John Harle is an Ivor Novello award-winning composer, saxophonist, record producer and educator whose work spans across musical genres from classical to contemporary pop. John is the composer of operas, around fifty concert works and over 100 film and TV scores including the theme to BBC1's Silent Witness. He is the recipient of an Ivor Novello award and two Royal Television Society awards for Best Music. His recent 20-album release, The John Harle Collection is in aid of the Help Musicians Coronavirus Hardship Fund, and consists of mainly unreleased archive recordings of compositions and performances from 1977-2020. John has collaborated with with jazz artists such as Herbie Hancock and Andy Sheppard. John was lead saxophonist with the Michael Nyman Band and was musical advisor and producer to Sir Paul McCartney for six years. Other major collaborations are with Elvis Costello and Marc Almond. As a saxophonist, his early work gained public acclaim with his Saxophone Concertos album (EMI Classics) which is widely seen as the definitive recording of the major classical works. John was appointed the youngest ever Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the age of 26, and his teaching has produced many of the leading players of today, including current Decca artist Jess Gillam. At Guildhall, he is currently Director of the Leadership Academy, Professor of Music & Interdisciplinary Practice and Professor of Saxophone.