Events
Please find below a selection of concerts around the country, and sometimes beyond, featuring woodwind instruments. If you have a concert that you think might be relevant for listing on our page, please ‘Get in Touch’ with the details and a link to the booking page.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Saxophone Concerto – Jonathan Radford
June 26th 2025 at 19:30
Foundation Composer – Miles Walter – World Première composition
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Saxophone Concerto – World Première
Brahms – Symphony No. 2, Op. 73
Orpheus Sinfonia
Thomas Carroll: Conductor
Daniel Joseph: Foundation Conductor
Jonathan Radford: Saxophone
We are very excited to be presenting two world premières this evening.
Foundation Conductor, Daniel Joseph, will direct the world première of our Foundation Composer’s brand-new work.
Renowned saxophonist Jonathan Radford is the soloist in the world première of Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s saxophone concerto.The concert will close with Brahms’s Second Symphony, under the baton of our Artistic Director, Thomas Carroll.
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Let It Be Colourful – Asya Fateyeva
09/07/2025 7:30 pm
Fountain Courtyard, Munich Residence, Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany
Let It Be Colourful – Asya Fateyeva
July 9th 2025 at 19:30
Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit op. 58
Villa-Lobos: Fantasia para saxophone, A490
Milhaud: Scaramouche for Alto saxophone and Orchestra op. 165c
Piazzolla: Adiós Nonino
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op.23
Münchner Symphoniker
Joseph Bastian, Conductor
Asya Fateyeva, Saxophone
The ever-popular open-air concerts in the Residenz’s fountain courtyard exude a very special charm. Just the thing for our season finale! Our chief conductor, Joseph Bastian, has once again put together a program whose verve perfectly matches the summer mood. This time, it’s off to South America: Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos and Argentinian Alberto Ginastera combined the rhythmic drive of their homeland with the compositional refinement of European modernism. Astor Piazzolla made the formerly disreputable Argentine tango suitable for concert halls; in his most famous piece, he bid farewell to his father with yearning sounds. Darius Milhaud was considered the enfant terrible of the Parisian music scene in the 1920s; as an attaché to the French ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, he absorbed local sounds and integrated them into his works. Saxophone virtuoso Asya Fateyeva is a dynamic soloist who also moves easily between classical and other musical styles.
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Soweto Kinch/LSO: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
13/11/2025 7:00 pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Soweto Kinch/LSO: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
November 13th 2025 at 19:00- 21:00
Programme to be announced
London Symphony Orchestra
Soweto Kinch – saxophone
The saxophonist, rapper and composer Soweto Kinch presents the final instalment of a trilogy of works in collaboration with the LSO, which began with The Black Peril and White Juju.
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Kebyart Ensemble
05/02/2026 7:30 pm
Kleine Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Platz d. Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Kebyart Ensemble
February 5th 2026 at 19:30- 21:00
Works by Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw and others
Kebyart
Pere Méndez – soprano saxophone
Víctor Serra – alto saxophone
Robert Seara – tenor saxophone
Daniel Miguel – baritone saxophone
It’s all in the mix: Original works, visionary new creations, and original arrangements combine in the Kebyart saxophone quartet’s programs to create a distinctive work of art. With explosive staging, the four likeable Catalans transform each of their concerts into an experience. These excellent musicians share not only a passion for chamber music, but also a strong desire to breathe new life into the traditional communication of classical music. Their brimming tour schedule demonstrates their success: from Barcelona to Paris and across Europe, Kebyart is in demand at festivals and concert series with innovative aspirations. The saxophone has never been so multifaceted before.
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Berlage’s Vision
05/03/2026 8:15 pm
De Grote Zaal, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands
Berlage’s Vision
Berlage Saxophone Quartet + Vincent Bijlo
March 5th 2026 at 20:15 – 22:00
Bach – selection from Goldbergvariations (arr. Peter Vigh)
Erwin Schulhoff – Fünf Stücke (arr. Peter Vigh)
Claude Debussy – Pagodes (arr. Peter Vigh)
Joey Roukens – Quodlibet
Berlage Saxophone Quartet
Lars Niederstrasser – soprano saxophone
Peter Vigh – alto saxophone
Juani Palop Tecles – tenor saxophone
Eva van Grinsven – baritone saxophone
At the centre of the concert evening is the brilliant Jess Gillam, one of the most exciting musicians of our time. With her soprano saxophone, she combines technical virtuosity and charismatic stage presence like rarely seen. Two works put the saxophone in the spotlight: Dave Heath’s “The Celtic” and James MacMillan’s Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and String Orchestra. Both works are tailor-made for Jess Gillam. Heath’s “The Celtic” combines Celtic melancholy with rhythmic energy, while MacMillan’s work explores the boundaries of the instrument’s timbres and expressive possibilities. His most famous is certainly the Ninth, but for many, Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony is his best. This music feels rugged and melancholic, yet compact and strict. There is no superfluous note here, every motif is worked through, every counterpoint has something to say. No question: this is not cozy folk music from a Bohemian village tavern, but highly concentrated symphonic music in the spirit of Beethoven and Brahms.
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Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
11/03/2026 7:30 pm
Holy Trinity Church, South St, St Andrews KY16 9NL
Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
March 11th 2026 at 19:30 – 21:30
ANNA CLYNE – Sound and Fury†
DANI HOWARD – Saxophone Concerto*
GEORGE WALKER – Lyric for Strings
CAROLINE SHAW – Entr’acte
DAVE HEATH – The Celtic*
JOHN HARLE – Rant!*
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Glassberg – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophones*
†Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.
Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.
Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.
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Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
12/03/2026 7:30 pm
The Queen's Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9JG
Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
March 12th 2026 at 19:30 – 21:30
ANNA CLYNE – Sound and Fury†
DANI HOWARD – Saxophone Concerto*
GEORGE WALKER – Lyric for Strings
CAROLINE SHAW – Entr’acte
DAVE HEATH – The Celtic*
JOHN HARLE – Rant!*
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Glassberg – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophones*
†Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.
Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.
Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.
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Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
13/03/2026 7:30 pm
City Halls & Old Fruitmarket, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
March 13th 2026 at 19:30 – 21:30
ANNA CLYNE – Sound and Fury†
DANI HOWARD – Saxophone Concerto*
GEORGE WALKER – Lyric for Strings
CAROLINE SHAW – Entr’acte
DAVE HEATH – The Celtic*
JOHN HARLE – Rant!*
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Glassberg – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophones*
†Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.
Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.
Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.
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