Playtime with Helena Kay
Award-winning saxophonist, Helena Kay joins the Playtime house band on Thursday 1st June with praise for her second album, Golden Sands, still coming from the media internationally!
About Playtime with Helena Kay
Although still in her twenties, Kay has been impressing knowledgeable jazz observers for close on ten years now. Richard Michael, the indefatigable director of Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra was always keen to feature Kay as a teenage soloist. Then, in the final of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year in 2015, the judges, including one of Scotland’s greatest ever jazz musicians, the late saxophonist Bobby Wellins, selected Kay as the winner.
Perth-born Kay went on to win the much-coveted Peter Whittingham Jazz Award in 2017. Having graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London the previous year, Kay used the cash prize from the Whittingham Award to finance the recording of the KIM Trio’s first album, Moon Palace.
A period spent living, working and studying in New York followed. Kay took advantage of having access to top players, including Chilean saxophone star Melissa Aldana, Dayna Stephens, Chris Cheek and Rodney Green to take lessons with them.
Now back living in Scotland, Kay has become established as a member of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s saxophone section and she continues to work with the KIM Trio, and in duos with pianist Peter Johnstone. This concert is sure to give further evidence of a mature talent with an individual voice.
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