Meet the Members
Louisa Kataria
Soprano Saxophone
Louisa Kataria is a versatile saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist with a dynamic career across classical, musical theatre, contemporary, and commercial music.
A classically trained performer, she regularly gives solo performances and appears as a chamber musician with her multi-instrumental quartet, Versa Winds. Louisa has played with organisations such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the English National Opera, the Royal Opera and Ballet, Pegasus Opera Company, and for Tête-à-Tête productions.
In demand as a woodwind ‘trebler’, Louisa debuted in the West End with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra in 2022 and was the chairholder on White Christmas (The Mill at Sonning) from Nov 2024-Jan2025. Other Musical Theatre credits include Cinderella (Hackney Empire, 2025) Hairspray, Anything Goes, Merrily We Roll Along, Sister Act, and Curtains. She was a regular member of the RCM Jazz Orchestra and later lead clarinet for Lewes Big Band, and has had commercial bookings ranging from televised events at OVO Wembley Arena to the red carpet at World Vogue.
A passionate educator, Louisa has recently given classes at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Saffron Centre for Young Musicians, and has tutored all 3 of her instruments on LMTO’s outreach programme Upbeat. In July 2025, Louisa joined Hold the Drama on clarinet for their Bradford Tour, touring their non-verbal mental-health themed show to 9 different audiences in one week. Louisa supports the Opera Holland Park’s Youth Chorus in their weekly rehearsals.
Louisa’s musical training began as a chorister of St Albans’ Cathedral. Later, studied as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she learned saxophone with Martin Robertson, clarinet with Janet Hilton, and jazz flute with Andy Panayi. Louisa graduated from her bachelor’s degree in 2023 with First Class Honours.
Lydia Cochrane
Alto Saxophone
Lydia Cochrane is a saxophonist and multi instrumentalist who recently graduated from the Royal College of Music with first class honours.
She is passionate about jazz, funk, folk, and classical music and how these disciplines can intertwine to create new sounds and spaces to explore - she is eternally inspired by her frequent playing with a ceilidh band and takes this into her other groups, exploring the fusion of trad folk with rhythmic music.
A few recent highlights include playing at Cadogan Hall with Lisa Simone, with her quartet at the Pride of Britain Awards, Ronnie Scott's, the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Southbank Centre, the Natural History Museum, La Sagrada Familia, Latitude festival, and has toured with Nikki Yeoh, Tommy Blaize, Steamdown, and played at the Young Euro Classics festival in Berlin with NYJO. She recently played in Yolanda Brown’s band at the Kings Cross Sounds Festival.
Lydia especially values the chance to share music in many different settings, from concert halls to classrooms, aiming to connect with people through sound and story.
Rosemary Ball
Tenor Saxophone
Rosemary Ball is an undergraduate student at the Royal College of Music (2022-26) studying under Kyle Horch as a Robert Sutherland Award Holder supported by the Musician’s company Lambert Scholarship.
She has a range of experience performing classical, jazz and contemporary music in prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Barbican Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Windsor Castle. Rosemary enjoys playing with chamber ensembles such as the Astral saxophone quartet, Versa Winds, the Risoluto quartet and the RCM jazz quartet who recently performed for King Charles and community music makers across the UK.
In 2022, Rosemary won first prize in the Greek International Saxophone Festival competition and since then has enjoyed giving solo performances in the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar room and on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune programme. Rosemary is also a passionate educator and has provided group jazz workshops to primary schools in London and composition workshops to young musicians in Antigua and Barbuda. She was recently an assistant tutor for the National Youth Orchestra of GB’s saxophone ensemble and teaches at the RCM’s Junior Department.
Robert Burton
Baritone Saxophone
London-based saxophonist and artist Rob Burton won the Woodwind Category Final of BBC Young Musician 2018 and went on to secure a place in the Grand Final at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, where he performed as concerto soloist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights since then include appearances as soloist with some of the UK’s leading orchestras, such as Britten Sinfonia and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as well as at prestigious international festivals, including Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Leicester, Cheltenham, Harrogate, and Oundle International Festivals. Featured as one of Classic FM’s “Rising Stars 2024: 30 under 30”, he has performed in prestigious London venues, namely Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, St. James’ Piccadilly, Buckingham Palace, and Windsor Castle.
Rob previously studied Classical Saxophone on a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music with Huw Wiggin, his master’s degree at the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music on the prestigious Advanced Diploma degree, as the first ever saxophonist on this course.
Selected as a 2022 Rahn Kulturfonds scholarship winner and ‘Making Music UK' artist, Rob is a current recitalist on the Countess of Munster scheme, as well as being both a Vandoren UK and Yamaha Europe artist.