Media/Reviews – Highlights
2024
ABC Main Theme Music
ABC Classic Breakfast with Dr Megan Burslem
“Like Snowdrops You Will Shine” for string orchestra
Wake up with Beaugeais’ music Monday to Friday:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/classic-breakfast
Australian Music Centre Feature Article
Beaugeais’ composition & performance career in Australia and internationally:
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/katia-beaugeais-the-amc-have-been-a-constant-support
2023 3MBS Radio Marathon Review
Beaugeais as Composer: “Terra Australis Incognita” for Sax, Cello, Piano.
“A fascinating work, it explores the many possibilities of the instruments… As a saxophonist, Beaugeais was ideally equipped to explore the musical possibilities of the instrument, and for this listener the result was a revelation.”
https://classicmelbourne.com.au/3mbs-2023-marathon-together-concert-1-sublime/
2023 ABC “Women of Note” Album Review
Beaugeais as Saxophonist:
“But it was Anne Boyd’s Beside Bamboo for Saxophone and Piano performed by Katia Beaugeais and Phillip Shovk that really caught me.
The delicate sound of a saxophone fusing with Boyd’s personal blend of contemporary composition…had me stopping what I was doing…”
https://www.readings.com.au/reviews/women-of-note-celebrating-australian-composers-volume-5
2022 Voyage KC – LA-based Magazine
In “Rising Stars”
https://voyagekc.com/interview/rising-stars-meet-katia-beaugeais-of-sydney-australia
New 2022 theme music – ABC Classic Breakfast with Russell Torrance
“Like Snowdrops You Will Shine” for string orchestra
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/classic-breakfast/
November 2021
Vandoren Paris exclusive Spotify playlist
Beaugeais’ “Breath by Breath” Sax piece selected:
https://open.spotify.com/user/6dz5aczcj655fbcc7igviky82
14 September 2021
Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine of Great Britain
3-Page Feature:
https://www.cassgb.org/magazine-archive/200/
1 September 2021
ABC Classic – Best of Australian Classical Music
“Like Snowdrops You Will Shine” for string orchestra:
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/best-of-australian-classical-music/pl.ad604cb92b344705be0ccdab8bf0ad37
6 August 2021
International Classical Magazine – Interlude
Feature article – Album review of Beaugeais’s “Breath by Breath”:
https://interlude.hk/katia-beaugeais-breath-by-breath
8 March 2021
ABC Classic Album
“Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers”
Beaugeais’s Like Snowdrops You will Shine for string orchestra
Track 27 – Recorded by Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective:
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/shop/women-of-note-volume-3/13215312
5 March 2021
ABC Radio – Darwin
International Women’s Day Feature
Publicity broadcast of Beaugeais’s Re-emerging for soprano saxophone for this concert:
https://www.newmusicblock.com/event/celebrating-international-womens-day-arafura-music-collective-katia-beaugeais/
30 June 2020
UK – Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine of Great Britain
Beaugeais’s Re-emerging (2020) composed during lockdown for Amy Dickson’s online Sax recording project:
https://mailchi.mp/995dc2731772/june-e-newsletter
1 May 2020
Interlude feature – Outstanding Australian composers
https://interlude.hk/nine-outstanding-australian-composers-part-i/?fbclid=IwAR0USVReiqCqZ791kRdwRZFjQiiubjODhf2G5c2LWOV-LF5b0LA_0uQDTdA
26 February 2020
ABC Classic new theme tune
Katia Beaugeais’s latest soprano saxophone piece, Breath by Breath, chosen for ABC Classic’s 2020 New Waves theme tune.
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/new-waves/new-waves-2020-preview/12001584?fbclid=IwAR3RW3p91uPNJDqq37krc5tdGOpWDla35L3rPpv32gUerBY3zx3y4mUh56E
1 January 2020
Vandoren Paris
Beaugeais’s Happy New Year message @1:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjI2EPZGkPQ&fbclid=IwAR3UpYG8rWAKUYiT0RdtOvaUiZVEdUH6RMFbdknHPvVPl3N_JC8d–G2jcQ
9 December 2019
UK Press – Women Composers Feature
https://donne365.blogspot.com/2019/12/09-december-2019.html?fbclid=IwAR3-c3Pgi1OE5DoJWrgp7Rbm_T51GQUtYddA3rdYIR-SE4NCMq1HEmDns5g
23 July 2019
Australia’s Classical Magazine – Limelight Magazine
Guest Column article – Beaugeais’s dual role as soloist-composer in her ABC Classic Sax podcast
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/katia-beaugeais-new-australian-sax-music/
8 March 2019
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Selected worldwide playlist celebrating “Incredible Female Artists”
Beaugeais’s Like Snowdrops You Will Shine for string ensemble
https://www.aco.com.au/blog/post/playlist-international-womens-day?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=acotweet&sourceNumber=47839&fbclid=IwAR0cQy_nwdUN2zENB-V7M5x2JYbuigvRlB_Tbzm97XaM3IQHauKO_MJxTYU
31 October 2018
ABC Classic FM film
Saxophone soloist – How Music Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIo3GwHpRw
21 September 2018
ABC Classic FM
Beaugeais’s Like Snowdrops You Will Shine – Video extract.
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/events/classic-getaway-snowdrops-video/10289892
23 July 2018
Croatia News
http://www.ellybasic.hr/?p=10093
16 July 2018
The Arts Report – Feature article about my music
https://theartsreport.blogspot.com/2018/07/katia-beaugeais-to-step-beyond-music.html
17 May 2018
REVIEW Canberra Symphony Orchestra – Australian Music Series
First Light at Uluru for saxophone orchestra
Review photo: Sydney Con sax orchestra recording of First Light at Uluru.
http://citynews.com.au/2018/review-setting-free-the-saxophones/
4 September 2017
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Guest composer-soloist with 100 Saxes, PhD + Royal Northern College of Music:
https://sydney.edu.au/music/news-and-events/2017/05/04/phd-student-katia-beaugeais-invited-to-100sax.html
31 August 2017
Germany – News article about my music
By Dr Hanns-Peter Mederer – Journalist and professor at University of Hamburg:
http://www.amusio.com/17391/geliebtes-saxophon/
14 August 2017
Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Premiere of Terra Incognita for oboe, bassoon & piano:
https://lifeatanam.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/an-open-letter-to-ensemble-francaixs-fellowship-followers/
29 October 2016
Adelaide Daily News
2nd performance of ‘First Light at Uluru’ for Wind Symphony in Adelaide:
http://indaily.com.au/arts-and-culture/2016/10/29/whats-on-brit-flicks-wondrous-wind-faux-floyd/
14 September 2016
Limelight Magazine
Australia’s leading Classical magazine – Featured article in Editor’s Choice
World premiere of ‘First Light at Uluru’ for Wind Symphony:
http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/katia-beaugeais
21 September 2016
CutCommon Magazine
About ‘First Light at Uluru’ for Wind Symphony:
http://www.cutcommonmag.com/katia-beaugeais-first-light-at-uluru/
23 August 2016
Vandoren Paris Artist
http://www.vandoren-en.com/BEAUGEAIS-KATIA-Australian_a863.html?preview=1
1 December 2015
TV Interview – Strasbourg, France
Boulevard des Productions
About First Light at Uluru & my saxophone concerto, Terra Obscura.
https://vimeo.com/146620140
8 October 2015
Limelight Magazine
Feature article about France & Australian premieres.
First Light at Uluru for saxophone orchestra
http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/blog/first-light-uluru
6 August 2015
Sydney Conservatorium of Music & University of Sydney
Feature article about Europe premieres
http://sydneyconservatoriumofmusicuniversityofsydney.cmail2.com/t/ViewEmail/t/8BD6CF9E1926B516/B71D06DCBBDF3145C9C291422E3DE149
Featured in Postgraduate Profiles
http://music.sydney.edu.au/study/student-profiles/
And:
http://postgraduate.sydney.edu.au/music-film-visualarts/
27 May 2015
American radio
Featured on WFCF 88.5 FM – St. Augustine, Florida.
Broadcast of 2 pieces:
The Last Flight of Saint-Ex for saxophone quartet and First Light for soprano sax & piano
http://www.iheart.com/?cmp=iheartradiocom
5 March 2015
ABC Classic FM
Australia’s female composers
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2015/03/05/4192090.htm
25 February 2015
Adolphe Sax TV
Drifting Memories performed by the Nong-Phai saxophone quartet (Thailand)
http://www.adolphesax.com/index.php/media-gallery/5133-drifting-memories-by-katia-beaugeais-nong-phai-saxophone-quartet?category_id=262
4 October 2014
ABC Classic FM radio
Broadcast of Terra Obscura: Concerto for Saxophone.
Composed and performed by Katia Beaugeais.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2014/10/04/4100604.htm
9 September 2014
Review
Terra Obscura: Concerto for Saxophone
http://www.classikon.com/review/beaugeais-rose-sydney-conservatorium-modern-music-ensemble/
17 January 2014
ABC Classic FM radio
Podcast of Sound Box for soprano saxophone & my article featured on ABC FM Australian Music website, part of the ‘Rewind’ collection. Curator: Stephen Adams.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2014/01/15/3926293.htm
15 May 2013
Canada – Green FM Classical radio
Salt Spring Island Radio 107.9 & 102.1
Featured Composer in women composers’ program: (About 20:22 – 31:40 min. mark)
https://soundcloud.com/rasmabertz/vocaliseb23
11 April 2013
Croatia – Zagreb Music Biennale
Premiere of First Light for flute & piano by the New Music Group of the Elly Bašić Music School.
http://www.sczg.unizg.hr/naslovnica/vijest/2013-04-11-mbz-outside-eu-hr-projekt-grupa-za-novu-glazbu-gu-elly-basic/
Zagreb Biennale publicity
http://www.archive-hr-2013.com/open-archive/2605361/2013-08-12/http://www.mbz.hr/eng/vijesti/fec3b46e3568a5fd620c662dfe5e2c6f
30 January 2013
City of Canada Bay Council
Promotional video featuring my voice and nature sound installation that was premiered at the 2012 Cabarita Park Twilight Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAs_sNeEcM
26 October 2012
Daily Telegraph
Newspaper article about my music for the Cabarita Park Twilight Festival
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/inner-west
23 October 2012
Austria – Orf FM Radio
Manifesto pour la Paix for strings, winds, piano & alto saxophone.
Recorded by Ensemble Zeitfluss (Graz, Austria) at the Orf Recording Studios, Vienna.
http://oe1.orf.at/programm/318107
1 August 2012
Adolphe Sax TV
2012 World Sax Congress recital featuring my Sound Box piece:
http://www.elsaxofon.com/index.php/en/media-gallery/2104-wscxvi-katia-beaugeais-sound-box-by-katia-beaugeais
Ross Edwards’ Raft Song at Sunrise (specifically arr. by Edwards for this concert):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMRFLgkI7U0
6 July 2012
ABC Classic FM
Australian broadcast of Manifesto pour la Paix for strings, woodwind, piano, alto sax.
Performance at the Zagreb Biennale by Ensemble Zeitfluss (Graz, Austria)
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/newmusicuplate/music-listings/?date=2012-07-06
28 April 2011
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
http://sydney.edu.au/news/music/2839.html?newsstoryid=6806
15 April 2011
Croatia
Video interview with American musicologist/composer Frank J. Oteri following the premiere of Manifesto pour la Paix at the Closing Ceremony during the 2011 ISCM World New Music Days Festival.
https://vimeo.com/22578538
Zagreb Music Biennale
Featured composer in Zagreb publicity
http://mic.hr/assets/attachments/998/MBZ%20Newsletter%209-2011.pdf?1302867765
Croatia Press
Interview with Croatian journalist, Jana Haluza, for the premiere of Manifesto pour la Paix for strings, winds, piano & alto sax at the Zagreb Music Biennale.
12 April 2011
Daily Telegraph
Newspaper Article about the upcoming premiere of Manifesto pour la Paix at the Zagreb Music Biennale.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/inner-west
18 June 2010
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
http://sydney.edu.au/news/music/2839.html?newsstoryid=5121
5 June 2010
ABC Classic FM
Free podcast of my interview with Julian Day about winning the 2010 ISCM/IAMIC Young Composer Award.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s2922367.htm
12 May 2010
Australian Music Centre
Media release about the 2010 ISCM/IAMIC Young Composer Award.
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/iscm-iamic-young-composer-award-to-katia-beaugeais
10 May 2010
International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM-IAMIC)
Société Internationale pour la Musique Contemporaine
http://www.iscm.org/activities/ycawards/2010-iscm-iamic-young-composer-award-katia-beaugeais
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