Early Career Artists
We are delighted to welcome two exceptional young musicians as our Early Career Artists for the 2025/26 Season: violinist Guo You and cellist Aurelien Pinchon.
Our Early Career Artist Scheme offers emerging performers the chance to work closely with IT&T’s experienced musicians, receiving individual coaching, ensemble mentoring, and opportunities to perform in professional concerts. The scheme is designed to support gifted young artists as they establish themselves in the early stages of their careers, helping them to gain valuable experience, build connections, and develop their artistic voice.
This season, Guo and Aurelien will join us in rehearsals and concerts, learning side by side with our players and sharing their talents with our audiences. We are thrilled to support them at this exciting stage in their musical journey.
We are enormously grateful to the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation and the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation for their generous support, which makes the Early Career Artist Scheme possible.
Full biographies of both musician below.
FORMER IT&T EARLY CAREER ARTISTS
ECA 2023:
Melanie Gruwez
Melanie Gruwez is a Belgian violinist, passionate about different music genres. She is an award-winning chamber musician, obtaining the St James Prize 2021 with Picea Quartet, who has performed internationally on the stages of the Barbican, Bozar, de Doelen and the Oriental Art Centre Shanghai in different formations. As a historical performer, she has played side by side the Academy of Ancient Music and Barokksolistene and she currently plays with the Theresia Orchestra across Europe, most recently performing an all Beethoven programme under Giovanni Antonini’s direction.
Melanie obtained her Artist Masters from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2022, having previously graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, and studied the violin with Ofer Falk, Guido De Neve and Shirly Laub and baroque violin with Oliver Webber and Chiara Banchini