Events

with Jo Foote | Programme featuring works from What Shapes A Soul? A Spiritual Celebration

featuring Wight Sax

featuring Wight Sax

with Jan Willem Nelleke, Catrin Roberts, Lauren Peck, Joe Pollard and Hebe Cooke | Private event for Guildhall students and professors only   Programme: Roger Boutry - Divertimento - II. Andante - for alto saxophone and piano Darius Milhaud - Scaramouche - II. Modéré - for alto saxophone and piano Abel Selaocoe arr. Samuel Beddard […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Presented by Ian Clarke and Justyna Szynkarczyk Programme includes: Ka Bohaleng from Suite after Abel Selaocoe for Saxophone Septet Featuring: Samuel Beddard - Solo Soprano Saxophone Catrin Roberts - Alto Saxophone Lauren Peck - Alto Saxophone Joe Pollard - Tenor Saxophone Emily Plumb - Tenor Saxophone Hebe Cooke - Baritone Saxophone Charles Curtin - Baritone […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

Featuring new interdisciplinary works by composers Lucy Holmes and André Serra, and choreographers Rocio Palmero and Emma Edwards.

Featuring new interdisciplinary works by composers Lucy Holmes and André Serra, and choreographers Rocio Palmero and Emma Edwards.

Featuring Samuel Beddard, Hebe Cooke, Lauren Peck, Joe Pollard, Emily Plumb, Catrin Roberts

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Presented by saxophonists Samuel Beddard & Emily Plumb and pianist Jo Foote   Programme: La Muerte Del Angel by Astor Piazzolla for soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone and piano Alpine Sonata by Lawson Lunde for soprano saxophone & piano A Change is Coming by Alastair Penman for soprano saxophone and electronics Takamba by Abel Selaocoe for […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

The Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble is joined by internationally acclaimed saxophonist Jess Gillam MBE for a special performance at Milton Court Concert Hall. The programme includes two works featuring Jess Gillam as soloist, showcasing the versatility and expressive range of the saxophone, alongside Barbican Snapshots. Directed by John Harle, Barbican Snapshots celebrates the Barbican’s bold, utopian design through an immersive programme […]

Presented and curated by Jo Foote Featuring three premieres from Samuel and Jo's next concert programme - TAPESTRY: Bebop Tango by David Gordon for soprano saxophone and piano beckoning night by Matt Carmichael (arr. Beddard) for tenor saxophone, piano and electronics Shine You No More by Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen (arr. Beddard) for sopranino saxophone and […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Tickets are £12 to include a glass of wine and nibbles (£6 for under 16s). To book, please contact Angela on cottinghamchurch@gmail.com, or WhatsApp to 07594 682671.

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Join us for a lunchtime concert in the beautiful surroundings of Ely Cathedral from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Saxophone Ensemble. Concert will be in the Presbytery. Programme: tbc Entry via Cathedral Visitor ticket

The concert is a charity event with all profits going to Rugby’s Myton Hospice. This concert provides a unique opportunity to experience the sight and sound of more than 30 musicians playing 14 different instruments – six different types of saxophone and eight types of recorder, from sopranino to sub bass. The concert will feature […]

Join us for the second evening concert of our inaugural Christ Church Summer Music Festival, with our headline concert of the festival, featuring the Christ Church Music Summer Festival Orchestra. We open with the cosmopolitan soundscape of George Gershwin's An American in Paris with its blazing jazz harmonies and vibrant orchestration, before traveling halfway across […]

Featuring oboist Miriam Cooper & flautist Eleanor Brockett

As part of Broxbourne Arts Forum's Arts Café series

Phoenix will be performing a 1 hour pop-up concert in the undercroft at the iconic Old Grammar School in Market Harborough, as part of the Creative Harborough and Market Harborough and the Bowden’s Charity Busk! initiative. We’ll be playing to raise money for the town’s Jubilee Food Bank, where one of our sax players volunteers. […]

TAPESTRY weaves together folk stories through a rich programme of music from across the globe, utilising a diverse range of different saxophones to explore a variety of cultural voices. For each venue, we curate a unique programme centred around a specific theme to take the audience on a one-of-a-kind historical globe-trotting adventure through music. Featuring […]

The Combined Community Choirs of Rugby proudly present A "Second" Season to Sing - a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange - plus special guests Samuel Beddard, Jo Foote, Steve George and Alexander Hooton.