Brian was a major prize-winner in conducting competitions in London and Milan. He was Assistant Conductor to André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor to the BBC in London. He has conducted all the major British orchestras, winning particular praise for performances at the BBC Proms. He is a regular guest conductor in Britain and Europe, and in Asia he has toured in China with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestras.

In the UK, Brian is currently Music Director of Maidstone Symphony Orchestra and Goldsmiths Choral Union, London.

He enjoys a close association with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, regularly conducting in their London International Series. In 2005/6 he conducted the opening concert of BBC Radio 3’s “Beethoven Experience” and the RPO in Britten’s War Requiem in London’s Royal Albert Hall and also at London’s Cadogan Hall. A highlight of 2006/7 was an acclaimed broadcast performance of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts with the RPO at the RAH.

In 2006/7 he was a guest conductor in Norway, Slovenia, and Romania. His 2007 MSO concerts included programmes of Mahler 6, Elgar 2 and Bruckner 6. In November he conducted Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in the RPO’s Royal Albert Hall series and December brought Handel’s Messiah with the RPO at a sold-out RAH.

In February 2008 he conducted MSO in Rachmaninov 2 and Debussy’s La Mer & Ravel’s La Valse in March. In April he conducted a Bach Triple Bill at London’s Barbican Hall and May brought Shostakovich 10 with MSO. June brought a popular RPO concert and Bruckner’s E minor Mass in London, and in July Brian conducted Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius at Worth Abbey. 2008-9 includes Fauré’s Requiem and Berlioz’s Te Deum on 24 October 2008 with the RPO at London’s Royal Albert Hall and two performances of Handel’s Messiah, also at the RAH, and he again conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest.