NEWS

Merry Saxmas

Carol singers outside in the snow? No - It’s Ugie Voices rehearsing with us on December 5th with the doors and windows open! Thanks to...

RPS Award - Not a Win but a Success Nonetheless!

Well, we didn’t win the award but being nominated and then placed on a shortlist of 6 groups from around the entire country is surely...

Sax Fest

The whole month was a Sax-Fest for some of us. 10th-12th was the annual saxophone weekend at The Burn. This weekend was run by Cat and...

Nominated for Royal Philharmonic Society National Inspirations award!!

This nomination is in recognition of our cross-border project, produced for Make Music Day in June this year. We got together with...

Masked Saxophones Terrorise Neighbourhood!

23rd May and finally Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra got together to rehearse again. Of course it had to be outside and of course there...

Sociable Sax Sunday with the Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra - April 11th

Several members of the orchestra attended a Zoom rehearsal with Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra this morning. Phoenix very kindly invited us...

Emily to join RNCM

The course at the RNCM is performance based, and I will be studying with Rob Buckland and Carl Raven. My performance studies will include...

Music for the Weaver Poet - February 2021

Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra, Ugie Voices and Ben Lunn had several discussions about the sort of material that everyone would find...

First rehearsal of the year - January 2021

We recently enjoyed our first rehearsal of 2021, and as we’re still in lockdown we Zoomed in what has now become the usual way. Musical...

A fresh piece by Ben Lunn written just for us - December 2020

Sunday 6th December marked Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra’s last rehearsal of the Autumn term and of 2020: a very strange year but...

Fame and Innovation - October 2020

All sort of things have been happening this month. BBC Radio Scotland picked up the story of our Easter Aquorthies video and Foss and...

Socially Distant Sax at Standing Stones - July 2020

It had been fun doing the Bakehouse of Fleet Lockdown video so we decided to make another one. This would also be one of Richard's...

Orchestra member - Press Article

Emily Manson An Aberdeen saxophonist has joined up with a group of other young musicians around Scotland to create a multimedia...

The Lockdown Video - May 2020

In May the orchestra decided that it would be a great idea to record a lockdown video. Bebhionn bravely volunteered to patch everyone's...

Zoom Sunday #2

Zoom Sunday and the orchestra’s third attempt at having a Zoom rehearsal, hosted by Ben who is best with the technology. As well as...

March 2020

In the midst of the Coronavirus lockdown all our rehearsals are of course cancelled so the news is a bit thin on the ground. All our gigs...

February 23rd, 2020

The really exciting news this month is that the National Lottery Community Fund ‘Awards for All’ has awarded us a grant of £7,000. We...

February 15th, 2020

Today we held a special workshop lead by Mike Brogan from Edinburgh. This was an experiment to see whether it would be a useful extra for...

January 26th, 2020

We had a break in December in case people’s focus was more on Christmas preparations than on rehearsing so it’s been a while since we...

November 17th, 2019

The good news at the start of this month was that ASO has been awarded a start-up grant of £1000 by The Garioch Partnership in...