Sarah Watts
@sarahkwatts.bsky.social
Clarinet, Basset Horn, Bass Clarinet and Contra (Beast) Clarinet.
Bass clarinet in a cooling tower = most inspiring project ever!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Di...
Links to story, interview and another piece by Elizabeth Kelly in comments!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Di...
Links to story, interview and another piece by Elizabeth Kelly in comments!
1st Musical Performance in Ratcliffe-on-Trent Cooling Tower: 'It’s All I’ve Known' by Sarah Watts
YouTube video by University of Nottingham
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November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Bass clarinet in a cooling tower = most inspiring project ever!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Di...
Links to story, interview and another piece by Elizabeth Kelly in comments!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Di...
Links to story, interview and another piece by Elizabeth Kelly in comments!
I also arranged Florence Price’s Nobody Has Known The Trouble I’ve Seen for 4bcl + 1cbcl.
Premiered at Lowfest and Published by Alea Publishing.
youtu.be/gjLbmtCclMA?...
Premiered at Lowfest and Published by Alea Publishing.
youtu.be/gjLbmtCclMA?...
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, bass clarinet choir, Low Clarinet Festival 2025
YouTube video by Jason Alder
youtu.be
February 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I also arranged Florence Price’s Nobody Has Known The Trouble I’ve Seen for 4bcl + 1cbcl.
Premiered at Lowfest and Published by Alea Publishing.
youtu.be/gjLbmtCclMA?...
Premiered at Lowfest and Published by Alea Publishing.
youtu.be/gjLbmtCclMA?...
The most fun I’ve had with my low clarinet buddies in a long time! Lowfest 2025
Thank you to the incredible Matthew Banks for this arrangement, my contralto part and for his awesome alto clarinet playing.
Volume up all … happy Friday!
youtu.be/kz89eIBsDUI?...
Thank you to the incredible Matthew Banks for this arrangement, my contralto part and for his awesome alto clarinet playing.
Volume up all … happy Friday!
youtu.be/kz89eIBsDUI?...
Better Get it in Your Soul- Charles Mingus, bass clarinet choir, Low Clarinet Festival 2025
YouTube video by Jason Alder
youtu.be
February 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most fun I’ve had with my low clarinet buddies in a long time! Lowfest 2025
Thank you to the incredible Matthew Banks for this arrangement, my contralto part and for his awesome alto clarinet playing.
Volume up all … happy Friday!
youtu.be/kz89eIBsDUI?...
Thank you to the incredible Matthew Banks for this arrangement, my contralto part and for his awesome alto clarinet playing.
Volume up all … happy Friday!
youtu.be/kz89eIBsDUI?...
Listening and selecting takes for my new album. I’m on bass clarinet, with Kim Davenport playing piano. Florence Price songs today. Keep a look out for some taster videos coming up too!
January 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Listening and selecting takes for my new album. I’m on bass clarinet, with Kim Davenport playing piano. Florence Price songs today. Keep a look out for some taster videos coming up too!
Reposted by Sarah Watts
You can try and exclude us, but we will always support each other. With every knock we will get back up, and with bruised resolve we will carry on. We will not go away, or stay hidden and silent.
youtu.be/KnfzmBPQLkw?...
Counterweight by Ailís Ní Ríain. Contrabass Clarinet - Sarah Watts
YouTube video by Sarah Watts
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You can try and exclude us, but we will always support each other. With every knock we will get back up, and with bruised resolve we will carry on. We will not go away, or stay hidden and silent.
youtu.be/KnfzmBPQLkw?...
You can try and exclude us, but we will always support each other. With every knock we will get back up, and with bruised resolve we will carry on. We will not go away, or stay hidden and silent.
youtu.be/KnfzmBPQLkw?...
Counterweight by Ailís Ní Ríain. Contrabass Clarinet - Sarah Watts
YouTube video by Sarah Watts
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You can try and exclude us, but we will always support each other. With every knock we will get back up, and with bruised resolve we will carry on. We will not go away, or stay hidden and silent.
youtu.be/KnfzmBPQLkw?...
Reposted by Sarah Watts
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
I’ve also been in Tacoma recording a new album of music for bass clarinet and piano by black composers with pianist Kim Davenport. We also performed all the music post recording.
Watch this spot for release details . Music by David N Baker, Florence Price, S Coleridge Taylor and Malcom Solomon
Watch this spot for release details . Music by David N Baker, Florence Price, S Coleridge Taylor and Malcom Solomon
January 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I’ve also been in Tacoma recording a new album of music for bass clarinet and piano by black composers with pianist Kim Davenport. We also performed all the music post recording.
Watch this spot for release details . Music by David N Baker, Florence Price, S Coleridge Taylor and Malcom Solomon
Watch this spot for release details . Music by David N Baker, Florence Price, S Coleridge Taylor and Malcom Solomon
It’s been a busy two weeks … I’m just back from a USA trip where I performed at Low Clarinet Fest and had a bit of fun too!
January 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It’s been a busy two weeks … I’m just back from a USA trip where I performed at Low Clarinet Fest and had a bit of fun too!
Who wants to play bass clarinet in Cyprus this April?
I’ll be holding a short course there with two incredible colleagues!
www.sarahkwatts.co.uk/cyprus-bass-...
I’ll be holding a short course there with two incredible colleagues!
www.sarahkwatts.co.uk/cyprus-bass-...
January 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Who wants to play bass clarinet in Cyprus this April?
I’ll be holding a short course there with two incredible colleagues!
www.sarahkwatts.co.uk/cyprus-bass-...
I’ll be holding a short course there with two incredible colleagues!
www.sarahkwatts.co.uk/cyprus-bass-...
Really enjoyable concert with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble in Sheffield last night. I was also able to give the UK Premiere of Counterweight by Ailís Ní Ríain.
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Really enjoyable concert with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble in Sheffield last night. I was also able to give the UK Premiere of Counterweight by Ailís Ní Ríain.
Heading back to Sheffield after playing at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble.
Concert in Firth Hall at 7:30 this evening: performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/hard-r...
Concert in Firth Hall at 7:30 this evening: performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/hard-r...
November 20, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Heading back to Sheffield after playing at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble.
Concert in Firth Hall at 7:30 this evening: performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/hard-r...
Concert in Firth Hall at 7:30 this evening: performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/hard-r...
Lovely to be back with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble today in Belfast. Playing in Huddersfield and Sheffield this week.
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Lovely to be back with Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble today in Belfast. Playing in Huddersfield and Sheffield this week.
An excellent breakfast to start the day before rehearsals and a concert! (French Village, Belfast).
November 17, 2024 at 10:53 AM
An excellent breakfast to start the day before rehearsals and a concert! (French Village, Belfast).
Reposted by Sarah Watts
Statement from the RMA:
November 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Statement from the RMA:
I love working with words and collaborated with Jon Iles on Dracula Bite Size. Jon adapted the script and I wrote the music. We’ve performed this quite a few times live and our album is on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/5Yv2D4...
open.spotify.com/album/5Yv2D4...
Dracula Bite Size
Sarah Watts · Album · 2022 · 18 songs
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I love working with words and collaborated with Jon Iles on Dracula Bite Size. Jon adapted the script and I wrote the music. We’ve performed this quite a few times live and our album is on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/5Yv2D4...
open.spotify.com/album/5Yv2D4...
I’m loving transcribing songs at the moment and have a couple of projects coming together including recording Coleridge-Taylor’s Sorrow Songs and music by black composers in January with Kim Davenport.
youtu.be/eYz-UF2JGxo?...
youtu.be/eYz-UF2JGxo?...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Sorrow Songs Op.57
YouTube video by BassClarinetOrg
youtu.be
November 14, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I’m loving transcribing songs at the moment and have a couple of projects coming together including recording Coleridge-Taylor’s Sorrow Songs and music by black composers in January with Kim Davenport.
youtu.be/eYz-UF2JGxo?...
youtu.be/eYz-UF2JGxo?...
Reposted by Sarah Watts
The Guardian announces they're leaving Twitter (X)
“This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism"
“This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism"
November 13, 2024 at 7:26 PM
The Guardian announces they're leaving Twitter (X)
“This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism"
“This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism"
I specialise in low clarinets. This is a piece I recently wrote. From Under The Sky The Sound Rises was recorded in Canada House that is the new home of Harmony Works in Sheffield.
Hope that you enjoy.
youtu.be/3Nl25jUJgqo?...
Hope that you enjoy.
youtu.be/3Nl25jUJgqo?...
From Under The Sky The Sound Rises. Contrabass Clarinet - Sarah Watts
YouTube video by Sarah Watts
youtu.be
November 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
I specialise in low clarinets. This is a piece I recently wrote. From Under The Sky The Sound Rises was recorded in Canada House that is the new home of Harmony Works in Sheffield.
Hope that you enjoy.
youtu.be/3Nl25jUJgqo?...
Hope that you enjoy.
youtu.be/3Nl25jUJgqo?...
Goodbye X! Hello Bluesky.
Looking forward to connecting with lots of music colleagues.
The more low clarinets in my feed the better! 🙂
Looking forward to connecting with lots of music colleagues.
The more low clarinets in my feed the better! 🙂
November 13, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Goodbye X! Hello Bluesky.
Looking forward to connecting with lots of music colleagues.
The more low clarinets in my feed the better! 🙂
Looking forward to connecting with lots of music colleagues.
The more low clarinets in my feed the better! 🙂