Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme

The Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists (PDGYA) scheme celebrates top young musical talent and offers them performance and workshop prospects, while making it easier for leisure-time music groups to book them.

Since its launch as a prestigious award in 1961, PDGYA has helped kick start the careers of up-and-coming artists including Steven Isserlis, Craig Ogden, Jeremy Huw Williams and Joo Yeon Sir, by providing opportunities for them to be booked by Making Music’s 4,000+ member groups. Making Music offers members subsidies to make it more affordable for them to book these artists.

Following a review, we’re delighted to re-launch PDGYA as a reimagined scheme that supports a wider range of young solo artists and ensembles and appeals to more members for bookings. As of 2023, we are pleased to partner with Royal Over-Seas League and Brighton Early Music Festival who champion young musicians nationally and globally.  

Making Music members can claim subsidies to book these Young Artists for performances and workshops. Booking deadline is 30 April 2026, and performances can take place up to 30 April 2027. Find out more and apply for a subsidy.

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2025 PDGYA artists 
 

Royal Over-Seas League soloists and ensembles:

Ewan Millar – oboe

Ewan Millar is a freelance oboist who makes a living doing a mixture of solo, chamber, and orchestral work. They did their undergrad in musicology at Oxford, and try and incorporate their education there into their performances. They also perform in duo with pianist Tomos Boyles. They do full-length recitals over the country. Ewan takes particular pride in creative programming, engaging the audience actively with speaking and context, and finding and arranging works to perform that haven’t been played yet on oboe.

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Mabelle Young-Eun Park – violin

Mabelle Young-Eun Park is a Germany-born violinist from South Korea with passionate and dedicated performances on stage. Mabelle won the Musicians’ Company Prince’s Prize as well as the Prudi Hoggarth Audience Award, and she is the winner of 2025 ROSL Strings Prize. She received the Clarence Myerscough Award and David Goldman Award and is supported by the Leverhulme Arts Trust and Harbour Foundation. Having graduated with distinction and full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, Mabelle is looking forward to her Artist Diploma studies.

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Madeleine Perring – soprano

Madeleine Perring started her musical career as a chorister at Wells Cathedral and now after graduating from the Royal College of Music with first class honours, she is thrilled to be studying with Rosa Mannion. She is the recent winner of the RCM Lieder competition and ROSL Singers Final 2025, and looks forward to joining Garsington Opera as an Emerging Artist in the summer of 2025. Maddie is finishing her final year of Masters and is excited to join the Royal Academy Opera studio in September 2025.

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Qden Blaauw – piano

Qden is a dynamic young pianist with a passion for connecting deeply with audiences. A full scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has appeared as a soloist with most of South Africa’s leading orchestras and has earned both national and international acclaim. From early performances across Europe to recent multidisciplinary collaborations with visual artists like Robin Rhode, Qden thrives on creative exploration and imaginative performances.

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Rafael Kyrychenko – piano

Rafael is an Ukrianian pianist, born in Portugal, who has lived an interesting life in Brussels and Madrid during their studies. They have met interesting people, which allowed him to develop himself as a Human, and above all, as a musician. Classical music is a language in which they learn a lot every day, and they adore performing because it allows them to connect with people, and music is all about connecting our souls, understanding the present.

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Regency Quartet – string quartet

Photo credit: Anjulie Chen

The Regency Quartet is a classically trained string quartet formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021 and supported by the Academy’s Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training Scheme. The group is comprised of Mabelle Young-Eun Park on violin, Olwen Miles on violin, Jamie Howe on viola and Ellen Baumring-Gledhill on cello. Selected for the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme to Hong Kong and recipients of the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize and the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, in 2025, they won the Royal Overseas League String Ensembles Prize and were selected as 2025/26 Kirckman Concert Society Artists.

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Delphine Trio – clarinet trio

The Delphine Trio (Magdalenna Krstevska on clarinet, Jobine Siekman on cello and Roelof Temmingh on piano) brings together three passionate young musicians from opposite ends of the globe. They showcase a combination of individual instrumental talent, intelligent and curious music-making, and a passion for diverse repertoire. The Delphine Trio has won the Mixed Ensemble Prize of the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition 2025 and they will perform at Wigmore Hall on 18 July 2025.

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Brighton Early Music Festival soloists and ensembles:

Bradyn Debysingh – tenor

Internationally recognised 'a name of which you’ll certainly hear more', Bradyn Debysingh performs both opera and musical theatre with the likes of Clonter Opera, Arcadian Opera, Garsington Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Recent concerts include Vache Baroque, Brighton Early Music Festival, Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, and Colorado Bach Ensemble. Bradyn studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Northwestern University, and Samford University. Bradyn remains an avid tap dancer and is a published poet. 

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Emily Brown Gibson – soprano

Emily Brown Gibson is a Canadian soprano who specialises in both baroque and contemporary repertoire. She has sung with the Opera National de Paris, Brighton Early Music Festival, Hampstead Garden Opera, and is looking forward to singing in the chorus at the Salzburg festival this summer in a semi-staged version of Rameau’s Castor et Pollux. Emily is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and studies with Mary Plazas. 

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Lowe Ensemble – period-instrument ensemble

Introducing Lowe Ensemble, a British/Spanish musical ensemble comprised of five siblings, aged 19 to 26, specialising in historically informed performance. Growing up in a family of musicians, they have passionately been exploring and sharing their love for Baroque music since their youth. The group is comprised of Joseph Lowe on historical violin, Myriam Lowe on harpsichord and vocals, Gabriel Lowe on historical violin, Xavier Lowe on viola da gamba and violoncello, and Santiago Lowe on violoncello.

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Minerva Baroque – baroque ensemble

Minerva Baroque is a baroque ensemble, comprising Danni O’Neill as soprano, May Robertson on violin, Iain Hall on cello and Callum Anderson on harpsichord/organ. The group performs music by Handel and those who influenced him. The group has performed at the Handel Hendrix House and in recital series across London, and is part of BREMF Live, receiving praise from The Latest for its ‘musicality, dramatic sense and comic timing’ and delivering inspiring school workshops. The group’s members studied at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

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Sumei Bao-Smith – soprano

Sumei is a versatile soloist and choral singer performing widely across the UK and abroad. She is a BREMF and Sestina Music Young Artist 24-25, focusing on Baroque and Early Music, and a Sir Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme Scholar 21-22 and 23-24, working closely with Joseph Middleton on Art Song. Her operatic roles include Belinda Dido and Aeneas, Eurydice Orphee aux enfers, Adele Die Fledermaus, Lucia The Rape of Lucretia, and Cupid Venus and Adonis. A recent graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, she studied Modern Languages with a choral scholarship in Trinity's world-leading chapel choir.

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