Gerard McChrystal is an Irish saxophonist. To date he has performed in over 30 countries including London's Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Opera House and Suttgart Stattshalle.

Hear Gerard perform on demonFM on Thursday 25th June at 8pm-9pm. Go to www.demonfm.co.uk and you can listen online.

He will be performing in Portugal twice this year.He performed in Aveiro in April. In July he will perform the Michael Ball Saxophone concerto with The Portugese Navy Band at the International Festival of Saxophone de Palmela, Portugal and collaborate again with the Quad Quartet.

FISP 2009

June sees Gerard give masterclasses and examine at The Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music, London and Leeds College of Music.

Gerard has won a Creative Leicestershire Bursary to develop his new solo saxophone project Standup for 2009. Go to the projects page for more information.

Click below for a flyer for the ever popular Summer saxes course at Benslow, Hitchin, Herts June 19th-21st.

 Benslow Summer saxes

He is featured in a new book called City of Music - Derry's Music Heritage published by Guildhall Press. For more information please click the link below.

City of Music

Gerard will give a week of masterclsses at LMFL in July 09. Book soon as the course is nearly full.

LMFL

The performance with Philip Glass in July was an 800 sell-out. Pictures are in the Gallery. Also in the Gallery section are pics of of his trip to Poland in March 2008 and his Irish tour with The Smith Quartet. Pictures are also online of his recent collaboration with the Quad Quartet in Portugal.

His CD of Greg Caffrey's new work Honk! with pianist Mary Dullea has been released on the CMC label, Dublin. The recording is featured on a promotional video Honk!

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Gerard is now on MySpace. Why not visit Gerard's MySpace profile?