Young Concert Artists
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- 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
- Kenneth Goldsmith, violinist
- Ruth Laredo, pianist
- Robert Martin, cellist
- Margaret Schecter, flutist
- Lawrence L. Smith, pianist
- Inger Wikström, pianist
- Chandler Goetting, trumpeter
- Luis García Renart, cellist
- Yoko Matsuda, violinist
- Satoka Takemae, pianist
- Edward Auer, pianist
- Mauricio Fuks, violinist
- Jung-Ja Kim, pianist
- Mary Beth Peil, soprano
- Toby Saks, cellist
- Paul Green, clarinetist
- Ko Iwasaki, cellist
- Max Neuhaus, percussionist
- Michael Oelbaum, pianist
- Murray Perahia, pianist
- Lorraine Prieur, pianist
- Paul Zukofsky, violinist
- Nerine Barrett, pianist
- Christiane Edinger, violinist
- Donald Weilerstein, violinist
- Pinchas Zukerman, violinist
- Joan Benner, soprano
- Nobuko Imai, violist
- Joseph Kalichstein, pianist
- Arthur Thompson, baritone
- Marcus Thompson, violist
- Hiroko Yajima, violinist
- Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violinist
- Joyce Mathis, soprano
- Anthony Newman, harpsichordist
- Ursula Oppens, pianist
- Fred Sherry, cellist
- Michael Webster, clarinetist
- Gita Karasik, pianist
- Jeffrey Solow, cellist
1970s
- Mari-Elizabeth Morgen, pianist
- Eugenia Zukerman, flutist
- Tokyo String Quartet
- 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
- Mona Golabek, pianist
- Francoise Regnat, pianist
- Peter Rejto, cellist
- Emanuel Ax, pianist
- Ani Kavafian, violinist
- Diane Walsh, pianist
- Heiichiro Ohyama, violist
- Robert Routch, French horn
- Jeffrey Swann, pianist
- Ronald Thomas, cellist
- Daniel Adni, pianist
- Boris Bloch, pianist
- Stephanie Brown, pianist
- Sung-Ju Lee, violinist
- Daniel Phillips, violinist
- Chilingirian String Quartet
- Steven De Groote, pianist
- Colin Carr, cellist
- Lynn Chang, violinist
- Robert Cohen, cellist
- Ida Kavafian, violinist
- Franck Avril, oboist
- Sergei Edelmann, pianist
- Zehava Gal, mezzo-soprano
- Beverly Hoch, soprano
- Marya Martin, flutist
1980s
- Toby Appel, violist
- Chantal Juillet, violinist
- Stephen Burns, trumpeter
- Marvis Martin, soprano
- Christopher O'Riley, pianist
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pianist
- Endellion Quartet
- Mendelssohn String Quartet
- Carter Brey, cellist
- William Sharp, baritone
- Dominique Weber, pianist
- Jaime Bolipata, pianist
- Ben Holt, baritone
- Benny Kim, violinist
- Anne-Marie McDermott, pianist
- Jeremy Menuhin, pianist
- Christopher Trakas, baritone
- Douglas Boyd, oboist
- Daniel McKelway, clarinetist
- Paul Meyer, clarinetist
- Dawn Upshaw, soprano
- Erik Berchot, pianist
- Marc Laforet, pianist
- Gary Schocker, flutist
- 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
- Hung-Kuan Chen, pianist
- Rina Dokshitsky, pianist
- Olli Mustonen, pianist
- David Fedele, flutist
- Eduardus Halim, pianist
- Carl Halvorson, tenor
- Hexagon Ensemble, piano and winds
- Ulrike Anima Mathe, violinist
- Asako Urushihara, violinist
- Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist
- Olivier Charlier, violinist
- Chee-Yun, violinist
- Juliette Kang, violinist
- Scott St. John, violinist & violist
- Scott Yoo, violinist
1990s
- Dawn Kotoski, soprano
- Todd Palmer, clarinetist
- Alex Slobodyanik, pianist
- Borromeo String Quartet
- Emma Johnson, clarinetist
- Graham Scott, pianist
- Mikhail Yanovitsky, pianist
- Christopheren Nomura, baritone
- Kyoko Saito, soprano
- St. Lawrence Quartet
- Camellia Johnson, soprano
- Dan Coleman, composer-in-residence
- Alban Gerhardt, cellist
- Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cellist
- Makoto Nakura, marimbist
- Nokuthula Ngwenyama, violist
- Diana Doherty, oboist
- Fazıl Say, pianist
- Romain Guyot, clarinetist
- Freddy Kempf, pianist
- Adam Neiman, pianist
- Joo-Young Oh, violinist
- Kevin Puts, composer-in-residence
- Yayoi Toda, violinist
- Gregory Turay, tenor
- Anton Barachovsky, violinist
- Alexander Chaushian, cellist
- Wendy Chen, pianist
- Jeremy Denk, pianist
- Karen Gomyo, violinist
- Stefan Milenkovich, violinist
- Shunsuke Sato, violinist
- Kenji Bunch, composer-in-residence
- Stephan Loges, baritone
- Alexander Mikhailuk, pianist
- Naoko Shimizu, violist
- Vassilis Varvaresos, pianist
- Tim Fain, violinist
- Martin Kasik, pianist
- Rafal Kwiatkowski, cellist
- Randall Scarlata, baritone
- Mimi Stillman, flutist
- Elina Vähälä, violinist
- Gwyneth Wentink, harpist
2000s
- Ju-Young Baek, violinist
- Mason Bates, composer
- Catrin Finch, harpist
- Viviane Hagner, violinist
- Paavali Jumppanen, pianist
- Mayuko Kamio, violinist
- Alexandre Bouzlov, cellist
- Marius Brenciu, tenor
- Courtenay Budd, soprano
- Thomas Carroll, cellist
- Yunjie Chen, pianist
- Claremont Piano Trio
- Alezander Fiterstein, clarinetist
- Robert Belinic, guitarist
- Anton Belov, baritone
- Daniel Kellogg, composer
- Nicolas Kendall, violinist
- Vassily Primakov, pianist
- Naoko Takada, marimbist
- Laura Buruiana, cellist
- David Guerrier, trumpeter
- Antoine Tamestit, violist
- Daxun Zhang, double bassist
- Lise de la Salle, pianist
- Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinetist
- Alexandre Pirojenko, pianist
- 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
- Emmanuel Ceysson, harpist
- Chu-Fang Huang, pianist
- Amedeo Modigliani Quartet
- Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, pianist
- Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
- Benjamin Moser, pianist
- Andrew Norman, composer
- Louis Schwizgebel, pianist
- Pius Cheung, marimbist
- Narek Hakhnazaryan, cellist
- Ray Chen, violinist
- Ran Dank, pianist
- Jeanine De Bique, soprano
- Hanbin Yoo, violinist
- Bella Hristova, violinist
- Noé Inui, violinist
- Carolina Ullrich, soprano
- Charlie Albright, pianist
- Caroline Goulding, violinist
- Aleksandr Haskin, flutist
- Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
2010s
- Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist
- Benjamin Beilman, violinist
- George Li, pianist
- Chris Rogerson, composer
- Veit Hertenstein, violist
- Paul Huang, violinist
- Andrew Tyson, pianist
- Julia Bullock, soprano
- Hermès Quartet
- David Hertzberg, composer
- Ji-Yong Kim, pianist
- Cicely Parnas, cellist
- Aleksey Semenenko, violinist
- Raphaël Sévère, clarinetist
- Stephen Waarts, violinist
- Yun-Chin Zhou, pianist
- Daniel Lebhardt, pianist
- Sang-Eun Lee, cellist
- Soo-Been Lee, violinist
- Edgar Moreau, cellist
- Ziyu Shen, violist
- Seiya Ueno, flutist
- Rémi Geniet, pianist
- Tomer Gewirtzman, pianist
- Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone
- Dasol Kim, pianist
- Tonia Ko, composer
- Olivier Stankiewicz, oboist
- Zorá String Quartet
- Benjamin Baker, violinist
- Xavier Foley, double bassist
- Nathan Lee, pianist
- Anthony Trionfo, flutist
- Katherine Balch, composer
- Zlatomir Fung, cellist
- Do-Hyun Kim, pianist
- Omer Quartet
- Hanzhi Wang, accordionist
- Randall Goosby, violinist
- Risa Hokamura, violinist
- Maxim Lando, pianist
- Aristo Sham, pianist
- Jonathan Swensen, cellist
- Steven Banks, saxophonist
- Martin James Bartlett, pianist
- Albert Cano Smit, pianist
- Saad Haddad, composer
- Quartet Amabile