About
Amy is one of the leading saxophonists of her generation both as a soloist and chamber musician. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including receiving the Royal College of Music’s coveted Tagore Gold Medal for the most outstanding student.
As a soloist, 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 in the BBC Proms Plus series broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Amy has also given recitals throughout the UK as part of the Countess of Munster Trust recital scheme and was awarded the Making Music 'Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists’ in 2015, in the same year making her Wigmore Hall debut as a YCAT Finalist.
During her studies Amy was selected to play in the Rising Stars concert series at Cadogan Hall, London, for four successive years, won the Melber Saxophone Competition, and was the first saxophonist ever to win the Edward and Helen Hague Senior Woodwind Prize. She has since twice been a selected Park Lane Group Artist.
As a chamber musician Amy is the soprano saxophonist in the Laefer Quartet, one of the UK’s most exciting saxophone quartets. The quartet are Park Lane Group Artists, making their Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room debut in 2018 and 2019 respectively. She is a Principal Artist with the Riot Ensemble, a group dedicated to connecting people to great contemporary music in concerts and events that are just as innovative, vibrant and rewarding as the music itself. Amy also performs with the collaborative ensemble ANIMA who explore projects bringing together contemporary composers, musicians and animators in live performances with abstract animated films. In 2017 Amy recorded with the acclaimed Vida Guitar Quartet for the album ‘Bachianas’, performing works by Villa Lobos and a new commission by Laura Snowden.
Amy’s orchestral work includes the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, Rambert Dance Company, and the Michael Nyman Band. During her studies she toured with the European Union Youth Orchestra including concerts in The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Grafenegg, Austria, and took part in the London Sinfonietta Academy.
At the 2015 World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, Amy and composer/saxophonist Charlotte Harding 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. Since the launch, they have presented the project at the European Saxophone Congress in Porto, the Royal College of Music, the First International Conference on Women's Work in Music (Bangor University), the International Women and/in Musical Leadership Conference (Senate House), the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and the University of Aberdeen.
Amy studied at the Royal College of Music, London, with Kyle Horch and Martin Robertson, graduating with Distinction from her Masters in 2014 having gained her Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours there two years earlier. An Erasmus exchange enabled Amy to study with Claude Delangle at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Amy is a passionate teacher and educator. She is the saxophone teacher at the Purcell School of Music and has given masterclasses and workshops at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the University of Southampton, and the University of Aberdeen.
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