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About Sophie

Highly in-demand London-based female saxophonist, specialising in energetic performances of pop, house, and jazz music.

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Sophie is a freelance saxophonist based in London. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a BMus (Hons) in Saxophone Performance in 2019. She takes on regular performances with award-winning function bands, such as 29 Fingers, She's Got Brass, Das Brass, Blue Lion Band, She Music Global, alongside many solo functions too. Sophie also has an accomplished sax and percussion duo, as well as a sax, percussion and vocals trio in addition to her solo work through Encore. If interested in her duo or trio, don't hesitate to enquire now! In addition to her function work, she also takes on regular gigs as a session musician, including playing with the New Purple Celebration on their recent Europe tour. Sophie is featured on comedy trio Sheeps' Christmas album and has performed at their live events, which included playing for comedians Lolly Adefope, Rose Matafeo, Mae Martin, Charlotte Ritchie, Emma Sidi and John Tothill. She has over a decade of professional performing and recording experience, in every genre imaginable - from classical, jungle, afrobeat and pop! Sophie is able to provide a full audio setup for all performances with her own microphones, laptop and PA system, as well as being a wireless roaming saxophonist for performances if required for an additional fee. Notable performances in recent years include: Glastonbury, Wilderness, Boomtown and Shambala festivals 2024 - She's Got Brass Blues Kitchen Residency - She's Got Brass Camp Bestival - Behind The Mask Newbury Racecourse - 29 Fingers Henley Regatta - Sax & Percussion Duo Camp Kindling - Das Brass Silk Road Festival, Barbados - Silk Road Collective Wilderness Festival - Behind The Mask National Theatre River Stage - Berber Diffusion Boomtown Festival - Berber Diffusion Hootananny Brixton - Berber Diffusion The Jago, Dalston - Agmar Band Cymru Affrica Festival - Agmar Band Jam in a Jar - Amadis and the Ambassadors Cote Brasserie - Jazz Brunch Residency Crazy Bear - Beaconsfield - New Years Eve London Jazz Orchestra - Vortex Jazz Club MC Solomon - Behind the Mask UK Tour August-November 2022 Christmas with the Seven Steps Big Band - December 2021, 2022 & 2023 (Im)Possibilities at the London Jazz Festival - Southbank Centre (November 2018, November 2019, November 2021, November 2022) Pride In London - London Musical Theatre Orchestra - Trafalgar Square Stage July 2019

Sophie

5 out of 5

9 verified reviews

Satisfaction

5.0

Professionalism

5.0

Communication

5.0

Punctuality

5.0

Sophie's Reviews

5 out of 5

Sophie was absolutely out of this world, she was everything we wanted and more. Our guests loved her and the way in which she played along with our amazing DJ, interacting with guests - she was perfect. One of the most talented sax players I have ever had the pleasure of watching live and I will be hiring her for every event and party. Could not fault her in anyway, communication was brilliant, speedy responses to everything and played all our favourite songs. Sophie, you made our wedding evening more perfect than we could ever have imagined for and our guests can’t stop talking about you, thank you. X

Reply from Sophie

2 months ago

Thank you so much for your kind words Tiffany, I had such a wonderful time playing at your wedding! You were wonderful clients to work with and I’m so happy you enjoyed it as much as I did!

5 out of 5

Sophie was easy to work with, had a very friendly communication style, she suggested songs for her performance and she was on time. Sophie's performance was amazing, she's very talented.

5 out of 5

Sophie was absolutely brilliant! I hired her as a surprise for my husbands 40th birthday party, she even learnt a custom song for us and we had so many compliments about how amazing she was! She really got the party started! Would 100% hire again and recommend her for any event your are planning :) thank you so much Sophie! x

Reply from Sophie

5 months ago

Thank you so much Maria! Absolutely loved playing for your husband’s 40th, it was great fun! So glad you had a great night ☺️

5 out of 5

Sophie was truly amazing, very polite and very professional. Sophie played at our wedding on the 28th of December 23, it was perfect. Our guests commented on how outstanding she was and it added a beautiful touch too our day. She promptly replied to messages and even learned a new song on request from my wife and sent it to us to hear before our special day. We cant thank you enough for playing at our wedding. Would highly recommend Sophie. Chris & Jo White 🤙

Reply from Sophie

11 months ago

Hi Chris and Jo, It was so wonderful to be a part of your wedding, I absolutely loved playing for you! 😊

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...one of the most exciting young bands performing on the London circuit.

Our wonderful Sophie Burrows visits us every week for an uplifting Jazz session.

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Experienced: 10 bookings through Encore

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Booked for an Encore gig with less than 24 hours’ notice

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This act has been working with Encore for over 8 years

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Sophie's Song list

Chill/Ibiza/Club style:

Ed Sheeran - I See Fire (Kygo remix)

Ed Sheeran & Passenger - No Diggity Vs. Thrift Shop

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Kygo remix)

Kyla La Grange - Cut Your Teeth (Kygo remix)

Glue

Sun Is Shining

World Hold On

Needin U

Don’t Forget My Love

Cold Heart

Solu Music

Changes

So Many Times

Benediction

Head and Heart

Hideaway

Finally

Sonnentanz

Wanna Dance With Somebody

Coldplay - Midnight (Kygo remix)

Jakubi - Can't Afford It All (Kygo Remix)

The XX - Angels (Kygo Edit)

Syn Cole - Miami 82 (Kygo Edit)

James Blake - Limit to Your Love (Kygo Remix)

AHA - Take On Me (Kygo Remix)

Henry Green - Electric Feel (Kygo Remix)

Boney M - Sunny (Dear Pluche Remix)

Kungs vs Cookin’ on Three Burners – This Girl

Kygo & Whitney Houston – Higher Love

Klingande - Jubel

MK - 17

Justin Bieber - Sorry

Flowers (feat. JayKae & MALIKA)

Body - Loud Luxury Feat. Brando

Just Got Paid - Sigala, Ella Eyre & Meghan Trainor Feat. French Montana

More Than Friends - (VIP Mix) - James Hype & Kelli-Leigh

Pump It Up - Endor

21 Reasons

Think About Things

New Rules

...and many more by request!

Pop functions:

Aint No Mountain High Enough

Come and Get Your Love

Crazy In Love

Do Your Thing

Feel For You

Flowers

Gimme Some More

Happy

Heartbroken

I Feel Good

I Like It Like That

Move On Up

Praise You

Next Episode

Sexual Healing

Sweet Dreams

Seven Nation Army

Sweet Like Chocolate

The Preacher

Think About Things

Valerie

This Will Be

9 To 5

500 Miles

Bad Guy

Don't Stop Believin'

Don't Start Now

Get Lucky

I'm A Believer

Johnny B Goode

Juice

King Of The Swingers

Little Lion Man

Livin On A Prayer

I Feel Like a Woman

Play That Funky Music

Proud Mary

River Deep, Mountain High

Sex On Fire

Shut Up and Dance

Summer of 69

Suspicious Minds

Take On Me

Simply The Best

Uptown Funk

Teenage Dirtbag

Sir Duke

Superstition

I Wish

Dancing queen

Mamma Mia

...and many more by request.

Afrobeat:

Monkey Man

Jorge Botafogo

New Blood

Abakwa

Kossa Kossa

Zombie

Surprise Hotel

Comencemos

Water No Get Enemy

River

Gimme Some More

Wejene Aola

Semai Thaqil

Jawa Jawa

Alteleyeshegnem

Bambu

Safari Strut

In The Middle

...and many more by request!

Jazz Standards:

African Flower (Petite Fleur Africaine)

Afro Blue

Afternoon In Paris

Água De Beber (Water To Drink)

Airegin

Alfie

Alice In Wonderland

All Blues

All By Myself

All Of Me

All Of You

All The Things You Are

Alright, Okay, You Win

Always

Ana Maria

Angel Eyes

Anthropology

Apple Honey

April In Paris

April Joy

Arise, Her Eyes

Armageddon

Au Privave

Autumn In New York

Autumn Leaves

Beautiful Love

Beauty And The Beast

Bessie's Blues

Bewitched

Big Nick

Black Coffee

Black Diamond

Black Narcissus

Black Nile

Black Orpheus

Blue Bossa

Blue In Green

Blue Monk

The Blue Room

Blue Train (Blue Trane)

Blues For Alice

Bluesette

Body And Soul

Boplicity (Be Bop Lives)

Bright Size Life

Broad Way Blues

Broadway

But Beautiful

Butterfly

Byrd Like

C'est Si Bon

Call Me

Call Me Irresponsible

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Captain Marvel

Central Park West

Ceora

Chameleon

Chega De Saudade (No More Blues)

Chelsea Bells

Chelsea Bridge

Cherokee (Indian Love Song)

Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White

A Child Is Born

Chippie

Chitlins Con Carne

Come Sunday

Como En Vietnam

Con Alma

Conception

Confirmation

Contemplation

Coral

Cotton Tail

Could It Be You

Countdown

Crescent

Crystal Silence

D Natural Blues

Daahoud

Dancing On The Ceiling

Darn That Dream

Day Waves

Days And Nights Waiting

Dear Old Stockholm

Dearly Beloved

Dedicated To You

Deluge

Desafinado

Desert Air

Detour Ahead

Dexterity

Dizzy Atmosphere

Django

Doin' The Pig

Dolores

Dolphin Dance

Domino Biscuit

Don't Blame Me

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Donna Lee

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Dreamsville

Easter Parade

Easy Living

Easy To Love (You'd Be So Easy To Love)

Ecclusiastics

Eighty One

El Gaucho

Epistrophy

Equinox

Equipoise

E.S.P.

Fall

Falling Grace

Falling In Love With Love

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

A Fine Romance

500 Miles High

502 Blues

Fly Me To The Moon

Follow Your Heart

Footprints

For All We Know

For Heaven's Sake

(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

Forest Flower

Four

Four On Six

Freddie Freeloader

Freedom Jazz Dance

Full House

Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You

Gemini

Giant Steps

The Girl From Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema)

Gloria's Step

God Bless' The Child

Golden Lady

Good Evening Mr. And Mrs. America

Grand Central

The Green Mountains

Groovin' High

Grow Your Own

Guilty

Gypsy In My Soul

Half Nelson

Have You Met Miss Jones?

Heaven

Heebie Jeebies

Hello, Young Lovers

Here's That Rainy Day

Hot Toddy

House Of Jade

How High The Moon

How Insensitive (Insensatez)

How My Heart Sings

Hullo Bolinas

I Can't Get Started

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

I Could Write A Book

I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

I Love Paris

I Love You

I Mean You

I Remember Clifford

I Should Care

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

I'll Never Smile Again

I'll Remember April

I'm All Smiles

I'm Beginning To See The Light

I'm Your Pal

Icarus

If You Never Come To Me (Inutil Paisagem)

Impressions

In A Mellow Tone

In A Sentimental Mood

In The Mood

In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

In Your Quiet Place

The Inch Worm

Indian Lady

Inner Urge

Interplay

The Intrepid Fox

Invitation

Iris

Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)

Isn't It Romantic?

Isotope

Israel

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

It's Easy To Remember

Jelly Roll

Jordu

Journey To Recife

Joy Spring

Juju

Jump Monk

June In January

Just One More Chance

Kelo

Lady Bird

Lady Sings The Blues

Lament

Las Vegas Tango

Lazy Bird

Lazy River

Like Someone In Love

Limehouse Blues

Lines And Spaces

Litha

Little Boat (O Barquinho)

Little Waltz

Long Ago (And Far Away)

Lonnie's Lament

Look To The Sky

Love Is The Sweetest Thing

Lucky Southern

Lullaby Of Birdland

Lush Life

The Magician In You

Mahjong

Maiden Voyage

A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme)

Man In The Green Shirt

Meditation (Meditacao)

Memories Of Tomorrow

Michelle

Midnight Mood

Midwestern Nights Dream

Milano

Minority

Miss Ann

Missouri Uncompromised

Mr. P.C.

Misty

Miyako

Moment's Notice

Mood Indigo

Moonchild

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

My Buddy

My Favorite Things

My Foolish Heart

My Funny Valentine

My One And Only Love

My Romance

My Shining Hour

My Ship

My Way

Mysterious Traveller

Naima (Niema)

Nardis

Nefertiti

Never Will I Marry

Nica's Dream

Night Dreamer

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

A Night In Tunisia

Night Train

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

Nostalgia In Times Square

Nuages

(The Old Man From) The Old Country

Oleo

Oliloqui Valley

Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz) (Love In Peace)

Once In Love With Amy

One Finger Snap

One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)

Only Trust Your Heart

Orbits

Ornithology

Out Of Nowhere

Paper Doll

Passion Dance

Passion Flower

Peace

Peggy's Blue Skylight

Pent Up House

Penthouse Serenade

Peri's Scope

Pfrancing

Pinocchio

Pithecanthropus Erectus

Portsmouth Figurations

Prelude To A Kiss

Prince Of Darkness

P.S. I Love You

Pussy Cat Dues

Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)

Quiet Now

Recorda Me

Red Clay

Reflections

Reincarnation Of A Lovebird

Ring Dem Bells

Road Song

'Round Midnight

Ruby, My Dear

Poem For #15 (The Saga Of Harrison Crabfeathers)

Satin Doll

Scotch And Soda

Scrapple From The Apple

Sea Journey

Seven Come Eleven

Seven Steps To Heaven

Sidewinder

Silver Hollow

Sirabhorn

Skating In Central Park

So Nice (Summer Samba)

So What

Solar

Solitude

Some Day My Prince Will Come

Some Other Spring

Some Skunk Funk

Somebody Loves Me

Sometime Ago

Song For My Father

The Song Is You

Sophisticated Lady

The Sorcerer

Speak No Evil

The Sphinx

Standing On The Corner

The Star-Crossed Lovers

Stella By Starlight

Steps

Stolen Moments

Stompin' At The Savoy

Straight No Chaser

A String Of Pearls

Stuff

Sugar

A Sunday Kind Of Love

The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

Swedish Pastry

Sweet Georgia Bright

Sweet Henry

Take Five

Take The “A” Train

Tame Thy Pen

Tell Me A Bedtime Story

Thanks For The Memory

That's Amore (That's Love)

(There Is) No Greater Love

There Will Never Be Another You

There'll Be Some Changes Made

They Didn't Believe Me

Think On Me

Thou Swell

Three Flowers

Time Remembered

Tones For Joan's Bones

Topsy

Tour De Force

Triste

Tune Up

Turn Out The Stars

Twisted Blues

Unchain My Heart

Unity Village

Unquity Road

Up Jumped Spring

Upper Manhattan Medical Group (UMMG)

Valse Hot

Very Early

Virgo

Wait Till You See Her

Waltz For Debby

Wave

We'll Be Together Again

Well You Needn't (It's Over Now)

West Coast Blues

What Am I Here For?

What Was

When I Fall In Love

When Sunny Gets Blue

When You Wish Upon A Star

Whispering

Wild Flower

Windows

Witch Hunt

Wives And Lovers (Hey, Little Girl)

Woodchopper's Ball

Woodyn' You

The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

Yes And No

Yesterday

Yesterdays

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

You Are Too Beautiful

You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

You Don't Know What Love Is

You Took Advantage Of Me

You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You

Young At Heart

...and many more by request.

Example set list:

Get Happy

My Favourite Things

Now's The Time

Billie's Bounce

Lady Be Good

Someone To Watch Over Me

Take Five

Take The A Train

Tenor Madness

Watermelon Man

Have You Met Miss Jones

My Romance

In a Sentimental Mood

Someday My Prince Will Come

Summertime

On Green Dolphin Street

Well You Needn't

Fly Me To The Moon

Sophie's Prices

Last updated: 2024

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Performance duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£100
Up to 1 hour	£300
Up to 2 hours	£350
Up to 3 hours	£440

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

I always cater specifically to each event I play at - I will go the extra mile to provide a personalised set list for each client, as well as a local discount to those based in Walthamstow.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre, Vortex Jazz Club, Pizza Express Soho, Omnibus Theatre Clapham, Pride In London Trafalgar Square Stage, Windsor Castle, Stockwell Theatre, Kings Place

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Snarky Puppy, Forq, Foo Fighters, John Harle, The Beatles, Progger, Jacob Collier

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

Pride In London on the Trafalgar Square main stage.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

I always try my best to accommodate changes in timings - as long as I am made aware with enough advance notice changes in timing should be no problem.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

Yes.

How much time do you need to set up?

Depending on what I am playing - I take between 5 minutes to 15 minutes to set up saxophones/microphones/stands. If a soundcheck is required I will need an hour or so before the performance time if possible.

Can I pick the songs you play from the set list?

I can adjust my set list to suit your preferences!

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

Yes - I can bring instruments, PA system and microphones. I will need access to a mains plug socket for this.

Can you learn song requests before the event?

Yes - I can take on up to three song requests to be included in the fee, any more than this and I would charge an additional £30 per song for the extra time spent rehearsing and finding tracks for the songs.

Musicianship

Genres:

Pop, Ibiza club, Jazz, Classical, Musical theatre, Classical crossover, Blues, Cabaret, Dixieland, Latin jazz, Jazz fusion, Modern jazz, Swing, Funk, Funk rock, Motown, Soul, R&B, Baroque, Contemporary classical, Gospel, Acoustic, Covers, Rock, Pop rock, Rock 'n' Roll, Ragtime, Ambient, Electronic, Film / TV music, Folk, Easy listening, Experimental, Light music, Ambient pop, Disco, Vintage, House, Jungle, Electro-Swing, 1930s era music, 1940s era music, 1950s era music, 1920s era music, 1990s era music, 1980s era music, 1970s era music, 1960s era music, Postmodern jukebox jazz, Hip Hop, Top 40, Alternative rock, Afrobeat, Bossa nova, Samba, Drum 'n' Bass, EDM, Garage, Tribute, Classic rock, Indie, Synth rock, World music, Arabic, African music, Asian music, Bavarian oompah, Caribbean music, Indian music, Jewish music, Klezmer, Latin, Reggae, Salsa, Ska, South Asian fusion, South Asian music

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Instruments:

Saxophone, Baritone saxophone, Alto saxophone, Tenor saxophone, Soprano saxophone, Clarinet, Percussion

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Event types:

Bar / Club / Venue event, Church service, Wedding, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Private event, Corporate event, Concert, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Burns night, Birthday party, Christmas party, Virtual event, New Year's Eve

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