Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists

The Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists (PDGYA) awards have helped kick start the careers of artists including Steven Isserlis, Elizabeth Watts and Craig Ogden, by providing up-and-coming classical musicians with opportunities to be booked for performances with Making Music’s 3,700+ group members.

To help our promoter group members, we offer a range of subsidies to make it easier to book these high-quality musicians. This year, for promoters who are arranging online performances due to the pandemic, we are very pleased to offer a new Livestreaming Subsidy – Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists of £150. This is for livestreamed performances or pre-recorded broadcasts online, and covers the full fee agreed for online performances with the Young Artists. We also provide subsidies for in-person performances of £150 for soloists and £250 for accompanied artists.

2020 winners

Elizabeth Bass – harp

Elizabeth works as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player across the UK and beyond. She has won international and national prizes from the USA International Harp Competition 2016 (2nd Prize), Lyon & Healy Awards 2013 (winner) and the London Camac Harp Competition 2014 (1st Prize). She regularly takes bookings for festivals and music clubs across the UK. As an orchestral musician she has played with, among others,  the BBC Concert, BBC Symphony, Frankfurt Radio and the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestras and works with chamber orchestras and contemporary groups including the City of London Sinfonia, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Lontano.

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Sirius Chau – flute

Winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition 2020, Hong Kong flautist Sirius has been named a Young Artist of the Tillett Trust, Manchester Midday Concerts Series and Musicus Society. Recent highlights have included receiving the Tagore Gold Medal from HRH The Prince of Wales and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Scholarship, solo recitals at the Wigmore and Bridgewater Hall, as well as working with the BBC Symphony and English National Opera orchestras. He also won the Magalif International Competition and Eastbourne Soloist Competition. Sirius studied at the Royal College of Music with Katie Bedford, Emer McDonough and Sue Thomas.

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Eleanor Corr – violin

Winner of the ROSL Award for Strings, Eleanor has performed recitals and concertos at Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St George’s Bristol, and makes her Queen Elizabeth Hall debut in 2020. She recorded Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale for Linn Records, conducted by Oliver Knussen. Since leading English Touring Opera she has been much in demand as a guest concertmaster/director. Her duo with pianist Emil Duncumb has performed on modern and period instruments across Europe. Her quartet, Pocket Sinfonia, won the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Competition Audience Prize, have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and are REMA Young Artists.

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Natasha Page – soprano

Natasha studies at the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio where she holds the Huffner Scholarship. Natasha recently covered solos for the Royal Ballet’s production of Medusa (Royal Opera House). She has performed as a guest artist with the Hertford Symphony Orchestra and de Havilland Philharmonic. Concert highlights include performing at Chichester Cathedral, Guildford Cathedral, the Hertfordshire Festival of Music and the Amersham Festival of Music. Natasha is a Leeds Lieder Young Artist, winner of the Song Prize at the Mozart Singing Competition, Audience Prize at the Dean and Chadlington Competition, and Recital Prize at the North London Festival of Music.

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Antoine Préat – piano

Franco-Belgian pianist Antoine made his orchestral debut at 17 with the Orchestra of Allicante; since then he performs regularly with orchestras in the UK and in Europe. Performance highlights include Wigmore Hall, Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Festival Nohant Chopin, as well as a performance for HRH the Duchess of Gloucester. After graduating from the Ecole Normale in Paris with distinction, Antoine went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Tatiana Sarkissova and Christopher Elton where he received multiple awards.

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