BBC Young Musician - Season 8 / Year 2022

BBC Young Musician returns to BBC Four, showcasing the most outstanding young classical talent from across the UK. From Sunday to Thursday this week, we will bring you highlights from the five category finals in strings, woodwind, brass, percussion and keyboard. The winners of each will secure a place in the competition's grand final, which will be broadcast in full on BBC Four on Sunday 9 October.

Presented by saxophonist Jess Gillam, herself a BBC Young Musician finalist, and pianist and composer Alexis Ffrench, the category finals were filmed at the award-winning concert venue, Saffron Hall.

The series begins with the strings final and features violinists Aki Blendis (14), Dawid Kasprzak (16), Edward Walton (16), Clara-Sophia Wernig (16), and viola player Jaren Ziegler (16).

Tonight's jury includes violinist Jennifer Pike, who made history 20 years ago by becoming the youngest winner of BBC Young Musician, aged just 12, and Philip Dukes, a viola player whose career has spanned over 30 years, including performances at the BBC Proms and an extensive recording history. Chairing the Young Musician jury across the series is organist, conductor, broadcaster and director of music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Anna Lapwood.

Saxophonist Jess Gillam and pianist and composer Alexis Ffrench bring us highlights of the woodwind final of BBC Young Musician 2022, as five exceptional young players compete for a place in the competition's grand final.

Performing in this programme are flautists Isaac Skey (14) and Sofia Patterson-Gutiérrez (17), clarinettists Lucas Dick (17) and Alex Buckley (18), and saxophonist Thomas Priestley (18).

The jury features two former BBC Young Musician alumni. Clarinettist Emma Johnson won the overall title in 1984 and is now a hugely successful solo artist, while flautist Karen Jones won this category final in 1982 and has since enjoyed an illustrious career as the principal flute of the London Chamber Orchestra. Chair of the jury across the series is organist and conductor Anna Lapwood.

Coverage of BBC Young Musician continues with highlights from the brass final, filmed at Saffron Hall. Hoping to make it through to the grand final are trumpeters Phoebe Mallinson (16), Florence Wilson-Toy (17) and Sasha Canter (18) and French horn players Daniel Hibbert (17) and Imogen Moorsom (18).

First, they need to impress the jury. Horn player Ben Goldscheider reached the grand final of BBC Young Musician in 2016, and since then has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Northern Irish trumpeter Anne McAneney has played with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the past 22 years. Organist, conductor and broadcaster Anna Lapwood is the chair of the jury across all the BBC Young Musician finals.

Presented by saxophonist and broadcaster Jess Gillam and pianist and composer Alexis Ffrench.

Percussion takes centre stage as Jess Gillam and Alexis Ffrench bring us highlights from this most energetic and exciting BBC Young Musician category final.

Competing are five exceptional musicians: Eric Zhang (15), Joshua Gearing (17), George Garnett (18), Sophie Warner (18) and Jordan Ashman (18). Tonight's jury includes Paul Philbert, timpanist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Beibei Wang, who specialises in both classical styles and traditional Chinese percussion, and chair of the jury Anna Lapwood, an organist, conductor and broadcaster who was recently made associate artist of the Royal Albert Hall and BBC Singers.

The winner of the percussion final will compete in the competition's grand final, shown live on BBC Four on Sunday 9 October.

In the last of the category finals, we find out who will take the last place in this year's BBC Young Musician grand final. In a hotly contested competition, five talented musicians perform music by titans of the keyboard repertoire – Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin and Scarlatti. They are Jacky Zhang (14), Ethan Loch (17), Firoze Madon (18), Duru Erdogan (18) and Dida Condria (19).

Saxophonist and broadcaster Jess Gillam and pianist and composer Alexis Ffrench present the highlights from Saffron Hall in Essex.

Joining them are our judging panel: Tom Poster, who won the BBC Young Musician Keyboard Final in 2000, Daniel Tong, who is head of piano in chamber music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and chair of the jury, organist and conductor Anna Lapwood.

At the end of the programme, the line-up for this year's BBC Young Musician grand final will be complete. The five category winners will each perform a concerto with the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. BBC Four provides full coverage of the final from Bridgewater Hall on the evening of Sunday 9 October.

BBC Young Musician 2022 reaches its climax as we bring you full coverage of the competition's grand final from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

For over 40 years, BBC Young Musician has been the UK's premier platform for the most outstanding young classical talent in the country. At its heart, the competition is a celebration of the passion, dedication, ambition and potential of young performers across the four nations. But beyond that, it has the power to change lives and has launched some of the most significant musical careers of the past four decades: among the long list of former winners and finalists are many of the leading musicians of our time, including Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Nicola Benedetti, Alison Balsom, Natalie Clein, Stephen Hough and Thomas Adès.

Five extraordinary teenage performers have won their category finals in strings, woodwind, brass, percussion and keyboard. Tonight, these five winners each perform a full concerto at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth.

The overall winner of the title BBC Young Musician 2022 will be chosen by a distinguished panel of judges: musician and composer Anoushka Shankar, conductor Ben Gernon, BBC Radio 3 editor Emma Bloxham and head of classical music at London's Southbank Centre, Toks Dada. They join our chair of the jury, organist and director of music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Anna Lapwood, who also chaired the judging panels at the category finals.

Presented by Josie d'Arby, Alexis Ffrench and Jess Gillam.

Five emerging stars of jazz perform in the 2022 Grand Final of BBC Young Jazz Musician.

Presented this year by DJ Jamz Supernova, the contest is once again part of the EFG London Jazz Festival and takes place at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall.

This joyful celebration of the most exciting new voices in UK Jazz features pianists Luke Bacchus (21) and Nick Manz (20), guitarist Ralph Porrett (23), saxophonist Emma Rawicz (20) and double bassist Ewan Hastie (20). Each will perform a solo set alongside one of the UK's leading jazz trios, Nikki Yeoh's Infinitum. with Mark Mondesir on drums, Michael Mondesir on electric bass and Nikki Yeoh herself on piano.

Filmed in front of a live audience, the contest will be judged by a panel of leading jazz performers: award-winning singer Claire Martin, composer and pianist Bill Laurance, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer Emma-Jean Thackray, and singer-songwriter and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

Before the announcement of the winner, there will also be a special guest performance by the winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020, pianist and rising star Deschanel Gordon.