📣 Meet our new 2026 YCAT Artists! 📣
After a wonderful day of final auditions, we couldn't be more delighted to introduce five new musicians to the YCAT family!
🎹 Itamar Carmeli (piano) - @itamarcarmeli
🎶 Willard Carter (cello) - @willardcartercello
🎹 Callum McLachlan (piano) - @callummclachlan_
✨ Ewan Millar (oboe) - @ewanmillaroboe
🎻 Pauline van der Rest (violin) - @paulinevanderrest
⭐ We're especially excited to share that Willard Carter has been chosen as our 2026 YCAT Anniversary Artist, receiving an enhanced package of support during his first year on our roster.
These outstanding artists become part of our global community of emerging talent, receiving international management, performance debuts at iconic venues including Wigmore Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and tailored career development.
Congratulations, all! 🎉
Thank you to all of our incredible finalists, their collaborative pianists, our panel, the team at Wigmore Hall, and everyone who came along in support, for such a joyful day 🙏
Find out more via the link in the YCAT bio 🔗
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“What is YCAT, actually?” 🤔
Our CEO Alasdair Tait clears up a few of the most common misconceptions.
At its heart, YCAT is about understanding each artist as an individual - creatively, professionally, and personally - and supporting them at a pivotal moment in their career.
#YCATrust #YCATauditions2026 #auditions #classicalmusicians #YCATartists
Join @hanachangviolin this weekend with pianist Nikola Meeuwsen for an afternoon of extraordinary chamber music at the Teatime Classics series at the @elbphilharmonie Hamburg. ✨
🎶 Mozart, Takemitsu, Franck
📍 Laeiszhalle Hamburg
🗓 16 May, 4pm
🎟️ /de/programm/teatime-classics/27679
Here Hana performs Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor Op.82 with @jonathanwware at Wigmore Hall.
#YCATartists
As part of his recent programme exploring ideas of reimagination and national identity, Amiri Harewood (@amirihare_ ) performs Enrique Granados’ Valses poéticos - the traditional Viennese waltz infused with Spanish character.
Recorded at the @concertgebouw by @gryckofilms - full recording on Youtube!
🔗 link in bio
#YCATartists #pianist #piano
🎻✨ @concertartistsguild and @ycatrust are delighted to welcome @joshuabrownviolinist and @willardcartercello as shared artists for 2026.
As the CAG-YCAT partnership enters its seventh year, both artists will receive transatlantic support across Europe and North America, from concert bookings to career mentorship and international representation.
🎬 Joshua - Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
🎬 Willard - Britten: Cello Sonata in C major, Op.65
#YCATrust #ConcertArtistsGuild
I couldn’t be more thrilled to be joining @ycatrust as an artist. What a dreamy organisation who have supported so many unbelievable musicians. Still riding very high from the final last week at Wigmore Hall.
Thanks to @tingaling_photography for the gorgeous shots throughout the day.
As always big love to @tomosboyles for being the absolute best duo partner 🦸♂️
I find myself more grateful than I thought possible in this moment.
Making my Wigmore Hall debut and becoming a YCAT artist was a dream.
Without my family, friends and teachers, naturally all of this would be impossible. I’ve simply had more good fortune than I deserve to have such caring people around me.
I will keep trying my best for the music. It is the most precious gift and I can’t quite believe I get to do it everyday.
Onwards and upwards:)
📸 @tingaling_photography@ycatrust@wigmore_hall@kgerstein
Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor was premiered in 1917 with Claude Debussy himself at the piano - his last public performance before his death in 1918.
Here, @charlottespruit performs the sonata’s opening pages at the beautiful @concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with @anguswebster at the piano - full recording on YouTube (link in bio).
#debussy #violin #violinist #charlottespruit
Now on YouTube! 🎬
@samratmajumderguitar ’s programme of Spanish music for guitar including Fernando Sor’s Grand Solo Op.14.
Stay tuned for more…
#YCATartists #YCATrust #classicalguitarist #classicalguitar
No better way to start your day than with CAG-YCAT artist @samratmajumderguitar 's sparkling performance gracing your feed 🎵 Enjoy this clip of his Praeludium & Fantasia No.7 (arr. J. Hinojosa) performed @wigmore_hall .
Want to hear more of Samrat and hear about his musical journey? Join us at the CAG Louis and Susan Meisel Artist Showcase & Celebration on May 11th - visit the #linkinbio for details and tickets!
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#CAGartist #YCATartist #musician #guitar
Béla Kovács שלום עליכם ‘Sholem Alekhem’ with the cutie @joseph_havlat
a very special moment performing this melody in one of the most beautiful venues in the world @concertgebouw
The eyebrows say it all..
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