BBC Young Musician

And so basically.

After I'd won Young Musician of the Year on the clarinet, I was given a debut recital at the Wigmore Hall for which I knew I wanted to commission someone to write me a new piece.

And I asked Gary at the time and I said, who should I commission? And he just straight away went Gavin.

And I thought, actually, yeah, that's a good idea.

Today I'm in South London, at my home actually, you can hear the birds singing in the background, and I'm expecting a visit from a wonderful young alto sax player called Alex Clarke.

Alex is a fellow lover of bebop so we're going to chat a bit about that about her influences about her entry into the young musician of the year about her all-star quartet and her plans for the future so i'm looking forward to having her around the house

so here we go

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