John Bryden

Born in Edinburgh. Gave his first BBC broadcast recital at the age of fourteen. Two years later he became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain playing the double bass and at the same time was awarded the Greenwood Music Exhibition to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he studied with Peter Katin, later gaining a Martin Scholarship and studying in Master Classes in Siena with Guido Agosti where he was awarded a Diploma of Merit and in Bonn during the Beethoven Bi-Centenary Year with Claudio Arrau. Early on in his career he benefitted greatly from the advice of Sir Clifford Curzon and Hans Keller.