The Team
Saxtet Publications (SXP) has established a reputation for excellence, focus and functionality partly because it has always employed active musicians in the business. True to its origins and aims, all the current freelance team are saxophonists:
Cat Evison
Cat joined the Saxtet team in September 2007. She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied saxophone with John Harle and Christian Forshaw. She is a talented young composer and arranger as well as being the principal alto in the National Saxophone Choir, and a member of Scorch Saxophone Quartet. Cat is currently dealing with customer enquiries and E-Editions, although she will also have a creative input as some of her own pieces will be appearing on the SXP catalogue shortly.
John Hankinson
John (actually Dr John, although he doesn't broadcast it) Hankinson approaches the ideal of a 21st century musician: a talented performer and a website whiz. He established the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain's pioneering website, through which all the choir's members, programme and music are managed, and he now runs the SXP site.
John also teaches sax, provides consultancy services, develops software for mobile musicians and has recently set up MusicTag, the UK's Musical Instrument Register.
Clare Mackney
Clare started working with Saxtet Publications in 1996 after graduating as a mature saxophone student from Birmingham Conservatoire. She plays soprano (occasionally), alto and tenor (the latter in the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain), and teaches saxes and flute privately and in school. She also reviews in and around Birmingham and produces articles and programme notes on a freelance basis. Clare helps with the text elements of the SXP site: biographies, programme notes, 'more info', and so on.
Tom Bruton
Tom, on the other hand, deals directly with the 'dots', editing scores and preparing them in 'Sibelius' format for publication. He started working with the team while he was still an award-winning student at Trinity College of Music, London, and continues now that he has moved to the Midlands, where he has a very busy teaching and gigging career. He has played lead alto in the National Sax Choir and has a pop group, 'Pure Genius'.
Lauren Hogg
Lauren continues in Tom's tradition and is currently a sax student at Birmingham Conservatoire, helping with Saxtet Publications' administration and customer correspondence when studies allow. She plays alto in the National Sax Choir and is also a member of the saxophone quartet 'Fingers Crossed'.
Other Team Players
In addition to the current team, many other individuals have helped establish and sustain SXP in the past and currently. Saxtet Publications would particularly like to thank the following for their help:
- Sue Appleyard
- Rebecca Bruton
- Suki Thompson
- Stephanie Jones
- Vincent Griffith
and the many others who have offered support, advice and encouragement, including (of course!) our customers.
