Category: Factual & Arts TV
Date: 13.02.2006
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician of the Year 2006 semi-finals are to be held at The Sage Gateshead each evening from Monday 20 to Friday 24 February 2006.
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Twenty-five outstanding young performers - five keyboard, percussion, string, woodwind and brass players - will compete for the five places in the final, which takes place at The Sage on Saturday 20 May.
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Both stages of the competition will be broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Television.
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To reach the semi-finals, the 25 young musicians have already progressed through three rounds of the competition - local auditions, regional finals and finally the quarter-finals, which took place at The Sage last December.
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Highlights of the semi-finals will be broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR in the week leading up to the final (15 to 19 May).
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The final of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician 2006 - which takes place at 2.00pm on Saturday 20 May - is broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TWO later the same day.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s biennial classical music competition is aimed at discovering future stars and exceptional musical talent, and has become firmly established as Britain's premier classical music competition for young people.
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Many previous winners and finalists have gone on to develop major international careers, among them Stephen Hough, Thomas Adès and Nicola Benedetti.
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The biennial competition for keyboard, string, brass and woodwind players was launched in 1978 by Humphrey Burton and the late Walter Todds of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Television's music department.
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Percussion was introduced as a fifth category in 1994, further broadening the scope of the competition.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician Artistic Administrator Jessica Brennan says: "The semi-finals are sure to be a week of thrilling music-making by the best young classical instrumentalists in the country, and I'm delighted that the competition is this year being hosted by one of the UK's most exciting music venues, The Sage Gateshead."
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician of the Year is open to a public audience - for ticket information contact The Sage Gateshead Box Office on 0191 443 4661.
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Notes to Editors
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Dates of semi-finals (all at The Sage Gateshead):
Keyboard, Monday 20 February, 7.00pm
Percussion, Tuesday 21 February, 7.00pm
Woodwind, Wednesday 22 February, 7.00pm
Brass, Thursday 23 February, 7.00pm
Strings, Friday 24 February, 7.00pm
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The semi-finalists are:
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Keyboard
Lydia Scadding, Somerset, age 17
Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Middlesex, age 16
Melissa Gore, Oxfordshire, age 19
David Secchi, Somerset, age 17
Cordelia Williams, Wiltshire, age 17
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Percussion
Katy Hebditch, Somerset, age 15
Oliver Lowe, London, age16
David Elliott, Dorset, age 16
Toby Kearney, Shropshire, age 17
Daniel Jones, Nottinghamshire, age 18
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Woodwind
Suzanne Thorn (oboe) Essex, age 18
Helen Wilson (flute) North Yorkshire, age 16
Mark Simpson (clarinet) Merseyside, age 17
Emily Ross (oboe) Hertfordshire, age 16
Harry Winstanley (flute) Kent, age 17
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Brass
Huw Morgan (trumpet) South Wales, age 18
Stephen Sykes (trombone) Somerset, age 15
Sasha Koushk-Jalali (tuba) Hampshire, age 18
Aledander Edmundson (French Horn) Lancashire, age 15
Ryan Gray (euphonium) Northern Ireland, age 17
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Strings
Meherban Gillett (double bass) London, age 18
Victoria Goldsmith (violin) Essex, age 14
Sarah Oliver (cello) Hertfordshire, age 18
David Massey (guitar) Hertfordshire, age 17
Sophie Rosa (violin) Cheshire, age 18
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The Final, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Musician of the Year 2006
Saturday 20 May, 2.00pm, The Sage Gateshead.
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