robert burton (saxophone) & CHRISTINE zerafa (piano)

Rob Burton won the Woodwind Category Final of BBC Young Musician 2018 and secured a place in the Grand Final of the competition. He is currently studying Classical Saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music.

Recent highlights include performing the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto after winning the Silk Street Sinfonia Young Artists Concerto Competition, recitals at the Cheltenham Festival, Oundle International Festival, Charles Wood Festival (Northern Ireland), Regents Hall, Southwark Cathedral and concertos with Huntingdon Philharmonic and Bromley Symphony Orchestras. He has also recently performed at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and as Yamaha Scholar at ‘Music Teacher Awards for Excellence 2019’, with accompanist Konya Kanneh-Mason.

London-based Maltese pianist Christine Zerafa has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in various concert series and festivals around the Maltese islands and overseas. Performances have taken her to major world-renowned venues and festivals including the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St John's Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, St Martin in the Fields and St James Piccadilly, amongst others. She has performed in Oxford Lieder Festival and appeared on BBC Radio 3 as well as BBC television.

Christine has been recipient of various awards including first prize in the Malta National Bice Mizzi Competition, the Royal Northern College of Music Clifton Helliwell Memorial Prize, the Royal Academy of Music Scott Huxley prize for accompaniment and the Schumann Lieder pianist prize. She was also awarded the Eric Brough Memorial Award and the John B McEwen Prize for good work, conduct, and achievement during her studies at the Royal Academy of Music. She is a Park Lane Group Artist and she was also an award winner on the Tunnell Trust Artist Scheme.