Alan Brind
Alan was born and brought up in Hethersett and his parents still live in the village.
In 1986 at the age of 17, Alan won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition performing Sibelius's Violin Concerto.
He studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music but seriously considered snooker as a possible alternative career. He studied with Viktoria Mullova, with whom he had a relationship and which bore him a daughter, Katia. Alan became leader of the European Union Youth Orchestra and has won many competitions including the BBC Young Musician of the Year, the Boomsma Award and the David Martin Concerto Prize.
He has appeared as soloist with the London Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Chamber, BBC Philharmonic, Hilversum Radio, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, English Chamber, Ulster, and Scottish Chamber orchestras. He has recorded the Sibelius Concerto and the Chausson Poeme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Bach and Stravinsky chamber music for Philips and Decca.
Alan was born and brought up in Hethersett and his parents still live in the village.
In 1986 at the age of 17, Alan won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition performing Sibelius's Violin Concerto.
He studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music but seriously considered snooker as a possible alternative career. He studied with Viktoria Mullova, with whom he had a relationship and which bore him a daughter, Katia. Alan became leader of the European Union Youth Orchestra and has won many competitions including the BBC Young Musician of the Year, the Boomsma Award and the David Martin Concerto Prize.
He has appeared as soloist with the London Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Chamber, BBC Philharmonic, Hilversum Radio, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, English Chamber, Ulster, and Scottish Chamber orchestras. He has recorded the Sibelius Concerto and the Chausson Poeme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Bach and Stravinsky chamber music for Philips and Decca.