The Sanctuary Project is a unique collaboration of saxophone, organ, voice and percussion established by Christian Forshaw in 1996. The music takes it's inspiration from church music with original works by Forshaw alongside his arrangements of traditional hymns. The debut album entitled Sanctuary was released in 2004 on independent label Quartz and reached a worldwide audience

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ed three albums with the Sanctuary ensemble; Sanctuary QTZ2009 (2004), Renouncement ING1001 (2007) and Midwinter ING1003 (2008). Tracks from the albums are played regularly on Classic FM and BBC Radio 2 and have also been used on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC TV (BBC 1). Mortal Flesh from Sanctuary was nominated for the 2005 Classical Brits and both Sanctuary and Renouncement reached the top 5 in the Amazon Classical Charts.

The Sanctuary Ensemble have performed throughout the UK at venues including Southwell Minster, Bristol Cathedral, St John’s College Chapel (Cambridge), St Martin-in-the-Fields (London), and the Royal Northern College of Music.

Forshaw is currently working on a new album which will be released in 2012. He is performing the new material around the UK this year - visit www.ChristianForshaw.com for forthcoming performances Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.