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About Pasha Mansurov

Pasha (Pavel) Mansurov was born in Russia in 1986. He started the flute at the age of 6 with Professor Kornejev at the Moscow Gnesin School of Music. At 12, following a successful audition, he moved to the United States of America where Dr. Bradley Garner of Juilliard School taught him for the majority of his early teenage years. Then a friendly invitation to study at the Purcell School of Music with full scholarship relocated him to London in 1999. There he studied with Clare Southworth. In 2004 another successful audition led him to The Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Kate Hill and Michael Cox on Flute and Pat Morris on Piccolo. He graduated from RAM with the third highest mark in the woodwind class. For his Masters in 2008 he moved to the Guildhall School of Music Drama, where he studied with Ian Clarke, Phillippa Davies and Sarah Newbold. He also participated in masterclasses and had private lessons with William Bennett, Robert Winn, Emily Beynon, Gareth Davies, Paul-Edmund Davis and Andrew Nicholson to mention a few! Pasha plays frequently with The Orion Symphony Orchestra, which appears frequently at the Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Hall, and also with London Contemporary Orchestra. With the latter he played in the Frank Zappa festival at the Roundhouse in Camden, London and has even been on tour with a pop/rock band Belle and Sebastian.