Since graduating from the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the coveted Tagore Gold Medal for the most outstanding student, saxophonist Amy Green has performed in a variety of orchestral, solo, and chamber music settings across the UK and abroad.
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. As a chamber musician Amy is the soprano saxophonist in the Laefer Quartet, one of the UK’s most exciting saxophone quartets, who released their debut album Strata in 2024. 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. In 2017 Amy recorded with the acclaimed Vida Guitar Quartet for the album Bachianas, performing works by Villa Lobos and Laura Snowden, and also features on Laura Snowden’s 2025 album This Changing Sky.
Amy’s orchestral work includes the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, Rambert Dance Company, and the Michael Nyman Band. Amy can be heard on several film and video game scores including as a featured artist on Chris Roe’s Blue Jean soundtrack.
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 across the globe including at the European Saxophone Congress in Porto, the US Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, and the First International Conference on Women’s Work in Music (Bangor University).
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 College of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the University of Southampton, and the University of Aberdeen.
Chris Caldwell studied saxophone at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Sir Thomas Beecham’s favourite bass clarinettist, Stephen Trier, from 1983-86. In his first year at college he joined the Delta Saxophone Quartet which celebrates its 40th anniversary of creative music making in 2023-24.
Chris has managed to build a diverse musical freelance portfolio career since his graduation. He has toured Internationally, often with the support of the British Council in Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Uzbekistan, Russia, Ukraine, China, and extensively in Europe. His contemporary music performing skills has seen him perform in numerous leading ensembles including London Sinfonietta, BCMG, Steve Martland Band, Delta Saxophone Quartet, the Red Note Ensemble, Group S, London Saxophonic & The Michael Nyman Band.
He is a respected orchestral saxophonist and has toured the UK & overseas with the RPO, RSC, WNO, ROH, Ulster Orchestra, BSO, BBCSO, Britten Sinfonia & CBSO. Chris has performed at the BBC Proms including the last night, on numerous occasions with BBCSO, Britten Sinfonia, London Sinfonietta & The Mike Westbrook Orchestra. Other highlights include a concert at the Great Hall Salzburg Mozarteum with the CBSO under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, a performance in the Philharmonie Berlin with the BBCSO (John Adams – Nixon in China) and onstage with the Michael Nyman Band at the refurbished Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Chris also enjoys being involved in more popular side of the music profession. He was part of the Dame Shirley Bassey Orchestra in the early 2000’s, memorable concerts include those in Istanbul, Beirut, Monaco, The Roundhouse London – BBC Electric Proms and an extraordinary performance in Giza where the backdrop included an incredible sunset accompanied by the iconic Egyptian monuments including the three Pyramids & The great Sphinx. He has performed at the Barbican, RAH, RFH, Saddlers Wells, ROH, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The Sage, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall,The National Concert Hall in Cardiff, Bridgewater Hall, and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
In 2019 Chris was part of the orchestra for the European leg of Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Greatest Showman’, world tour. He has been involved in albums recorded by Jools Holland, Mike Flowers, Elvis Costello, Mike Westbrook, Delta Saxophone Quartet, Dame Shirley Bassey, & Lorna Luft (daughter of Judy Garland). Chris is one of the saxophone members of the London Concert Orchestra which has provided the musicians for the Strictly Come Dancing duo Anton & Erin for their previous ten national UK tours.
Chris has worked with Susie Hodder-Williams since 2005 creating landscape/time descriptive music which has resulted in 7 album releases to date (six on the FMR label). His latest collaborative EP release was in March 2021 titled, Hemispheres which has already received radio play on the BBCR5, RTÉ, DevonStream and stations from Tokyo to Boston via Perth in Australia. Chris has worked in London’s West End on many musicals including Cats, Chicago, Me & My Girl, Les Miserables, Matilda, West Side Story, 42nd Street, Motown, Sweet Charity & Guys & Dolls. He enjoys working with the Devon based TV/Composer Paul Honey so you might hear his bass clarinet & soprano saxophone on CBeebies or in dispatches on the antiques roadshow!
Meg Glover is originally from Stockport, where she first picked up the saxophone aged 9 and later studied at the Junior RNCM.
Meg went on to study at the RWCMD with Gerard McChrystal. Highlights include, playing with BBC NOW, winning the college concerto competition with Tomasi’s Saxophone Concerto and making her concerto debut in St David’s Hall with the RWCMD Symphony Orchestra.
Meg is currently studying at the RCM with Kyle Horch and Martin Robertson and is very grateful for support from The Ann Driver Trust. Recent highlights include winning the college concerto competition with Dubois’ Saxophone Concerto and performing the work with Martyn Brabbins and RCM Philharmonic, playing at Wigmore Hall alongside Ensemble 360 and featuring as a soloist at international arts event Gala Da Danza in Westminster Central Hall. In 2026, Meg is looking forward to featuring as a soloist in the London Transport Museum and Found Sessions recital series. Meg’s studies are generously backed by The Charlotte Fraser Foundation, Help Musicians Postgraduate Awards, The Drake Calleja Trust, The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships Trust.
Meg teaches woodwind for Lewisham and Southwark music services and has the pleasure of running St Paul’s Cathedral School’s wind ensembles and working with the school’s choristers.