The 2020 edition of BBC Young Musician remained incomplete when we left it last spring. Tonight 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. The semi-final sees the winners of the keyboard, strings, brass, woodwind and percussion finals compete for the three coveted places in the grand final. \n\nOrganist and conductor Anna Lapwood is our guide to proceedings. She is joined by Tim Rhys-Evans, director of music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, who provides insight and analysis. Josie d’Arby also joins the line-up with interviews with the semi-finalists and Jess Gillam continues her series of conversations discussing the changing face of classical music with visionary conductor Nicholas Collon.\n\nAs always, the five talented performers provide a tough challenge for the judges. \n\nThe semi-finalists are: \nFang Zhang, winner of the percussion final, oboist Ewan Millar, 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.\n\nMaking the all-important decisions are: \nLisa Tregale, director of the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus 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 chair of the judging panel for BBC Young Musician 2020.\n\nThe semi-final was filmed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in March 2020 before the national lockdown.
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