Chameleon

Did you know that Friday is BBC Music Day? What will you be doing to mark it? We’d love to know! https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/egrz3d

Having some fun with new ideas for our first Live Music Now performance in a couple of months! This is “The Elephant” from Saint-Saens “The Carnival of the Animals” 🐘 #livemusicnow #elephant #quintet #woodwind #flute #oboe #clarinet #bassoon

We had a great time playing to and chatting with prospective new Woodwind Students at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music. Best of luck with your applications and auditions everyone!

Freya is finally back in Manchester! She had an amazing time performing with Basilisk Duo at the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain's #CASSGBSingleReedDay at Nottingham University yesterday. Now time for some Live Music Now training 😁

Lovely lunch and catch up for Jessica with Sam Buttler - Composer and Orchestrator talking about the new piece he’s writing for us - “Pantheon.” So excited about this music!

Really excited to have started working on this brand new piece written specially for us! Thanks Sam Buttler, we love it! 🎶✨ #quintet #woodwind #flute #saxophone #clarinet #oboe #bassoon #composer #music

Monday morning meetings are sponsored by coffee with Jessica, Eleanor, George and Anna ☕️ planning some new concerts for Live Music Now

Tonight and tomorrow, George and Jessica are performing with Gruff Rhys and Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music. 2 sold out houses for this really cool gig!

Eleanor and George are having fun at the circus on Barnum with CODYS Productions at The Brindley Theatre in Runcorn!

Had a great couple of days of training with Live Music Now at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music with other new members of the NW branch. Can’t wait for our next training day in October!

Back in rehearsals today after our first training session with @livemusicnowuk - feeling a bit bonkers, but missing @freyajane12 😢 don’t worry, she’s back in a couple of weeks 😆 #quintet #livemusicnow #woodwind #flute #oboe #clarinet #saxophone #bassoon

We're wishing there was "Another Day of Sun" left in the summer before the hard work starts in September! This is one of the tunes we recorded back in July, from the 2016 film LaLa Land 🌞 https://youtu.be/5Y939JDnAec

We’re proud to celebrate diversity in our quintet and the people we work with. Happy Manchester Pride to our followers. Have a fabulous weekend! #pride #manchester @manchesterpride #love #quintet @ Manchester, United Kingdom

George and Eleanor had an amazing time last night playing with the Gatecrasher Classical Orchestra at Coventry Cathedral. Such a change of scenery for them both, but they had an amazing time!

George has been busy working on Musical Theatre and Opera Summer Schools this year. A couple of weeks ago he was accompanist and vocal coach at the Uppingham Summer School on their Musical Theatre Week, and on Monday he will be working on the Leeds Youth Opera course on a mixture of MT and opera. Variety is the spice of life!

Throwback Thursday - couldn’t resist posting a few more of our pics from Italy with RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music. One of the highlights for the girls was playing Shostakovich 5 in the last concert- sadly it was Jessica’s final concert with RNCM, but she’s had a brilliant time studying her MMus. Eleanor has also finished her MMus and is going on to further study for a PGDip and Anna is staying on to begin her masters. Exciting steps for us all starting September!

Throw back to 5 sleepy chameleons after a long year of hard work! 😴 We are all well rested now and ready for another super exciting year ahead! 😊🎶 #chameleon #windquintet #colours #saxophone #flute #bassoon #clarinet #oboe

Jessica has just been in Jersey for the last week playing principal clarinet for Jersey Symphony Orchestra in their summer prom concert conducted by Hilary Devan Wetton. It was such a beautiful island to explore in between the rehearsals and a lot of fun repertoire to play!