Music Adjudicators 2026
Yvette Bonner | ARAM
Soprano & Singing Professor
Voice Adjudicator
Emma Crossley
Violinist & Educator
Strings Adjudicator
Elena Riu
Pianist | Yogini-Artist | Author
Piano Adjudicator
Philippa Davies
Flautist
Woodwind Adjudicator
Music Adjudicators 2025
Emma Crossley Violinist & Educator
Strings Adjudicator
Neysun Rouhani Pianist & Pedagogue
Piano Adjudicator
Kirsty McLean Soprano
Vocal Adjudicator
Cassandra Mathews Classical Guitarist
Guitar Adjudicator
MUSIC ADJUDICATORS 2024
Yvette Bonner | ARAM
Vocal Adjudicator 2023 & 2024
Juliet Hughes-Rees
Violin Adjudicator 2023 & 2024
Yekaterina Lebedeva
Piano Adjudicator 2024
Piano Adjudicator 2023
Rustam Khanmurzin
Rustam Khanmurzin is a Young Artist of The Musicians’ Company and the Oxford Lieder Festival, a former Constant and Kit Lambert Junior Fellow at Royal College of Music. Rustam appeared in a number of festivals with solo, chamber and concerto programmes all across Eurasia, including Festival Auvers-sur-Oise and Rheingau Musik, hosted by such venues as Queen Elizabeth Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, Tate Modern, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Moscow International Performing Arts Centre and Daegu Concert House.
His awards include 1st Prize at RCM Concerto Competition 2019 (London), 3rd Prize at Clamo International Piano Competition (Spain) and 2nd Prize at Asia-Pacific Chopin Piano Competition (South Korea). In 2015 he was awarded PianoForum Magazine Award for the interpretation of the 2nd Piano Concerto by F. Chopin at “Virtuoso-2015” Festival in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory. In 2013 the Melodiya Lable launched Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers with Rustam’s recordings of pieces by Tchaikovsky, as well as Rachmaninoff: Transcriptions for Flute and Piano was released in 2020.
Awards
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1st Prize: Medal & Invitation to Winners’ Gala
2nd Prize: Medal and Certificate
3rd Prize: Medal and Certificate
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1st Prize: Cash Prize of £180 & Invitation to Winners’ Gala
2nd Prize: Medal and Certificate
3rd Prize: Medal and Certificate
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1st Prize: £200 & invitation to the Winners’ Gala
2nd Prize: Medal & Certificate
3rd Prize: Medal & Certificate
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1st Prize: Ages 17 – 18: £150
1st Prize: Ages 14 - 16: £100
1st Prize: Ages 11 – 13: £75
1st Prize: Ages 8 - 10: £55
1st Prize: Ages 6 - 7 : £40
1st Prize: Ages 4 - 5 - £25
2nd Prize: Medal and Certificate
3rd Prize: Medal and Certificate
All 1st Prize winners will be invited to the Winners’ Gala
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All participants will receive a ‘Certificate of Participation’ and a report sheet from the Adjudicator with their marks.