Waveney Sinfonia Musical Society

Rustam Khanmurzin- Piano

Adrian Brown- Conductor

Rustam Khanmurzin is a rising pianist who is gaining recognition as both a soloist and collaborative artist across Eurasia. He was previously a Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music, and a Young Artist of The Musicians’ Company of the City of London.Rustam has performed at major international festivals, including the El Lied Festival Victoria de los Ángeles, MusicFest Perugia, Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, Rheingau Musik Festival, Oxford Song Festival, St Endellion Festival in Cornwall. He has appeared on Radio France Musique and released two CDs with the Melodiya label. As a soloist, he has worked with several orchestras, such as The Elgar Sinfonia of London, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea, and the Karaganda Philharmonic Orchestra in Kazakhstan.He won 1st Prize at the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition, and also received prizes at the Paul Badura-Skoda International Piano Competition in Vienna, the CLAMO International Piano Competition in Murcia and Asia-Pacific F. Chopin Piano Competition in Daegu.

Adrian Brown’s distinguished career as a conductor is recorded on the Waveney Sinfonia website and Wikipedia.  His work with young musicians brought him the Novello Award for Youth Orchestras at the 1989 Edinburgh Festival. In 2002 he was presented with the Classic FM Award in their Tenth Birthday Honours Celebrations and in 2013 he was awarded the Making Music, Lady Hilary Groves Award for contribution to community music. In his 60^th Birthday Year (2009) Adrian was appointed Music Director of Huntingdonshire Philharmonic. He also had a major success conducting the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra in Vilnius in a nationally-broadcast concert. In 2017 Adrian was presented with the Berlioz International Society Medal for services to the great French composer and the 2018-19 season marked the formation of his own orchestra, the Elgar Sinfonia of London.