Jess Gillam's World
March 2016
Jess Gillam is now a
June Emerson Wind Music Young Artist
What a month! I have been busy this month competing
in and preparing for the BBC Young Musician competition. In January, the Category Finalists for the 2016 competition were announced and I was delighted to have reached the Woodwind
Final. The Woodwind Final took place at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
on March 7th but until
the programme has been televised, the results have to remain secret!
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| BBC Young Musician - BBC Four coverage |
Entering and being a part of this competition has been a fantastic
experience and I really have learned a lot from it. The competition offers
such a huge platform for young
musicians and I have loved
being a part of it.
Preparing for the Category Final was extremely enjoyable for me. The thing I focused on most was trying
to be in complete control
of my saxophone at every
single point in the performance. I attempted to work out the absolute
extremities of my playing at both
loud and quiet dynamics. Often,
especially in performance, I lose control
of the instrument when I am playing
loudly and I was determined not to let that
happen in this performance so I worked
on tone quality
and control as much as possible.
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| Rob Buckland |
I worked on this with Rob Buckland
in my lessons quite a lot; pitching and thinking about every single note was something we regularly
worked on but I knew it was going to be difficult
to replicate in a performance! With John Harle,
I had also been working on having an absolute sense of presence
during the entire performance and this helped me to stay completely focused throughout. I was quite nervous before I performed but once I had stepped
onto the stage,
I didn’t have any room left in my head for nerves! I knew the only thing I could think about was the music
and performing it the best I could.
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| Jess & John Harle |
Something I often find difficult is thinking
about the music as a whole at the same time as thinking
about each individual note. I think every note has a certain importance but I think that the overall shape and mood of the music is a lot more important
and I have been finding it difficult
to strike a balance
between these two ideas. I think learning
the pieces from memory
helped me with this as I was able to think about the shape and the overall
movement in the piece while simultaneously remembering
that I can only play one note at any one time and all I should be
thinking about is that very note!
I absolutely love performing and the adrenaline and risks that go along with it and this was a performance I certainly did enjoy – I hope you will too if you manage to watch it! The Woodwind Final will be televised on BBC Four on Friday
15th April.
LINKS
Follow Jess Gillam on Facebook
Follow @jessgillamsax on TwitterBBC Young Musician - BBC Four coverage
BBC Young Musician - Concerto Final
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