Apollo Saxophone Quartet

🎬🐰 Ever seen Looney Tunes with a LIVE soundtrack?

This Saturday, four of Britain's finest saxophonists will perform the music live as classic cartoons are projected on screen.

Expect laughs, virtuoso musicianship, and a night unlike anything else on the Wirral this summer.

“A unique virtuoso banquet”
Classical Music Magazine

“The Quartet’s ensemble of Saxophone registers sounded as tight as fingers in a fist”
The Independent

The incredible Apollo Saxophone Quartet present a festival debut like no other. In a programme packed with innovative commissions that showcase the groups virtuosity, versatility and charisma, the ASQ then push boundaries even further by performing live soundtracks to screen. Grab your chance to hear these four gurus of the saxophone bring a whole new layer of energy and humour to Looney Tunes classic cartoons.

Unmissable.

Programme to include:
Merry Melodies, Silly Symphonies & Looney Tunes Live music with Black and White Cartoons from the 30’s and 40’s
As well as...
Claire Cope Trapped
Dani Howard Neverland
Grace-Evangeline Mason In the Fragrant Air
Django Bates Travel Cartoons for the Blind
...and more.

Tickets:
Adults £27 /£22
Children FREE
Maximum of 2 children per adult ticket

Doors and bar open 7pm. Free on-street parking available nearby. Wheelchair accessible.

Want discounted front row seats? Get closer to the music and musicians by becoming a Friend of the Festival 2026. Learn how here. Once a member, you will receive a code unlocking premium seating at the standard price.

This event is generously sponsored by The Arts Society Wirral

About the ASQ
The Apollo Saxophone Quartet has been at the forefront of the UK contemporary music scene for forty years now, and has without doubt made the largest single contribution to the repertoire for Saxophone Quartet in the UK, commissioning and premiering well over one hundred works, many of which are now considered core repertoire and are performed by Saxophone Quartets worldwide. The group has devised several highly successful collaborative projects, including a hugely popular and successful series of original scores to black and white film, and performance projects with poet, dancers, multi-media and strings. The quartet has recorded nine CDs of commissioned repertoire to date, including a DECCA (Argo) CD that topped at no.3 in the UK classical charts, and their latest release CONTINUUM, released in May 2024 in the lead up to the groups 40th anniversary in 2025. Formed in 1985 at the RNCM, where they became the first group to receive Distinction in the college’s Professional Performance Diploma (the RNCM’s highest honour at the time), the quartet went on to achieve competition success in the Royal Over-Seas League Chamber Music Competition, Park Lane Group Competition, Tunnell Trust Young Artists Scheme, Countess of Munster, Tillet Trust in the UK and the Erasmus Concours in Holland, culminating in First Prize and Outstanding Performance Award at the 1992 Tokyo International Chamber Music Competition.