Information About Amy - Putney teacher

Personal Description:

Award-winning saxophonist Amy is one of the leading performers of her generation both as a soloist and chamber musician. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes; she has twice been a selected Park Lane Group Artist, was the first saxophonist ever to win the Edward & Helen Hague Woodwind Prize, and received the Royal College of Music’s coveted Tagore Gold Medal for the most outstanding student.

Amy graduated with a Master of Performance (Distinction) and BMus Hons (First Class) from the Royal College of Music, and studied on an Erasmus exchange at the Paris Conservatoire.

Amy has given recitals at the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, Cadogan Hall, St Martin in the Fields and St John’s Smith Square, and performed as a soloist in the BBC Proms Plus series broadcast on BBC Radio 3. As a chamber musician Amy is the soprano saxophonist in the Laefer Quartet, saxophonist in Riot Ensemble and ANIMA, and her orchestral work includes the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English National Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Rambert Dance Company, and the Michael Nyman Band.

At the 2015 World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, Amy launched the co-founded project ‘Over 100 years of Women and the Saxophone’, a celebration of the women who were integral in developing and pioneering the instrument and its repertoire throughout the saxophone’s history, and has since taken the project to the European Saxophone Congress in Porto.

Alongside her performing, Amy is a passionate teacher and feels strongly about musical education and inspiring a love of music in others. She teaches saxophone at the Purcell School of Music and and has given masterclasses and workshops at the Royal Academy of Music, Leeds College of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of Southampton, the University of Aberdeen, and Penn State School of Music.

During her studies, Amy was an RCM Lord Winston Scholar supported by an Ian Evans Lombe Award, a Boise Foundation Scholar 2013 and also supported generously by Help Musicians UK, the Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and the Countess of Munster Musical **Web Address Removed**

Tutoring Experience:

Regardless of ability and age I believe music lessons should be an enjoyable experience. I create a fun and friendly atmosphere and am equally happy working with students towards exams/diplomas as well as learning and playing for pleasure. Having spent 6 years studying at the Royal College of Music and Paris Conservatoire, I have a real understanding of what is needed to achieve results, whatever the goal.

As well as individual lessons, I'm more than happy to coach small chamber ensembles as I have in depth experience of this side of music making so please get in touch to discuss this further.

Saxophone teacher at the Purcell School of Music.

Masterclasses and workshops at the Royal Academy of Music, Leeds College of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of Southampton, the University of Aberdeen, and Penn State School of Music.

Tutoring Approach:

Regardless of ability and age I believe music lessons should be an enjoyable experience. I create a fun and friendly atmosphere and am equally happy working with students towards exams/diplomas as well as learning and playing for pleasure.