| Classical saxophonist Amy Dickson performs regularly throughout the UK and in her native
country, Australia. Amy has won many prizes and she was the first saxophonist to win the Gold Medal at the Royal Overseas
League competition in London in 2004, the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award 2004, the Bromsgrove
International Young Soloists competition and the Eastbourne Young Musicians’ Competition. Amy has also won the Yamaha
International Wind Competition, the Princes Prize, the wind section of the Tunbridge Wells Young Concert Artists competition
and was named Young Performer of the Year by the British Clarinet and Saxophone Society in 2000. In 1999 she became a
recipient of the James Fairfax Young Artist of the Year Prize. Solo appearances include performances of the Larsson, Glazounov, Dubois, Milhaud and Binge concertos with the Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Eastbourne |
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| Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the City and the London Charity Orchestra. Amy has performed in venues including the Sydney Opera House, the Wigmore Hall, the Bridgewater Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, St James’ Palace, St Martin in the Fields, the Sydney and Adelaide Town Halls, Beurs van Berlage and the Bachzaal, Amsterdam. She has given concerts for music clubs and festivals throughout the UK and Australia and has recorded on many occasions for ABC Classic FM, for Sydney’s 2MBS FM and for BBC Radio Three and Four. She has been featured on Australian television programmes including Channel 10’s ‘Live it Up’, a documentary about young gifted and talented people, and in 2005 she performed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Malta. She is supported by the Hattori |
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Foundation, the Australian Music Foundation, the Zonta Clubs of Australia, and
the Big Brother Foundation of Australia, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Wingate
Foundation, the Boise Foundation and the Worshipful Company of Musicians. She has studied at the Royal College of Music in
London, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where her teachers have included Kyle
Horch, Arno Bornkamp and Mark Walton. Amy has a particular interest in contemporary music, and works closely with composers on new works for saxophone and piano with pianist Catherine Milledge, as well as works for saxophone and orchestra. She has premiered and recorded many new works by composers including Graham Fitkin, Michael Csanyi-Wills, Cecilia McDowall, Philip Ashworth and Adam Sherkin. |
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