Pasha Mansurov

Pasha (Pavel) Mansurov was born in Russia. He started the flute at the age of 6 with Professor Kornejev at the Moscow Gnesin School of Music. At 9, 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. There he studied with Clare Southworth. After another successful audition he was accepted into 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 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!  During his study years his performances included numerous appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, The Royal Festival Hall, St. John Smith Square, St. James’ Piccadilly, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, Henry Wood Hall, Cadogan Hall and The Hoddinott Concert hall in Cardiff. He has toured the Far East with performances in Thailand, where he performed for the King of Thailand’s birthday, (which was attended by more than 2 million people!) and India with the West Kazakhstan Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of India. Pasha enjoys playing flute in orchestra across Europe and the rest of the world. His career has taken him around some of UK’s top orchestras such as the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra.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 London and has been on tour with a pop/rock band Belle and Sebastian and pop/folk singer Donovan who was joined on stage of the Royal Albert Hall by Guitar Legend Jimmy Page (Led Zepplin). His recent recordings include Tansy Davis’ “Spine” with the Azalea Ensemble. He has recently appeared with the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Spitafields festival in December playing Grisey’s “Vortex Temporum”, which had four star reviews in the Times and the Guardian and also at the Latitude festival in March to a sold-out Roundhouse in Camden. His next concert will be with the Mercury Quartet and Linda Hurst performing Shoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the Forge Venue in Camden. Pasha plays on an Altus AL (1807), purchased from Just Flutes in London.