This issue's articles include:

Artvark Saxophone Quartet

Artvark members Mete Erker and Peter Broekhuizen talk about Mother of Thousand, a new project exploring historical instruments and modern recording techniques to create fresh soundworlds

Alastair Penman

Enabling music-making

A volunteer-led project to bring a commercially viable one-handed clarinet to market

Rachel Wolffsohn

Free sheet music

‘Concert Piece No 5’ and ‘Caribbean Rhythm’ from Youtz: Studies for Bass Clarinet

Alea Publishing

From the archives

An eventful, overwhelming and at times bizarre trip to North Korea to perform at the Spring Friendship Art Festival

Andrew Michael Simon

Making the Grade

With a refreshed ABRSM woodwind syllabus coming into effect from January 2022, we explore the new clarinet and saxophone exam books for Grades 1 to 5

Stephanie Reeve

Elizabeth Maconchy

An exploration of works held in the CASSGB library by Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, a prolific yet neglected voice of 20th-century British music

Stephanie Reeve