Gallery

Elisabeth Lutyens introducing Robert Saxton to Herbert Howells, Westminster Abbey

Oliver Knussen, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Saxton

Arnold Wesker and Robert Saxton discussing Caritas at Arnold Wesker’s house in Wales

Mstislav Rostropovich and Robert Saxton with the LSO following the world premiere of Robert’s Cello Concerto, conducted by Oliver Knussen

Photoshoot with Simon Bainbridge for BBC Music magazine

With Sir Michael Tippett on a walk near his home in Wiltshire

Peter Maxwell Davies receiving his Hon D Mus at Oxford University

Robert with Sir Michael Tippett and Sir Henry Wood, BBC Proms 1984. Oldest and youngest featured composers.

With Witold Lutosławski at a GSMD Reception

Outreach work

Robert lecturing on a Music and Maths course at Oxford University, directed by Robin Wilson, Keble College

Teresa Cahill, soprano, and Christopher Austin, conductor, rehearsing Robert’s opera ‘Caritas’ at St Georges Bristol

Composition competition jury in Arezzo (Italy): Goffredo Petrassi, Chair (at head of table); Salvatore Sciarrino back right, Ferenc Farkas, Ligeti’s teacher, second from right; Robert Saxton back left.