Upcoming Events
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8th-10th December 2025
Teaching and Performing in Luxembourg
Alastair will be teaching and performing at Luxembourg Conservatoire. More info and tickets here.
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18th February 2026
London Contemporary Orchestra at the Barbican
Alastair will be playing clarinet and bass clarinet with the London Contempoary Orchestra at the Barbican in a programme of Jóhan Jóhannson's Cinematic Suites. More info and tickets here.
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3rd March 2026
Workshop for ABRSM
Alastair will be running an online masterclass for ABRSM. More info and tickets here.
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27th March 2026
Lunchtime recital in Brighton
Alastair will be giving a lunchtime recital at Brighton Unitarian Church with Jonathan Pease.
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28th March 2026
Evening recital in Yatton
Alastair will be giving an evening recital at Yatton Music Society with Jonathan Pease. More info here.
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17th-19th April 2026
Benslow Spring Saxes
Alastair will be coaching on the ever popular Spring Saxes course at Benslow music alongside Gerard McChrystal. More info and booking here.​​
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16th June 2026
Lunchtime recital in Chichester
Alastair will be giving a lunchtime recital with pianist Jonathan Pease at Chichester Cathedral. More info to follow.
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17th-20th August 2026
Benslow Summer Saxes
Alastair will be coaching on the ever popular Summer Saxes course at Benslow music alongside Gerard McChrystal. More info and booking here.
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21st August -2nd September 2026
Performances around Norway
Alastair will be giving recitals with pianist Jon Pease onboard P&O Ship Arcadia as it voyages around Norway.
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10th September 2026
Lunchtime recital in Leatherhead
Sound Earth Duo (Alastair Penman & Jenni Watson) will be giving a lunchtime recital at Leatherhead Methodist Church as part of the Music on Thursdays series.
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16th October 2026
Lunchtime recital at Chelmsord Cathedral
Alastair will be giving a lunchtime recital with pianist Jonathan Pease at Chelmsford Cathedral. More info to follow.
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23rd-25th October 2026
Benslow Autumn Saxes
Alastair will be coaching on the ever popular Autumn Saxes course at Benslow music alongside Gerard McChrystal. More info and booking here.
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Previous performances have included recitals at: (solo recitals unless otherwise stated)
1901 Arts Club (KSQ) - Acton Hill Church - All Saints, Hertford - Aylesbury Lunchtime Concerts - BBC Proms (BSQ) - Beaconsfield URC - Boston Concert Club (BSQ) - Bridgewater Hall (BSQ) - Brighton Festival (KSQ) - Brockenhurst Music Society (KSQ) - Bury St Edmunds Concert Club - Cambridge Music Festival (KSQ) - Canterbury Christ Church University Saxophone Day - Chapel Royal, Brighton - Charterhouse School (KSQ) - Chelmsford Cathedral - Chichester Cathedral - Chiltern Arts Festival (depping with Ferio) - Clitheroe Concerts (BSQ) - Cossington Concerts (KSQ) - Crosby Hall (BSQ) - Dart Festival (BSQ) - European Saxophone Congress - Faversham Music Club (KSQ) - Garforth Arts Festival (BSQ) - Grimsby Concert Society - Henley Festival (KSQ) - Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA, USA - Heron Theatre (BSQ) - Heswall Concerts (BSQ) - Holmes Chapel Music Society (KSQ) - Honiton Festival (BSQ) - Islington Proms - Katherine Concerts - Leamington Festival (BSQ) - Leatherhead Methodist Church - Live @ Dawkes - Liverpool University (BSQ) - London School of Economics (depping with Ferio) - Mansion House (KSQ) - Marlow Festival - Menuhin Room, Portsmouth - Milton Court - Music in Pinner (KSQ) - Music in Quiet Places (KSQ) - Newnham College, Cambridge - Purcell Room (Solo, BSQ) - Radlett Music Club (depping with Ferio) - RNCM Chamber Music Festival (BSQ) - RNCM Saxophone Day - Rottingdean Festival (KSQ) - Selwyn College, Cambridge - Sittingbourne Music Society (KSQ) - Skipton Music Society (BSQ) - St Anne's, Kew - St Catharine's College Chapel, Cambridge - St Edmund King and Martyr, London - St James's Piccadilly (Solo, BSQ) - St John's, Smith Square (Solo, BSQ) - St John's, Peterborough - St Lawrence Jewry (KSQ) - St Martin-in-the-Fields (Solo, BSQ) - St Magnus International Festival (KSQ) - Stour Early Music Festival (depping with Ferio) - The Forge, Camden (Solo, BSQ) - The Great Hall, Barts Heritage - The Old Court, Windsor (BSQ, KSQ) - Treasury Music Society (KSQ) - Two Moors Festival (KSQ) - Victoria International Arts Festival, Malta (ASQ) - Weston Music Society - WITS University, South Arica - Wooburn Festival - World Saxophone Congress (Solo, KSQ) - York University (KSQ) - Zurich University of the Arts
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Previous concerto performances include:
Beamish - Under the Wing of the Rock
Coates - Saxo-Rhapsody
Copland - Concerto for Clarinet
Glazunov - Concerto in Eb
Graham - In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen
Ibert - Concertino da Camera
Itturalde - Pequena Czarda
Mackey - Soprano Saxophone Concerto
Milhaud - La Création du Monde
Penman arr. Stubbs - Rhapsody on Electric Dawn
Piazzolla arr. Stubbs - Ave Maria
Scott - Dark Rain
Shaw - Clarinet Concerto
Swerts - Dance of Uzume
Williams - Viktor's Tale
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