Brind studied with Frederick Grinke, Manoug Parikian, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Zakhar Bron and Christopher Warren-Green.
Fellow members included Klaus Stoll, François Leleux, Marco Postinghel and Manuel Fischer-Dieskau.
Conductors he has played under include Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Riccardo Muti, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit and Kurt Sanderling.
Brind lives in the Netherlands with his wife, Colombian scientist Alejandra Maria Ruiz Zapata.
He has a daughter, the DJ Katia Mullova-Brind from an earlier relationship with violinist Viktoria Mullova.