The 2020 edition of BBC Young Musician remained incomplete when we left it during Spring of that year. The story resumes with extensive highlights of the Semi-Final which was filmed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama just days before the first UK wide lockdown back in March last year.

Josie d’Arby presents the full performances from the semi-final which sees the winners of the keyboard, strings, brass, woodwind and percussion finals compete for the three coveted places in the Grand Final.

As always, the five talented performers provide a tough challenge for the judges.

The semi-finalists are:
Fang Zhang, winner of the percussion final, oboist Ewan Miller winner of the woodwind final, Annemarie Federle, who won the brass final on French horn, winner of the keyboard final, pianist Thomas Luke, and violinist Coco Tomita, who won the strings final.

Making the all-important decisions are:
Lisa Tregale, director of the National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Chi-Chi Nwanoku, acclaimed double bassist and founder, artistic and executive director of the Chineke! Foundation, John Hardy, award winning composer and head of composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and Angela Dixon, chief executive of performance space Saffron Hall, and the chair of the judging panel for BBC Young Musician 2020. Show less