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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 (4/8)

NGA Summer Showcase (4/8)

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Violinist María Dueñas plays the Chaconne from JS Bach's Partita No 2 in D minor.

Violinist María Dueñas plays the Chaconne from JS Bach's Partita No 2 in D minor. Plus, music from jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie and saxophonist Matthew Carmichael.

Hannah French continues the series of eight programmes each Saturday during the Proms, showcasing the talents of the New Generation Artists. Today, Spanish violin sensation María Dueñas plays one of the quintessential works of the violin repertoire, the Chaconne from JS Bach's second Partita in D Minor.  María has been dazzling audiences with her artistic prowess, and the Strad referred to her rising talent as "seemingly unstoppable”.  The programme ends with a jazz collaboration between NGA jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie and saxophonist Matthew Carmichael in a Scandinavian inspired sequence.


JS Bach
Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor BWV.1004
María Dueñas, violin

Improvisation: Sognsvann & Ardbeg 
Fergus McCreadie, jazz piano
Matthew Carmichael, saxophone



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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