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Katia Beaugeais is an Australian-French composer and saxophonist based in Sydney.
She is a Selmer Sax and Vandoren Paris Artist. Beaugeais won the prestigious International Society for Contemporary Music Young Composer Award. Beaugeais’ solo saxophone and string orchestra music were the main theme tunes for ABC Breakfast radio and ABC New Waves four years in a row.
Recently, her new saxophone orchestra piece Elise Hall – We Thank You! received its world premiere performance by women saxophonists at the Paris International Elise Hall Festival, followed by ten other countries – which made the front cover of UK’s Clarinet and Saxophone Society magazine.

ABC Classic album releases include: 3 Women of Note CDs, Best of Australian Classical Music, and Beaugeais’ ABC saxophone album, Breath by Breath, named after her circular breathing soprano sax piece. Recently, she was featured composer in BBC Radio’s exclusive playlist, UK Women Composers’ International Global Forum, Australian Chamber Orchestra’s worldwide playlist celebrating “incredible female artists”, selected out of 350 submissions for USA’s String National Conference, and her guest article on circular breathing was the “Single Reed Doctor” feature in the Clarinet and Saxophone of Great Britain magazine.

Beaugeais’ music is regularly performed worldwide. Highlights include: Elise Hall Saxophone Orchestra in Paris, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Colonel Higuchi and the prestigious Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, Thailand International Double Reeds Festival, London’s Royal College of Music Saxophone Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Boulevard des Productions French TV, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Biennale, Texas Woman’s University Wind Symphony, Scotland, France, Croatia and Las Palmas World Sax Congress, NASA Sax Congress, University of South Carolina, Australian Youth Orchestra, Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton, Royal Australian Navy Band, and her own 40 min. saxophone concerto performed by Beaugeais herself and recorded by ABC.
In 2021 Katia Beaugeais graduated with a PhD in Composition on the dual role of a composer-performer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

© Updated August 2025