Young Musician of the Year
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Host
Humphrey Burton (1978-92)
Sarah Greene (1994)
Christopher Warren-Green (1996)
Stephanie Hughes (1998-2004)
Howard Goodall (2006)
Co-hosts
Jane Glover (1988)
Mervyn Williams (1990)
Alistair Appleton (2004)
Broadcast
BBC 2, 7 February 1978 to present
BBC Four (semi-finals), 2006
Synopsis
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The instrumental portion of the BBC's brace of high-brow musical contests (this runs in even numbered years, Cardiff Singer of the World in odd numbered) consists of a series of semi-finals for Brass, Woodwind, Keyboards, Strings and (since 1994) Percussion, with the winners progressing to the Concerto Final where they play with a full orchestra, invariably prompting letters to the Radio Times asking rhetorically how you judge a violinist against a percussionist anyway. The champion goes on to the Eurovision Young Musicians competition, where they're beaten by the Austrian contender.
