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 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; 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.
List of winners
1960s
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1961[1]
- 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[2]
- Margaret Schecter, flutist
- Lawrence L. Smith, pianist
- Inger Wikström, pianist
1963
- Chandler Goetting, trumpeter[2]
- Luis García Renart, cellist
- Yoko Matsuda, violinist
- Satoka Takemae, pianist
1964
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1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
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1970s
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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
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1974
1975
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
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1980s
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1980
1981
1982
- Carter Brey, cellist
- William Sharp, baritone
- Dominique Weber, pianist
1983
1984
1985
- Erik Berchot, pianist
- Marc Laforet, pianist
- Gary Schocker, flutist
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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
- Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist
- Olivier Charlier, violinist
- Chee-Yun, violinist
- Juliette Kang, violinist
- Scott St. John, violinist & violist
- Scott Yoo, violinist
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1990s
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1990
- Dawn Kotoski, soprano
- Todd Palmer, clarinetist
- Alex Slobodyanik, pianist
1991
1992[4]
- Christopheren Nomura, baritone
- Kyoko Saito, soprano
- St. Lawrence Quartet
1993
- Camellia Johnson, soprano
1994
1995
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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
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2000s
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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
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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
2008
2009
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2010s
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2010
- Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist
- Benjamin Beilman, violinist
- George Li, pianist
- Chris Rogerson, composer
2011
- Veit Hertenstein, viola
- Paul Huang, violin
- Andrew Tyson, piano
2012
- Julia Bullock, soprano
- Hermès Quartet
- David Hertzberg, composer
- Ji-yong, pianist
- Cicely Parnas, cellist
- Aleksey Semenenko, violinist
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