Gregynog Young Musician Competition
Patron: Professor Ieuan Jones FRCM
President: Lord Davies of Llandinam
The Gregynog Young Musician 2025 Finalists
Overall Winner of the 2025 Competition
Mayuchi Ono - Cello
Alma Núñez Debretzeni - recorder
Hazel Cheung - clarinet
Hannah Quan Yi Yap - piano
Doruk Öztosun - double bass
The 2025 Finalists
The Finalists: Mayuchi Ono 'cello, Alma Núñez Debretzeni - recorder
Hazel Cheung - clarinet. Hannah Quan Yi Yap - piano, Doruk Öztosun - double bass
The Gregynog Young Musician Competition was founded in 2005 and has become a prestigious annual event.
Entrants must be aged 18 or under and have reached Grade 8 or equivalent on any orchestral, brass band or percussion instrument.
Up to 18 contestants are selected to perform in the semi-finals in front of a panel of specialist adjudicators. This will take place for a full day in November 2026 at Gregynog Hall in mid Wales. The semi final will take place during the day followed by the Finalists' Competition in the evening.
Five semi-finalist winners will be chosen to compete in the evening for the title of Gregynog Young Musician of the Year.
Gregynog is a large country mansion 4 miles (6.4kms) north-west of Newtown. It sits in 750 acres of farms, woodlands and formal gardens. Gregynog was bought by Margaret and her elder sister Gwendoline Davies in 1920, with the intention of establishing a centre of excellence for the arts, crafts and music in the aftermath of World War One.
"I can honestly say that
I thoroughly enjoyed the
competition and must
say that the atmosphere,
location and feedback
were among the best I
have ever experienced."
Ben Goldscheider
(Finalist of the 2015 Competition)
Prize money
For the overall winner awarded the title "Young Musician of the Year"
£3,000.00
Five semi-finalist winners will receive
£500.00
Semi finalists who do not perform in the final will receive £50 towards their travel expenses.
Young Accompanist winner will receive The Chairman's Trophy
and £200.00
Previous Winners
2005 Cai Isfryn (Trumpet)
2006 Helen Pugh (Piano)
2007 Glain Dafydd (Harp)
2008 Julia Hwang (Violin)
2009 Steffan Morris (Cello)
2010 Chloe-Angharad Bradshaw (Flute)
2011 Andrews Reynish (Cello)
2012 Tom Blomfield (Oboe)
2013 Charlie Lovell Jones (Violin)
2014 Juliana Myslov (Harp)
2015 Sheku Kanneh-Mason (Cello)
2016 Kirsty Chaplin (Piano)
2017 Nikita Burzanitsa (Piano)
2018 Willard Carter (Cello)
2019 Ellis Thomas (Piano)
2020 Sofia Matvienko (Flute)
2021 Oliver Simpson (Cello)
2022 Firoze Madon (Piano)
2023 Ivan Cherednichenko (Cello)
2024 Joel Madalinski-Artur (Piano)
