The award-winning string ensemble LGT Young Soloists is made up of highly gifted young soloists from the age of 13 to 23, and brings together musicians from over 15 nations. The project gives top-class young instrumentalists the opportunity to perform regularly on the world’s leading stages as soloists, chamber and orchestral musicians, enthralling audiences with their highly professional playing.
Recent highlights include performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Musikverein, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, as well as tours through Australia and South Africa.
Since its founding in 2013 by violinist and pedagogue Alexander Gilman and pianist Marina Seltenreich, LGT Young Soloists has established itself as one of the leading and most widely touring youth orchestras worldwide. Just two years after it was founded, the ensemble was the world’s first youth orchestra to record for Sony Classical/RCA Red Seal. Its discography includes six albums: Philip Glass (Orange Mountain Music, 2021), Beethoven RECOMPOSED (Naxos 8.579081, 2020) and Souvenir (2019), Nordic Dream (2018), Russian Soul (2017) and Italian Journey (2015), released on RCA Red Seal.
