Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based

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dedicated to discovering and promoting the careers of talented young classical musicians from all over the world. The competition, founded in 1961, allows artists from all over the world to compete as individuals or in a chamber group, such as a string quartet. The number of winners varies from year to year, as there is no specified limit to the number of participants who can win. Winners of the competition receive a cash prize and are provided the opportunity to perform in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the

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Winners are also provided with an artistic manager who promotes the artist through booking concert engagements both in the United States and abroad, and providing publicity materials, promotion, and career development. Many artists in the program's history have also made their debut recordings through the help of the Young Concert Artists program. Notable past winners include violinists

Pinchas Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman ( he, פנחס צוקרמן, born 16 July 1948) is an Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor. Life and career Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Jewish parents and Holocaust survivors Yehuda and Miriam Lieberman Zuk ...

Ani Kavafian Ani Kavafian ( hy, Անի Գավաֆեան, born May 10, 1948, Istanbul) is a classical violinist and professor at the Yale School of Music. Early life and education Born in Istanbul of Armenian heritage, Ani Kavafian began piano lessons at t ...

Ida Kavafian Ida Kavafian ( hy, Այտա Գավաֆեան) (born October 29, 1952 in Istanbul) is an American classical violinist and violist. Biography Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began ...

, and Chee-Yun; pianists Murray Perahia,

Emanuel Ax Emanuel "Manny" Ax (born 8 June 1949) is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is a teacher in the Juilliard School. Early life Ax was born to a Polish-Jewish family in Lviv, Ukraine, (in what was then the Soviet Union) to Joachim and ...

, Richard Goode,

Jean-Yves Thibaudet Jean-Yves Thibaudet (born 7 September 1961)Michael & Joyce Kennedy, 2007. is a French pianist. Early life and studies Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin, and his mother, ...

Christopher O'Riley Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He was the host of the weekly National Public Radio program '' From the Top''. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative. Early life ...

Ruth Laredo Ruth Laredo (November 20, 1937May 25, 2005) was an American Classical music, classical pianist. She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Alexander Scriabin, Scriabin and the complete solo piano ...

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Olli Mustonen Olli Mustonen (born 7 June 1967 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish pianist, conductor, and composer. Biography Mustonen studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Ei ...

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s Paula Robison, Mimi Stillman, and

Eugenia Zukerman Eugenia Rich Zukerman (born September 25, 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals i ...

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Borromeo String Quartet The Borromeo String Quartet is an American string quartet, in residence at the New England Conservatory since 1992. They have performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at numerous festivals and in many distinguished chamber mu ...

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Antoine Tamestit Antoine Tamestit (born 1979) is a French violist. Tamestit studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and further with Jesse Levine at Yale University, and with Tabea Zimmermann. He won the 2001 Primrose International Viola Competition, the 2003 Yo ...

; cellists Ronald Thomas,

Fred Sherry Fred Sherry (born 1948) is an American cellist who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Audit ...

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Carter Brey Carter Brey (born 1954) is an American cello virtuoso. He had a prolific solo career from 1981 until 1996 when he became the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he still holds today. Biography Carter Brey was born in Montc ...

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er Stephen Burns; and sopranos

Marvis Martin Marvis Lynn Martin is an American operatic soprano best known for her concert performances and recitals, including her renditions of Joseph Canteloube's '' Songs from the Auvergne'' and of Bess in Bobby McFerrin's touring concert version of ''Po ...

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Dawn Upshaw Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contempor ...

. Conductor

James Levine James Lawrence Levine (; June 23, 1943 – March 9, 2021) was an American conductor and pianist. He was music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016. He was terminated from all his positions and affiliations with the Met on March 1 ...

was awarded the Lotus Award ("for inspiration to young musicians") from Young Concert Artists.

List of winners

Young Concert Artists refers to its winners as alumni:

1960s

1961 *

Sanford Allen Sanford Allen (born 1939) is an American classical violinist. At the age of 10, he began studying violin at the Juilliard School of Music and continued at the Mannes School of Music under Vera Fonaroff. He was the first African-American regular ...

, violinist * Shmuel Ashkenasi, violinist * Ruth Glasser, cellist * Richard Goode, pianist *

Jesse Levine Jesse Levine (born October 15, 1987) is an American-Canadian former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of world No. 69 on October 1, 2012. Levine represented the United States through 2012, and he represented Can ...

, violist * Maria Lopez-Vito, pianist * Barbara Mallow, cellist * Paula Robison, flutist *

Joel Shapiro Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly ...

, pianist *

Ilana Vered Ilana Vered ( he, אילנה ורד; born December 6, 1943 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a concert pianist and professor of piano. Biography From age 13 to 15 Vered attended the Paris Conservatoire, which awarded her first prize in piano upon her graduat ...

, pianist 1962 *

Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet and critic. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb and since 2020 is the ongoing artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, where ...

, violinist *

, pianist * Robert Martin, cellist"Young Sextet Gives A Chamber Concert" ''The New York Times'', April 25, 1964 * Margaret Schecter, flutist * Lawrence L. Smith, pianist *

Inger Wikström Inger Wikstrom (born 11 December 1939) is a Swedish pianist, composer and conductor. Biography Inger Wikstrom began studying piano in Stockholm at the age of six, and at sixteen played as soloist with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She m ...

, pianist 1963 * Chandler Goetting, trumpeter * Luis García Renart, cellist * Yoko Matsuda, violinist * Satoka Takemae, pianist 1964 *

Edward Auer Edward Auer (born December 7, 1941 in New York City) is an American classical pianist. In 1965, he became the first American to win a prize in the VII International Chopin Piano Competition. Due to his frequent and subsequent touring in Poland, M ...

, pianist * Mauricio Fuks, violinist * Jung-Ja Kim, pianist *

Mary Beth Peil Mary Beth Peil (born June 25, 1940) is an American actress and soprano. She began her career as an opera singer in 1962 with the Goldovsky Opera Theater. In 1964 she won two major singing competitions, the Young Concert Artists International Au ...

, soprano *

Toby Saks Toby Saks (January 8, 1942 – August 1, 2013) was an American cellist, the founder of the Seattle Chamber Music Society and a member of the New York Philharmonic. Music history Born in New York City to an immigrant family, Saks began music less ...

, cellist 1965 * Paul Green, clarinetist * Ko Iwasaki, cellist *

Max Neuhaus Max Neuhaus (August 9, 1939 – February 3, 2009) was an American musician, composer and artist who was a noted interpreter of contemporary and experimental percussion music in the 1960s. He went on to create numerous permanent and short-term sou ...

, percussionist * Michael Oelbaum, pianist * Murray Perahia, pianist * Lorraine Prieur, pianist *

Paul Zukofsky Paul Zukofsky (October 22, 1943 – June 6, 2017) was an American violinist and conductor known for his work in the field of contemporary classical music. Career Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Zukofsky was the only child of the American objectiv ...

, violinist 1966 *

Nerine Barrett Nerine Barrett (born 3 February 1944) is a Jamaican classical pianist, one of the few black women who have achieved international recognition as a pianist. She was selected in 1966 by the Young Concert Artists to appear at Carnegie Hall and the ...

, pianist * Christiane Edinger, violinist *

Donald Weilerstein Donald Weilerstein (born 1940) is an American violinist and pedagogue. Early life and education Weilerstein was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Berkeley, California. He began playing the violin at the age of four and earned a Bachelor o ...

, violinist *

, violinist 1967 * Joan Benner, soprano *

Nobuko Imai , is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument. Biography Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo' ...

, violist * Joseph Kalichstein, pianist * Arthur Thompson, baritone *

Marcus Thompson Marcus Thompson (born 1946) is a violist and viola d'amore player known for his work as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator. Thompson is a founding member and is currently artistic director of the Bost ...

, violist * Hiroko Yajima, violinist 1968 *

Jean-Jacques Kantorow Jean-Jacques Kantorow (born 3 October 1945) is a French violinist and conductor. His son is the pianist Alexandre Kantorow. Biography Kantorow was born in Cannes, France, into a family of Russian-Jewish origin. From the age of 13 he studied at ...

, violinist *

Joyce Mathis Joyce Mathis (1944 – before April 2009) was an American soprano who was a concert artist, recitalist, and opera singer from the 1960s into the early 1990s. She is considered a part of the first generation of black classical singers to achieve ...

, soprano * Anthony Newman, harpsichordist *

Ursula Oppens Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations. Biography Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family fr ...

, pianist *

, cellist * Michael Webster, clarinetist 1969 * Gita Karasik, pianist * Jeffrey Solow, cellist

1970s

1970 * Mari-Elizabeth Morgen, pianist *

, flutist *

Tokyo String Quartet The was an international string quartet that operated from 1969 to 2013. The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo ...

1971 *

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, mezzo-soprano * Christoph Henkel, cellist * Rolf Schulte, violinist * Virgil Blackwell, clarinetist * Eugene Drucker, violinist * Paul Dunkel, flutist *

Richard Fitz Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

, percussionist * John Graham, violist * Karen Lindquist, harpist * Joel Marangella, oboist *

Donald Palma Donald Palma is a prominent classical double bassist, conductor, bass instructor, and educator of ensemble performance. He is a native of New York City, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Palma studied with several noted bassists including ...

, double bass *

Gerard Schwarz Gerard Schwarz (born August 19, 1947), also known as Gerry Schwarz or Jerry Schwarz, is an American symphony conductor and trumpeter. As of 2019, Schwarz serves as the Artistic and Music Director of Palm Beach Symphony and the Director of Orche ...

, trumpeter *

, cellist 1972 *

Mona Golabek Mona Golabek (born June 23, 1954) is an American concert pianist, author, and radio host. She has appeared with many leading orchestras and made numerous recordings. Golabek co-wrote a book entitled '' The Children of Willesden Lane'' that chron ...

, pianist * Francoise Regnat, pianist * Peter Rejto, cellist 1973 *

, pianist *

, violinist * Diane Walsh, pianist 1974 *

Heiichiro Ohyama is a Japanese conductor and violist. Biography He has a long-established reputation as a remarkable conductor and one of the nation’s most renowned violists. In addition to his post as Music Director and Conductor of the Santa Barbara Cham ...

, violist *

Robert Routch The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory ...

, French horn * Jeffrey Swann, pianist * Ronald Thomas, cellist 1975 * (none) 1976 * Daniel Adni, pianist * Boris Bloch, pianist * Stephanie Brown, pianist * Sung-Ju Lee, violinist * Daniel Phillips, violinist * Chilingirian String Quartet 1977 *

Steven De Groote Steven De Groote (12 January 1953 – 22 May 1989) was a South African classical pianist. Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professio ...

, pianist 1978 *

Colin Carr Colin Carr (born 25 October 1957) is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. Biography Born in Liverpool, Carr is professor of cello at the Royal Academy of Music. He taught at the New England Conservatory in Bo ...

, cellist *

Lynn Chang Lynn Chang () (born 1953) is a Chinese American violinist known for his work as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Chang is a founding member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is currently a faculty member at MIT, Boston University, the ...

, violinist * Robert Cohen, cellist *

, violinist 1979 * Franck Avril, oboist * Sergei Edelmann, pianist *

Zehava Gal Zehava Gal ( he, זֶהָבָה גַּל) is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano. Zehava Gal has sung leading roles in both European and North American opera houses and festivals, including La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Paris Opera, ...

, mezzo-soprano *

Beverly Hoch Beverly Hoch (born August 26, 1951) is an American coloratura soprano and music educator who has had an active performance career in operas, concerts, and on recordings since the late 1970s. She has been teaching at Texas Woman's University sinc ...

, soprano *

Marya Martin Marya Martin is an American flautist with an active career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Born Mary Martin in New Zealand, Martin studied at the University of Auckland, where she had lessons with Richard Giese, then principal flut ...

, flutist

1980s

1980 * Toby Appel, violist *

Chantal Juillet Chantal Juillet, (born December 19, 1960) is a Canadian violinist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Juillet won all the major Canadian music competitions in her category by the age of 16 and was launched into international renown when she recei ...

, violinist 1981 * Stephen Burns, trumpeter *

, soprano *

, pianist *

Endellion Quartet The Endellion String Quartet was a British string quartet, named after St Endellion in Cornwall. History The quartet was formed in 1979 with the following original members: * Andrew Watkinson, violin * Louise Williams, violin * Garfield Jackson, v ...

* Mendelssohn String Quartet 1982 *

, cellist * William Sharp, baritone * Dominique Weber, pianist 1983 *

Jaime Bolipata Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

, pianist *Ben Holt, baritone * Benny Kim, violinist *

Anne-Marie McDermott Anne-Marie McDermott is an American classical pianist and member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is also the artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Key Largo, Florid ...

, pianist *

Jeremy Menuhin Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin (born 2 November 1951) is a composer and pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Early life Menuhin was born in San Francisco, California, the fourth son of his father Yehudi Menuhin and the second of his mot ...

, pianist * Christopher Trakas, baritone 1984 *

Douglas Boyd Douglas Boyd (born 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British oboist and conductor. Biography Boyd studied oboe at the Royal Academy of Music, London, as a pupil of Janet Craxton. He later was a student with Maurice Bourgue in Paris. In 1984 he w ...

, oboist * Daniel McKelway, clarinetist * Paul Meyer, clarinetist *

, soprano 1985 * Erik Berchot, pianist *

Marc Laforet Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...

, pianist *

Gary Schocker Gary Schocker (born October 18, 1959) is an American flutist, composer, and pianist who has performed with the New York Philharmonic (at age 15, in a nationally televised Young People's Concert), the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphon ...

, flutist 1986 *

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (born 17 October 1962) is a French classical pianist. Education Bavouzet was born in Lannion, France and grew up in Metz. He started his music studies there, encountering successful composers including Iannis Xenakis, Oliv ...

, pianist * Christopher Costanza, cellist *

Anthony De Mare Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politici ...

, pianist * Yuval Fichman, pianist *

Anne Akiko Meyers Anne Akiko Meyers (born May 15, 1970) is an American concert violinist. Meyers was the top-selling classical instrumentalist of 2014 on Billboard's traditional classical charts. Early life and education The daughter of an artist and a colleg ...

, violinist * Marcy Rosen, cellist * Eric Ruske, French horn * Paul Shaw, pianist * Ory Shihor, pianist * Maurice Sklar, violinist 1987 * Hung-Kuan Chen, pianist *

Rina Dokshitsky Rina or RINA may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Rina (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Kento Rina, Indian politician * Mahfuza Rahman Rina, Bangladeshi politician * Tongam Rina (born 1979), Indian journ ...

, pianist *

, pianist 1988 * David Fedele, flutist * Eduardus Halim, pianist * Carl Halvorson, tenor * Hexagon Ensemble, piano and winds * Ulrike Anima Mathe, violinist * Asako Urushihara, violinist 1989 * Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist * Olivier Charlier, violinist * Chee-Yun, violinist *

Juliette Kang Juliette Kang (born September 6, 1975) is a Canadian violinist. In 1994, she earned the gold medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Kang went on to have an international solo career. She joined the Philadelphia Orchestra ...

, violinist * Scott St. John, violinist & violist *

Scott Yoo Scott Yoo (born April 25, 1971) is an American conducting, conductor and violinist. He was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016. He hosts the PBS TV series ''Now Hear This''. Early li ...

, violinist

1990s

1990 * Dawn Kotoski, soprano * Todd Palmer, clarinetist * Alex Slobodyanik, pianist 1991 *

* Emma Johnson, clarinetist * Graham Scott, pianist * Mikhail Yanovitsky, pianist 1992 * Christopheren Nomura, baritone * Kyoko Saito, soprano * St. Lawrence Quartet 1993 * Camellia Johnson, soprano 1994 * Dan Coleman, composer-in-residence *

Alban Gerhardt Alban Gerhardt (born 25 May 1969, Berlin) is a German cellist. From a musical family, Gerhardt is the son of a mother who sang coloratura soprano, and his father, Axel Gerhardt, was a second violinist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for ov ...

, cellist * Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cellist *

Makoto Nakura is a unisex Japanese name although it is more commonly used by males. As a noun, Makoto means "sincerity" (誠) or "truth" (真, 眞). People Given name * Makoto (musician) (born 1977), drum and bass artist *Makoto (Sharan Q) ( まこと), ...

, marimbist *

Nokuthula Ngwenyama Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16, 1976) is an American solo violist and composer of Ndebele and Japanese descent. She is a recording artist under EDI Records, and has taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Background Si ...

, violist 1995 * Diana Doherty, oboist *

Fazıl Say Fazıl Say (; born 14 January 1970 in Ankara) is a Turkish pianist and composer. Life and career Fazıl Say was born in 1970. His father, Ahmet Say was an author and musicologist. His mother, Gürgün Say was a pharmacist. His grandfather Fa ...

, pianist 1996 *

Romain Guyot Romain may refer to: People Given name * Romain Bussine (1830–1899), French poet and voice professor * Romain Rolland (1866–1944), French writer * Romain de Tirtoff (1892–1990), French artist and designer known as Erté * Romain Belleng ...

, clarinetist *

Freddy Kempf Frederick Albert Kempf (born 14 October 1977) is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He lives in Berlin. Early life Kempf was born in Croydon. He was educated at The Junior Kings School and St Edmund's ...

, pianist *

Adam Neiman Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Book of Genesis, Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a coll ...

, pianist * Joo-Young Oh, violinist *

Kevin Puts Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera, ''Silent Night''. Early life and education Puts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Alma, Michi ...

, composer-in-residence * Yayoi Toda, violinist * Gregory Turay, tenor 1997 * Anton Barachovsky, violinist * Alexander Chaushian, cellist * Wendy Chen, pianist *

Jeremy Denk Jeremy Denk (born May 16, 1970 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American classical pianist. Early life Denk did not come from a musical family. After several years in New Jersey, his family settled in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he grew up. He ...

, pianist *

Karen Gomyo Karen Gomyo is a classical violinist. Biography Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she started violin lessons at 5 years old. At the age of 10, she moved to New York City to study at the Juill ...

, violinist * Stefan Milenkovich, violinist * Shunsuke Sato, violinist 1998 * Kenji Bunch, composer-in-residence * Stephan Loges, baritone * Alexander Mikhailuk, pianist * Naoko Shimizu, violist * Vassilis Varvaresos, pianist 1999 * Timothy Fain, violinist *

Martin Kasik Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

, pianist * Rafal Kwiatkowski, cellist * Randall Scarlata, baritone * Mimi Stillman, flutist *

Elina Vähälä Elina Vähälä (born 15 October 1975, Iowa City, Iowa) is a Finnish classical violinist. Biography Born in the United States in Iowa City, Iowa, Vähälä began violin studies at the age of three, following her family's return to Finland, at th ...

, violinist * Gwyneth Wentink, harpist

2000s

2000 * Ju-Young Baek, violinist *

Mason Bates Mason Wesley Bates (born January 23, 1977) is a Grammy award-winning American composer of symphonic music and DJ of electronic dance music. He is the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and he has also bee ...

, composer *

Catrin Finch Catrin Ana Finch is a Welsh harpist, arranger and composer. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 and is visiting professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London. ...

, harpist * Viviane Hagner, violinist * Paavali Jumppanen, pianist *

Mayuko Kamio Mayuko Kamio (神尾真由子, born June 12, 1986, in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese violinist. Biography Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater (HMT) in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius fr ...

, violinist 2001 * Alexandre Bouzlov, cellist *

Marius Brenciu Marius Brenciu (born 11 November 1973 in Brașov) is a Romanian operatic tenor. He won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2001. He won the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition The Queen Elisabeth Competition ( nl ...

, tenor * Courtenay Budd, soprano * Thomas Cerroll, cellist * Yunjie Chen, pianist * Claremont Piano Trio * Alezander Fiterstein, clarinetist 2002 * Robert Belinic, guitarist *

Anton Belov Anton Sergeyevich Belov (russian: Антон Серге́евич Бело́в; born 29 July 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with Avangard Omsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has previo ...

, baritone * Daniel Kellogg, composer * Nicolas Kendall, violinist * Vassily Primakov, pianist * Naoko Takada, marimbist 2003 * Laura Buruiana, cellist *

David Guerrier David Guerrier (born 2 December 1984) is a French classical trumpeter and cornet player. Life Born in Pierrelatte, Guerrier began his musical studies in 1990 at the Conservatoire du Tricastin first at the piano, then at the age of seven, he bega ...

, trumpeter *

, violist * Daxun Zhang, double bassist 2004 *

Lise de la Salle Lise de la Salle (born 8 May 1988) is a French classical pianist. Career De la Salle first performed aged 9 on Radio France. At 12 years old, she won the First Prize of the Seventh International Contest of Ettlingen, Germany. She is also a pri ...

, pianist * Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinetist * Alexandre Pirojenko, pianist 2005 * Efe Baltacigil, cellist * Benjamin C. S. Boyle, composer * Philippe Castagner, tenor * Jennifer Check, soprano * Gleb Ivanov, pianist * Jupiter String Quartet * Dora Seres, flutist *

Wonny Song Wonny Song (born 1978) is a Canadian pianist. Biography Song was born in South Korea and grew up in Montreal. He began piano studies at the age of eight and received a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1994. He ...

, pianist 2006 *

Emmanuel Ceysson Emmanuel Ceysson is a French harpist and academic. He is principal harpist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Formerly, he was principal harpist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris (2005–2015). I ...

, harpist * Chu-Fang Huang, pianist * Amedeo Modigliani Quartet *

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (born 29 December 1986) is a French pianist, organist, and composer. His repertoire extends from Bach to Barraqué and the works of his own contemporaries. He was born in Paris on 29 December 1986. When he was eight year ...

, pianist 2007 *

Sasha Cooke Sasha Cooke is an American mezzo-soprano. Cooke was born in Riverside, California, and grew up in College Station, Texas, where her parents are professors of Russian at Texas A&M University. She earned a bachelor's degree from Rice University and ...

, mezzo-soprano *

Benjamin Moser Benjamin Moser (born September 14, 1976) is an American writer and translator. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled '' Sontag: Her Life and Work''. Biography Born in Houston, Moser attended St. John's School ...

, pianist *

Andrew Norman Andrew Norman (born October 31, 1979) is an American composer of contemporary classical music whose texturally complex music is influenced by architecture and the visual arts. His string trio '' The Companion Guide to Rome'' (2010), was a runne ...

, composer *

Louis Schwizgebel Louis Schwizgebel (born 19 November 1987) is a Swiss pianist. He studied piano with Franz Josefovski and Brigitte Meyer at the Lausanne Conservatory, Pascal Devoyon at Universität der Künste Berlin, Emanuel Ax and Robert McDonald at the Juilliar ...

, pianist 2008 *

Pius Cheung Pius Cheung () is a percussionist and composer, called "a young Chinese-Canadian virtuoso," by ''The New York Times''. Born in China, he moved to British Columbia at age twelve. He received his bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music ...

, marimbist * Narek Hakhnazaryan, cellist 2008/2009 *

Ray Chen Ray Chen (born 6 March 1989) is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Career Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen began ...

, violinist *

Ran Dank Ran Dank (born April 3, 1982) is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, NY, USA. Early life Dank started playing the piano at the age of seven with Yaakov Krantz. He went on to work with Liora Peleg at the Givaataim C ...

, pianist * Jeanine De Bique, soprano * Hanbin Yoo (Amadéus Leopold), violinist *

Bella Hristova Bella Hristova (born 28 December 1985) is a Bulgarian-American violinist. Early life Hristova was born in Pleven, Bulgaria to Russian and Bulgarian parents. She began her studies on the violin at the age of six. By the age of twelve, she enrolle ...

, violinist * Noé Inui, violinist * Carolina Ullrich, soprano 2009 *

Charlie Albright Charlie Albright ( ko, 찰리 박 올브라이트) is an American pianist, composer, and improviser. He is an official Steinway Artist, 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient, 2010 Gilmore Young Artist (2010) and former Young Concert Artist. ...

, pianist * Caroline Goulding, violinist * Aleksandr Haskin, flutist *

Jennifer Johnson Cano Jennifer Johnson Cano is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Before her college education, she attended St. Pius X High School (Festus, Missouri), graduating in the Class of 2002. While in high school, she was a member of the choir, singing at Ma ...

, mezzo-soprano

2010s

2010 * Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist * Benjamin Beilman, violinist *

George Li George Li (; born August 24, 1995) is an American concert pianist who was a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2016 and silver medalist of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Early life George Li was born on August 24, 1995 ...

, pianist * Chris Rogerson, composer 2011 * Veit Hertenstein, violist * Paul Huang, violinist * Andrew Tyson, pianist 2012 *

Julia Bullock Julia Bullock is an American soprano originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Anthony Tommasini from ''The New York Times'' has called her an "impressive, fast-rising soprano... poised for a significant career”. Education Born in 1987, Bullock joi ...

, soprano * Hermès Quartet * David Hertzberg, composer * Ji-Yong Kim, pianist * Cicely Parnas, cellist *

Aleksey Semenenko Aleksey Semenenko ( uk, Олексій Семененко, translit=Oleksiy Semenenko; born 1988) is a Ukrainian and German classical violinist. He won second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2015, and has performed in Eur ...

, violinist 2013 * Raphaël Sévère, clarinetist * Stephen Waarts, violinist * Yun-Chin Zhou, pianist 2014 * Daniel Lebhardt, pianist * Sang-Eun Lee, cellist * Soo-Been Lee, violinist *

Edgar Moreau Edgar Moreau at the Cité de la musique. Edgar Moreau (born 3 April 1994) is a French classical cellist. Biography Moreau was born in Paris on 3 April 1994. He began studying the cello at age four with Carlos Beyris as well as the piano, the ...

, cellist * Ziyu Shen, violist * Seiya Ueno, flutist 2015 * Rémi Geniet, pianist * Tomer Gewirtzman, pianist *

Samuel Hasselhorn Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...

, baritone *

Dasol Kim Dasol Kim (born 1989) is a South Korean pianist. Born in Busan, Kim started playing the piano at the age of 11, and by 15 won his first international competition and left for Germany. He is a graduate of Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien H ...

, pianist * Tonia Ko, composer *

Olivier Stankiewicz Olivier is the French form of the given name Oliver (given name), Oliver. It may refer to: * Olivier (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Olivier (surname), a list of people * Château Olivier, a Bordeaux winery *Olivier, Loui ...

, oboist * Zorá String Quartet 2016 * Benjamin Baker, violinist * Xavier Foley, double bassist * Nathan Lee, pianist * Anthony Trionfo, flutist 2017 * Katherine Balch, composer * Zlatomir Fung, cellist * Do-Hyun Kim, pianist * Omer Quartet * Hanzhi Wang, accordionist 2018 * Randall Goosby, violinist * Risa Hokamura, violinist *

Maxim Lando Maxim Lando (born October 5, 2002, in Manhasset, NY) is an American pianist. Lando grew up in Great Neck on Long Island, New York. His parents, a clarinetist and a pianist, ran the local music school there. He began playing the piano when he was ...

, pianist *

Aristo Sham Aristo Sham () (born 12 March 1996) is a pianist born in Hong Kong. He has won numerous prizes and awards in Hong Kong and overseas, and has performed in several countries. He has been featured in the Channel 4 programme, The World's Greatest Musi ...

, pianist * Jonathan Swensen, cellist 2019 * Steven Banks, saxophonist *

Martin James Bartlett Martin James Bartlett (born 1996) is an English classical pianist who has twice reached the keyboard finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year contest, winning the competition in 2014. Education From the year 2010, Bartlett was educated at ...

, pianist * Albert Cano Smit, pianist *Saad Haddad, composer * Quartet Amabile

2020s

2020 * Megan Moore, mezzo-soprano * Zhu Wang, pianist * William Socolof, bass-baritone 2021 * Nina Shekhar, composer-in-residence''Announcing the 2021 YCA Composer-in-Residence ''
''Young Concert Artists.'' April 9, 2021 (Press Release).

References

External links

*{{official, http://www.yca.org/ Music organizations based in the United States Arts organizations established in 1961 Culture of New York City Classical music awards Piano competitions in the United States 1961 establishments in New York City