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Reflecting the Arion's policy of featuring outstanding young musicians, the following winners of the BBC Young Musician of the Year, or of their instrument sections, have appeared as soloists:
David Pyatt, horn
Rafal Zambrzycki, violin
Sarah Williamson, clarinet
Katy Pryce, trombone
Sam Elliot, tuba
Paul Galbraith, guitar

Highlights from 43 years of concerts
Selection of venues, soloists and programmes:

Reading Town Hall, 1969 Debut concert
with BBC Piano competition winner,
Frank Wibaut
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1
Beethoven Symphony No 1

St George's Chapel, Windsor
with Manoug Parikian, violin
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

Reading Town Hall,
with Clifford Curzon, piano
Mozart Piano Concerto No 21

Opening concert of the Hexagon, Reading
with Ralph Holmes, violin
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto,
Beethoven Eroica Symphony

The Hexagon, Reading
with George Malcolm, harpsichord
Bach, Horovitz Jazz Concerto

The Great Hall, Reading University
with Jack Brymer, clarinet
Finzi Clarinet Concerto
Shostakovich-Barshai Chamber Symphony Op.110a

10th anniversary concert
The Hexagon, Reading
with Norbert Brainin, violin and Peter Schidlof, viola
Mozart Symphonie Concertante
Dvorak Symphony No 9

Reading Town Hall – a Children's Concert
with BBC Animal Magic star, Johnny Morris, narrating

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Reading Town Hall and St Johns Smith Square, London
with Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
Concertos by Bach and Mozart

The Hexagon, Reading and London St Johns Smith Square
with Yaltah Menuhin
Martinu Concerto for piano strings and percussion, Mozart Piano Concerto No 21

The Hexagon, Reading
with Alan Civil, horn
Mozart and Lars-Erik Larsson

St Johns Smith Square, London
with Krzysztof Smietana, violin
Brahms Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

St Johns Smith Square, London
with Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet
Hummel Trumpet Concerto
Brahms Symphony No 4

Concert for Radio 210
The Hexagon, Reading St Johns Smith Square, London
with Heather Harrison, cello
Elgar and Dvorak Cello Concertos
Sibelius Symphony No 2

St Johns Smith Square, London
with Jack Brymer, clarinet
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Brahms Symphony No 1

St Johns Smith Square, London
with John Ogden, piano
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2
Beethoven Eroica Symphony

The Great Hall, Reading, University
with Gillian Weir, organ
Organ concertos by Handel and Poulenc
Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge

St Johns Smith Square, London
with Krzysztof Smietana, violin, Heather Harrison, cello and Rupert Burleigh, piano
Beethoven Triple Concerto
Mendelssohn Reformation Symphony

21st anniversary concert
Wells Cathedral with Heather Harrison, cello
Elgar Cello concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
with David Pyatt, horn
Mozart Horn Concerto No 4
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony

Douai Abbey, Woolhampton and The Great Hall, Reading University
with Emma Johnson, clarinet
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford and St Johns Smith Square, London
with Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Vivaldi Concerto for vibraphone, Rosauro Concerto for marimba
Rossini String Sonata

Douai Abbey, Woolhampton
with Isabell Bringmann, soprano
Handel arias, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate
Schubert/Mahler "Death and the Maiden" variations and Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasia

St Johns Smith Square, London
with Ralph Holmes, violin
Panufnik Violin Concerto in the presence of the Composer

Douai Abbey, Woolhampton and London St James's Church, Piccadilly
with Nicholas Daniel, oboe
concertos by Vivaldi and Vaughan Williams.

St James's Church, Piccadilly
with Raphaela Papadakis, soporano
Britten "Les Illuminations" for voice and strings

St James's Church Piccadilly
with Masayuki Tayama, piano
Bach, Mozart and Chopin piano concertos

St James's Church, Piccadilly and Reading Town Hall
with Leonard Schreiber, violin
Concertos by Bach and Mendelssohn (d minor), Sarasate Carmen Fantasy,
Zigeunerweisen, and Tartini "Devil's Trill"

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