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 3,600+ group members.

2021 winners

Emanuele Addis – guitar

Emanuele Addis began his classical guitar training at the age of 14 at Liceo Musicale, under the guidance of Calogero Sportato. A member of Frederic Zigante's class, Emanuele graduated with first-class honours from the Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi in Alessandria, and is currently completing his master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music, studying under Michael Lewin. He has won numerous regional, national and international awards, including the Moncalieri European Music Competition and the 2017 Ansaldi National Competition, and performed solo recitals in Italy, Germany, Serbia and Bulgaria.

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Michael Gibson – tenor

Scottish tenor Michael Gibson is a recent graduate of the RCM Opera Studio, having studied with Janis Kelly. He previously graduated from the RCS, completing a B.Ed in Music, and the RNCM, where he studied with Peter Alexander Wilson. Recent opera roles include Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Azael (L'enfant prodigue), Ecclitico (Il mondo della luna) and Romeo scenes (Roméo et Juliette) at the RCM Opera Studio. An in-demand concert soloist, Michael has performed works including Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Bach's St John Passion, Finzi's Dies Natalis, and song cycles including Britten’s Winter Words and Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin.

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James Gilbert – clarinet 

James is currently an ABRSM scholar at the Royal Academy of Music. He has received both the Queen's Award for Excellence and a Musician's Company Award. James has appeared as a soloist performing Finzi's Clarinet Concerto with John Wilson and the Academy Symphony Orchestra, for both solo and chamber recitals for the Leeds International Concert Season, and has played alongside Ryan Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms. James' orchestral work has included appearing as Guest Principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has also enjoyed both touring internationally and recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia of London.

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Victor Lim – piano

South Korean/British pianist Victor Lim is establishing himself as one of the most versatile and creative musicians of his generation. Following his first public appearance in BBC Young Musician of the Year 2012, Victor has performed internationally as a soloist and collaborative pianist in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Romania, China, Singapore and South Korea. Victor was the winner of the prestigious RNCM Gold Medal in 2021, and previously studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Royal Academy of Music, where he graduated with both DipRAM and the Christian Carpenter Prize for best final recital.

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Madeleine Pickering – violin

Madeleine Pickering is a British violinist and violist. She has just graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, where she won all the major prizes for her instruments: the Theodore Holland Viola Prize (2016), the Winifred Small Prize for Solo Violin (2020) and the Martin/Hooton Violin Concerto Prize (2021). She recently directed and performed as a soloist with the Academy String Orchestra in a recording of Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor for Violin and Strings. Madeleine is also in regular demand as a chamber musician, orchestral leader and director. She plays a violin by Giovanni Pistucci c.1800, loaned to her by the Harrison-Frank Foundation in association with J&A Beare.

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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 (woodwind section), Hong Kong flautist Sirius Chau has been named a Young Artist of Making Music, the Tillett Trust, Manchester Mid-day 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

Eleanor is winner of the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition 2020, where she was awarded the first prize, Gold Medal, and 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 Page 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, Recital Prize at the North London Festival of Music.

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Antoine Préat — piano

Franco-Belgian pianist Antoine Préat 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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