12/04/25 The Tweed-Street Band

Andy is from Northern Ireland and studied clarinet and saxophone at what is now Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the late 1980s. He joined Saxtet while still at music college and over its eighteen year life it became one the UK’s leading saxophone groups performing all over the world with their unique repertoire of their own compositions and arrangements. Andy can be found performing in both jazz and classical settings across the UK and is a leading saxophone educator. He is a regular member of the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra and Carismático Tango as well as working regularly on the West End. Recent recordings include the latest Delta Saxophone Quartet CD and with a new ensemble, the Pinewood Saxophone Quartet with Kyle Horch.

Karen studied at Bath University and Welsh College of Music and Drama. Now mainly an accordion player and composer but at home in all musical genres she has played in Orchestras, West End Theatres and venues all over the world plus some very odd places e.g in the caravan of the Tour de France. In the jazz world she has performed with Martin Taylor, Tim Garland, Mike Westbrook and Stan Sulzman. She has produced four CD’s of her own compositions and arrangements. If you are old enough to remember the all female Saxophone group The Fairer Sax she was the tenor player in that!

Her music for saxophone is published by Boosey and Hawkes, June Emerson and Saxtet Publications.

Zoë grew up in Wells, Somerset and began playing French Horn at age 9. She was taught by Simon de Souza at Wells Cathedral School before moving to London in 2017 to study at the Royal Academy of Music.

Zoë was awarded her first trial aged 20 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Principal Horn, and won subsequent Principal trials with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She continued to freelance with various orchestras during and after finishing her studies, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, London Sinfonietta, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She accepted the position of 3rd Horn with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in December 2023, becoming the youngest member of the orchestra.

Zoë has recorded music for film and TV, and performed instrumentals on albums by artists such as Alison Sudol and Cody Fry. She enjoys a wide variety of musical genres and this is reflected in the music she writes and arranges for solo horn and piano, wind quintet, brass quartet and quintet. In 2024, Zoë joined the brass faculty at the Royal College of Music as a Horn professor.

Jamie began playing trombone at the age of 7, being taught by the legendary Alan Hutt at Wells Cathedral School. He went on to study at Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music. Jamie is now a busy freelancer, playing with the likes of the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the West End.

He is a member of Slide Action – a trombone quartet specialising in new music whose debut recording has received a 5 star review from BBC Music Magazine.

He is also a keen jazz performer, playing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and has recently toured with the Public Broadcasting Service. He is currently trialling for positions in the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.