Jenni Watson is a saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
With a predominantly classical music foundation under a love of diverse musical styles, Jenni has a passion for merging sound worlds and softening genre boundaries, focussing on telling emotive stories and creating sound journeys.
Her compositions gain popularity through combining emotional accessibility with multi-layered depth and richness of texture, bridging technicality with musicality in a melodic style.
Increasingly her works explore the marriage of her acoustic multi-instrumental recordings with an exploration into electronic manipulation and found sound.
The demand for new saxophone repertoire from Jenni continually increases, with regular commissions from across the international saxophone community, including for the online Saxophone Academy (USA), Arizona & Pennsylvania State Universities, UK Vandoren artist Huw Wiggin, the renowned Apollo Saxophone Quartet, and large scale works for Yamaha Australia Artist Erin Royer.
Selected works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Scala Radio and can be found in the British Library. Her arranging talents were also utilised in the Channel 4 programme “Orchestra United”.
As a performer, she works with duo partner Martin Jacoby (Piano) in both live performance and recording projects, and also with #lockthesaxdown project partner Emma McPhilemy (Selmer/Vandoren/Key Leaves Artist).
Jenni studied with Andrew Wilson at Chetham’s School of Music, and Rob Buckland and Andy Scott at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she achieved her MMus with Distinction.