Saxophonist available for teaching, performing, recording and consulting.

Researcher-writer engaged in both independent and collaborative research projects.

Find information, audio files and reviews for Lara James saxophonist at Signum Records. You can also find Lara James saxophone at Hyperion Records.

U.K. based musician Lara James plays soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones on Rococochet by Leah Kardos  on the Bigo and Twigetti label, available on iTunes and Spotify and other major music channels/outlets.

Dr. Leah Kardos and I have been working on a project under the title DARK PARK.

You can find our DARK PARK audio-visual research videos at www.vimeo.com/leahlara

Our work attempts to create a sensory insight into how it feels to be female existing in and moving through our capital cities at night, and carries a trigger warning.

Key words: psychogeography, women, liminality, psychology, distance.

Copyright Alex Mills Photographic

Lara James is a saxophonist known for her work as a collaborative musician and soloist. She has established herself as a musician with a busy and varied portfolio career ranging from recital, chamber, orchestral and band performances to lecturing, and performs across a variety of musical genres from contemporary classical to alternative. She has performed as a concerto soloist and recitalist throughout the UK, while freelance recording work includes sessions for radio, BBC TV and CD recordings, and appearances with numerous major orchestras in the UK. As a soloist Lara has been broadcast around the world including the UK (BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, Ireland’s RTE Lyric FM) in the USA (NPR) and on ABC Classic FM Australia.  

Lara’s debut CD ‘Facades’ on the Signum Classics label was chosen as 'Presenter’s Choice’ for Instrumental and Chamber Music in Classic FM Magazine, May 2009. She was grateful for the support of the Arts Council of Wales towards recording a second CD in 2011; a stylistically diverse project featuring some exciting new artist collaborations and commissions by British composers which was also released on the Signum Classics label. Her work in progress (2024) is a diversion from any to date, focusing on academia and practice-based research.

Lara teaches saxophone at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where she also coaches performance classes and chamber music. She is in demand as an adjudicator for national youth music competitions, examinations, assessment and college auditions, as visiting lecturer and as a coach/consultant for national music organisations.

You can hear some of Lara’s work on live improvised scores and visuals with the Meta Noisia Collective. Our improvised performances to moving images are immersive reflective mediations on the natural environment.

Meta Noisia play Ramsgate Festival August 2024. https://www.metanoisia.com