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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.


2025 PDGYA artists 
 

Royal Over-Seas League soloists and ensembles:

Ewan Millar – oboe

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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

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Mabelle Young-Eun Park is a Germany-born violinist from South Korea. She recently won the 2025 Royal Over-Seas League Competition Strings Prize, and she is a recipient of the Musicians’ Company Goldman Award, Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize and Clarence Myerscough Award. She is supported by the Leverhulme Arts Trust, Help Musicians UK and the Harbour Foundation. Having graduated with distinction and full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music in 2024, Mabelle is currently on the Master of Arts programme. 

Follow Mabelle Young-Eun Park on Facebook and Instagram

 

Madeleine Perring – Soprano

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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 on stage performing

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

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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

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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 ensembles:

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 of 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 comictiming’ 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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Previous PDG Young Artists

Strings

Double bass
2018 Toby Hughes

Cello
1974 Emma Ferrand
1979 Steven Isserlis
1990 Louise Hopkins
1994 Richard May
1998 Jamie Walton
2000 Tim Wells
2002 Gemma Rosefield
2005 Alexandra Scott
2006 Oliver Coates
2008 James Barralet
2010 Philip Higham
2011 Y2, Yelian He
2012 Adi Tal
2013 Ariana Kashefi
2014 Alberto Casadei
2015 Ella Rundle
2016 Yoanna Prodanova
2019 Indira Grier
2023 Gerard Flotats

Viola
1990 Rachel Bolt
2000 Juliet Jopling
2006 Dimitri Murrath
2016 Rosalind Ventris
2017 Luba Tunnicliffe

Violin
1964 Frances Mason
1984 Lorraine McAsalan
1990 Leo Payne
1994 Simon Blendis
2001 Helen Wood
2002 Benjamin Wragg
2004 Nadia Wijzenbeek
2005 Fenella Humphreys
2006 Thomas Gould
2007 Diana Galvydyte
2007 Dmitri Torchinsky
2008 Sara Deborah Struntz
2009 Anna-Liisa Bezrodny
2009 Mathieu van Bellen
2012 Edgar Bailey
2013 Adelia Myslov
2014 Joo Yeon Sir
2015 Savitri Grier
2016 Michael Foyle
2016 Júlia Pusker
2017 Emily Sun
2018 Alexandra Lomeiko
2019 Abel Puustinen
2020 Eleanor Corr
2021 Madeleine Pickering
2024 Jordan Brooks

Guitar
1994 Craig Ogden
2014 Manus Noble
2016 Laura Snowden
2021 Emanuele Addis

Harp
1969 Susan Drake
1994 Susan Blair
2000 Catriona McKay
2005 Eleanor Turner
2017 Rosanna Rolton
2020 Elizabeth Bass

Wind

Flute
1976 Philippa Davies
1981 Margaret Campbell
1986 Ileana Rutherton
1994 Emily Beynon
2003 Burak Besir
2004 Juliette Bausor
2012 Rosanna Ter-Berg
2014 Katherine Birtles
2015 Charlotte Ashton
2018 Emma Halnan
2020 Sirius Chau
2024 Daniel Shao

Woodwind

Clarinet

1965 Janet Hilton
1971 Roger Fallows
1990 Anthony Pike
1998 Corinna Harris
2007 Katie Lockhart
2010 Boyan Ivanov
2011 Daniel Broncano
2012 Mark Simpson
2013 Joseph Shiner
2014 Matthew Scott
2021 James Gilbert
2023 Emile Souvagie

Oboe
2000 Owen Dennis
2019 Amy Roberts

Saxophone
1990 Gerard McChrystal
1998 Damien Royonnais
2000 Sarah Field
2005 John Barker
2009 Hannah Marcinowicz
2011 Huw Wiggin
2013 Anthony Brown
2014 Amy Green
2017 Jonathan Radford
2018 Lewis Banks
2019 Manu Brazo

Brass

Euphonium
2003 David Childs
2023 James Blackford

French Horn
2007 Alec Frank-Gemmill

Trumpet
2010 Huw Morgan
2017 Matilda Lloyd

Percussion

2004 O Duo

Piano

1961 John Barstow
1973 Philip Fowke
1978 Paul Coker
1983 Benjamin Frith
1988 Andrew West
1992 James Kirby
1992 Anthony Hewitt
1992 Eryl Lloyd Williams
1996 Stephen de Pledge
1996 Anthony Zerpa Falcon
1996 Viv McLean
1998 Roderick Chadwick
2000 Mark Nixon
2001 Ron Abramski
2001 Geoffrey Duce
2002 The Saxel Piano Duo
2002 David Quigley
2003 Bobby Chen
2003 Javier Negrin
2004 Samantha Ward
2005 Alasdair Beatson
2006 Luis Pares
2006 Evelina Puzaite
2007 Amandine Savary
2008 Jessica Chan
2008 James Willshire
2009 Néstor Bayona Pifarré
2009 Michael Ierace
2010 Olivia Sham, Shuenda Wong
2011 James Sherlock
2011 Y2, Yasmin Rowe
2013 Joseph Houston
2013 Mario Mora
2014 Mario Panteliadis
2014 Alexander Soares
2015 Jinah Shim
2016 Dinara Klinton
2017 Florian Mitrea
2018 Ugnius Pauliukonis
2019 Antonina Suhanova
2020 Antoine Préat
2021 Victor Lim
2023 Bocheng Wang
2024 Ignas Maknickas

Vocal

Female voices
1970 Anne Collins (Contralto)
1975 Kathleen Livingstone (Soprano)
1980 Ann Mackay (Soprano)
1985 Christine Bunning (Soprano)
1989 Mary Plazas (Soprano)
1993 Susanne Teufel (Soprano)
1993 Carole Court (Mezzo)
1993 Yvonne Rossen (Fontane) (Mezzo)
1993 Jane Irwin (Mezzo)
1997 Louise Mott (Mezzo)
1997 Aileen Sim (Soprano)
1999 Donna Bateman (Soprano)
2001 Kathryn McGuckin (Soprano)
2001 Julianne Young (Mezzo)
2003 Elizabeth Watts (Soprano)
2004 Jennifer Johnston (Mezzo)
2006 Elena Xanthoudakis (Soprano)
2007 Daniela Lehner
2008 Stephanie Corley (Soprano)
2008 Erica Eloff (Soprano)
2009 Sarah Power (Soprano)
2010 Mae Heydorn (Mezzo-soprano), Valda Wilson (Soprano)
2011 Caroline MacPhie (Soprano)
2011 Robyn Allegra Parton (Soprano)
2012 Lucy Roberts (Soprano)
2013 Laura Margaret Smith (Mezzo-soprano)
2015 Joanna Songi (Soprano)
2015 Nazan Fikret (Soprano)
2016 Raphaela Papadakis (Soprano)
2018 Catriona Hewitson (Soprano)
2019 Charlotte Bowden (Soprano)
2020 Natasha Page (Soprano)
2023 Annabel Kennedy (Mezzo-soprano)

Male voices
1968 Richard Angas (Bass)
1972 Neil Jenkins (Tenor)
1977 David Wilson-Johnson (Bass-Baritone)
1982 Stewart Buchanan (Baritone)
1987 Peter Langham-Evans (Baritone)
1991 Christopher Foster (Bass-Baritone)
1991 Ian Bostridge (Tenor)
1991 Henry Wickham (Baritone)
1995 Roderick Williams (Baritone)
1995 Jeremy Huw Williams (Baritone)
1995 William Purefoy (Counter Tenor)
1995 Stephen Wallace (Counter Tenor)
1999 Andrew Moore (Baritone)
2003 Mark Chaundy (Tenor)
2005 Nicholas Mulroy
2012 Njabulo Madlala (Baritone)
2021 Michael Gibson (Tenor)
2024 Daffyd Jones (Tenor)

Ensemble

2023
Fibonacci Quartet (string quartet)
Lumas Winds (wind quintet)
Flutes & Frets Duo (instrumental duo)
Horizon Voices (SSATB vocal ensemble)
Liturina (Early Music chamber ensemble)
Tufnell Trio (string trio)

2024
Appollo’s Cabinet (Baroque ensemble)
Trio Archai (piano trio)
Bellot Ensemble (Early Music ensemble)
Musica d’Outrora (Early Music quartet)
The Portrait Players (trio)