Jonathan Radford (saxophone) and Eleanor Kornas (piano)

Praised for his “exceptional musicianship and emotive playing", saxophonist Jonathan Radford is the 2018 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition Gold Medalist and first prize winner. He is currently a Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist with Making Music, a Park Lane Group Young Artist, a Tunnell Trust Artist and a Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme Artist. He is featured as a Rising Star in the August 2018 BBC Music Magazine.

Born in 1990, Jonathan studied at Chetham’s Schools of Music and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Claude Delangle, graduating in 2017 with Masters degrees in both saxophone and chamber music with distinction. He recently graduated from the prestigious Artist Diploma course at the Royal College of Music, London with Kyle Horch where he was the Mills Williams Junior Fellow 2017-18.

Eleanor is currently the Head of Keyboard at Queen Margaret’s School, near York. Eleanor combines her job at Queen Margaret’s with other professional engagements and is currently supported as a chamber musician by the Tunnell Trust and Park Lane Group. Recent concert highlights include performing Stravinsky’s Les Noces under the direction of Vasily Petrenko at the Royal Festival Hall and duo performances at the Wigmore Hall, St James, Piccadilly, and the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room.