Secret Messages
About the concert
Our programme about secret messages on 8 February 2020 featured a special guest, Alfie from BYMT, on saxophone.
Programme
- Michael Tippett — Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
- Michael Tippett — The Weeping Babe
- Phil Woods — Sonata for Alto Sax and Piano
- Edward Elgar — There is sweet music
- Elton John — Can You Feel The Love Tonight
- Jerome Kern — The Way You Look Tonight
- Frank Martin — Mass for Double Choir
Performers
Alfie Beston
Alfie Beston is 13 years old and loves music. He passed grade 8 saxophone with distinction at the age of 10 and passed his diploma on the last day of primary school. He is a student at St Olave’s School and a chorister at the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy. Alfie plays lead saxophone for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra Academy Big Band and is the current holder of the Minting Cup (Bromley Young Musician of the year for under 14s). He loves composing and arranging music and has written big band scores for NYJO, a wind quintet, several sax quartets, small jazz band arrangements and a Te Deum. You can find out more about Alfie’s music-making and hear his compositions at www.alfiebeston.com.