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BBC Young Musician 2006 finalists announced
Five outstanding young performers have been chosen to perform in the BBC
Young Musician 2006 Final, which takes place at 2.00pm on Saturday 20 May at The Sage Gateshead.
The finalists are:
- Cordelia Williams, piano
(age 17, from Wiltshire,
studying in Manchester)
- Mark Simpson, clarinet
(age 17, from Liverpool, studying
in Manchester)
- David Massey, guitar
(age 18, from Welwyn Garden
City)
- Toby Kearney, percussion
(age 18, from Shropshire, studying
in Manchester)
- Huw Morgan, trumpet
(age 18, from South Wales,
studying in Manchester)
The winner will be announced at the conclusion of the
Final (Saturday 20 May, The Sage, Gateshead, 2.00-5.30pm), which
is broadcast on BBC TWO at
5.20pm the same afternoon.
The Final is supported
by the Tabor Foundation and will be performed in front of a sold-out
audience, and the finalists will perform with The
Northern Sinfonia conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.
The winner will be selected by a distinguished panel
of judges chaired by conductor Marin Alsop and including pianist
Angela Hewitt, clarinettist Dame
Thea King and Kathryn McDowell,
managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Violinist Nicola
Benedetti, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004, will perform
while the judges deliberate.
The winner receives the coveted title BBC
Young Musician of the Year and a BBC Young Musician Travel
Award to promote their musical studies as well as a Waterford Crystal
trophy.
The five finalists were selected from 25 exceptionally
talented young musicians who took part in the semi-finals,
broadcast on BBC FOUR each
night from Saturday 13 May to Wednesday 17 May.
The finalists' recitals are broadcast tonight (Thursday
18 May) on BBC FOUR at 9.00pm.
BBC Young Musician is a biennial
classical music competition aimed at discovering future classical
stars and exceptional musical talent and is firmly established
as Britain's premier classical music competition for young people.
Broadcast details:
BBC Young Musician 2006 - Finalists
Recitals
Thursday 18 May 9.00pm, BBC FOUR
BBC Young Musician 2006
- The Final
Saturday 20 May 5.20pm, BBC TWO
Notes to Editors
Panel of judges for the Final, BBC Young Musician
2006:
- Marin Alsop, Music Director
designate Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Principal
Conductor Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, chair
- Carlos Bonell, guitar
- Angela Hewitt, piano
- Dame Thea King,
clarinet
- Kathryn McDowell, Managing
Director London Symphony Orchestra
- Sergei Nakariakov,
trumpet
- Peter Sadlo, percussion
The BBC Young Musician of the Year competition for
keyboard, string, brass and woodwind players
was launched in 1978 by Humphrey Burton and the late Walter
Todds of the BBC's then television music department. Percussion
was
introduced as a fifth category in 1994.
Many previous winners and
finalists have gone on to develop major international careers,
among them Stephen Hough, Thomas
Adès and Nicola
Benedetti.
Repertoire:
Cordelia Williams
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor (Op 22)
Mark
Simpson
Nielsen - Clarinet Concerto
David Massey
Rodrigo - Fantasia
para un gentilhombre
Toby
Kearney
James MacMillan - Veni, veni, Emmanuel
Huw Morgan
Henri
Tomasi - Trumpet Concerto
Nicola Benedetti
Brahms - Scherzo in C minor ('Sonatensatz')
and Contemplation
(arr. Heifetz) [performed during judges' deliberation]
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