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A renowned Market Harborough orchestra has been taking part in the

prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society awards in London.

The town’s Phoenix Saxophone Orchestra and Scottish partner the

Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra went to London’s Wigmore Hall

for the Oscars of the classical music world.

They were presented by BBC Radio 3’s Katie Dereham.

The two groups had been jointly shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic
Society Inspiration Award after they took part in a pioneering cross-

border project.

Produced for Maker Music Day in June this year, some 17

saxophonists from the two groups, playing seven different types of
saxophone, united to record Julius Fučík’s rousing march ‘Entry of the

Gladiators’.