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Remember when Fang Zhang smiled at Mark Wigglesworth during the most virtuosic part of his concerto? 😀
#bbcyoungmusician
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A massive congratulations to our BBC Young Musician 2020 winner Fang Zhang! We're delighted for you 😀
Also, thank you and congratulations to finalists Annemarie Federle and Ewan Millar - fantastic performances from both.
It was really a wonderful Grand Final.
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So proud of Sheku!
🎻👏 From winning
@BBCYoungMus
in 2016 to playing at the
#RoyalWedding
in 2018, cellist
@ShekuKM
performs for the guests.
#HarryAndMeghan
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Bravo to oboist Ewan Millar, winner of the Woodwind Category Final of
#BBCYoungMusician
2020.
Many congratulations to you and to all of our woodwind finalists for wowing the judges and audience. You are superstars! ❤️
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Join us at 8pm tonight on BBC FOUR to watch these three amazing young talents take part in the GRAND FINAL of BBC Young Musician 2020 with the wonderful
@BBCPhilharmonic
and conductor Mark Wigglesworth.
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Take a bow Annemarie Federle, winner of the Brass Category Final of
#BBCYoungMusician
2020. Just brilliant.
What an amazing bunch of young people we heard perform tonight. We're so proud of your talents! 👏 👏 👏
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We are so happy to announce the 25 Category Finalists taking part in
#BBCYoungMusician
2020:
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Less than 2 hours to go until we are on air
@BBCFOUR
- Just enough time for a quick photo, with our incredible guest artist
@ShekuKM
@THSHBirmingham
- We are so proud of you Sheku!
#bbcyoungmusician
#GetInspired
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Huge congratulations from the very proud
#bbcyoungmusician
team
@ShekuKM
&
@JessGillamSax
on your incredible and well deserved success!
#ClassicBRITs
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So proud of our three fantastic finalists! Maxim Calver (cello), Rob Burton (sax) and Lauren Zhang (piano)... And on to their full concertos with
@TheCBSO
in the Grand Final this Sunday at 7pm!
@BBCFOUR
@THSHBirmingham
@bbcmusic
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TOMORROW NIGHT, 19.00pm on
@BBCFOUR
At long last, we get to hear these five incredibly talented Category Winners take part in the Semi Final of BBC Young Musician 2020. It's a feast for your ears!
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Congratulations to Thomas Luke - winner of the Keyboard Category Final!
And congratulations to all the Category Finalists for an amazing evening of performances. We think you are all just amazing!
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Many congratulations to Sheku Kanneh-Mason - what a star!
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And there we have it, the end of BBC Young Musician 2020 Category Finals. (Totes emosh!)
We will be back with the Semi Final and Grand Final as soon as we are able to, but in the meantime, let's take a moment to appreciate each of these 25 young people's talent and brilliance ❤️
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An exhilarating performance by Matthew Brett earns him a place in the Semi-Final. Bravo, Matthew! Missed it? You can watch all of the performances in full on our website:
#bbcyoungmusician
#percussion
@BBCFOUR
@bbcmusic
@BirmCons
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The BBC Young Musician 2022 GRAND FINAL
🎶 Five incredibly talented young finalists will compete this Thursday with
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BridgewaterHall
Tickets available at
🎺🎻🥁🎹🎶 DON'T MISS OUT!
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This is how to watch the
#BBCYoungMusician
series.
It starts this Sunday with
@annalapwood
3rd May - 19.00 - BBC FOUR
Then watch the FULL CONCERT on the
@BBCiPlayer
#Cultureinquaratine
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The search for the next
#bbcyoungmusician
begins this Friday with 5 incredible strings finalists
@BBCFOUR
,7.30. Missed our anniversary celebration
#40yearsyoung
last night? Catch up here
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BBC Young Musician 2020 returns this weekend on
@BBCFour
🎷🎹 Friday 30th at 19.00 is THE SEMI FINAL. 🎻 📯 🥁
Sunday 2nd May at 20.00 is THE GRAND FINAL. 🎼 🎵 Here's a small glimpse of what we've been waiting a whole calendar year to see 😀
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And the three finalists are.... Jess Gillam, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Ben Goldscheider.
#BBCYoungMusician
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What a lovely performance from our Strings Category Finalist Huw Boucher, entertaining his street performing Somewhere Over the Rainbow 🌈 with his neighbour Rebecca Warner.
#clapforkeyworkers
#thankyouNHS
#thankyou
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Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in the BBC Young Musician 2020 Semi Final.
Thank you to the judges, and congratulations to the Finalists!
(Won't say who they are yet in case there are people out there who haven't caught up and don't want spoilers!)
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*Spoiler!*
Winner of the String Category Final of
#bbcyoungmusician
is....
Coco Tomita!
Huge congratulations to Coco. And thanks to all our incredible strings finalists who were just so inspiring!
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What a FINAL! Absolutely astonishing! We have been moved to tears over the course of the competition. We wish ALL our finalists the best of luck!
#bbcyoungmusician
#GetInspired
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This Friday it's the turn of five outstanding woodwind musicians to take centre stage all hoping to win the third place in the Semi-Final. Watch
@BBCFOUR
7:30
@bbcmusic
@bbcstudios
@BirmCons
#woodwind
#bbcyoungmusician
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We are incredibly proud of our three AMAZING finalists
@bengoldscheider
@JessGillamSax
@thekannehmasons
. They are fantastic! Bright futures!
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Throw back to
@NickyBenedetti
sharing her wisdom with our 2016 finalists
@ShekuKM
@bengoldscheider
@JessGillamSax
Want to be part of the magic?
#BBCYoungMusician
2020 is closing soon so get your applications ready:
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Our third
#bbcyoungmusician
Semi-Finalist is confirmed - congratulations to Robert Burton on an incredible saxophone showcase! 🎷🎶 You can catch up on all of the woodwind finalists' stunning performances on our website:
@bbcmusic
@BBCFOUR
#woodwind
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A reminder that
#BBCYoungMusician
2020 starts tomorrow!
Sunday 3rd May, 19.00 on BBC FOUR
...In case you didn't know already :)
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BBC Young Musician 2020 has launched! Visit our website for instructions on how to enter.
Closing date is 31st July 📆
We can’t wait to meet all the amazing young musicians out there!
Good luck!🌟
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📢 We are delighted to announce the 25 Category Finalists taking part in BBC Young Musician 2022
💻
Congratulations to this incredibly talented bunch of young musicians! 👏
You can see them competing
@SaffronHallSW
from 6th - 10th July 🎶
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Delighted to say that BBC Young Musician 2024 is open for applications.
All details can be found here:
We will be glad to answer any questions you have via young.musician
@bbc
.co.uk
We can’t wait to find the next generation of incredible young talent!
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Rehearsals underway for
#bbcyoungjazzmusician
final at the beautiful
@cadoganhall
as part of the
@LondonJazzFest
Hearing live music with my actual ears for first time since March. Crying.
😭❤️
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Congratulations to all our incredible keyboard finalists, such a joy to share their fabulous music-making. And especially to Lauren, winner of this year’s keyboard final! 👏👏
#bbcyoungmusician
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This is fantastic news for our strings winner Coco Tomita! Huge congratulations to you Coco, and well deserved! 🎻💜
Congratulations to
#Coco
for winning last night's
@BBCYoungMus
String Finals.
We are delighted to announce that Orchid has signed an exclusive agreement with Coco to record her debut album- so watch this space!
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🆕 All next week - a musical feast for your eyes and ears!
The BBC Young Musician CATEGORY FINALS 2022
📺 Tune in from Sunday - Thursday, 7pm on BBC Four
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Get ready to be wowed! In just 1 hour it's the turn of our percussion finalists 🎶✨ Join us tonight at 7.30
@BBCFOUR
for 5 powerful and dynamic performances!
@bbcmusic
#percussion
#BBCYoungMusician
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Happiness is… knowing that BBC Young Musician 2022 starts TONIGHT! 😃
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This Sunday (17th May) five brilliant Brass Category Finalist take to the stage - set your reminders! ⏰
Here is a very tiny little flavour...
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And here we are....
Set is ready for the Keyboard Category Final, and we’re ready for
#bbcyoungmusician
2020 to kick off 😁
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Congratulations to all five of our incredible brass finalists, all a joy to work with and what a night that was. Their performances are available in full on our website..
And of course congrats to Isobel! Our fourth semi-finalist! 👏
#bbcyoungmusician
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Very lovely to be annoucing that
@annalapwood
will be presenting the
#bbcyoungmusician
highlights programmes on
@bbcfour
Dates of transmission to be announced, but they will be going out later in the Spring.
Thanks for your kind comments Anna!
NEWS: I'm BEYOND excited to be presenting
@BBCFOUR
's TV coverage of BBC Young Musician 2020 *Faints*
Filming this was undoubtedly one of the best weeks of my life, particularly as it was the last week of normality before lockdown. What a team ❣️
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🆕 All next week - a musical feast for your eyes and ears! 🎶
The BBC Young Musician CATEGORY FINALS 2022
📺 Tune in from Sunday - Thursday, 7pm on BBC Four &
@BBCiPlayer
Followed by the THE GRAND FINAL
📺 Sunday 9 Oct, 7pm, BBC Four &
@BBCiPlayer
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Did we mention its our 40th Anniversary this year .....
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Yes, it’s true.... tickets for the Grand Final of BBC Young Musician are on sale now 🥳
🎺 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
🥁 Sunday 10th May, 2020
🎻 don’t miss out on hearing three supremely talented young people perform a concerto with
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BridgewaterHall
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📢 ATTENTION talented young musicians 📢
🆕 BBC Young Musician is BACK! 🎼
Applications for the 2022 competition are now OPEN
👇 Apply now for
#bbcyoungmusician
2022 👇
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BBC Young Musician 2020, the countdown has begun.
The first of five Category Finals will be broadcast this coming Sunday 3rd May on BBC FOUR at 7pm
We're kicking things off with the Keyboard Category Final.
Be prepared to be dazzled!
#BBCYoungMusician
#CultureinQuarantine
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Tune in tonight to watch these five marvellous musicians play for the title of BBC Young Musician Strings Category Winner.
7pm on
@BBCFOUR
for the highlights with
@annalapwood
and
@MatthewTrusler
8pm on
@BBCiPlayer
for the complete concert
What a treat!
#BBCYoungMusician
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Launching soon... 📢
🎼 BBC Young Musician 2022
More information about how to apply coming soon, but in the meantime, tell all your friends 🎹🥁🎺🎸🎻
#bbcyoungmusician
#youngmusician
📢
#WatchThisSpace
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At last! We’ve been working towards this for a whole year now. So excited to finally be able to go ahead 😁
Delayed due to COVID-19,
@BBCYoungMus
2020 now returns to
@BBCFOUR
&
@BBCRadio3
for Semi Final and Grand Final - broadcast over one weekend this Spring.
Details of the five exceptional semi-finalists and of the broadcasts below:
#BBCYoungMusician
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Its the Semi Finals tonight
@BirmCons
- What 5 faces are behind these doors?! For those lucky enough to have a ticket you won't have to wait long! For our audience at home - 11th May!
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Thank you to all our semi-finalists and accompanists for their beautiful performances tonight! In awe of their talent
#GetInspired
#bbcyoungmusician
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So glad to hear you are on the mend
@clemencybh
and to hear how music has helped you. Best wishes to you from all of us at
#bbcyoungmusician
for a speedy recovery ❤️
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Only an hour to go and we can't wait to share the first performances of the series with you! Don't miss our super talented strings finalists tonight, 7.30,
@BBCFOUR
#bbcyoungmusician
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It seems there are quite a few of you with hard choices to make about what to watch tonight. In that case we promise not to tweet any spoilers! We suggest others do the same out of courtesy for those who will be catching up later on BBC iPlayer.
#nospoilers
#bbcyoungmusician
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Thank you so much to our sublime conductor Mark Wigglesworth and the brilliant
@BBCSO
, a joy and a pleasure to work with them.
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Next episode is tonight! Here are the woodwind wonders…
7pm, BBC 4️⃣
🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷
(Well actually only one saxophonist, but there is no emoji for clarinet and flute!)
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Delighted to welcome the Strings Category Finalists to
@SaffronHallSW
Wishing them the best of luck for tomorrow! 🎶🎵🎻
#bbcyoungmusician
#strings
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Happy Birthday BBC! 🎂🎈🎉
Here's to celebrating the wonderful moments of
@BBCYoungMus
through recent years.
Thankful the
@BBC
has showcased such extraordinary talent since 1978.
#bbc100
#happybirthday
#100years
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Delighted to present our complete line up of Grand Finalists for BBC Young Musician 2022!
🎹🥁🎷🎺🎻
😄😄😄😄😄
Sunday, BBC FOUR, 7pm
Meet the five amazing musicians competing to be named BBC Young Musician 2022.
Watch BBC Four and
@BBCiPlayer
from 7pm on Sunday to find out who will take home the prestigious award:
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So excited to announce the new series of BBC Young Musician…
Our fabulous judges
@alisonbalsom
@AlexisFfrench
@FoxyMoron87
Our wonderful presenter
@JessGillamSax
And looking forward to working with
@BBCNOW
and conductor
@GernonBen
at the Grand Final
🎉
Details here:
📢 BBC Young Musician returns for 2024 across the BBC!
The ultimate UK talent contest for young classical music performers is back on
@BBCTwo
, BBC Four,
@BBCRadio3
,
@BBCiPlayer
and
@BBCSounds
this September and October
More ➡️
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Congratulations to all our FANTASTIC finalists - we’re so proud of your talent and musicianship. You are all winners to us! But also, amazigly well done to Xhosa Cole - you are an inspiration!
#BBCYoungJazzMusican
#talent
#inspiration
#XhosaCole
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Congratulations to 17 year old Martin James Bartlett who wins BBC Young Musician 2014!
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"Cooler than three cucumbers in a freezer in an igloo during the last ice age" 😂
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*Spoiler alert!*
Scroll past quickly if you don't want to know the result of the Percussion Category Final of
#bbcyoungmusician
Huge congratulations to Fang Zhang, crowned winner of the Percussion Final. Well done to him, and to all our finalists. You're all fantastic!
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Ah, do you remember the good old days when we could sit in a room full of other people to watch a performance?
The stage is set for the Semi Final here, judges are seated, performance is about to start - 7pm BBC FOUR.
#bbcyoungmusician2020
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Fancy a sneak peak at the Grand Final?
➡️This Sunday
➡️7pm
➡️BBC FOUR
Presenting:
@JessGillamSax
,
@AlexisFfrench
and Josie d’Arby
Our judges:
@annalapwood
,
@ToksDada
@GernonBen
@emmablox1
@ShankarAnoushka
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This Sunday 10th May, these five outstanding woodwind players take to the stage and boy do they wow the judges!
Highlights coverage with
@annalapwood
is on
@BBCFOUR
at 7pm.
The full concert is on
@BBCiPlayer
from 8pm.
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We can't wait for our 5 super-talented category winners to perform again in tonight's semi-final! Tune in at 7.30
@BBCFOUR
@bbcmusic
#bbcyoungmusician
@BBCRadio3
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Big ❤️❤️❤️ to Lauren Zhang, our wonderful 2018 winner
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Many congratulations to saxophonist Jess who won the Woodwind Category Final of
#bbcyoungmusician
. Inspiring!
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Tonight is the night were five brilliant young musicians lock horns... and tubas and trombones ... 😂 in a bid to become the winner of the Brass Category Final.
Highlights at 7pm on
@BBCFOUR
Full concert at 8pm on
@BBCiPlayer
#BBCYoungMusician
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TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! And we are SO excited to be back on your TVs tonight.
Join us at 19.00 on
@BBC
FOUR to watch the highlights of the Keyboard Final.
OR watch the full concert from 20.00 on
@BBCiPlayer
Ready to be amazed by the most brilliant young pianists? We are :)
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Very proud that three of the five nominated for Best Classical Artist at the global awards are BBC Young Musician alumni. Best of luck to
@NickyBenedetti
@ShekuKM
and
@JessGillamSax
- wishing you every success!
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Our last Category Final is Keyboard
TONIGHT, 7pm, BBC 4️⃣
With these epic performances, they’ve certainly got the KEYS to our heart! 😜
Who will join the other category winners to compete in the Grand Final?
Below:
Duru Erdogan
Firoze Madon
Jacky Zhang
Dida Condria
Ethan Loch
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Introducing the next percussionist taking part in Sunday's Category Final - meet Isaac Harari!
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Prepare to be wowed as five inspiring pianists play to impress the judges and earn the last spot in the
#bbcyoungmusician
semi-final! Tonight, 7.30
@BBCFOUR
@bbcmusic
#piano
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Don't miss tonight's Woodwind Final, 7:30
@BBCFOUR
Enjoy an evening of dazzling performances from 5 exceptional players all hoping for a spot in the
#bbcyoungmusician
Semi-Final!
@bbcmusic
#woodwind
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Our search for the next
#bbcyoungmusician
continues tonight at 7:30 on
@BBCFOUR
Tune in to watch 5 spectacular
#brass
performers, all aiming to blow the judges away and win a place in the Semi-Final! 🎶✨🎬
@bbcmusic
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Get inspired TONIGHT 8PM celebrating 40 years of
@BBCYoungMus
and see where it's taken the amazing 2016 finalists
@ShekuKM
@bengoldscheider
@JessGillamSax
@BBCFOUR
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Don't forget that it's the Percussion Category Final this Sunday, 24th May.
Highlights with
@annalapwood
on
@BBCFOUR
at 7pm
(With guest appearance from
@JessGillamSax
and Owen Gunnell)
Full concert available on
@BBCiPlayer
from 8pm
It's going to be bang-tastic... 😂😄
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The Category Finals come to a conclusion this Sunday - 31st May. 😢
Five more astonishing string players perform for the title of
#bbcyoungmusician
Strings Category Winner 2020.
On Sunday, tune in at 7pm on
@BBCFOUR
Or 8pm on
@BBCiPlayer
for every single note.
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📢 The BBC Young Musician 2022 GRAND FINAL will take place
@BridgewaterHall
🎶 Thursday 29 September 6pm
Tickets available at
DON'T MISS OUT!
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Good morning Manchester! We’re here
@RNCMvoice
for regional auditions for BBC YM 2020. Can’t wait to meet the next generation of incredible young musicians.
#talentedteenagers
#talent
#musicians
#ClassicalMusic
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📢 The BBC Young Musician 2022 CATEGORY FINALS are taking place
@SaffronHallSW
🎻 STRINGS Wed 6 July, 7pm
🎶 WOODWIND Thur 7 July, 7pm
🎺 BRASS Fri 8 July, 7pm
🥁 PERCUSSION Sat 9 July, 7pm
🎹 KEYBOARD Sun 10 July, 6pm
Tickets available at
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