BBC Music May 2021

In this month’s issue, we reveal the winners of this year’s BBC Music Magazine Awards and meet all the winning artists. A year has gone by since the category finals of BBC Young Musician 2020, which was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, so we meet the five semi-finalists who are preparing to battle it out in the next stage of the competition. Humphrey Burton, former BBC presenter and the creator of this illustrious competition, shares an extract from his upcoming autobiography.