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Quadrophonia Saxophone Quartet

Sally MacTaggart Soprano Saxophone
Catherine Evison Alto Saxophone
Ellie Steemson Tenor Saxophone
Michael Brogan Baritone Saxophone

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Quadrophonia Saxophone Quartet first formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2004. As the youngest finalists in the Saxtet Publications Quartet Competition, they performed at the British Saxophone Congress in 2005, and later that year, performed as guests with the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain at the Edinburgh Festival. Other performances have included the 2006 World Saxophone Congress in Slovenia, the BBC's Gubaidulina Festival and the Barbican Centre's 25th Anniversary where they played for the arrival of the Queen. Quadrophonia reformed in late 2010 after a break. The ensemble is now made up of graduates from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Northern College of Music. Sally MacTaggart, Catherine Evison, Ellie Steemson and Michael Brogan have all been principal players in the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain and are active as performers and educators in their own right working throughout the UK. Their first year together has seen Quadrophonia become the first wind group ever to reach the final of the St Martin in-the-Fields Chamber Music competition, reach the finals of the Tunnell Trust Music Club Awards Scheme, and win the 2011 CASS Saxophone Quartet Competition.

Screaming 229a - Joe Cutler

Cutler: "Screaming 229a was written in the summer of 1996 and slightly revised during the spring of 1997. The piece is in one predominantly loud movement marked 'Moto Perpetuo' and the title refers to my flat number in Warsaw where I wrote the piece. "

Selections from 'Quartet No. 3 - Body Language' - Barbara Thompson

Barbara was born in Oxford and educated at Queen's College, Harley Street, London and the Royal College of Music, where she studied clarinet, piano, flute and composition. She formed her own group Paraphernalia in 1977. Barbara's original and inventive compositions and soaring saxophone and flute improvisations, have earned her international acclaim, while the originality of the music has appealed to a wider audience than merely contemporary jazz buffs. Saxophone Quartet No. 3 'Body Language' is a continuous piece based on a series of dance motifs: from the mad latin of the 'Carnival' to the more traditional atmosphere of the 'Country Ayre'. The bridges, each entitled 'Serena', link the beginning and end of each of the movements. Each Serena is calm and peaceful, and they are all variations on the same theme, breathing spaces between the movements.

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