Adrian Bradbury was Principal Cello in the National Youth Orchestra before winning scholarships to Churchill College, Cambridge (where he read Veterinary Science and Music) and then to the Royal Academy of Music. After further study in Berlin he developed an international career in chamber music as the cellist in Composers Ensemble, Jane’s Minstrels, Trio Gemelli, Touchwood Piano Quartet and Chamber Domaine, winning a Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Award and giving countless world premières of solo and chamber works by composers including Thomas Adès, Guy Barker, Judith Bingham, James MacMillan, Hugh Wood, John Woolrich and Helen Leach. Adrian was made Artistic Director of Music in the Burnhams in January 2026 Adrian is a regular guest principal player with orchestras including BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and he is Cello Tutor for the National Youth Orchestra.  His research into ensemble synchronisation, in collaboration with Professor Alan Wing, is published by the Royal Society and has led to invitations to curate a “Music and Brain” series at the Aldeburgh Festival and to appear as speaker on BBC Radio 4’s “PM” and “Today” programmes and on Radio 3. He has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge (artistic by-fellow), University of Birmingham (honorary) and the Royal Academy of Music (honorary).  His discography includes the complete operatic fantasies of 19th-century virtuoso Alfredo Piatti, with pianist Oliver Davies and ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Cello” with pianist Andrew West. His chamber music discs have variously won “Editor’s Choice” in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine, and “CD of the Month” in the Daily Telegraph and The Strad.