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Sarah Field
 Sarah
Field studied trumpet & saxophone at the Royal Northern College
of Music, the first musician ever to graduate with Professional Performance
Diplomas in both woodwind and brass. Following this success Sarah
was awarded a scholarship to study trumpet at the Royal Academy of
Music, along with support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust
Award, Ian Fleming Charitable Trust and Martin Scholarship Musical
Fund. During this time Sarah performed Shostakovich’s Concerto
no.1 for trumpet & piano with pianist John Lill (St John’s
Smith Square), performed solos on trumpet & saxophone with the
BBC Concert Orchestra live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall on BBC Radio
2 and again on both instruments for the final of the RAM Wigmore Award
at the Wigmore Hall. As a saxophonist Sarah won both the Royal Over-Seas
League Competition Main Solo Award for Woodwind & Brass, the Making
Music (NFMS) Award for Young Concert Artists in 2000 as well as being
invited to feature on the prestigious Countess of Munster Recital
Scheme. These accolades brought Sarah into the limelight, leading
to broadcasts on ClassicfM and BBC Radio 3’s “In Tune”.
Major festival invitations have included the Canterbury, Brighton,
Edinburgh, Newbury Spring and Cheltenham International Festivals.
She was in THE TIMES article “Magnificent Seven” which
featured seven talented young artists “most likely to succeed”
that appeared in the Edinburgh Festival. Highlights of Sarah’s
Concerto performances include the Irish premiere of Eric Sweeney’s
saxophone concerto with RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
& UK premiere with the Goldberg Ensemble at the RNCM. Glazunov’s
Saxophone Concerto in South Africa with KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic
and Richard Rodney Bennett’s Alto Saxophone Concerto at the
UK’s Prestigne Festival. Sarah has commissioned seventeen new
works over the past few years of recitals receiving funding from PRS
foundation, Vaughan Williams Trust & private sponsors. Works include
the fantastic “Dancing Fish” sax & string quartet
by Cecilia McDowall’s written for Sarah & Bronte String
Quartet at her Purcell room debut and Exalt Aphonoso by Manchester’s
talented Anwen Lewis, recently recorded onto CD. Sarah has been performing
extensively on trumpet again alongside her saxophone engagements in
performances with Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, marimba player Mike Hamnett
and with duo partner and pianist Simon Lepper. Recent international
tours have been to Brunei with Simon Lepper (Trumpet & Saxophone
recitals) and Harare Festival Zimbabwe with percussionist Mike Hamnett.
Sarah & Simon have been awarded a PRS New Works prize to commission
the fabulous composer James Whitbourn.
For more information visit www.sarahfield.org
Sarah performed with Martin Stacey
(organ) at St Dominic's Priory, London NW5 on 7th October 2006:
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