Young Concert Artists

Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based non-profit organization 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 Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. 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, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, and Chee-Yun; pianists Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Christopher O'Riley, Ruth Laredo and Olli Mustonen; flautists Paula Robison, Mimi Stillman, and Eugenia Zukerman; the Tokyo, St. Lawrence, and Borromeo String Quartets; violist Antoine Tamestit; cellists Ronald Thomas, Fred Sherry and Carter Brey; trumpeter Stephen Burns; and sopranos Marvis Martin and Dawn Upshaw.

Conductor James Levine was awarded the Lotus Award ("for inspiration to young musicians") from Young Concert Artists.[1]

List of winners

Young Concert Artists refers to its winners as alumni:[2]

1960s

1961[3] Sanford Allen, violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi, violinist Ruth Glasser, cellist Richard Goode, pianist Jesse Levine, violist Maria Lopez-Vito, pianist Barbara Mallow, cellist Paula Robison, flutist Joel Shapiro, pianist Ilana Vered, pianist 1962 Kenneth Goldsmith, violinist Ruth Laredo, pianist Robert Martin, cellist[4] Margaret Schecter, flutist Lawrence L. Smith, pianist Inger Wikström, pianist 1963 Chandler Goetting, trumpeter[4] Luis García Renart, cellist Yoko Matsuda, violinist Satoka Takemae, pianist 1964 Edward Auer, pianist Mauricio Fuks, violinist Jung-Ja Kim, pianist Mary Beth Peil, soprano Toby Saks, cellist

1965 Paul Green, clarinetist Ko Iwasaki, cellist Max Neuhaus, percussionist Michael Oelbaum, pianist Murray Perahia, pianist Lorraine Prieur, pianist Paul Zukofsky, violinist 1966 Nerine Barrett, pianist Christiane Edinger, violinist Donald Weilerstein, violinist Pinchas Zukerman,[5] violinist 1967 Joan Benner, soprano Nobuko Imai, violist Joseph Kalichstein, pianist Arthur Thompson, baritone Marcus Thompson, violist Hiroko Yajima, violinist 1968 Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violinist Joyce Mathis, soprano Anthony Newman, harpsichordist Ursula Oppens, pianist Fred Sherry, cellist Michael Webster, clarinetist 1969 Gita Karasik, pianist Jeffrey Solow, cellist

1970s

1970 Mari-Elizabeth Morgen, pianist Eugenia Zukerman, flutist Tokyo String Quartet 1971 Joy Blackett, mezzo-soprano Christoph Henkel, cellist Rolf Schulte, violinist Virgil Blackwell, clarinet Eugene Drucker, violin Paul Dunkel, flute Richard Fitz, percussion John Graham, viola Karen Lindquist, harp Joel Marangella, oboe Donald Palma, double bass Gerard Schwarz, trumpet Fred Sherry, cello 1972 Mona Golabek, pianist Francoise Regnat, pianist Peter Rejto, cellist 1973 Emanuel Ax, pianist Ani Kavafian, violinist Diane Walsh, pianist

1974 Heiichiro Ohyama, violist Robert Routch, 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, pianist 1978 Colin Carr, cellist Lynn Chang, violinist Robert Cohen, cellist Ida Kavafian, violinist 1979 Franck Avril, oboist Sergei Edelmann, pianist Zehava Gal, mezzo-soprano Beverly Hoch, soprano Marya Martin, flutist

1980s

1980 Toby Appel, violist Chantal Juillet, violinist 1981 Stephen Burns, trumpeter Marvis Martin, soprano Christopher O'Riley, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pianist Endellion Quartet Mendelssohn String Quartet 1982 Carter Brey, cellist William Sharp, baritone Dominique Weber, pianist 1983 Jaime Bolipata, pianist Ben Holt, baritone Benny Kim, violinist Anne-Marie McDermott, pianist Jeremy Menuhin, pianist Christopher Trakas, baritone 1984 Douglas Boyd, oboist Daniel McKelway, clarinetist Paul Meyer, clarinetist Dawn Upshaw, soprano 1985 Erik Berchot, pianist Marc Laforet, pianist Gary Schocker, flutist

1986 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pianist Christopher Costanza, cellist Anthony De Mare, pianist Yuval Fichman, pianist Anne Akiko Meyers, violinist Marcy Rosen, cellist Eric Ruske, French horn Paul Shaw, pianist Ory Shihor, pianist Maurice Sklar, violinist 1987 Hung-Kuan Chen, pianist Rina Dokshitsky, pianist Olli Mustonen, 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, violinist Scott St. John, violinist & violist Scott Yoo, violinist

1990s

1990 Dawn Kotoski, soprano Todd Palmer, clarinetist Alex Slobodyanik, pianist 1991 Borromeo String Quartet Emma Johnson, clarinetist Graham Scott, pianist Mikhail Yanovitsky, pianist 1992[6] Christopheren Nomura, baritone Kyoko Saito, soprano St. Lawrence Quartet 1993 Camellia Johnson, soprano 1994 Dan Coleman, composer-in-residence Alban Gerhardt, cellist Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cellist Makoto Nakura, marimbist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, violist 1995 Diana Doherty, oboist Fazıl Say, pianist

1996 Romain Guyot, clarinetist Freddy Kempf, pianist Adam Neiman, pianist Joo-Young Oh, violinist Kevin Puts, composer-in-residence Yayoi Toda, violinist Gregory Turay, tenor 1997 Anton Barachovsky, violinist Alexander Chaushian, cellist Wendy Chen, pianist Jeremy Denk, pianist Karen Gomyo, 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, pianist Rafal Kwiatkowski, cellist Randall Scarlata, baritone Mimi Stillman, flutist Elina Vähälä, violinist Gwyneth Wentink, harpist

2000s

2000 Ju-Young Baek, violinist Mason Bates, composer Catrin Finch, harpist Viviane Hagner, violinist Paavali Jumppanen, pianist Mayuko Kamio, violinist 2001 Alexandre Bouzlov, cellist Marius Brenciu, tenor Courtenay Budd, soprano Thomas Cerroll, cellist Yunjie Chen, pianist Claremont Piano Trio Alezander Fiterstein, clarinetist 2002 Robert Belinic, guitarist Anton Belov, baritone Daniel Kellogg, composer Nicolas Kendall, violinist Vassily Primakov, pianist Naoko Takada, marimbist 2003 Laura Buruiana, cellist David Guerrier, trumpeter Antoine Tamestit, violist Daxun Zhang, double bassist 2004 Lise de la Salle, 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, pianist 2006 Emmanuel Ceysson, harpist Chu-Fang Huang, pianist Amedeo Modigliani Quartet Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, pianist 2007 Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Benjamin Moser, pianist Andrew Norman, composer Louis Schwizgebel, pianist 2008 Pius Cheung, marimbist Narek Hakhnazaryan, cellist 2009 Charlie Albright, pianist Caroline Goulding, violinist Aleksandr Haskin, flautist Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

2010s

2010 Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist Benjamin Beilman, violinist George Li, pianist Chris Rogerson, composer 2011 Veit Hertenstein, violist Paul Huang, violinist Andrew Tyson, pianist 2012 Julia Bullock, soprano Hermès Quartet David Hertzberg, composer Ji, pianist Cicely Parnas, cellist Aleksey Semenenko, 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, cellist Ziyu Shen, violist Seiya Ueno, flutist

2015 Rémi Geniet, pianist Tomer Gewirtzman, pianist Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone Dasol Kim, pianist Tonia Ko, composer Olivier Stankiewicz, oboist Zorá String Quartet 2016 Benjamin Baker, violinist Xavier Foley, double bassist Nathan Lee, pianist Anthony Trionfo, flutist 2017 Katherine Balch, composer[7] Zlatomir Fung, cellist Do-Hyun Kim, pianist Omer Quartet Hanzhi Wang, accordionist 2018 Randall Goosby, violinist Risa Hokamura, violinist Maxim Lando, pianist Aristo Sham, pianist Jonathan Swensen, cellist

References

1. http://worldcat.org/digitalarchive/content/server15982.contentdm.oclc.org/BSYMO/PROG/TRUSVolume13/Pub411_2007-2008_BSO_Vol02_Subscription_Wk22.pdf
2. "Young Concert Artists Alumni". Young Concert Artists.
3. "Debut Music Series Set: 9 Programs Listed Here by Young Concert Artists" The New York Times October 5, 1961
4. "Young Sextet Gives A Chamber Concert" The New York Times, April 25, 1964
5. The New York Times, May 5, 1968
6. The New York Times, February 3, 1992
7. Although Balch is on Young Concert Artists' alumni list under 2016 and 2017, other sources do not support the earlier date, see "Young Concert Artists International Auditions". WQXR. December 28, 2016.

External links

• Official website