This issue's articles include:

Karl-Heinz Steffens

The Berlin Phil principal clarinet-turned-conductor tells Michael Pearce about his career and what encouraged him to step full time on to the podium

Michael Pearce

BBC Young Musician 2018

For the second time running, a saxophonist made it through to the grand final of BBC Young Musician. Chris Walters and Stephane Reeve profile this year's competition and meet Rob Burton, the young sax player of the moment

Chris Walters

A passion for saxophone

Howard Goodall has composed a major new setting of the biblical passion with a soloistic role for the saxophone. He tells Chris Walters about his vision for the work

Chris Walters

Playing Malcolm's clarinet works

Few clarinettists can claim to have had such a close working relationship with the composer Malcolm Arnold as CASSGB president Janet Hilton. In this article she recounts experiences from a Lifetime's collaborative endeavour

Janet Hilton

A concerto for... nine saxes

Composer Michael Wolters introduces his new work There are more of them than us, 'a queer concerto' for nine saxophones and orchestra

Michael Wolters

Vive la clarinette!

Chris Walters reports from the Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Monaco's annual classical music festival, which this year chose to focus on the clarinet 'in all its states'

Chris Walters

Jazz and gender

Jazz is one of the primary musical genres for clarinettists and saxophonists, but why are there so many more male jazz performers than female? Dr Josephine Davies offers a personal take on a complex subject

Josephine Davies

Special report: a world premiere

Michael Pearce reports on the world premiere of Testament, a concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra by Jeffery Wilson

Michael Pearce

Quintets for single reed and string quartet

As part of her series of articles on the CASSGB Library, Stephanie Reeve highlights some of the collection's works for string quartet and clarinet or saxophone

Stephanie Reeve