Keyboard Final BBC Young Musician

If you can cope with it. Then you can cope with anything. It will be

an unfor gettable experience for them. Which will make them love

music even more. It's been the most amazing start to what I hope will be

a long career in music. BBC Young Musician has been show casting the

UK's most talented young performers for more than 30 years. The word is

that keyboard final will be another classic. Before we meet tonight's

five finalists, here is a reminer of how they got here and what lies

ahead for tonight's keyboard category winner. Our five keyboard

finalists have been through two tough audition rounds just to reach

this stage. It's a huge achievement, but each will be hoping their

journey doesn't end here. Whoever is successful tonight will join the

other four category winners in the accept yen final. You will see it

here on BBC Four next Saturday. Then, five will become three as they

compete for a place in the final. And make a date in your diary for a

week on Sunday, when BBC Young Musician 2014 reaches its thrilling

conclusion at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. We will bring you full

coverage as our three finalists each perform a concerto with the BBC

Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Karabits. One

will be named BBC Young Musician 2014.

One will be named BBC Young Musician 2014. Unlike other category finals,

our contestants tonight will be facing the cameras and judges alone

and there's literally nowhere to hide. Plus, with only one instrument

under the spotlight, they really need to pull out all the stops in

order to stand out. The five finalists are: 18-year-old

Hayley Parkes from Burton upon Trent. It's an amazing privilege to

even be here and to get this far and to be able to have the chance to

perform to so many people. That's what it's about for me personally.

Julian Trevelyan from St Albans, and at 15, our youngest keyboard

finalist. I always try to make the audience understand as much about

the music as I can give them. That's what you want to do for any concert

or anything. You want to show the audience what you're all about. From

Nottingham, 17-year-old Isata Kanneh-Mason. I think it's better to

focus on the performance and the music rather than getting too lost

in the competitive nature of it, because that can be quite hard.

Martin James Bartlett is from Hornchurch in Essex, and if his face

looks familiar that's because he made to the keyboard final two years

ago. It feels very comfortable to come back and play in the same hall

with the same acoustic. I really didn't think I would get this far

again and it's just great to be back. And finally, 18-year-old Ning

Hui See from Singapore, who as a full time student here in the UK, is

eligible to enter the competition. This is definitely one of the

biggest things I've done. Now that the day has come, I'm very excited,

I'm definitely looking forward to my performance tonight. And there we

have our line-up. I'm certainly looking forward to hearing them and

the gorgeous repertoire they've all chosen to perform this evening.

Already this year the juries have had to make some really tough

decisions, and tonight promises to be no different.

Our judges are: Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Noriko

Ogawa. I'm looking for a competitor who creates a really nice sound, who

can use the whole capacity of the instrument. Music can actually unite

everybody in the room and that will be the moment that I'm looking for.

Ashley Wass, one of Britain's leading pianists. Rather than trying

to tick every single box, I would like someone to show me what they're

really about, what their tastes and repertoire is. If somebody can put a

smile on my face and charm me tonight, I will remember that. And

our general adjudicator, Meurig Bowen, director of the Cheltenham

Music Festival. I'm looking for an inner strength, the ability to

handle the highs and lows of a career in music, and to gain a sense

that this person has not only musical intelligence but an

emotional intelligence too. We're minutes away from the

beginning of tonight's keyboard final and there's a very big sense

of excitement here tonight. It's piano, the repertoire is huge,

there's so much at stake. I personally can't wait to hear

tonight's contestants. As you can see, the audience are just taking

their seats, and for one competitor the wait is very nearly over. First,

it's Hayley Parkes from Burton upon Trent. 18-year-old Hayley is a

first-year student at the Royal Northern College Of Music in

Manchester. With a timetable packed full of music classes, lectures and

group rehearsals, Hayley is on the go from morning till night. And she

wouldn't have it any other way. As a person, I don't like not to be busy.

I really like to have things full in my diary, to be having to rush from

one place to another and to be involved with as many things as I

can. Even the busiest students need a place to relax, and whilst at

college, Hayley shares a flat with two fellow music students. It's an

arrangement that certainly works for them. I think Hayley is a good

flatmate. Well, she's a bread-maker so she makes a lot of bread and it

makes the flat smell really nice. And she's quite clean, which is

good. Music fills Hayley's life now, but that hasn't always been the

case. She started playing when she was nine-years-old, much to the

surprise of her parents. We're totally tone deaf, aren't we,

really? We just don't... We're not into music at all.

Are you hearing this, Charlie? You need to start doing a bit more

reading. Definitely not from a musical family! My parents have

never played an instrument. My sister really doesn't like it and

neither does my brother really, so it's been my adventure, my

discovery. And helping Hayley on her journey is her teacher at the Royal

Northern, Russian pianist Dina Parakhina. Thank you very much,

Hayley. It sounds beautiful, sounds lovely.

I still remember the very first time I saw her, and I liked her very

much. There was something so sweet, so nice about her musicality, her

personality. I could sense it immediately.

Maybe a little bit... She's really intelligent, like

really, seriously intelligent. Academically she's just brilliant at

every subject. More soft, a little bit deeper, you

know? More soul. Try again, please. I think it's quite amazing how

transformed she is over the last years. She's made incredible

progress. I feel really, really lucky to have had such an amazing

role model as a pianist. Thank you, it sounds beautiful, I really like

it. Back home in Burton upon Trent,

Hayley's passing that inspiration on to the next generation of pianists.

It's quite dreamy, isn't it? Considering I've come so far by

myself, and without this exposure to classical music, I would love the

opportunity to be able to expose a child to a piece of music that just

makes them smile. There are two little girls in particular that love

to come over actually, and have a little bit of a lesson. They ask me

questions and I just love to see them be so interested. It is a

massive deal for me. Hayley's music is really good and it's really good

on the piano, it sounds nice. It sounds like the birds flying up,

doesn't it? To be able to bring that to a

younger child is just a massive privilege, I think. It's something

that people underestimate, the power that a musician can have, to bring

that to someone. And here is Hayley Parkes to open

this keyboard final. She's going to begin with Sonata in F minor by

The piece itself is, I think, a Scarlatti.

The piece itself is, I think, a beautiful piece to open with. It's

very archaic, I think, in the aura it creates. Quite slow, but there's

beautiful melodies in both hands and it really takes the listener on a

journey, I think, through the piece. Hayley's second piece is in

improvise by Russian composer, Nikolai Medtner. -- improvisation.

It's actually a memory of a composer that dies very young and was very

close to Medtner. The theme can be heard from the outset. It's very

longing and almost in despair, but it quickly turns into some very

turbulent variations. To end her programme, Hayley's going

to play the 5th movement from Schumann's veil naes carnival. It is

a finale in every sense of the word. It's a fantastic piece to finish

with. It's a piece to put a smile on someone's face.

APPLAUSE What a start to tonight's category

final. Such an incredible programme of so many different moves and

textures. Well done. Thank you. Fabulous. Thank you very much. They

are still clapping for you. They want an encore. Don't think you can

do that in competitions. Probably not. How was it? It's like I was

floating. It's a nice atmosphere. You can feel everyone wanting you to

do well. It was fantastic. Such a good experience. Hayley is a very

romantic pianist, I thought. She has a lot of ideas how she wants to

phrase in a very beautiful sound. Particularly loved Hayley's first

performance. She created a sense of intimacy and wonder in that piece.

Very still, private and controlled. A really accomplished performance by

Hayley Parkes to get to this keyboard final underway. Next to

face the jury it's tonight's youngest finalist, 15-year-old,

Julian Trevelyan. Julian lives at home with his mum

and dad in St Albans. Although he has been having piano lessons since

he was seven, he is the only keyboard finalist that doesn't

attend a specialist music school or conservatoire. In fact, he doesn't

go to school at all. I have been home educated since I was little.

You can work at your own level. You can - people say that you're lonely

when you are home-schooled. There is so much that you can do. I always

wanted to home educate him, partly so that I spend my time with him. 's

able to learn about things that he's passionate about and, to a greater

depth, learning happens all the time. It's just a part of every day

life. Not just inside the home, but outside too. I like to go wild food

collecting because I'd read lots of books about it. I've got some

mushrooms which are used in Chinese cooking. I would pick them and take

them home and make delicious meals out of them. It's just sort of out

of my love of food. Food and music are my two greatest pleasures.

Music is important to me in the way that it is my life. Music is a

background always in my mind. I have to actively think to have words.

It's music. Ho where is Julian more surrounded than by music than at

Snape Maltings in Suffolk. -- nowhere. English composure, Benjamin

Britten, founder of the Aldeburgh festival of music created the

renowned famous concert hall here in 1967. Today the site is home to

Aldeburgh Young Musicians, which runs intense weekend an residential

courses, with a creative twist. We are not teaching them how to play

their instrument when they are here. We are exposing them to different

ways of working. They may be exploring different styles. We are

expanding their horizons and encouraging them to have a different

approach to their music making so they become very rounded musicians.

Julian is terrific. He is slightly eccentric. In a positive way, he is

good fun, everybody enjoys working with him he brought a new dynomite

approach to working with people. It's quite a unique experience

because you work on the side of music which isn't so much done at

the normal conservatoires. We have some very inspirational coaches and

it's just a lovely Place2Be. Back in St Albans, Julian's hoping to become

an inspirational coach himself. Though not of music, but gymnastics.

I've been doing gymnastics at the local club for seven/eight years

maybe. I've always enjoyed it. Julian has now developed up to a

coach. He is on our training programme, which is lovely. Over the

moon he has got through to the next stage of the Young musician. All of

the coaches are behind him. Can't see what happens next. We wish him

all the luck in the world on the next stage. So with everyone back

home wishing him well, here is Julian Trevelyan to perform in this

keyboard final. He will begin with the third movement from Sonata in E

major by Beethoven. It's a very varied piece, variation

five, which I think is rather like a string quartet, as it were.

APPLAUSE To end his programme, Julian is going to play Etude No.10

by the 20th century composer Gyorgy Ligeti.

Ligeti is more a challenge for the mind. It's almost as if it's an

encore after the Beethoven. APPLAUSE.

A beautiful performance from Julian, who's most certainly a wizard of the

keyboard. Over to Alison, who's talking to him right now.

I think everybody was captivated by the Beethoven. You're 15. Yes. It

sounded like you had been playing that the decades. Mathematically,

how did that happen? I don't know. It's just how I play it. You have an

affinity with these two composers perhaps? Maybe. I thought it was

absolutely, absolutely fabulous. Thank you. Well done. The choice of

repertoire is quite incredible. 109, to play it by a 15-year-old is

really quite amazing. I think Julian's choice of Opus 109 was

incredibly brave. He's a very intellectual young man, quite

clearly, and there's much to admire. It was very well controlled playing,

and also in the Ligeti as well. It was extremely well controlled on a

technical level. We've already heard from two of our

finalists tonight. Still to come, Martin James Bartlett and Ning Hui

See, but up next is the 17-year-old Isata Kanneh-Mason from Nottingham.

It's 6am in the Kanneh-Mason household. Time for Isata to make

her weekly trip to London. And she's not going alone. I'm one of seven

siblings and we all play instruments. Every Saturday, I

travel down with four of my brothers and sisters on the train from

Nottingham to London to go to the Royal Academy of Music.

I love the atmosphere here, I love that everyone is doing the same

thing, everyone is musical. My piano teacher is Patsy Toh and I really

enjoy studying with her. She's really developed to me as a

musician. Your emotion, your feeling must change along with that. So

please try this once again, OK? Try not to slow down if you can.

Well, I've been teaching Isata since she was ten years old and I always

remember when her parents came down, brought her down, she was this very

tiny little girl and she was just raring to go and wanted to come here

very badly. I would say that she has the makings to be a terrific

virtuoso pianist. She's got the sound, you know, she's got the

equipment, and for certain times of music, you know, very exciting and

colourful. It's a musical ability that Isata's had from an early age.

Well I first realised that Isata was talented in her cot because she used

to sing perfectly in tune from when she was tiny. Even back then, BBC

Young Musician played an important part in family life. I can remember

all the finals and being excited. Of course the children have always

watched it from when they were little, and she was interested so

it's incredibly exciting to actually be on it for Isata. I've always

wanted to be in it, it's such an exciting thing for me, so to have

got this far is just amazing. And getting through to the category

final isn't Isata's only accomplishment in recent months. In

September I was chosen to go out to LA and perform with Elton John. He's

really connected with the Royal Academy of Music, he used to go

there when he was younger. It was amazing to be on stage with someone

who's so famous and so widely known, and it was just an amazing

experience. He's been really kind. He's been supporting Isata and said

to her if you get into the Academy, you know, you'll be an Elton John

scholar, which was really exciting for her. Yes, he's sponsoring to go

there to the Senior Academy, it's fantastic. When she's 18, it's

great. A few weeks ago Elton John sent me a

card, congratulating me on getting into the Academy and into the

category finals of BBC Young Musician so I've got it framed. I

was really happy. From A-list celebrities to A levels, Isata takes

it all in her stride. School is the local catholic comprehensive. As an

extraordinary family, they're characterised, strangely, by their

ordinariness. Isata is an extremely talented girl, extremely dedicated.

She's got a nice group of friends here at school and she's just one of

our students. The first thing you notice about her is how modest she

is, because she doesn't want to show off at all. It's never about being

the best, it's always about doing your best sort of thing. She's funny

and she's chatty, and she's just one of us really. But even at school,

music's never far from Isata's thoughts and when she's not playing,

she's composing. This time for her second instrument, the viola. And

where better to try out her latest composition, written just hours

before, than back home with the family.

I think music is her whole life, her whole world. In a way it's the only

thing she can be, the only thing she wants to be, and she's utterly

dedicated and loves it. It's her passion.

So, hoping to do her family proud, here is Isata Kanneh-Mason to

perform this keyboard final. She's going to begin with a nocturne by

Chopin. I chose this piece because I think, out of all his nocturnes, it

is his most beautiful. I just love the melody and I love the harmony,

and I just think it's an amazing piece. It definitely helps to start

with a calming piece of music. It sort of settles the nerves. It's

quite a relaxing way to begin the performance, I think.

APPLAUSE. To end her programme, Isata is going

to play Scarbo, from Gaspard de la Nuit, considered by many to be one

of Ravel's most challenging pieces for the piano.

It is a very exciting piece, it is all about a goblin who comes out at

night and creates a nightmarish scene for the person sleeping. You

just get lost in that atmosphere and that mood.

Isata Kanneh-Mason leaving us all breathless and displaying such an

incredible command over the instrument, over the colour, texture

and technique. Really spell binding performance. That was magnificent,

did you enjoy yourself? I did enjoy it, actually. You looked like you

were in your element on the stage. Your Chopin was magnificent, so was

the Ravel, what were your highlights, they were very

different? I enjoyed the Ravel. Exciting to play. I love the Chopin

as well. I love the atmosphere it creates. I enjoyed all of it. Good.

Has wonderful presence on stage. A great story teller. Sparkling

colourful Ravel and dreamy performance of the Chopin. Isata

built an interesting programme, very contrasting. Romantic Chopin and

ending up with a spiky, prickly Ravel. I really enjoyed it. Our next

finalist is Martin James Bartlett. If you think you have seen him

before, you probably have. Martin has reached this stage in the

competition two years ago. March 2012, 15-year-old Martin takes

to the young musician stage. I was nervous when I came out. As soon as

I sat down I felt quite comfortable, because I'm in front of the piano.

The whole BBC Two 012 experience was really positive. I think it gave him

a real sense of what he could do. I think made him feel that this long

held ambition of being a concert pianist was something that could be

achieved. Two yearson, Emily is helping him achieve it with weekly

lessons at Purcell School of Music where Martin has been a student for

the last five years. Keep the build-up. I studied with Emily for

10 years. I first met her when I was seven. Lessons with her are the most

important part of my week. I love going. I wake up in the morning and

I know I have a lesson with her. She makes me believe more in myself than

I would do without her. You are talking far too much time there. I

think that he's really one of the most talented students I've ever

taught. I have had some very talented students. Martin is a

really fun person. A bit of a joker. A bit mischievous perhaps. He does

love to have a laugh. Quite a personality, I think, really.

Pretend you're a teacher! He has a great sense of humour. He tends to

light a room up when he walks in. He has great fun. People around him

enjoy it as well. My days at Purcell are busy. I would have physics,

music harmony and oral lessons. I try and practice five or six hours a

day. I love playing. If I come into my room, it's hard if there is a

piano in the room not to start playing it. It's all really I think

about, even though when I'm in lessons and things like that, I have

pieces going around in my head and I want to start playing again. So,

yes, a bit of a nut job. It's a passion that is all consuming, even

at weekends. On Saturday Saturdays I go to the Royal College. My morning

starts with piano duo work, which I love. I have piano trio. It's great

fun to go to the Royal College and to mix, both Purcell and Royal

College, they bounce off each other so well. It's days before the

Category Final, Martin and the rest of Purcell's keyboard department

have been invited to give a performance at the Fazioli Piano

Concert Hall just north of Venice. While he is there, Martin is lucky

enough to get a tour of the piano factory, by none other than the

founder. Mr Fazioli himself. This lady is checking the position. It

looks precise? Yes. It's very important for the evenness of the

touch of the piano. Now, Martin, we will see something very special. OK.

This is the Fazioli No. 1. 001, it's the number one. It's the first

piano. The first Fazioli. Could I have a go? You can play! Thank you.

The factory produces ?130,000 each year, each taking 800 hours to

build. With the tour of the factory over.

It's time for Martin to show what he can do. Martin, seems to me, a young

boy very intelligent and his playing is fantastic. I heard him perform he

realised that piece really in the best way.

Back home and with another successful performance under his

belt, Martin's takes the opportunity to relax before his return to the

Young Musician stage. I feel very comfortable because I've done it

before. It feels a bit safer. In the past I was worried about it. Whilst

now I feel I'm just going with the flow. He's done a lot of

preparation. He knows that he's just got to be his best for those 16

minutes, on stage. So, two years on, here is Martin James Bartlett making

his second bid to win the BBC Young Musician Keyboard title. He is going

to begin with the Capriccio No. 2 by Bach. -- Partitas No. 2 by Bach. I

think it's a noble start to the programme. It has a lot of counter

point and imitation that Ied really love to bring through.

APPLAUSE Next, Martin is going to play the

Petrarch Sonnet by Liszt. It has so many different moods in the place.

You have to feel the music. You can't just do what's on the he

score. You really have to feel it through your body. -- on the score.

You really have to feel it through your body.

APPLAUSE To follow the Liszt Martin is going

for a complete change of mood by a piece called Etincelles by a German

composer called Moritz Moszkowski. It shows off a very different side

to a classic performance. APPLAUSE.

To end this richly varied programme, Martin has chosen a Sonata by

American composer, Samuel Barber. It's so exciting for me to even play

it. I get excited when I'm playing it. All the different contrasts,

textures, and the articulation. I think it's a real showpiece. I just

love to play it. APPLAUSE.

Well, I'm not sure what to say but one thing I'm so sure about is that

this competition is really, really heating up.

That was Martin, playing with such extraordinary assurance, confidence,

so much colour, so much feeling. I'm really taken by that.

Martin, you're obviously on a massive high. Tell me how you feel.

I'm just... I was so excited when I was playing, and now, after a

performance you're always so excited when you finish. I just feel on top

of the world. Martin's performance was a real high wire act,

technically. It was a fantastically and impressively mixed programme,

and I think we got a lot out of all the different things that he showed

us. I think Martin demonstrated a compelling level of musicianship

tonight. There are many things that he said in his playing that I didn't

particularly agree with, but nonetheless he made me want to

listen to him and he's somebody that I would really love to hear play

again. And how does it compare to the last time you were in this

competition? I think I've progressed a lot since I was here last time,

and it felt more comfortable to be on stage than last time so I think I

was slightly less nervous than last time.

Last to perform in this BBC Young Musician Keyboard final, it's Ning

Hui See from Singapore. 18-year-old Ning Hui See is not your

average student. She left her home city of Singapore to study in the UK

in 2012. Two years later, and at an age when most music students are

just thinking about conservertoires, Ning is already in her second year

at the Royal College of Music. I came to London when I was 16 from

Singapore. I finished my end of year exams in my previous school and then

I came straight to college. She arrived at the tender age of 16,

which I think is very young for somebody to come halfway across the

world, leave her family, leave her friends. That showed that she had

great determination and that she knew what she wanted to do with her

life. Even as a young child, Ning knew the piano was for her. She

started playing at just four-years-old but her practice got

off to a bumpy start. I was practising alone and I suppose I was

moving around a bit too much and I fell off the piano stool onto the

floor! Luckily it didn't put her off and after many years performing in

public, Ning caught the eye of the Royal College of Music. I first met

Ning when we were auditioning in Singapore. I realised then that she

was very gifted, very bright. Certainly of scholarship level. With

music at the very heart of her life, being at a conservertoire has

allowed Ning to do what she likes doing best. Now that I'm at the

Royal College of Music, I pretty much practice every day. At least

three to four hours, sometimes it can go up to five or six. But

getting a space to practice isn't always easy. Floor three.

I arrive here at 8:30 in the morning at the Royal College and she's often

here practising, one of the very first. For breakfast, she'd always

be on her phone in the morning at 8:30, not going on Facebook or

Twitter or calling anyone or texting. At 8:30 she has an alarm

that reminds her to book rooms. And when you just can't practice,

there's always the local coffee shop. In my spare time here, I like

to go out with my college friends to restaurants and cafes and to go

shopping. I definitely miss my friends and family back home in

Singapore. With my parents, I like to spend time chatting on Skype with

them. My parents use the Skype sessions to ask me about how my week

has been. Bye, got to go.

It's just weeks to go before the category finals and Ning is working

on her programme with teacher John Byrne. It's coming on. It's really

coming on very nicely, very well. The first thing that strikes you

about Ning's playing is that it communicates very well. It's very

warm, she has a good ear for colour and for sensitivity, and she gives a

good blend, a good balance of an intellectual understanding, plus the

spontaneity and warmth. Ning is really enjoying the whole process of

being part of the BBC Young Musician. It's given her a focus and

a goal. And to help her prepare for the category final, Ning seeks the

advice of someone who knows exactly what it's like to compete in BBC

Young Musician - fellow Royal College of Music student and

previous winner Lara Melda. So there are a few more weeks before I have

to play at the category finals, are there any tips you can give me based

on your experience? Well in my experience, I think when you go onto

stage, that moment is your moment, your moment to tell your story. Just

forget that there's a panel there, sitting there, just treat it as a

concert. You know, express yourself. Give it my best shot. Yeah.

It's definitely one of the biggest things I've done. But if I do win, I

will definitely be really happy and really fortunate because it would

make such a big difference to my career.

So, in her bid to take the keyboard title, Ning is first going to

perform Six Little Piano Pieces by Schoenberg.

It is probably not a very usual choice but it can show range and

character, and the softer terms of the piano. -- softer tones.

To follow the Schoenburg and end her programme, Ning is going to play the

Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor by Chopin.

It has been described by some people as an inferno because there is a lot

of fire, drama and passion in it. Not all of it is loud, in fact a lot

of the pieces are spent quietly. APPLAUSE

CCTV, bringing what has been a high quality keyboard final to a close.

Like everyone of tonight's finalist, she has given her all in her bid for

the title. How was it to wait for so long? You were last in the evening,

not easy? Yeah. I was the last. I can't help thinking - everyone has

finished, I'm the last. Were you happy with your overall performance?

Yeah. It could have been better. I always say that. Ning is an

intelligent player. A beautiful level of study. Particularly in the

Schoenburg she played tonight. Very poised playing, intimate playing.

She has a fantastic natural facility. Ning's Schoenburg was

quite amazing. She is one of those earnest piano eyeses that reads bar

by bar, not by note. It showed that. She must have worked very hard.

Well, there you have it. Five spell binding performances in the keyboard

category which simply cannot get stronger than this. How the jury

will choose just one winner are I have no idea. Over to them. Making

the tough decision: International acclaimed concert pianist, Noriko

Ogawa. Ashley Wass, one of Britain's leading pianists. Our general

adjudicator, Meurig Bowen, director of the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Hayley got things off to a beautiful poised start. A sense she wasn't so

comfortable with the others. To play the Scarlatti with poise and

intimacy was really quite a remarkable feat actually. I thought

it was very, very beautiful. I want Medtner to be much more weighty with

darkness in the performance. With Julian we used the words "endo you

Lekkual" -- intellectual." Very controlled. Very impressive control

in the Beethoven. Should be much, much more dramatic. Even Even in the

Ligeti. I was rather taken with the fantasy and the grace of her

playing. She has a wonderful natural facility. Fantastic fingers. Much,

much to work with her. For me the Chopin was square in its phrasing. A

little fast. The Ravel exotic music. Not sure she captured that quality.

She has amazing control when it's very fast and soft passages going

up-and-down. They were really quite breath taking. Then I really wanted

to just watch how she did it. You know, they were very beautifully

done. Martin. There is clearly a very strong musical personality and

technician at work here. Absolutely from the first notes he played he

made me sit up and listen. I thought his musicianship was absolutely

compelling. The Barber was a safe reading. It didn't quite sort of

achieve the thrilling livoff that that -- liftoff that that piece can.

It was a recital. It was a performance. I didn't have to make

lots of notes. I just sat down and enjoyed. It is really quite an

achieve am. With Ning there was a massive contrast in the two pieces.

The Schoenburg demonstrated real poise and control. Beautifully

delivered on many levels. For me, I think, more colour more expensive

depth would elevate the performance to another level completely. How she

read and memorised that Schoenburg in such detail is phenomenonal.

Everything has to be exaggerated. Chopin has to sound warmer and

Schoenburg colder. That is what I thought. We have to narrow these

five fantastic players now down to one. As you can see, all the five

finalists are here waiting backstage for a decision. Of course only one

of them can win. To reveal who that is going to be is jury member,

Noriko Ogawa. The winner of of the BBC Young Musician 2014, keyboard

category final is... Martin James Bartlett. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Well a popular decision in the hall. Martin's parents look justifiably

proud. Returning to the stage for a well

earned round of applause, four more outstanding young musicians who've

helped to make this a memorable final.

At the beginning of the evening I was looking for somebody with

something unique and interesting to say. Martin had that in an

abundance. A compelling personality and a wonderfully talented young

musician who I'm sure has a great future ahead of him. Oh, my gosh!

You did it! Second time lucky? Yes, exactly. How are you doing? Auto I

am so excited. So happy. Your fingers crossed? Whatever happens.

It's not about winning, it's about doing the best you can. He projected

the most out of that instrument. He entertained us the most. Interesting

programme. Everything, for me. We saw and heard in Martin's

performance today the very, very solid foundations of an incredibly

interesting musically engaging and technically secure performer. We all

sense the foundation of something very special and interesting there.

Huge congratulations to Martin. We will see him again in the semi-final

next Saturday here on BBC Four when he goes to battle for a place in the

Grand Final. I, for one, cannot wait. With four semi-finalists

already confirmed, only one precious place remains.le join us again next

week when we will have five wonderful brass players all hoping

to win their category and become someone step closer to be crowned

BBC Young Musician 2014. It's probably the biggest concert I've

played. I want to get out there and play my best. It's an amazing thing

to do. I probably won't ever get to do it again. I will try my best and

win it if I. Can I want to say, here I am. This is the trumpet. It was a

lovely, smokey, acluring sound. Her sound was just stunning, really

beautiful. -- alluring.