Sally is an award-winning saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and teacher. A versatile performer, her work has taken her from Wigmore Hall recitals through to the BBC Proms, West End theatre and UK tours.
Sally has performed with some of the country's leading orchestras including the Royal Opera House, Britten Sinfonia, BBC NOW, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Manchester Camerata and Chroma Ensemble. Recent work includes recording the solo theme for BBC drama The Trial of Christine Keeler, performing with the Royal Opera House on the multi-award-winning opera 4.48 Psychosis, Britten Sinfonia’s televised Philip Glass/Ravi Shankar BBC Prom, as a soloist with Manchester Camerata for International Women’s Day, Opera North’s acclaimed production of Kiss me Kate.
As a multi-instrumentalist, Sally is a versatile and sought-after pit musician with the ability to play saxophones, flutes, clarinets, oboe/cor anglais and aerophone (wind synthesizer). She performs and deputises in the West End and UK and International tours. Recent productions include Billy Elliot, Motown, Grease, Dream Girls, Book of Mormon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Addams Family, Dusty, Shrek, Elf, Big Fish, and Everybody’s Talking about Jamie. Additionally she deputises as part of the onstage band for the ground breaking concert, Abba Voyage.
Sally is a member of award-winning chamber ensemble Kaleidoscope. Described as “irresistible” by The Times, the ensemble has won awards from the City Music Foundation, Worshipful Company of Musicians, Hattori Foundation, Tunnell Trust and Park Lane Group. Highlights have included performances at the Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Bridgewater Hall and the Purcell Room. They released their critically acclaimed debut album Oil in July 2016.
Sally studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with first class honours, followed by a Masters at the Guildhall School of Music. She won numerous internal prizes for both concerto, solo and chamber music performances and was supported during her studies with scholarships from the Philharmonia's Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and the Countess of Munster Trust.
Sally’s teaching commitments include the position of Multi Instrument Tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama alongside working for numerous schools, colleges and organisations, delivering high-level tuition to players of all abilities. Her students have gone on to win scholarship places at music conservatoires, universities, junior music college departments and scholarship places into some of the top private schools in the country, as well as being accepted into the National Youth Wind Orchestra, National Youth Wind Ensemble and National Children’s Orchestras. She has led workshops for Live Music Now and the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and given masterclasses at numerous schools and colleges across the country. Outside of term time, she coaches on the Harrogate Saxophone Summer School.
