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In our latest #21cMusician Toolkit case study, discover how violinist and composer Catriona Price secured funding to launch Routes to Roots, her artist-led organisation bringing musicians from different cultures together to create new music. 🎶

🔗 https://t.co/MIsXCRDDpr

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YCAT artist Charlotte Spruit plays unaccompanied Bach at the London Festival of Baroque Music, hosted by @SinfoniaSmithSq, this Monday 26th October at 1:05pm! 🎻

Here she is playing Schumann's Abendlied, Op. 85 No. 12, at the @Concertgebouw ✨

#YCATartists #violin

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In honour of Lera Auerbach's birthday, here's YCAT's Amiri Harewood performing her Preludes, Op. 41, No.16 🎹 🎂

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Happy World Guitar Day! 🎸

Here's Samrat Majumder playing Sor's Grand Solo, Op. 14, written over 200 years ago and one of the classical guitar's defining works.

Catch Samrat at @wigmore_hall Hall on Tue 3 Nov in our Lunchtime Series
Link in our bio ✨

#YCATartists

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James Morley performs Kaija Saariaho's 'Spins and Spells for solo cello', recorded earlier this year at 21 Shepherd Living Room Theater, Sydney. 🇦🇺

Watch in full on YouTube: https://t.co/yORqRZYlRb

📽️ Matt McGuigan

#YCATartists #cellist

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Know a musician looking to fund a masters degree? 🎓

Soprano Ellie Ninham secured almost £13k in funding towards her studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

Read the full case study and share with a musician who might find it useful 🔗 https://t.co/KqDNdTWCGZ

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“A real test of pacing, phrasing, and breath control.”

YCAT oboist @EwanMillarOboe on the first of Schumann's Three Romances, Op. 94, a Christmas gift for Clara in 1849.

Here he is with pianist Tomos Boyles at London's @wigmore_hall 🎵

https://t.co/VQ56qXokGA

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Samrat Majumder's UK tour starts this month: Bach, Dowland, Scottish lute music and a new work by YCAT Composer Fellow Arthur Keegan.

📍Leeds 21 Oct · @BrittenPears 23 · Windsor 25 · London 1 Nov · @wigmore_hall 3 · Jersey 4 · Birmingham 6 · Perth 9 · Brunel 13 · East Sheen 14

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🇮🇹 The second YCAT residency begins this week, as Trio Concept head to Tuscany for five days at the beautiful Forum Fondazione Bertarelli with violist and former YCAT artist with the Doric Quartet, Hélène Clément.

ℹ️ https://t.co/eyCu8QCQm8

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YCAT pianist Callum McLachlan is on a mission to champion C. P. E. Bach as a seriously underrated composer.🎹

We got our first glimpse of that when Callum included the Sonata in F-sharp minor in his YCAT Final Audition earlier this year.

Watch in full 👉 https://t.co/aUVL7HugKI

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We’re delighted to share the 2026-27 edition of our annual Artist File, offering an introduction to the exceptional musicians on YCAT’s roster and a snapshot of their work in the season ahead.

Take a look here 👉 https://t.co/dQ9bPp4ARF

#YCATrust #YCATartists

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The YCAT Wigmore Lunchtime series kicks off on 6th October! 🎻

Petar Pejčić returns to the stage where he was selected at our 2025 Auditions, with pianist Nour Ayadi: Dvořák, Debussy, Fauré and Chopin.

Here he is with Rostropovich's Humoresque 🎶

https://t.co/fCltn5C132

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Jean-Philippe Rameau was born #onthisday in 1683. His Traité de l'harmonie transformed how Western music understood harmony!

Here's YCAT's Kasparas Mikužis playing Rameau's Suite in G major, RCT 6, at the 2025 YCAT Public Final Auditions 🎶

Watch here: https://t.co/nFrWrcZDft

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A special concert for YCAT artist Will Duerden, who takes to the stage with Royal Northern Sinfonia this weekend - as both soloist and director!

📽️ Bottesini’s Capriccio di Bravura 🎶

📍 The Glasshouse, Gateshead
🗓️ 26 Sept, 7pm
🎟️ https://t.co/yGO3xiYuj1

#YCATartists

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🎻 Six UK dates for cellist Petar Pejčić with pianist Nour Ayadi, including a return to @wigmore_hall, where he was selected at the 2025 YCAT International Auditions.

📍Perth 28 Sept · Bristol 1 Oct · Ripon 3 Oct · Wigmore 6 Oct · LSE 8 Oct · Freshwater 10 Oct

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Funding for Musicians: Where to Start!

Our new 21cMusician Toolkit guide, written by Anna Wolstenholme from RAM Conservatoire, covers where to look for funding, approaching applications, and standing out!

https://t.co/WE1rZQhzj4

#21cMusician #MusicFunding #EarlyCareerMusicians

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Nadia Boulanger was born 139 years ago today: composer, conductor, and one of the most influential music teachers of the 20th century 🇫🇷

Here are YCAT's Sterling Elliott and pianist Joseph Havlat with her Trois Pièces for cello and piano 🎶

https://t.co/HhtmZ1Pybx

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YCAT's Nathan Amaral joins Islington Sinfonia this weekend for Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto 🎻

Sat 19 Sept, St Augustine's Church, London

Here he is in Brahms' Second Violin Sonata with Jonathan Ware at Amsterdam's @Concertgebouw 🎶

https://t.co/fTKII26t52

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🇩🇪 Three German dates for YCAT violinist Matteo Cimatti, with pianist Francesco Granata 🎻

📍 20 Sept – Alte Oper Frankfurt (debut)
📍 29 Sept – @Beethovenfest
📍 7 Oct – @BerlinPhil (debut)

Here's Matteo in Prokofiev's First Sonata at Wigmore Hall.
https://t.co/SwExlV1neQ

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We’re incredibly proud to have seen so many members of the YCAT family performing at the BBC Proms this summer. 💛

Read more about their performances and some of the brilliant reviews they received along the way: https://t.co/wPHPZ4CYCR

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