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Katia Beaugeais is an Australian-French composer and saxophonist based in Sydney. She is a Selmer Sax and Vandoren Paris Artist.
Beaugeais won the prestigious International Society for Contemporary Music Young Composer Award. Her solo saxophone and string orchestra music were the main theme tunes for ABC Breakfast radio and ABC New Waves four years in a row.

In celebration of 2026 International Women's Day, Beaugeais was invited as guest composer and saxophonist by the Conservatoire de Lille in France and Sax Professors Grégory Letombe, Frédéric Basquin and Selmer Paris Saxophones, to give a saxophone masterclass and her sax orchestra and chamber music was premiered by both staff and students of the Conservatoire.

She was the featured composer in BBC Radio's exclusive playlist and the Melbourne Youth Orchestra with Australian conductor Brett Kelly premiered Forest Bathing (2025) for string orchestra and percussion. Beaugeais' latest saxophone orchestra piece Elise Hall - We Thank You! received its world premiere by an all-women saxophone orchestra at the Paris International Elise Hall Festival directed by French saxophonist Professor Nicolas Prost - which made the front cover of UK's prestigious Clarinet and Saxophone Society magazine and Association Française des Saxophonistes - and was also performed by ten other countries.

In August 2026, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra premiered Beaugeais' Piano Concerto No. 1: Bells of Time with soloist Stefan Cassomenos and international guest conductor Keitaro Harada at the Adelaide Town Hall, followed by the Melbourne Youth Orchestra with conductor Leonard Weiss.

Beaugeais' music is regularly performed worldwide. Highlights include:
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Colonel Higuchi and the prestigious Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, Elise Hall Saxophone Orchestra in Paris, Thailand International Double Reeds Festival, London's Royal College of Music Saxophone Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Boulevard des Productions French TV, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Biennale, Texas Woman's University Wind Symphony, Scotland, France, Croatia and Las Palmas World Sax Congress, NASA Sax Congress, University of South Carolina, Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton, Royal Australian Navy Band, and her own 40 min. saxophone concerto performed by Beaugeais herself and recorded by ABC.

ABC Classic album releases include: Beaugeais' ABC saxophone album, Breath by Breath, named after her circular breathing soprano sax piece, 3 Women of Note CDs, Best of Australian Classical Music, UK Women Composers' International Global Forum, Australian Chamber Orchestra's worldwide playlist celebrating "incredible female artists", selected out of 350 submissions for USA's String National Conference, and her guest articles on circular breathing and Elise Hall were the Front Cover and "Single Reed Doctor" features in the Clarinet and Saxophone of Great Britain magazine.

In 2021, Katia Beaugeais graduated with a PhD in Composition on the dual role of a composer-performer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Katia Beaugeais — current to August 2026