The British cellist and US violinist will receive transatlantic support
The Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) and Concert Artists Guild (CAG) have named cellist Willard Carter and violinist Joshua Brown as YCAT and CAG shared artists. The YCAT-CAG partnership is in its seventh year. Its artists receive support across Europe and North America, from concert bookings to career mentorship and international representation.
British cellist Willard Carter, who was recently named a YCAT artist, began studying at the Escuela de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2018 with Ivan Monighetti. In 2023, he was a student at the Barenboim–Said Akademie with Frans Helmerson and from 2026 onwards he has studied with Antje Weithaas in Berlin.
He has undertaken masterclasses with cellists including Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Jens Peter Maintz, and at programmes including IMS Prussia Cove, the Heifetz Academy and the Daniel Hope Academy.
Carter has performed recitals at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Radio Classique Festival in Saint-Malo, Solsberg Festival and has played at Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace and the Berlin Konzerthaus. He has also curated concerts at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Gstaad New Year Festival. In 2025 he won the VP Opus Bank Award in Liechtenstein. He plays on a 1893 Vincenzo Postiglione cello.
US violinist Joshua Brown signed with CAG in December 2025. In the same year, he was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant. Competition success includes second prize and audience award at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition, first prize at the inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in Beijing, and first prize at the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany.
Following his debut performance with the Cleveland Orchestra, Brown has gone on to perform as a soloist with orchestras including the Munich Radio Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege.
As a chamber musician he has appeared at Festival Musiq3 in Brussels, the Tchaikovsky Festival in Moscow, ProMusica series in Mexico, the Matinée Musicale series in Cincinnati, the Jupiter Chamber Players series in New York City, and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago.
He plays a circa 1635–40 Nicolò Amati violin.
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