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. Founded in 1961 by Susan Wadsworth, the organization holds two competitions annually, one in New York City, United States at the 92nd Street Y and the other in Leipzig, Germany at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre. The competition allows artists from all over the world to compete as individuals or in a chamber group, such as a string quartet. The amount 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 tries to promote 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; flutists Paula Robison and Eugenia Zukerman; the Tokyo, St. Lawrence, and Borromeo String Quartets; cellists Ronald Thomas, Fred Sherry and Carter Brey; French hornists Robert Routch and Eric Ruske; trumpeter Stephen Burns; and sopranos Marvis Martin and Dawn Upshaw.

Contents

List of winners

1960s

1961[1]

1962

  • Kenneth Goldsmith, violinist
  • Ruth Laredo, pianist
  • Robert Martin, cellist [2]
  • Margaret Schecter, flutist
  • Lawrence L. Smith, pianist
  • Inger Wikstrom, pianist

1963

  • Chandler Goetting, trumpeter [2]
  • Luis Garcia-Renart, cellist
  • Yoko Matsuda, violinist
  • Satoka Takemae, pianist

1964

1965

1966

  • Nerine Barrett, pianist
  • Christiane Edinger, violinist
  • Donald Weilerstein, violinist
  • Pinchas Zukerman[3], violinist

1967

1968

1969

1970s

1970

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

1974

1975

(none)

1976

  • Daniel Adni, pianist
  • Boris Bloch, pianist
  • Stephanie Brown, pianist
  • Sung-Ju Lee, violinist
  • Daniel Phillips, violinist
  • Chilingirian String Quartet

1977

1978

1979

  • Franck Avril, oboist
  • Sergei Edelmann, pianist
  • Zehava Gal, mezzo-soprano
  • Beverly Hoch, soprano
  • Marya Martin, flutist

1980s

1980

1981

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

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 Dokshinsky, 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

1990s

1990

  • Dawn Kotoski, soprano
  • Todd Palmer, clarinetist
  • Alex Slobodyanik, pianist

1991

1992[4]

1993

  • Camellia Johnson, soprano

1994

1995

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

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

2001

  • Alexandre Bouzlov, cellist
  • Marius Brenciu, tenor
  • Courtenay Budd, soprano
  • Thomas Cerroll, cellist
  • Yunjie Chen, pianist
  • Claremont Piano Trio
  • Alezander Fiterstein, clarinetist

2002

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

2006

2007

2008

2009

References

  1. ^ "Debut Music Series Set: 9 Programs Listed Here by Young Concert Artists" The New York Times October 5, 1961
  2. ^ a b “Young Sextet Gives A Chamber Concert" The New York Times, April 25, 1964
  3. ^ New York Times, May 5, 1968
  4. ^ New York Times, February 3, 1992

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