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Linton Stephens presents highlights from this year's 麻豆社 Young Musician strings and percussion finals, ahead of the Grand Final this Sunday.

After an extensive audition process, the judges of 麻豆社 Young Musician 2022 have announced five finalists for each of its categories - Strings, Keyboard, Woodwind, Brass and Percussion. Each young performer must now give a recital programme in their bid to become a 麻豆社 Young Musician Category Winner. The five category finalists will go on to compete together in the Grand Final on Sunday evening, each playing a concerto accompanied by the 麻豆社 Philharmonic.

In today鈥檚 programme we hear performances from the strings category final and we also catch up with progress in the percussion category final. Including music by Ravel, Schumann and Grieg.

Dawid Kasprzak (violin)
Edward Walton (violin)
Jaren Ziegler (viola)
Aki Blendis (violin)
Clara-Sophia Wernig (violin)
Joshua Gearing (percussion)

Recorded at Saffron Hall in July 2022