Olivia Jageurs's 5 top tips on using Zoom to perform music

YCAT's 'mini masterclass' series offers relevant advice from musicians, for musicians.

Our first mini masterclass features professional harpist Olivia Jageurs, who shares her top tips on performing a live concert on Zoom. Olivia's 15 Second Harp project was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society award in 2017 and weekly Harpy Hour concerts on Zoom are reaching hundreds of people worldwide during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Randall Goosby and Jonathan Ware perform Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and William Grant Still.

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YCAT announces twelve new artists for 2021

The Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) is delighted to announce the addition of twelve musicians to its sought-after roster of young artists.
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux

Charlotte was a prize-winner at the 2021 YCAT International Auditions, in partnership with Concert Artists Guild (New York).This summer she completes her Master's at the Royal College of Music with Alina Ibragimova.
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George Harliono

In 2019 George was a prize-winner at the YCAT International Auditions at Wigmore Hall, and the only British pianist to be selected for the Tchaikovsky Competition.
YCAT announces twelve 2020 Finalists!

YCAT announces 12 Finalists for 2020.
Ema Nikolovska

In 2019 Ema was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist.
Eligibility
Adelphi Quartet

In 2020 the Adelphi Quartet won 1st Prize in the prestigious Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation Competition at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival.
Olivier Stankiewicz

Over the last year Olivier has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings and the Louvre collaborating with Alasdair Beatson, the Doric and Castalian String Quartets. He performed Benjamin Attahir's Concerto Nur with the Orchestre de Lille and took part in the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival with Renaud Capuçon.
Ariel Lanyi

This summer Ariel makes his debut at Wigmore Hall and participates in the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, alongside renowned artists such as Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss.