The Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet

The Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet is an innovative collaboration between four versatile young artists. The group’s approach makes use of the diverse talents of its members, creatively combining musical performance, composition and film. Trained at top UK conservatoires including the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Northern College of Music, the quartet is steeped in the British saxophone tradition, with a broad, resonant, vocal sound and an energetic, communicative performing ethos.

The group encapsulates a vast array of artistic skills: Award-winning saxophonist and composer John Moore; multifaceted musician and photographer/film-maker Ian Dingle; folk and jazz-influenced contemporary saxophonist Guy Passey; and multiple-award-winning chamber musician and concert soloist Sally MacTaggart. Collectively the group have performed with the European Union Youth Orchestra, Park Lane Group, the World Saxophone Congress and prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St.John Smith Square and Royal Albert Hall.

As well as their work in music and film, the quartet is committed to the creation and performance of new music, and has commissioned and premiered works from an array of composers, whilst also possessing an extensive repertoire of the best of traditional saxophone music.

Recent successes for the group include being named as Tunnell Trust Artists for the 2014/15 season, winning the Guildhall School’s June Emerson Launchpad Prize in 2013, and the premiering of new quartets by Samuel-Quartermaine Smith,  Michael Cryne and John Moore at the Forge in October.