Adam Walker

Britain's Adam Walker became the principal flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra when he was 21. After winning major awards and scholarships, he launched a successful solo career. Walker was born in 1987 in Retford, in England's Nottinghamshire region. He took up the recorder in school and started piano lessons at seven. Then, when he was nine, his parents gave him a toy flute that they bought out of the trunk of a car, and he took to it immediately. A teacher suggested that he apply to Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and he was admitted. His teacher there was Git...