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from Australia
Katia Beaugeais is an award-winning saxophonist and composer living in Sydney. Katia’s music includes innovative and unique repertoire ranging from solo saxophone to full orchestra. Her music has been played in America, Croatia, Slovakia, France and Australia. Katia has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as a casual player and in a number of solo recitals featuring her own compositions at international new music festivals and on Australian classical radio: ABC Classic FM and 2MBS-FM.
In 2010, Katia won the prestigious ISCM/IAMIC International Society for Contemporary Music Young Composer Award for her solo soprano saxophone composition, Sound Box, voted best piece by an international judging panel from USA, Sweden, Korea, Venezuela and Belgium.
Katia was guest composer at the 2011 ISCM World New Music Days festival in Zagreb (Croatia) for the world premiere of Manifesto pour la Paix for winds, strings, piano and alto saxophone. She was also invited to perform a saxophone recital at a special reception for the Australian Embassy in Zagreb where she premiered Sounds from Bondi for soprano saxophone, specially composed for this occasion.
Other performance and composition highlights include: winning the Fellowship of Australian Composer’s Encouragement Award for Aurora Australis, her first orchestral piece which she later transformed into a saxophone concerto; two chamber works premiered by the Sydney Symphony Fellowship players; Drifting Memories for saxophone quartet, especially arranged for 13 saxophones for a performance by the Sydney Conservatorium Saxophone Orchestra.
Katia teaches composition and chamber ensembles at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is doing a PhD in music composition. Her music is available through her own publishing company New Music Block, as well as Reed Music and the Australian Music Centre.
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