American artist management company
Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based artist management company dedicated to discovering and promoting the careers of talented young classical musicians from all over 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 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. They are also provided with managers 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 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 , 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 .[ 1]
Young Concert Artists refers to its winners as alumni:[ 2] [ 3]
1961[ 4]
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[ 5]
Margaret Schecter, flutist
Lawrence L. Smith, pianist
Inger Wikström , pianist
1963
Chandler Goetting, trumpeter[ 5]
Luis García Renart , cellist
Yoko Matsuda, violinist
Satoka Takemae, pianist
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
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
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
1980
1981
1982
Carter Brey , cellist
William Sharp, baritone
Dominique Weber, pianist
1983
1984
1985
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
1990
Dawn Kotoski , soprano
Todd Palmer, clarinetist
Alex Slobodyanik, pianist
1991
1992[ 7]
1993
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
Tim Fain , violinist
Martin Kasik, pianist
Rafal Kwiatkowski, cellist
Randall Scarlata, baritone
Mimi Stillman , flutist
Elina Vähälä , violinist
Gwyneth Wentink, harpist
2000
2001
Alexandre Bouzlov, cellist
Marius Brenciu , tenor
Courtenay Budd, soprano
Thomas Carroll, cellist
Yunjie Chen, pianist
Claremont Piano Trio
Alezander Fiterstein, clarinetist
2002
2003
2004
Lise de la Salle , pianist
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinetist
Alexandre Pirojenko, pianist
2005
2006
2007
2008
2008/2009
2009
2010
Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist
Benjamin Beilman, violinist
George Li , pianist
Chris Rogerson, composer
2011
Veit Hertenstein, violist
Paul Huang, violinist
Andrew Tyson, pianist
2012[ 8]
2013
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[ 9]
Zlatomir Fung, cellist
Do-Hyun Kim, pianist
Omer Quartet
Hanzhi Wang, accordionist
2018
2019
2020
Megan Moore, mezzo-soprano
Zhu Wang, pianist
William Socolof, bass-baritone
2021
Ying Li, pianist
Lun Li, violinist
Daniel McGrew, tenor
Nina Shekhar, composer[ 10]
Harmony Zhu, pianist
2022
Chelsea Guo, pianist and soprano
Chaeyoung Park, pianist
Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone
Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano
2023[ 11]
James Baik, cellist
Oliver Neubauer, violinist
Benett Tsai, cellist
Michael Yeung, percussionist
Ziggy & Miles, guitar duo
2024
Radu Ratoi, accordionist
Kiron Atom Tellian, pianist
^ "Alumni by Year" . Young Concert Artists . 19 June 2020. Retrieved 2023-11-12 .
^ "Young Concert Artists Alumni" . Young Concert Artists .
^ "Alumni by Year" . Young Concert Artists . 19 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-27 .
^ "Debut Music Series Set: 9 Programs Listed Here by Young Concert Artists" The New York Times October 5, 1961
^ a b "Young Sextet Gives A Chamber Concert" The New York Times , April 25, 1964
^ The New York Times , May 5, 1968
^ The New York Times , February 3, 1992
^ Quartet, Violinist, Cellist, Pianist, and Soprano Win 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Young Concert Artists. November 12, 2012 (Press Release; PDF).
^ 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.
^ Announcing the 2021 YCA Composer-in-Residence Young Concert Artists. April 9, 2021 (Press Release).
^ Young Concert Artists announces Winners of 2023 Susan Wadsworth Final Auditions Young Concert Artists. November 12, 2023 (Press Release).