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New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: The Consone Quartet and Eric Lu

The Consone Quartet and Eric Lu

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The Consone Quartet performs Mendelssohn  and Eric Lu plays Chopin.

Eric Lu plays Chopin at home in Boston and the period instruments of the Consone Quartet shed new light on Mendelssohn at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

New Generation Artists: Kate Molleson showcases the current members of Radio 3's prestigious young artists' scheme. Today Eric Lu, winner of the Leeds Piano Competition, plays Chopin in recordings he made at home in Boston and the Consone Quartet play Mendelssohn in Birmingham. Playing on period instruments, this UK-based quartet has studied the quartet parts belonging to Mendelssohn's friend, Ferdinand David and this has, they say, "challenged us to look at the  music in a completely different way." 

Chopin:  Preludes nos. 17 in A flat and 21 in B flat from 24 Preludes Op. 28

Eisler: An eine Stadt (6 Holderlin-Fragmente - No.5)	
Macedonian trad: Jovano Jovanke	
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo soprano), Jonathan Ware (piano)

Mendelssohn	String Quartet in E flat (1823) - 
Consone Quartet

Established two decades ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is internationally acknowledged as the foremost scheme of its kind. It exists to offer a platform for artists at the beginning of their international careers. Each year six musicians join the scheme for two years, during which time they appear at the UK's major music festivals, enjoy dates with the BBC orchestras and have the opportunity to record in the BBC studios. The artists are also encouraged to form artistic partnerships with one another and to explore a wide range of repertoire, not least the work of contemporary and women composers. In recent years Radio 3's New Generation Artists have appeared at many of the UK's music festivals and concert halls. The BBC New Generation Artists Scheme is not itself a prize, rather it offers a unique two year platform on which artists can develop their prodigious talents. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who’s Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades.

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