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. Founded in 1961 by Susan Wadsworth, the organization holds two competitions annually, one in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 at the 92nd Street Y

92nd Street Y

92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, at the corner of E. 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Its full name is 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association...

 and the other in Leipzig, Germany at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre

Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre

The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig . Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music, it is the oldest university school of music in Germany....

. The competition 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

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 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

Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45-year career has seen him perform with the world's best-known orchestras and record over 100 works...

, Ani Kavafian

Ani Kavafian

Ani Kavafian is a classical violinist and professor at the Yale School of Music.Kavafian was born in Istanbul to parents of Armenian descent. In 1956 she moved with her family to Detroit, by which time she had begun playing piano. She began on violin at age nine, studying under Ara Zerounian and...

, Ida Kavafian

Ida Kavafian

Ida Kavafian is a classical violinist and violist.Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began studying violin in Detroit at age six...

, and Chee-Yun; pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

s Murray Perahia

Murray Perahia

Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...

, Emanuel Ax

Emanuel Ax

Emanuel Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is currently a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School. He is considered one of the best known concert pianists of the 21st century.-Early life:...

, Richard Goode

Richard Goode

Richard Goode is an American classical pianist, especially known for his interpretations of Ludwig van Beethoven and chamber music.Goode was born in East Bronx, New York...

, Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

-Early life:Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin, and his mother, of German origin and a somewhat accomplished pianist herself, introduced the instrument to Jean-Yves....

, Christopher O'Riley

Christopher O'Riley

Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He is the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative artists....

, Ruth Laredo

Ruth Laredo

Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the...

 and Olli Mustonen

Olli Mustonen

Olli Mustonen is a Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975...

; flutists Paula Robison and Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Rich Zukerman is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Mrs Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals internationally for more than three decades...

; the Tokyo

Tokyo String Quartet

The is an international string quartet.The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo Saito. Soon after its formation the Quartet won First Prizes at the Coleman Competition,...

, St. Lawrence, and Borromeo String Quartet

Borromeo String Quartet

The Borromeo String Quartet is an American string quartet, in residence at the New England Conservatory since 1992. They have performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at numerous festivals and in many distinguished chamber music series...

s; cellists Ronald Thomas

Ronald Thomas (cellist)

Ronald Thomas is an American cellist known for his work as a soloist and chamber musician. Thomas has made guest appearances with some of the world's finest orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony...

, Fred Sherry

Fred Sherry

Fred Sherry is an American cello virtuoso who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae...

 and Carter Brey

Carter Brey

Carter Brey is an American cello virtuoso. He had a prolific solo career from 1981 until 1996 when he became the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he still holds today.-Biography:...

; French hornists Robert Routch and Eric Ruske; trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

er Stephen Burns

Stephen Burns

Stephen Burns is an American trumpet virtuoso, composer, and conductor. The New York Times said of his playing, "Burns uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias...

; and soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

s Marvis Martin

Marvis Martin

Marvis Martin is an American operatic soprano, best known for her concert performances and recitals, including her renditions of Joseph Canteloube's Songs from the Auvergne, and of Bess in Bobby McFerrin's touring concert version of Porgy and Bess....

 and Dawn Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary...

.

1960s

1961

• Sanford Allen, violinist
• Shmuel Ashkenasi
  Shmuel Ashkenasi
  Shmuel Ashkenasi is an Israeli violinist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Tel Aviv on January 11, 1941, he began his musical training at the Musical Academy of Tel-Aviv studying with legendary pedagogue Ilona Feher, the teacher of such violinists as Pinchas Zuckerman and Shlomo Mintz...
  
  , violinist
• Ruth Glasser, cellist
• Richard Goode
  Richard Goode
  Richard Goode is an American classical pianist, especially known for his interpretations of Ludwig van Beethoven and chamber music.Goode was born in East Bronx, New York...
  
  , pianist
• Jesse Levine, violist
• Maria Lopez-Vito, pianist
• Barbara Mallow, cellist
• Paula Robison, flutist
• Joel Shapiro, pianist
• Ilana Vered
  Ilana Vered
  -Biography:From age 13 to 15 she attended the Paris Conservatoire, which awarded her first prize in piano upon her graduation; among her teachers there were Vlado Perlemuter and Jeanne-Marie Darré. Vered then continued her music studies at the Juilliard School under Rosina Lhévinne...
  
  , pianist

1962

• Kenneth Goldsmith, violinist
• Ruth Laredo
  Ruth Laredo
  Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the...
  
  , pianist
• Robert Martin, cellist
• Margaret Schecter, flutist
• Lawrence L. Smith, pianist
• Inger Wikstrom
  Inger Wikström
  Inger Wikstrom is a Swedish pianist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Inger Wikstrom began studying piano in Stockholm at the age of six, and at sixteen played as soloist with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She made successful debuts as a concert pianist in Stockholm, Berlin, London and...
  
  , pianist

1963

• Chandler Goetting, trumpeter
• Luis Garcia-Renart
  Luis Garcia-Renart
  -Biography:Born is Barcelona, Garcia first studied at the National Conservatory of Music and then at the conservatories of Bern and Basel in Switzerland with Sándor Veress and Sándor Végh. Between 1956 and 1960 he studied directly under Pablo Casals in France and Puerto Rico. In 1959 he won the...
  
  , cellist
• Yoko Matsuda, violinist
• Satoka Takemae, pianist

1964

• Edward Auer
  Edward Auer
  Edward Auer is an American classical pianist. In 1965, he became the first American to prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition. Due to his frequent and subsequent touring in Poland, Mr. Auer is recognized worldwide as one of the leading interpreters of Frédéric Chopin...
  
  , pianist
• Mauricio Fuks, violinist
• Jung-Ja Kim, pianist
• Mary Beth Peil
  Mary Beth Peil
  Mary Beth Peil is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Born in Davenport, Iowa in 1940, Peil trained as an opera singer at Northwestern University under Lotte Lehmann. There she became a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority...
  
  , soprano
• Toby Saks, cellist

1965

• Paul Green, clarinetist
• Ko Iwasaki, cellist
• Max Neuhaus
  Max Neuhaus
  American musician Max Neuhaus was a percussionist and interpreter of contemporary music of the 1960s who moved on to become a pioneer in the field of sound art, a term he rejected but with which he is nonetheless associated...
  
  , percussionist
• Michael Oelbaum, pianist
• Murray Perahia
  Murray Perahia
  Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...
  
  , pianist
• Lorraine Prieur, pianist
• Paul Zukofsky
  Paul Zukofsky
  Paul Zukofsky is an American violinist and conductor known for his work in the field of contemporary classical music.-Career:...
  
  , violinist

1966

• Nerine Barrett, pianist
• Christiane Edinger, violinist
• Donald Weilerstein, violinist
• Pinchas Zukerman
  Pinchas Zukerman
  Pinchas Zukerman is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45-year career has seen him perform with the world's best-known orchestras and record over 100 works...
  
  , violinist

1967

• Joan Benner, soprano
• Nobuko Imai
  Nobuko Imai
  , is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she plays an Andrea Guarneri of 1690.-Biography:...
  
  , violist
• Joseph Kalichstein
  Joseph Kalichstein
  Joseph Kalichstein is a renowned Israeli-born American classical pianist who performs in the concerto, solo recital and chamber music repertoire, the latter mainly with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson in the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio...
  
  , pianist
• Arthur Thompson, baritone
• Marcus Thompson
  Marcus Thompson
  Marcus Thompson is a violist and viola d'amore player known for his work as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator....
  
  , violist
• Hiroko Yajima, violinist

1968

• Jean-Jacques Kantorow
  Jean-Jacques Kantorow
  Jean-Jacques Kantorow is a French violin virtuoso and conductor.-Biography:Kantorow was born in Cannes, France. From the age of 13 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with René Benedetti, and in 1960 won the first violin prize...
  
  , violinist
• Joyce Mathis, soprano
• Anthony Newman, harpsichordist
• Ursula Oppens
  Ursula Oppens
  Ursula Oppens is an American classical pianist.-Biography:After earning her master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music, Oppens won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. This win led to her New York City debut at Carnegie Hall in 1969...
  
  , pianist
• Fred Sherry
  Fred Sherry
  Fred Sherry is an American cello virtuoso who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae...
  
  , cellist
• Michael Webster, clarinetist

1969

• Gita Karasik, pianist
• Jeffrey Solow
  Jeffrey Solow
  Jeffrey Solow is an American cello virtuoso and the immediate past president of the American String Teachers Association and president of the Violoncello Society, Inc. of New York.-Biography:...
  
  , cellist

1970s

1970

• Mari-Elizabeth Morgen, pianist
• Eugenia Zukerman
  Eugenia Zukerman
  Eugenia Rich Zukerman is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Mrs Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals internationally for more than three decades...
  
  , flutist
• Tokyo String Quartet
  Tokyo String Quartet
  The is an international string quartet.The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo Saito. Soon after its formation the Quartet won First Prizes at the Coleman Competition,...
  
  

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
  Joel Marangella
  Joel Marangella is an American oboist who has performed in concert with many of the world's leading orchestras. A founding member of the Speculum Musicae, he was the principal oboist for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of the New Music Ensemble.-Biography:Marangella...
  
  , oboe
• Donald Palma
  Donald Palma
  Donald Palma is a prominent classical double bassist, conductor, bass instructor, and educator of ensemble performance. He is a native of New York City, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Mr...
  
  , double bass
• Gerard Schwarz
  Gerard Schwarz
  Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...
  
  , trumpet
• Fred Sherry
  Fred Sherry
  Fred Sherry is an American cello virtuoso who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae...
  
  , cello

1972

• Mona Golabek
  Mona Golabek
  -Biography:Golabek was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Michel Golabek, winner of the Croix de Guerre, and Lisa Jura, a concert pianist. Her father was from Poland and had been part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II before coming the United States...
  
  , pianist
• Francoise Regnat, pianist
• Peter Rejto, cellist

1973

• Emanuel Ax
  Emanuel Ax
  Emanuel Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is currently a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School. He is considered one of the best known concert pianists of the 21st century.-Early life:...
  
  , pianist
• Ani Kavafian
  Ani Kavafian
  Ani Kavafian is a classical violinist and professor at the Yale School of Music.Kavafian was born in Istanbul to parents of Armenian descent. In 1956 she moved with her family to Detroit, by which time she had begun playing piano. She began on violin at age nine, studying under Ara Zerounian and...
  
  , violinist
• Diane Walsh, pianist

1974

• Heiichiro Ohyama
  Heiichiro Ohyama
  is a Japanese conductor and violist.He has a long-established reputation as a remarkable conductor and one of the nation’s most renowned violists. In addition to his post as Music Director and Conductor of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, he is also the Principal Chief Conductor of Kyushu...
  
  , violist
• Robert Routch, French horn
• Jeffrey Swann
  Jeffrey Swann
  Jeffrey Swann is a renowned classical pianist.Swann was born in Arizona but moved to Dallas, Texas, as a young child. He began piano studies at the age of four. While attending St. Mark's School of Texas, he studied for seven years with Alexander Uninsky at Southern Methodist University in...
  
  , pianist
• Ronald Thomas
  Ronald Thomas (cellist)
  Ronald Thomas is an American cellist known for his work as a soloist and chamber musician. Thomas has made guest appearances with some of the world's finest orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony...
  
  , cellist

1975

(none)

1976

• Daniel Adni
  Daniel Adni
  Daniel Adni is an Israeli pianist .He began his training in Haifa, where he made his debut at age 12. He studied with Vlado Perlemuter at the Paris Conservatory, winning the Premier Prix 3 times. Afterwards he studied with Géza Anda in Zurich . In 1970 he made his London debut...
  
  , pianist
• Boris Bloch, pianist
• Stephanie Brown, pianist
• Sung-Ju Lee, violinist
• Daniel Phillips, violinist
• Chilingirian String Quartet

1977

• Steven DeGroote
  Steven DeGroote
  Steven De Groote was a South African classical pianist.Steven De Groote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professional musician. His grandmother was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Belgium, and his father...
  
  , pianist

1978

• Colin Carr
  Colin Carr
  Colin Carr is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, Carr is a professor of the cello, currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for sixteen years before taking up his current job at...
  
  , cellist
• Lynn Chang
  Lynn Chang
  Lynn Chang is a Chinese American violinist known for his work as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Chang is a founding member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is currently a faculty member at MIT, Boston University, the Boston Conservatory, and the New England Conservatory of...
  
  , violinist
• Robert Cohen, cellist
• Ida Kavafian
  Ida Kavafian
  Ida Kavafian is a classical violinist and violist.Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began studying violin in Detroit at age six...
  
  , violinist

1979

• Franck Avril, oboist
• Sergei Edelmann, pianist
• Zehava Gal
  Zehava Gal
  Zehava Gal is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano.Zehava Gal has sung leading roles in both European and North American opera houses and festivals, including La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Paris Opera, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as at the Salzburg Easter Festival,...
  
  , mezzo-soprano
• Beverly Hoch, soprano
• Marya Martin
  Marya Martin
  Marya Martin is an American flautist with an active career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Born in New Zealand, Martin studied at the University of Auckland, where she had lessons with Richard Giese, then principal flute in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. After graduating in...
  
  , flutist

1980s

1980

• Toby Appel, violist
• Chantal Juillet
  Chantal Juillet
  Chantal Juillet, is a Canadian violinist.Born in Montreal, Juillet won all the major Canadian music competitions in her category by the age of 16 and was launched into international renown when she received First Prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York City. In 1979...
  
  , violinist

1981

• Stephen Burns
  Stephen Burns
  Stephen Burns is an American trumpet virtuoso, composer, and conductor. The New York Times said of his playing, "Burns uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias...
  
  , trumpeter
• Marvis Martin
  Marvis Martin
  Marvis Martin is an American operatic soprano, best known for her concert performances and recitals, including her renditions of Joseph Canteloube's Songs from the Auvergne, and of Bess in Bobby McFerrin's touring concert version of Porgy and Bess....
  
  , soprano
• Christopher O'Riley
  Christopher O'Riley
  Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He is the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative artists....
  
  , pianist
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet
  Jean-Yves Thibaudet
  -Early life:Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin, and his mother, of German origin and a somewhat accomplished pianist herself, introduced the instrument to Jean-Yves....
  
  , pianist
• Endellion String Quartet
• Mendelssohn Sting Quartet

1982

• Carter Brey
  Carter Brey
  Carter Brey is an American cello virtuoso. He had a prolific solo career from 1981 until 1996 when he became the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he still holds today.-Biography:...
  
  , cellist
• William Sharp, baritone
• Dominique Weber, pianist

1983

• Jaime Bolipata, pianist
• Ben Holt, baritone
• Benny Kim
  Benny Kim
  Benny Kim is an American violinist. His brother Eric Kim is a cellist.Kim's early teachers included Doris Preucil and Almita Vamos. He studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay, and graduated in 1986 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees. In 1981, he was a prize-winner in the Saint...
  
  , violinist
• Anne-Marie McDermott
  Anne-Marie McDermott
  Anne-Marie McDermott is a classical music pianist, and member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is also the artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, and Artistic Director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Key Largo, FL and the Avila Chamber Music...
  
  , pianist
• Jeremy Menuhin, pianist
• Christopher Trakas, baritone

1984

• Douglas Boyd
  Douglas Boyd
  Douglas Boyd is a British oboist and conductor. He studied oboe at the Royal Academy of Music, London, as a pupil of Janet Craxton. He later was a student with Maurice Bourgue in Paris...
  
  , oboist
• Daniel McKelway, clarinetist
• Paul Meyer
  Paul Meyer (clarinetist)
  Paul Meyer is a French clarinetist.Meyer is possibly the most well-known contemporary solo clarinetist from France. He is known for his solo recordings on the Denon label, notably in collaborations with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Eric Le Sage. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and at the Basler...
  
  , clarinetist
• Dawn Upshaw
  Dawn Upshaw
  Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary...
  
  , soprano

1985

• Erik Berchot, pianist
• Marc Laforet, pianist
• Gary Schocker
  Gary Schocker
  Gary Schocker is a flutist, composer, and pianist who has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the West German Sinfonia, and I Solisti Italiani among others. He won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in...
  
  , flutist

1986

• Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pianist
• Christopher Costanza, cellist
• Anthony De Mare, pianist
• Yuval Fichman, pianist
• Anne Akiko Meyers
  Anne Akiko Meyers
  Anne Akiko Meyers is an American concert violinist. Meyers has toured and collaborated with a number of symphony orchestras and Il Divo, Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. Meyers tours with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the 'Royal Spanish'...
  
  , 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
  Olli Mustonen
  Olli Mustonen is a Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975...
  
  , pianist

1988

• David Fedele, flutist
• Eduardus Halim
  Eduardus Halim
  Eduardus Halim is an Indonesian-American pianist.Born in Bandung, Indonesia of Chinese parents, Halim made his public debut at the age of 11 playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. A student of Sascha Gorodnitzki and Rudolf Firkušný at the Juilliard School where he attended on full scholarship,...
  
  , pianist
• Carl Halvorson, tenor
• Hexagon Ensemble, piano and winds
• Ulrike Anima Mathe, violinist
• Asako Urushihara, violinist

1989

• Dmitri Berlinsky
  Dmitri Berlinsky
  Dmitri Berlinsky is an international solo violinist, chamber musician and a teacher. He took first prize in the Paganini Competition , and was the winner of the Montreal International Violin Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels...
  
  , violinist
• Olivier Charlier, violinist
• Chee-Yun, violinist
• Juliette Kang, violinist
• Scott St. John
  Scott St. John
  Scott St. John is a Canadian violinist and violist. He is a member of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and on faculty at Stanford University, where he teaches violin and chamber music.-Biography:...
  
  , violinist & violist
• Scott Yoo, violinist

1990s

1990

• Dawn Kotoski
  Dawn Kotoski
  Dawn Kotoski is an American operatic soprano who has a substantial international opera career. She began her career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City during the late 1980s singing lighter lyric soprano and soubrette roles. She joined the Vienna State Opera for the 1993–1994 season...
  
  , soprano
• Todd Palmer, clarinetist
• Alex Slobodyanik, pianist

1991

• Borromeo String Quartet
  Borromeo String Quartet
  The Borromeo String Quartet is an American string quartet, in residence at the New England Conservatory since 1992. They have performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at numerous festivals and in many distinguished chamber music series...
  
  
• Emma Johnson, clarinetist
• Graham Scott, pianist
• Mikhail Yanovitsky, pianist

1992

• Christopheren Nomura, baritone
• Kyoko Saito, soprano
• St. Lawrence String Quartet

1993

• Camellia Johnson, soprano

1994

• Dan Coleman
  Dan Coleman
  Dan Coleman is a composer and music publisher.He studied music at the University of Pennsylvania, the Juilliard School, and the Aspen Music Festival and School where his teachers included George Tsontakis, George Crumb, William Bolcom, Robert Beaser, Stephen Albert and Bruce Adolphe...
  
  , composer-in-residence
• Alban Gerhardt
  Alban Gerhardt
  Alban Gerhardt is a German cellist. He has performed as a soloist with many internationally known orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.-Early life:...
  
  , cellist
• Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cellist
• Makoto Nakura, marimbist
• Nokuthula Ngwenyama
  Nokuthula Ngwenyama
  Nokuthula Ngwenyama is an American solo violist of Zimbabwean and Japanese descent. She is a recording artist under EDI Records, and has taught at the Jacob's School of Music at Indiana University.- Background :...
  
  , violist

1995

• Diana Doherty
  Diana Doherty
  Diana Doherty is an Australian oboist, currently Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.-Life:Diana Doherty was born in Brisbane, where she began her education. She attended Brisbane State High School...
  
  , oboist
• Fazil Say
  Fazil Say
  Fazıl Say , is a Turkish pianist and composer born in Ankara, Turkey.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Ankara, Turkey, Fazıl Say started playing the piano at the age of four. He continued his music training in Ankara State Conservatory as a student of Special Status for Highly Talented Children and...
  
  , pianist

1996

• Romain Guyot, clarinetist
• Freddy Kempf
  Freddy Kempf
  Freddy Kempf is a British pianist born in Croydon to a German father and a Japanese mother. He now lives in Berlin.-Early career:He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury and the Royal Academy of Music...
  
  , pianist
• Adam Neiman, pianist
• Joo-Young Oh, violinist
• Kevin Puts
  Kevin Puts
  Kevin Matthew Puts is an American composer.-Life:Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner,...
  
  , composer-in-residence
• Yayoi Toda, violinist
• Gregory Turay, tenor

1997

• Anton Barachovsky, violinist
• Alexander Chaushian, cellist
• Wendy Chen, pianist
• Jeremy Denk
  Jeremy Denk
  Jeremy Denk is an American classical pianist. He has performed with numerous orchestras and presented world premieres by Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, Kevin Puts, and Ned Rorem. He frequently performs with violinists Joshua Bell and Soovin Kim. He has recorded several chamber works as well as a solo...
  
  , pianist
• Karen Gomyo, violinist
• Stefan Milenkovich, violinist
• Shunsuke Sato
  Shunsuke Sato
  is a Japanese born, classical and baroque violinist and violist.-Musical activities:Sato started his concert career in the United States at 12, by winning the Young Concert Artists first prize in 1997, performing throughout North America, Europe, and Japan as a soloist with orchestras such as...
  
  , violinist

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
  Mimi Stillman
  Mimi Stillman is one of the most highly acclaimed flutists in the concert world today. "A magically gifted flutist, a breath of fresh air" The Washington Post,"A seasoned artist of spirited, unbridled virtuosity" New York Concert Review, "Technically agile and imaginative in her use of color" The...
  
  , flutist
• Elina Vähälä
  Elina Vähälä
  Elina Vähälä is a Finnish violinist. Vähälä made her concert debut aged 12 with the Lahti Symphony. Elina Vähälä has released CDs and given many concerts.- External links :*...
  
  , violinist
• Gwyneth Wentink, harpist

2000s

2000

• Ju-Young Baek, violinist
• Mason Bates
  Mason Bates
  Mason Bates is an American composer of symphonic music. Distinguished by his innovations in orchestration and large-scale form, Bates is best known for his expansion of the orchestra to include electronics...
  
  , composer
• Catrin Finch
  Catrin Finch
  Catrin Anna Finch is a Welsh harpist born in Llanon, Ceredigion, Wales. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music...
  
  , harpist
• Viviane Hagner
  Viviane Hagner
  Viviane Hagner is an internationally renowned violinist. She was born in Munich, Germany in 1977, to a German father and Korean mother.Hagner made her international debut at the age of 12, and one year later performed as soloist at the historic "Joint Concert" in Tel Aviv with the Berlin and...
  
  , violinist
• Paavali Jumppanen, pianist
• Mayuko Kamio
  Mayuko Kamio
  Mayuko Kamio is a Japanese violinist.Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius from 1727, previously owned by Joseph Joachim, on loan from Suntory...
  
  , violinist

2001

• Alexandre Bouzlov, cellist
• Marius Brenciu, tenor
• Courtenay Budd, soprano
• Thomas Cerroll, cellist
• Yunjie Chen, pianist
• Claremont Piano Trio
• Alezander Fiterstein, clarinetist

2002

• Robert Belinic, guitarist
• Anton Belov
  Anton Belov
  Anton Belov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League .-References:...
  
  , baritone
• Daniel Kellogg
  Daniel Kellogg
  Daniel Kellogg is an American composer.Kellogg is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music composition, counterpoint and orchestration.-Life:...
  
  , composer
• Nicolas Kendall, violinist
• Vassily Primakov
  Vassily Primakov
  Vassily Primakov is an award-winning Russian concert pianist and recording artist known for his interpretations of Chopin.-Education:...
  
  , pianist
• Naoko Takada, marimbist

2003

• Laura Buruiana, cellist
• David Guerrier, trumpeter
• Antoine Tamestit
  Antoine Tamestit
  Antoine Tamestit is a French violist.Tamestit, who studied at the Paris Conservatory, has performed at such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, and Carnegie Hall...
  
  , 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
  Wonny Song
  -See also:* Pianists* Canadian classical music* Young Concert Artists-External links:* * * * at Zankel Hall, from The New York Times...
  
  , 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-Wang
  Louis Schwizgebel-Wang
  Louis Schwizgebel-Wang is a Swiss pianist. Born in Geneva, the son of a Chinese mother and a Swiss father, he began studying piano at a very young age with Franz Josefovski...
  
  , pianist

2008

• Pius Cheung
  Pius Cheung
  Pius Cheung is a marimbist and composer, called " a young Chinese-Canadian virtuoso," by the New York Times. -Recorded works:* Goldberg Variations BWV 988, J.S. Bach, arranged for solo marimba...
  
  , marimbist
• Narek Hakhnazaryan, cellist

2009

• Charlie Albright
  Charlie Albright
  Charlie Albright is an American-born classical pianist. He is a 2010 Gilmore Young Artist, an official Steinway Artist, and is under management with Young Concert Artists, Inc...
  
  , pianist
• Caroline Goulding, violinist
• Aleksandr Haskin, flautist
• Jennifer Johnson
  Jennifer Johnson (American mezzo-soprano)
  Jennifer Johnson is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Webster University and a Master of Music degree from Rice University where she was a pupil of Kathleen Kaun. In 2008 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2009 she won the...
  
  , mezzo-soprano