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Jon Halton studied piano,
clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon at The City of Belfast School
of Music. During this time he set up a
sax quartet (with TV composer Sheridan Tongue), for which he arranged many pieces - some still in
use by Simply Reeds to this day!
He then read Music at King’s College, Cambridge, and
subsequently obtained a Ph.D. degree in Music Analysis. He
stayed on in Cambridge to build up a busy career as a musician:
as instrumental and theory tutor, as transcriber / arranger /
composer, and as performer: on clarinet and baritone sax with
Simply Reeds, and as a freelance piano accompanist, jazz pianist
and bass player. He is a member of C.A.S.S., I.S.M. and the
P.R.S.
He was written for music publishers Faber, IMP/Warner Chappell
and Music Sales, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO -
Stanza Music), the National Saxophone Choir, the Perse School in
Cambridge, the Elgar Society, the Cambridge Youth Wind
Orchestra, Oakham School, and many saxophone and clarinet
ensembles across the U.K. His composition “Ankara” is now listed
on the Associated Board’s Grade 4 Flute syllabus.
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Claire Stevenson
took up the clarinet and sax whilst at School in Hertfordshire,
where she played in the North Herts Youth Orchestra and County
Wind Band. Whilst a music student at Anglia Polytechnic
University during 1991-4, she played and sang in opera and
musical productions, along with the College Orchestra, Wind
Band, Big Band and Choir, as well as in a variety of Chamber
Music Groups.
After
graduating, she obtained her clarinet teaching diploma from
Trinity College, London. Claire worked in broadcasting for ten
years, and then decided to teach clarinet and sax in Cambridge
schools. She handles the publicity for the recently-restarted
K.239 Orchestra, and plays in several local orchestras.
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