Kenneth Wilkinson
Saxophonist | Composer
Popular Posts
From the Inside Out: Saxophone Treatises
While I was reading Dr Mark Watkins From the Inside Out, a saxophone treatise with a difference, I started thinking about the influence of treatises have on repertoire and saxophone performance. Instrumental methods have been around for centuries, with most recent publications written by elite read more...
Audio Levels in Digital Audio
Although I've spent many hours as a musician in recording studios, my experience on the other side of the glass at a recording desk was usually to listen to recorded audio and comment on editing and mixing. Over the last decade I've become more involved in the actual recording, usually of saxophones read more...
The Best Free Note Taking App.
Over the last few years I've noticed software seems to be getting more complicated for no apparent good reason. Software that used to focus on doing one thing really well falls prey to the 'it's updated and everything is better' curse, which I usually find means a watering down of its purpose and read more...
Current Projects
Ravel String Quartet arrangement
I'm in the final editing stages of an arrangement, for saxophone quartet, of the String Quartet in F major by Maurice Ravel. The arrangement is based on the 1905 score containing his fourth set of corrections.
Quirk Music
Quirk Music is the home of the Quirk saxophone quartet. I've expanded the Quirk website to include ecommerce. You can buy compositions and arrangements by members of the quartet supplied as PDFs via digital download.
Sarah Markham - Teaching and Project Platform
This website provides a platform for saxophonist Sarah Markham to support her students online. It's made up of secure areas, each specific to the institution or participants in the various projects. New projects are added each month.
Recent Projects
Three Angels
A graphic score for saxophone ensemble, using traditional notational elements.
The score of Three Angels is a representation of sound and texture rather than a prescription of sound. The composition is similar to a painting, comprising of a background texture, percussive interjections and a solo read more...
Nine Pieces for Five Players
New recording by Quirk saxophone quartet.
Nine Pieces for Five Players by renowned composer and saxophonist Richard Ingham was originally commissioned and written for the Plume Quintet. The original wind quintet version was later rewritten as a saxophone quintet for the Quirk saxophone quartet, read more...
Quartet in D minor by Giovanni Gambaro
An arrangement for saxophone quartet.
The original work by Gambaro was a collection of three quartets written for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon. This quartet (the second in the collection) substitutes soprano saxophone for flute, alto saxophone for clarinet, tenor saxophone for horn and read more...
Clockwork
'Somewhere, distant, the ancient mechanism of an old clock can only just be heard'.
A simple piece for one or more saxophones.
This piece portrays a clockwork mechanism, relying on the performer/s creating an almost inaudible texture of soft sounds. It is most effective performed by an ensemble, read more...
Fragile Dyads
Fragile Dyads: small fragile units of sound building up into a larger moving texture. Narrow bands of controlled instability, exhibiting fragility and flaws giving a natural life span.
Reflecting the fragility and complexity of life, the dyads (two sounds played simultaneously) are produced using read more...
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