This issue's articles include:

Carlos Ferreira

The Philharmonia Orchestra in London has appointed a new principal clarinettist: Carlos Ferreira, still a few years off his 30th birthday

Michael Pearce

Belgium bound

The International Adolphe Sax competition took place in late 2019 in Dinant, Belgium

Stephanie Reeve

Beethoven transformed

A previously unheard version of Beethoven’s Septet Op 20, arranged by Carl Czerny for wind sextet, has recently been unearthed

Emily Worthington & Robert Percival

West coast jazz saxophony: part two

Following on from the article in the winter 2019 issue, completion of our two-part exploration of the American west coast ‘cool’ jazz sax sound

Kenneth Morris

Best of British

The clarinettist Robert Plane’s latest disc includes lost works by Iain Hamilton and Richard H Walthew, plus a new orchestration of a familiar piece by John Ireland

Robert Plane

Colin Cowles at 80

This year, Colin Cowles – composer, teacher and a former editor of this very journal – turns 80.

Michael Dyer

F Gerard Errante

A tribute to the clarinettist composer F Gerard Errante, an early pioneer of contemporary techniques

Ian Mitchell

Latest ligatures

Following his article on clarinet and saxophone ligatures five years ago, the Canadian clarinettist and saxophonist Chuck Currie revisits the topic to discuss various newer models

Chuck Currie

Sax Bandits

Saxophonist Rob Digweed launched an allsaxophone band in his local scout hut in 2015. Five years on, Sax Bandits now boasts over 80 members across three county groups

Rob Digweed