Christian Forshaw

Saxophonist Christian Forshaw is one of Britain's top composer-performers. He is also a noted educator. Forshaw was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and grew up there. At first, he played the clarinet because, he was told the clarinet was a classical instrument and the saxophone pertained to jazz. Also, he encountered the attitude that a musician needed to play the clarinet before taking up the saxophone, an idea he calls completely misinformed. When he was 19, Forshaw moved to London to enter the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. At around this time, he had several key for...