New Generation Artists

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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: NGA Summer Showcase (1/8)

NGA Summer Showcase (1/8)

BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, NGA Summer Showcase (1/8)

The first of eight programmes showcasing the talents of the New Generation Artists.

The Mithras Trio perform Ravel, bass William Thomas, accompanied by pianist Dylan Perez, sings Poulenc, and violinist Geneva Lewis plays Biber's Passacaglia in G Minor.

Hannah French introduces the first of eight programmes each Saturday during the Proms, showcasing the talents of the New Generation Artists. Today the Mithras Trio play Ravel, bass William Thomas sings Poulenc, and violinist Geneva Lewis plays Biber's hauntingly beautiful Passacaglia from his Mystery or Rosary sonatas.


Ravel
Piano Trio
Mithras Trio

Poulenc: Mazurka                             
William Thomas, bass
Dylan Perez, piano

Biber 
Passacaglia in G Minor (The Guardian Angel) 
Geneva Lewis (violin)


Established just over two decades ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is acknowledged internationally as the foremost programme 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 and venues, 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, women and diverse 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 including pianists Paul Lewis, Pavel Kolesnikov, Benjamin Grosvenor and Beatrice Rana, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Lisa Batiashvili, the Belcea, Jerusalem and Ébène Quartets, singers Alice Coote and Fatma Said and the trumpeter Alison Balsom.

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