Updated 11th April 2008

Faenol Festival date

The LSQ will perform at Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival on 24th August 2008. For more information please visit www.brynfest.com

LSQ win place on Live Music Now! scheme

Live Music Now was founded in 1977 by the legendary violinist, Yehudi Menuhin and his friend Ian Stoutzker. Menuhin knew from his own experience that music transcends all barriers of language, illness and disability. For people whose lives are particularly challenging or stressful, involvement in live music brings immense pleasure as well as therapeutic and educational benefits.

The scheme takes performances of the highest musical quality to a wide variety of settings across the UK, particularly to those places where experiencing music performed live is rarely part of daily life.

LSQ receive MBF Ensemble Award

The LSQ are delighted to announce that they have been awarded an MBF ensemble award to help fund their recent album recording with Dave Stapleton. The project featuring Neil Yates, Paula Gardiner, Elliot Bennett and Dave Stapleton will be released in November 2008 on Edition Records and available from all good retailers.

LSQ New Music Competition 2008 NOW OPEN!

Applications are now accepted for the 2008 competition.
Please download the application form via the link below and return by 31st August 2008.

PDF Application form

LSQ New Music Competition 2007

December 18th 2007 - 7:30pm
The Warehouse, Waterloo, London

Congratulations to James Williamson from the Royal Academy of Music for winning the inaugural LSQ New Music Award. His piece 'In Memoriam' was considered the most fitting piece to be recorded on the LSQ's Delphian disc recording in 2008 and published by Staunch Publications.

Congratulations also go to Mark Boden (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama) who won the 2nd prize (The Sax.co.uk Award) for his piece 'Constellations'.

Many thanks to Andy Scott, Graham Fitkin and Gabriel Jackson for adjudicating the event and to the sponsors Sax.co.uk and P. Mauriat saxophones for their generous support.

The 2008 competition will be open to entries from Jan 10th 2008 with the final being held in November 2008. More details will follow soon.

Sax.co.uk and P.Mauriat Sponsorship

The LSQ are delighted to announce today that Sax.co.uk & P.Mauriat Saxophones will be exclusively sponsoring the 2007 LSQ New Music Competition.The LSQ have been extremely grateful of sax.co.uk's generous sponsorship over the last couple of years and this latest collaboration strengthens the relationship between the two groups.

The final of the competition will be held on 18th December 2007 at The Warehouse, Waterloo and tickets will shortly be available through this website.

Metro Review

A review of the LSQ from the Metro Newspaper is now available to view online.

Mailing list

To sign up for the LSQ mailing list please use the online form located on our homepage. Also, you can add the LSQ as a friend on MySpace using the link on the homepage.

'FLUX' concerts and recordings

Dates for the LSQ's most exciting project to date, 'FLUX', are now listed on the Calendar page.
The brand new programme of commissioned works for saxophone quartet and piano by composers Gabriel Jackson, Dave Stapleton, Eric Schwartz, Lucy Pankhurst and Ashley John Long has been the LSQ's main focus since early 2006 and Spring 2008 will see the release of two albums 'Just Around the Next Corner' and 'FLUX' containing all the newly commissioned works.

RWCMD Connect Article

The interview with Joel Garthwaite in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama's Connect magazine can now be viewed online. To view the article as a PDF please click the link below.

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Connect Article