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Alumni

Young Concert Artists has been dedicated to discovering and launching the careers of exceptional young musicians for 60 years. Our alumni, active in every corner of the classical music world, embody our success. They solo with the top orchestras, perform on the most prestigious concert stages, serve as artistic directors, conductors, and professors, and are recognized as some of the most important ambassadors for this exquisite art form. With such celebrated names as Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Dawn Upshaw, and Pinchas Zukerman, YCA alumni stand as a testament to the importance of our mission.

Music institutions and festivals throughout the world led by our alumni include:

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
The Bridgehampton Music Festival
TASHI
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YCA Alumni can currently be heard on thousands of recordings featuring all major labels and have won innumerable Grammy Awards.

Our alumni also serve as professors at many of the world’s leading educational institutions including:

Harvard
Yale
M.I.T.
Seoul University in Korea
New England Conservatory
The Juilliard School
The Detmold Conservatory
The Paris Conservatoire

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“Young Concert Artists is a trailblazing organization that has launched into professional orbit more than 100 important talents, including Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax and the Tokyo String Quartet.”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

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  • Sanford Allen, Violin, '61
  • Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin, '61
  • Richard Goode, piano, '61
  • Jesse Levine, viola, '61
  • Paula Robison, flute, '61
  • Joel Shapiro, piano, '61
  • Ruth Sommers, cello, '61
  • Ilana Vered, piano, '61
  • Kenneth Goldsmith, violin, '62
  • Ruth Laredo, piano, '62
  • Robert Martin, cello, '62
  • Margaret Schecter, flute, '62
  • Lawrence L. Smith, piano, '62
  • Inger Wikstrom, piano, '62
  • Luis García-Renart, cello, '63
  • Chandler Goetting, trumpet, '63
  • Yoko Matsuda, violin, '63
  • Satoko Takemae, piano, '63
  • Edward Auer, piano, '64
  • Mauricio Fuks, violin, '64
  • Jung-Ja Kim, piano, '64
  • Mary Beth Peil, soprano, '64
  • Toby Saks, cello, '64
  • Paul Green, clarinet, '65
  • Ko Iwasaki, cello, '65
  • Max Neuhaus, percussion, '65
  • Michael Oelbaum, piano, '65
  • Murray Perahia, piano, '65
  • Lorraine Prieur, piano, '65
  • Paul Zukofsky, violin, '65
  • Nerine Barrett, piano, '66
  • Christiane Edinger, violin, '66
  • Donald Weilerstein, violin, '66
  • Pinchas Zukerman, violin, '66
  • Joan Benner, soprano, '67
  • Nobuko Imai, viola, '67
  • Joseph Kalichstein, piano, '67
  • Arthur Thompson, baritone, '67
  • Marcus Thompson, viola, '67
  • Hiroko Yajima, viola, '67
  • Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin, '68
  • Joyce Mathis, soprano, '68
  • Anthony Newman, hapsichord, '68
  • Ursula Oppens, piano, '68
  • Fred Sherry, cello, '68
  • Michael Webster, clarinet, '68
  • Gita Karasik, piano, '69
  • Jeffrey Solow, cello, '69
  • Mari-Elizabeth Morgan, piano, '70
  • The Tokyo String Quartet, '70
  • Eugenia Zukerman, flute, '70
  • Joy Blackett, mezzo-soprano, '71
  • Christoph Henkel, cello, '71
  • Speculum Musicae, '71
  • Rolf Schulte, violin, '71
  • Mona Golabek, piano, '72
  • Francoise Regnat, piano, '72
  • Peter Rejto, cello, '72
  • Emanuel Ax, piano, '73
  • Ani Kavafian, violin, '73
  • Diane Walsh, piano, '73
  • Heiichiro Ohyama, viola, '74
  • Robert Routch, french horn, '74
  • Jeffrey Swann, piano, '74
  • Ronald Thomas, cello, '74
  • Daniel Adni, piano, '76
  • Boris Bloch, piano, '76
  • Stephanie Brown, piano, '76
  • Chilingirian String Quartet, '76
  • Sung-Ju Lee, violin, '76
  • Daniel Phillips, violin, '76
  • Steven De Groote, piano, '77
  • Colin Carr, cello, '78
  • Lynn Chang, violin, '78
  • Robert Cohen, cello, '78
  • Ida Kavafian, violin, '78
  • Franck Avril, oboe, '79
  • Sergei Edelmann, piano, '79
  • Zehava Gal, mezzo-soprano, '79
  • Beverly Hoch, soprano, '79
  • Marya Martin, flute, '79
  • Toby Appel, viola, '80
  • Chantal Juillet, violin, '80
  • Stephen Burns, trumpet, '81
  • Marvis Martin, soprano, '81
  • Christopher O'Riley, piano, '81
  • The Endellion String Quartet, '81
  • The Mendelssohn String Quartet, '81
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, '81
  • Carter Brey, '82
  • William Sharp, baritone, '82
  • Dominique Weber, piano, '82
  • Jamie Bolipata, piano, '83
  • Ben Holt, baritone, '83
  • Benny Kim, viola, '83
  • Anne-Marie McDermott, piano, '83
  • Jeremy Menuhin, piano, '83
  • Christopher Trakas, baritone, '83
  • Douglas Boyd, oboe, '84
  • Daniel McKelway, clarinet, '84
  • Paul Meyer, clarinet, '84
  • Dawn Upshaw, soprano, '84
  • Erik Berchot, piano, '85
  • Marc Laforet, piano, '85
  • Gary Schocker, flute, '85
  • Anne Akiko Meyers, violin, '86
  • Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano, '86
  • Christopher Costanza, cello, '86
  • Anthony De Mare, piano, '86
  • Yuval Fichman, piano, '86
  • Marcy Rosen, cello, '86
  • Eric Ruske, french horn, '86
  • Paul Shaw, piano, '86
  • Ory Shihor, piano, '86
  • Maurice Sklar, violin, '86
  • Hung-Kuan Chen, piano, '87
  • Rina Dokshinsky, piano, '87
  • Olli Mustonen, piano, '87
  • David Fedele, flute, '88
  • Eduardus Halim, piano, '88
  • Carl Halvorson, tenor, '88
  • Hexagon, '88
  • Ulrike Anima Mathé, violin '88
  • Asako Urushihara, violin, '88
  • Dmitri Berlinsky, violin, '89
  • Olivier Charlier, violin, '89
  • Chee-Yun, violin, '89
  • Juliette Kang, violin, '89
  • Scott St. John, violin, '89
  • Scott Yoo, violin, '89
  • Dawn Kotoski, soprano, '90
  • Todd Palmer, clarinet, '90
  • Emma Johnson, clarinet, '91
  • Graham Scott, piano, '91
  • The Borromeo String Quartet, '91
  • Mikhail Yanovitsky, piano, '91
  • Christopheren Nomura, baritone, '92
  • Kyoko Saito, soprano, '92
  • The St. Lawrence String Quartet, '92
  • Camellia Johnson, soprano, '93
  • Dan Coleman, composer, '94
  • Alban Gerhardt, cello, '94
  • Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cello, '94
  • Makoto Nakura, marimba, '94
  • Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola, '94
  • Diana Doherty, oboe, '95
  • Fazil Say, piano, '95
  • Romain Guyot, clarinet, '96
  • Freddy Kempf, piano, '96
  • Adam Neiman, piano, '96
  • Joo-Young Oh, violin, '96
  • Kevin Puts, composer, '96
  • Yayoi Toda, violin, '96
  • Gregory Turay, tenor, '96
  • Anton Barachovsky, violin, '97
  • Alexander Chaushian, cello, '97
  • Wendy Chen, piano, '97
  • Jeremy Denk, piano, '97
  • Karen Gomyo, violin, '97
  • Stefan Milenkovich, violin, '97
  • Shunsuke Sato, violin, '97
  • Kenji Bunch, composer, '98
  • Stephan Loges, baritone, '98
  • Alexander Mikhailuk, piano, '98
  • Naoko Shimizu, viola, '98
  • Vassilis Varvaresos, piano, '98
  • Timothy Fain, violin, '99
  • Martin Kasik, piano, '99
  • Rafal Kwiatkowski, cello, '99
  • Randall Scarlata, baritone, '99
  • Mimi Stillman, flute, '99
  • Elina Vähälä, violin, '99
  • Gwyneth Wentink, harp, '99
  • Ju-Young Baek, violin, '00
  • Maston Bates, composer, '00
  • Catrin Finch, harp, '00
  • Viviane Hagner, violin, 00
  • Mayuko Kamio, violin, '00
  • Paavali Jumppanen, piano, 00
  • Alexandre Bouzlov, cello, '01
  • Marcus Brenciu, tenor, '01
  • Courtenay Budd, soprano, '01
  • Thomas Carroll, cello, '01
  • Yunjie Chen, piano, '01
  • Claremont Piano Trio, '01
  • Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, '01
  • Robert Belinić, guitar, '02
  • Anton Belov, baritone, '02
  • Daniel Kellogg, composer, '02
  • Nicolas Kendall, violin, '02
  • Vassily Primakov, piano, '02
  • Naoko Takada, marimba, '02
  • Laura Buruiana, cello, '03
  • David Guerrier, trumpet, '03
  • Antoine Tamestit, viola, '03
  • Daxun Zhang, double bass, '03
  • Lise De la Salle, piano, '04
  • Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet, '04
  • Alexandre Pirojenko, piano, '04
  • Efe Baltacigil, cello, '05
  • Benjamion C.S. Boyle, composer, '05
  • Phillipe Castagner, tenor, '05
  • Jennifer Check, soprano, '05
  • Gleb Ivanov, piano, '05
  • Jupiter String Quartet, '05
  • Dora Seres, flute, '05
  • Wonny Song, piano, '05
  • Amedeo Modigliani Quartet, '06
  • Emmanuel Ceysson, harp, '06
  • Chu-Fang Huang, piano, '06
  • Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano, '06
  • Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano, '07
  • Benjamin Moser, piano, '07
  • Andrew Norman, composer, '07
  • Louis Schwizgebel, piano, '07
  • Ran Dank, piano, '08-09
  • Jeanine de Bique, soprano, '08-09
  • Hahn-Bin, violin, '08-09
  • Noé Inue, violin, '08-09
  • Carolina Ullrich, soprano, '08-09
  • Pius Cheung, marimba, '08
  • Narek Hakhnazayran, cello, '08
  • Ray Chen, violin, '08-09
  • Charlie Albright, piano, '09
  • Caroline Goulding, violin, '09
  • Aleksandr Haskin, flute, '09
  • Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano, '09
  • Benjamin Beilman, violin, '10
  • George Li, violin, '10
  • Veit Hertenstein, viola, '11
  • Paul Huang, violin, '11
  • Andrew Tyson, piano, '11
  • Julia Bullock, soprano, '12
  • Hermès Quartet, '12
  • David Hertzberg, composer, '12
  • Ji, piano, '12
  • Cicely Parnas, cello, '12
  • Aleksey Semenenko, violin, '12
  • Raphaël Sévère, clarinet, '13
  • Stephen Waarts, violin, '13
  • Yun-Chin Zhao, piano, '13
  • Daniel Lebhardt, piano, '14
  • Sang-Eun Lee, cello, '14
  • Edgar Moreau, cello, '14
  • Ziyu Shen, viola, '14
  • Seiya Ueno, flute, '14
  • Remi Geniet, piano, '15
  • Tomer Gewirtzman, piano, '15
  • Tonia Ko, composer, '15
  • Olivier Stankiewicz, oboe, '15
  • Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone, '15
  • Zorá String Quartet, '15
  • Lun Li, violin
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