Amy Dickson

Named the UK’s Young Australian of the Year 2016 and Grammy™ nominated twice, British-Australian Sony Artist, Amy Dickson, made history by becoming the first saxophonist to win a Classic Brit Award and the first ever Australian to win the Mastercard Breakthrough Artist of the Year award. This followed the release of her third album, Dusk and Dawn, which attained the coveted No. 1 position in the UK Classical Album Charts. She has since been named by BBC Music Magazine as one of the world’s six best classical saxophonists both past and present. Amy made her concerto debut at 16, and on her 18th birthday made her first recording as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She was recipient of the James Fairfax Australian Young Artist of the Year award, and has won a string of major competitions including the Gold Medal at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Competition and the Prince’s Prize. In 2017 she launched her programme called “Take a Breath”. The programme helps equip young children in their formative years with simple yet invaluable techniques to encourage them how to breathe properly. At the beginning of 2018, Amy premiered the new saxophone concerto by Sir James MacMillan with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Joseph Swensen. She will be premiering the concerto world-wide, recording it with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and touring the work in the UK with Aurora Orchestra in 2019.