Martin Kay

Martin Kay is an Australian saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer. In 2020 he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he had earlier earned a Master of Music in saxophone performance; in 2001 he studied in New York City on a Churchill Fellowship. He is a co-founder of Continuum Sax, a leading Australian saxophone quartet dedicated to new Australian music, which has recorded eight of his quartets across four albums. He has performed with the Sydney, Tasmanian and Malaysian Philharmonic orchestras and Opera Australia, and featured on Tim Davies’ Grammy-nominated Counting To Infinity. Over the past decade he has released around ten albums as leader or co-leader, with his compositions performed at saxophone conventions in the Netherlands and Scotland. He lectures in saxophone at the University of Newcastle.

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