Founded in 1963 by Geraint Jones and Calton Younger, Kirckman Concerts aims to promote young artists of exceptional talent, and has been funded since its inception by the Chase Charity.

Each year, the organization selects a group of young artists and offers them a London performing platform, as well as the possibility of concerts elsewhere. Six individuals/ensembles have been selected for 2026/27: Tomos Boyles (piano), Gabrielé Sutkuté (piano), Catherina Lee (violin) and Miles Walter (piano), the Volt Duo, Trio Nostos, and the Karelia Quartet.

Boyles is a student of Joanna MacGregor at the Royal Academy of Music, where he holds the prestigious Bicentennary Scholarship. He previously studied with Rustem Hayroudinoff and Alison Bowring and is a graduate of the University of Oxford.

Sutkuté has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Steinway Hall UK, the Musikhuset Aarhus, and the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. A graduate of both the Royal Academy and the Royal College, she is the winner of more than twenty international piano competitions.

Australian violinist Catherina Lee and American pianist Miles Walter met at the IMS Prussia Cove masterclasses. Lee has appeared with the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Vienna Ensemble, Wiener Akademische Philharmoniker, Junge Philharmonie Wien, and Queensland Symphony, while Walter has played at the  Amsterdam Muziekgebouw, Lewes Chamber Festival, Britten Pears, and Lucerne and Tongyeong International Music Festivals.

Comprising guitarists Gus McQuade and Gonçalo Maia Caetano, the Volt Duo was formed at the Royal Academy of Music. They have appeared at the Llantwit Major Chamber Music Festival and City Music Society, and were prize-winners at the Lagoa International Guitar Competition in Portugal.

Trio Nostos comprises Monty Guo (violin), Jae Min Kim Kang (cello), and Khrystyna Mykhailichenko (piano). Also formed at the Royal Academy of Music, the group has appeared across the UK. Their concerts pair familiar works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, and Ravel alongside lesser-known composers such as Babadjanian and Kapustin.

Comprising Megan Yang (violin), Emil Hartikainen (violin), Felix Pascoe (viola), and Daniel Schultz (cello), the Karelia Quartet has received First Prize at the Nina Drucker String Quartet Competition (2025), First Prize at the Historical Women's Composer Competition (2025), First Prize at the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Competition (2024), and Second Prize at both the 2025 CAVATINA Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall and the 2024 Nina Drucker String Quartet Competition.