Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based artist management company dedicated to discovering and advancing the careers of talented young classical musicians from around the world. The organization, founded in 1961, invites artists to audition and compete as soloists or in an ensemble. 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 audition sign with the organization for management and are presented in recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. during their first season. They are also provided with managers who secure concerts both in the United States and abroad, and assist with career development, promotion, and publicity materials. Many artists in the program’s history have also made their debut albums through the support of the organization.
Notable alumni who began their careers at Young Concert Artists include violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Ray Chen, Anne Akiko Meyers, Viviane Hagner, Karen Gomyo, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Mayuko Kamio, Ida Kavafian and Randall Goosby; pianists Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Richard Goode, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Fazıl Say, Lise de la Salle, Freddy Kempf, Olli Mustonen, Jeremy Denk, Aristo Sham, and George Li; cellists Alban Gerhardt, Narek Hakhnazaryan and Edgar Moreau; violists Nobuko Imai and Antoine Tamestit; the Tokyo, St. Lawrence, and Modigliani string quartets; singers Dawn Upshaw, Julia Bullock, and Sasha Cooke; and composers Andrew Norman, Mason Bates and Kevin Puts.
List of winners Young Concert Artists refers to its winners as alumni:
1960s
1961"Debut Music Series Set: 9 Programs Listed Here by Young Concert Artists" The New York Times October 5, 1961 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"Young Sextet Gives A Chamber Concert" The New York Times, April 25, 1964 Margaret Schecter, flutist Lawrence L. Smith, pianist Inger Wikström, pianist
1963
Chandler Goetting, trumpeter 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,The New York Times, May 5, 1968 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, clarinetist Eugene Drucker, violinist Paul Dunkel, flutist Richard Fitz, percussionist John Graham, violist Karen Lindquist, harpist Joel Marangella, oboist Donald Palma, double bass Gerard Schwarz, trumpeter Fred Sherry, cellist
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
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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
1992The New York Times, February 3, 1992
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
Tim 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 Carroll, 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
2008/2009
Ray Chen, violinist Ran Dank, pianist Jeanine De Bique, soprano Hanbin Yoo (Amadéus Leopold), violinist Bella Hristova, violinist Noé Inui, violinist Carolina Ullrich, soprano
2009
Charlie Albright, pianist Caroline Goulding, violinist Aleksandr Haskin, flutist 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
2012Quartet, Violinist, Cellist, Pianist, and Soprano Win 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Young Concert Artists. November 12, 2012 (Press Release; PDF).
Julia Bullock, soprano Hermès Quartet David Hertzberg, composer Ji-Yong Kim, 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, composerAlthough Balch is on Young Concert Artists' alumni list under 2016 and 2017, other sources do not support the earlier date, see 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
2019 Steven Banks, saxophonist Martin James Bartlett, pianist Albert Cano Smit, pianist Saad Haddad, composer Quartet Amabile
2020s
2020 Megan Moore, mezzo-soprano Zhu Wang, pianist William Socolof, bass-baritone
2021 Ying Li, pianist Lun Li, violinist Daniel McGrew, tenor Nina Shekhar, composerAnnouncing the 2021 YCA Composer-in-Residence Young Concert Artists. April 9, 2021 (Press Release). Harmony Zhu, pianist
2022 Chelsea Guo, pianist and soprano Chaeyoung Park, pianist Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano
2023Young Concert Artists announces Winners of 2023 Susan Wadsworth Final Auditions Young Concert Artists. November 12, 2023 (Press Release). James Baik, cellist Oliver Neubauer, violinist Benett Tsai, cellist Michael Yeung, percussionist Ziggy & Miles, guitar duo
2024 Radu Ratoi, accordionist Kiron Atom Tellian, pianist
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