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Five emerging stars of jazz compete for the title of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's Southbank.

2022
Five outstanding young musicians compete for the title of BBC Young Musician of the Year under the watchful eyes of judges Anoushka Shankar, Ben Gernon, Emma Bloxham, Toks Dada and Anna Lapwood.
Five outstanding young keyboard players compete for a place in the grand final under the watchful eyes of judges Tom Poster, Daniel Tong and Anna Lapwood.
Five outstanding young percussionists compete for a place in the 2022 BBC Young Musician grand final under the watchful eyes of Paul Philbert, Beibei Wang and Anna Lapwood.
Five outstanding young brass players compete for a place in the grand final under the watchful eyes of judges Ben Goldscheider, Anne McAneney and Anna Lapwood.
Five outstanding young woodwind players compete for a place in the grand final under the watchful eyes of judges Emma Johnson, Karen Jones and Anna Lapwood.
Five outstanding young string players compete to reach the final of BBC Young Musician 2022, under the watchful eyes of judges Jennifer Pike, Philip Dukes and Anna Lapwood.
Episodes 2021
Nicola Benedetti's plays Szymanowski's thrilling First Violin Concerto, the performance that, at the age of 16, won her the title of BBC Young Musician in 2004.
Three exceptional musicians compete for the title of BBC Young Musician 2020. Each will perform a concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
The search reaches its penultimate stage as the category winners from the strings, percussion, woodwind, brass and keyboard finals compete for the three places in the grand final.
Episodes 2020
Saxophonists Alex Clarke and Matt Carmichael, bassist Kielan Sheard, pianist Deschanel Gordon and guitarist Ralph Porrett compete for the title of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020.
Three violinists, a cellist and a harpist perform works including music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Kreisler to win a place in the BBC Young Musician 2020 semi-final.
Five percussion soloists compete for a place in the BBC Young Musician 2020 semi-final, performing works by John Psathas, Sergei Golovko, Georges Aperghis, Astor Piazzolla and Jago Thornton.
Two French horn players, two trombonists and a tuba player compete in the brass category final of BBC Young Musician 2020 for a place in the competition's semi-finals.
A flautist, clairinettist, oboist, recorder player and bassoonist complete for a place in the BBC Young Musician 2020 semi-finals, performing music by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Messiaen and Peter Facer.
Five young musicians compete in the keyboard final for a place in the BBC Young Musician 2020 semi-finals, performing works by Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven and Rachmaninov.
Episodes 2018
3. Orthodoxy - From Empire to Empire... of the TV-show BBC Young Musician was broadcast by BBC4 on Sunday 25 November 2018 at 21:00.
May 13, 2018 of the TV-show BBC Young Musician was broadcast by BBC4 on Sunday 13 May 2018 at 19:00.
May 11, 2018 of the TV-show BBC Young Musician was broadcast by BBC4 on Friday 11 May 2018 at 19:30.
May 4, 2018 of the TV-show BBC Young Musician was broadcast by BBC4 on Friday 4 May 2018 at 19:30.
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