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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 are the main theme tunes for ABC New Waves and ABC Breakfast radio.

ABC Classic 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 on BBC Radio, 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 latest article on circular breathing is currently in the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain magazine “Single Reed Doctor” feature.

Beaugeais’ music is regularly performed worldwide. Highlights include: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 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, Colonel Higuchi and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, 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 the 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 May 2024