Outstanding Young Artist Award

The Outstanding Young Artist Award was one of the principle awards at the MIDEM Classique Awards, presented by the MIDEM / IAMA partnership each year in Cannes during the MIDEM international media trade show. In 2010, the decision was taken by the IAMA board to withdraw from the jury and the programme. The jury took the decision soon after to disband the award and event from 2011.

We would like to thank Cornelia Much of Reed Midem and the past Midem jury for their cooperation in the young artist programme . In addition, we would like to thank James Brown (Hazard Chase) for being the first to serve on the jury and for Christian May (Melos Konzerte) for following on in the jury. Thanks also go to the IAMA members who formed the jury to sift out the applications before they went to the Midem jury. Your co-operation is much appreciated!

This year's awards ceremony was held on 26 January 2010 in Cannes and the winner was announced to be clarinetist, Jose Franch-Ballester from Young Concert Artists Inc, New York.

IAMA Jury 2010:

Mark HILDREW, Director, Askonas Holt, United Kingdom;

Gunther BROUCKE, Intendant, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgium;

Elisabeth EHLERS, Director, KünstlerSekretariat am Gasteig, Germany;

Patrizia GARRASI, President, RESIA SRL, Italy;

Etienne REYMOND, Artistic Administration, Tonhalle Gesellschaft Zürich, Switzerland;

MIDEM Jury 2010:

Aarno CRONVALL, Executive Producer, CLASSIC RADIO,Finland;

Bernadette BEYNE, Editor-in-Chief, CRESCENDO,Belgium;

Björn Woll, Editor-in-Chief, FONO FORUM, Germany;

James JOLLY, Editor-in-Chief, GRAMOPHONE, United Kingdom;

Christian MAY, Director, IAMA, United Kingdom;

Franz PATAY, Secretary General, IMZ, Austria;

Tobias PFLEGER, Editor, KLASSIK.COM, Germany;

Martin HOFFMEISTER, Deputy Head of Music Department, MDR, Germany;

Stephen HASTINGS, Editor, MUSICA, Italy;

Andrea Meuli, Editor-in-Chief, MUSIK & THEATER, Switzerland;

Christian Scheib, Head of Music Department, ORF, Austria;

Rémy FRANCK, Managing Director & Editor-in-Chief, PIZZICATO, Luxembourg;

Pierre-Jean TRIBOT, Editor Events & Special Projects, RESMUSICA.COM, Belgium;

Irina GERASIMOVA, CEO and Artistic Director, RADIO ORPHEUS, Russia;

Luis SUNÉN, Director, SCHERZO,Spain