SARAH FIELD
Saxophone & Trumpet
INFO
Sarah Field ’s work as a trumpeter and saxophonist is diverse and unique. Performances have taken her from recording on No.1 album “Audio Vertigo” with band ‘Elbow’ to Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto at the Southbank, London to the UK premiere of Stockhausen’s “Abduction” for saxophone and electronics.
Sarah performs and records regularly on a range of instruments across many genres as well as T.V and commercial work. Most recently with pop & rock Sarah has appeared touring with British songwriters Ben Howard, Becky Hill, Elbow, Seal and with Sting. Classical contemporary appearances include interviews and performing on BBC Radio, ClassicFM with her chamber groups Marici Saxes (Sax Quartet) and Neoteric ensemble (Brass & Sax Sextet). Concerto highlights have been on Sax & Trumpet with the BBC Concert Orchestra with Christopher Warren-Green, Sweeney Concerto with RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Glazunov Concerto Kwa Zulu Natal Philharmonic in South Africa with Eno Shao and a performance of Ibert’s Saxophone Concertino with the UK’s critically acclaimed Aurora Orchestra.
Sarah won both the Royal Over-Seas League Competition Main Solo Award for Woodwind & Brass and the Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists in 2000 and this launched her solo career. Sarah studied both trumpet & saxophone at the Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Academy of Music. She graduated (RNCM) with performance diplomas in both woodwind & brass, the only musician ever to do so. In 2017 she was delighted to be awarded an "Associate of the Royal Academy of Music" for her contribution to the music profession.
"Pure Sax Appeal"
EVENING STANDARD
Music Education has always been a passion of Sarah's from the start of her career and she lectured for twelve years at the Royal College of Music London on the Art of Teaching. She now works regularly as guest lecturer, creating performance classes and examining for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama ,Trinity Laban and Royal Welsh College and Royal Northern College of Music.
Major classical festival invitations include the Cheltenham International, Edinburgh Fringe, Newbury, Brighton and Canterbury Festivals, along with solo appearances at Cadogan Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. With a passion for new music she has commissioned over forty new works supported by the PRS Foundation, Vaughan Williams Trust and Britten Pears.
As a concerto & recital soloist Sarah’s international tours have included New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Belgium, Brunei (Borneo, with pianist Simon Lepper), Africa’s Harare International Festival (with marimba player Mike Hamnett) and the USA. In 2020 Marici Saxes were invited to tour China in an exciting fourteen day journey around the finest concert halls! Sarah also was awarded the Gerald Finzi Scholarship to travel across the North of India and to foothills of the Himalayas with her “Indian Odyssey” project as well as performing and tutoring in the Middle East in Oman.
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