Hailing from a farming family in Cambridgeshire, Award Winning 18-year old saxophonist Rob Burton is a Woodwind Category Finalist in BBC Young musician 2018. He attended Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon where he took A Levels in Music, Music Technology and Fine Art. First beginning music at the age of 5, he has achieved grade 8 distinction on clarinet, piano, recorder and saxophone; the latter he started at the age of 9.
In 2012, Rob started studying classical saxophone at the Junior Guildhall School of Music, where he was Sax,co,uk scholarship holder -under the tutelage of Paul Stevens and later Derek Hannigan for clarinet. Rob was a finalist in Junior Guildhall's most prestigious competition, the 'Lutine Prize' for 3 consecutive years.
He is now in his first year studying Classical Saxophone at The Royal Academy of Music under Simon Haram and Huw Wiggin.
Rob has won titles of Wellingborough Young Musician of the Year, Oundle Young Musician of the Year and was also a National Finalist in the Rotary Young Musician of the Year 2016 and highly commended in the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain's saxophone composition prize. Already having been a soloist with Huntingdon Philharmonic and the Bromley Symphony Orchestras, he'll be performing the Glazunov saxophone concerto in July after winning the Silk Street Sinfonia Young Artists concerto competition. Despite loving solo playing, he enjoys playing in his saxophone quartet 'Kumori Quartet' and his reed quintet. He has played with Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, the Academy Symphony Orchestra and was principal saxophone with the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain.
