SARAH FIELD
Musician Saxophone and trumpet
Saxophone & Trumpet
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Sarah Field’s work as a trumpeter and saxophonist is diverse and distinctive, encompassing classical, contemporary, pop, rock, commercial recording and education. Her career has taken her from recording on Elbow’s No.1 album Audio Vertigo to performing Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto at London’s Southbank and giving the UK premiere of Stockhausen’s Abduction for saxophone and electronics.
Sarah performs and records regularly across a wide range of instruments and genres for television, studio and commercial work, appearing on BBC One, ITV and Apple TV. Her recent pop and rock work has included touring with British singer-songwriters and artists Ben Howard, Becky Hill, Elbow, Seal and Sting, as well as performing at major UK music festivals including Glastonbury, Reading Festival, TRNSMT, Latitude and Creamfields.
Her classical and contemporary work includes appearances and interviews on BBC Radio and Classic FM, with her chamber groups Marici Saxes, the saxophone quartet, and Neoteric Ensemble, a brass and saxophone sextet. Concerto highlights include performances with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Christopher Warren-Green, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in the Sweeney Concerto, and the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in South Africa, performing Glazunov with Eno Shao. She has also performed Ibert’s Concertino da Camera with the 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, launching her solo career. She studied trumpet and saxophone at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, graduating from the RNCM with performance diplomas in both woodwind and brass — the only musician to have achieved this distinction. She was later awarded an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) for her contribution to the music profession.
Music education has been a central part of Sarah’s career. She lectured for twelve years at the Royal College of Music in London on the Art of Teaching and continues to work as a guest lecturer, creating performance classes and examining at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Trinity Laban, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Northern College of Music.
Sarah has appeared at major classical festivals including Cheltenham International, Edinburgh Fringe, Newbury, Brighton and Canterbury, alongside solo appearances at Cadogan Hall, the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. With a particular passion for new music, she has commissioned more than forty new works, supported by the PRS Foundation, the Vaughan Williams Trust and Britten Pears Arts.
As a concerto and recital soloist, Sarah’s international tours have taken her to New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Belgium, Brunei (Borneo, with pianist Simon Lepper), Zimbabwe’s Harare International Festival (with marimba player Mike Hamnett), and the USA. The Marici Saxes were also invited to tour China, performing in some of the country’s finest concert halls.
Sarah was awarded the Gerald Finzi Scholarship to travel across northern India and into the foothills of the Himalayas for her Indian Odyssey project. She has also performed and tutored in the Middle East, including Oman.
More recently, Sarah travelled to Sweden for a wind festival celebrating saxophone and trombone, performing with her new trio III alongside trombonist Carol Jarvis.