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.
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List of winners

Young Concert Artists refers to its winners as alumni:

1960s

1961
1962
  • Kenneth Goldsmith, violinist
  • Ruth Laredo, pianist
  • Robert Martin, cellist
  • 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
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969

1970s

1970
1971
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

1980s

1980
1981
1982
  • Carter Brey, cellist
  • William Sharp, baritone
  • Dominique Weber, pianist
1983
1984
1985
1986
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

1990s

1990
  • Dawn Kotoski, soprano
  • Todd Palmer, clarinetist
  • Alex Slobodyanik, pianist
1991
1992
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

2000s

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

2010s

2010
  • Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist
  • Benjamin Beilman, violinist
  • George Li, pianist
  • Chris Rogerson, composer
2011
  • Veit Hertenstein, violist
  • Paul Huang, violinist
  • Andrew Tyson, pianist
2012
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
  • Zlatomir Fung, cellist
  • Do-Hyun Kim, pianist
  • Omer Quartet
  • Hanzhi Wang, accordionist
2018
2019

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, composer
  • Harmony Zhu, pianist
2022
  • Chelsea Guo, pianist and soprano
  • Chaeyoung Park, pianist
  • Joseph Parrish, bass-baritone
  • Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano
2023
  • James Baik, cellist
  • Oliver Neubauer, violinist
  • Benett Tsai, cellist
  • Michael Yeung, percussionist
  • Ziggy & Miles, guitar duo
2024
  • Radu Ratoi, accordionist
  • Kiron Atom Tellian, pianist