Gregynog Young Musicians Competition began in 2005, originally as part of the Gregynog Festival, and more recently as a free-standing event. It is held at

Gregynog Hall Gregynog () is a large country mansion in the village of Tregynon, northwest of Newtown in the old county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys in mid Wales. There has been a settlement on the site since the twelfth century. From the fifteenth to t ...

in Mid Wales and is open to instrumentalists aged 18 and under. Winners have been:

Category Winners

In 2013, the structure of the competition was changed and 5 separate categories were introduced; 'Gregynog Young String Player of the Year', 'Gregynog Young Pianist of the Year', 'Gregynog Young Woodwind Player of the Year', 'Gregynog Young Brass Player' and 'Gregynog Young Harpist / Guitarist / Percussionist of the Year'. The 'Young Accompanist Prize' was also instituted for accompanists aged 23 and under. The competition rules allow joint winners in a single category should a winner not be identified in another category. Category winners have been: {, class="wikitable" , - !Year !Name !Category , - , rowspan="5" , 2013 , Charlie Lovell-Jones^* , Young String Player of the Year , - , Iwan Wyn Owen , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Daniel Shao , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Rhiannon Symonds , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Louis Brookes , Young Guitarist of the Year , - , rowspan="6" , 2014 , Juliana Myslov^* , Young Harpist of the Year , - , Sheku Kanneh-Mason , Young String Player of the Year , - , Nurry Lee , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Epsie Thompson , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Grady Hassan , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Isata Kanneh-Mason , Young Accompanist Prize and Chairman's Trophy , - , rowspan="5" , 2015 , Sheku Kanneh-Mason^*{{Cite web, title=Gregynog Report 2015, url=https://gregynogymc.co.uk/2015report.pdf, url-status=live , Young String Player of the Year , - , Benjamin Goldscheider , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Daniel Scott , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Alexandra Whittingham , Young Guitarist of the Year , - , Janeba Kanneh-Mason , Young Pianist of the Year , - , rowspan="6" , 2016 , Kirsty Chaplin^* , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Benjamin Goldscheider , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Henry Newbould , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Isobel Howard , Young String Player of the Year , - , Heledd Gwynant , Young Percussionist of the Year , - , Conal Bembridge-Sayers , Young Accompanist Prize and Chairman's Trophy , - , rowspan="6" , 2017 , Nikita Burzanitsa^* , rowspan="2" , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Tianlang Zhou , - , Chloe Ellen Jones , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , George Strivens , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Willard Carter , rowspan="2" , Young String Player of the Year , - , Hannah Brookes-Hughes , - , rowspan="7" , 2018 , Willard Carter^* , rowspan="2" , Young String Player of the Year , - , Joel Munday , - , Chloe Ellen Jones , rowspan="2" , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Ewan Millar , - , Huw Boucher , Young Harpist of the Year , - , George Strivens , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Julian Trevelyan , Young Accompanist Prize , - , rowspan="5" , 2019 , Ellis Thomas^* , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Sofia Matvienko , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Danushka Edirisinghe , Young String Player of the Year , - , Huw Boucher , Young Harpist of the Year , - , Avishka Edirisinghe , Young Accompanist Prize , - , rowspan="4" , 2020 (Held Online) , Sofia Matvienko^* , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Hui Hing Ngai , Young Brass Player of the Year , - , Owen Putter , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Haru Ogiwara , Young String Player of the Year , - , rowspan="5" , 2021 , Oliver Simpson^* , rowspan="2" , Young String Player of the Year , - , Una Pavlovic-Alldridge , - , Firoze Madon , Young Pianist of the Year , - , Jessica Ellis , Young Woodwind Player of the Year , - , Rosie Gill , Young Harpist of the Year ^*Overall Winner

References

Music competitions in the United Kingdom