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

    • 1st Prize: Medal & Invitation to Winners’ Gala

    • 2nd Prize: Medal and Certificate

    • 3rd Prize: Medal and Certificate

    • 1st Prize: Cash Prize of £180 & Invitation to Winners’ Gala

    • 2nd Prize: Medal and Certificate

    • 3rd Prize: Medal and Certificate

  • 1st Prize: £200 & invitation to the Winners’ Gala

    2nd Prize: Medal & Certificate

    3rd Prize: Medal & Certificate

    • 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

    • All participants will receive a ‘Certificate of Participation’ and a report sheet from the Adjudicator with their marks.