quartet, Tribune Saxophone Octet, and is guest conductor of the Nottingham Symphonic Wind Orchestra. He also runs a very successful teaching business in Nottingham and is Visiting Scholar of Saxophone for Nottingham University.
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Nicola holds the ABRSM Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM) in Saxophone Performance, and the ABRSM Certificate of Teaching.
In demand as an ensemble player, Nicola plays with a number of groups. As a principal player with the National Saxophone Choir, she performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005. She is a founder member of the Equinox Saxophone Ensemble, and is a longstanding member of the award winning Nottingham Symphonic Wind Orchestra.
Nicola has established a busy private teaching studio which caters for saxophone players of all ages and abilities. As an ensemble coach she has worked on previous Nottingham SaxDay events, and also with the Nottingham Wind Ensemble and the Nottingham Choral Trust "Bandwise" programme.
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Julia Mills studied at the Trinity College of Music. She played baritone sax in the world-famous "Fairer Sax", and since then has been a member of the Northern Sax Quartet. A highly versatile player, she is equally at home as a classical or jazz musician. She is in demand as a teacher, and as well as her private teaching she tutors on courses throughout the UK and in other educational establishments. Julia is also a member of the internationally-renowned Tribune Saxophone Octet, who have twice been invited to perform at the World Saxophone Congress. |
Naomi Sullivan studied at Chetham’s School, the Royal College of Music and Northwestern University. She has won numerous awards and prizes in the UK, Europe, and the USA- including with the Countess of Munster Trust, which supported her postgraduate studies in Chicago, and with whom she was a regular performer on the Trust’s recital scheme.
She is currently performing with Kyle Horch in the Flotilla chamber group. Their debut CD is available through Big Shed Music. Naomi is a member of the Paragon Saxophone Quartet, with whom she has appeared on three CD recordings, Tuning In, Les Quatuors and Byrdland. She is also a member of Zephirus, which won the chamber music section at the Royal Over-Seas League competition in 2007. Future projects include a newly formed quartet focusing on commissioning and performing new music for saxophones. The group will be performing Facing Death as part of Birmingham Conservatoire's festival of the music of Andriessen. Other chamber and orchestral playing has included engagements with BCMG, Halle Orchestra, and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Naomi is Head of Saxophone at Birmingham Conservatoire. |
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Sarah Markham studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) gaining a Degree and Professional Performer’s Diploma (with Distinction), and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA where she gained a Master in Music Degree with scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Sir James Caird Trust. She has enjoyed competition success with the Royal Over-
Seas League Music Competition and the Park Lane Group.
Sarah has performed all over Britain, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room at London’s South Bank Centre, and at the Last Night of the Marble Hill Proms for English Heritage. Further afield, Sarah has performed in Germany, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, America and Canada. She has also broadcast live on Radio 3 and Classic FM radio. Sarah also plays baritone saxophone in the Northern Saxophone Quartet, and is a member of the Tribune Saxophone Octet. Sarah is the saxophone teacher at the Junior department of the Royal College of Music, and the Universities of Huddersfield and Sheffield. In 2006, Sarah released her first solo album featuring standard works from the classical saxophone repertoire. |
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James Rae was born on Tyneside in 1957. He studied clarinet, bass clarinet, piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1975-79. His professors were Yona Ettlinger, Stephen Trier, Meriel Jefferson and Patric Standford respectively. Since leaving the Guildhall, James Rae has pursued a highly successful and varied career in music. His work falls into three areas: performing, writing and teaching. As a player, James Rae has worked in many West End and Royal National Theatre productions including Sir Peter Hall’s award winning ‘Oresteia’ with music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle. He has also received many freelance engagements with some of the country’s leading orchestras and ensembles. Projects have included the EMI album ‘Classic Ellington’ with Sir Simon Rattle and the C.B.S.O. Saxophone Quartet playing has featured strongly in James Rae’s career. He is the leader of the Phoenix Saxophone Quartet who over the years has given many recitals and broadcasts. They have also recorded the complete works of Carey Blyton on two albums ‘The Return of Bulgy Gogo’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes meets Dr Who’.
As a composer, James Rae is one of Europe’s most published writers of educational wind music. He has at present over 120 publications to his credit published mainly by Universal Edition. His music includes instrumental study books, tutors, transcriptions and volumes of duets many of which are to be found on wind examination syllabuses worldwide. He has also written five musicals for schools in partnership with Mike Cornick.
As a teacher, James Rae has held many posts in both the state and independent sector and has tutored and conducted on numerous courses. He is currently saxophone professor for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. |
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