Recital: Sasha Canter – trumpet Rustam Khanmurzin – piano

The Programme

Sasha Canter – trumpet
Rustam Khanmurzin – piano

Cantabile and Scherzetto for Trumpet and Piano

Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, S.447
(after Richard Wagner) for Piano solo

Trumpet Concerto for Trumpet and Piano

The Artists

Sasha Canter comes from Oxfordshire and has been playing the trumpet since he was eight years old. He has been a member of the Junior Guildhall School of Music for four years and now studies the trumpet and natural trumpet with Simon Munday.

He is a member of the National Youth Orchestra and has been a member of the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Orchestra since 2017. He was also a member of the National Youth Brass Band from 2019 to 2021.

Sasha has just begun studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Conducting and composing are also an important part of Sasha’s musical life. When he’s not playing music, he enjoys playing tennis and visiting art galleries. He is a brass category finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2022.

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 where he studied with Ian Jones and Kathron Sturrock.

He has appeared in a number of festivals with solo, chamber and concerto programmes all across Eurasia. His major awards include 1st Prize at RCM Concerto Competition 2019, 3rd Prize at Clamo International Piano Competition (Murcia, Spain) and Silver Medal of Asia-Pacific Chopin Piano Competition (Daegu, South Korea).

Rustam’s recordings are available on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Radio France Musique and several CDs of the legendary Melodiya label.