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: Meet the rising stars of classical music

Meet the rising stars of classical music

BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, Meet the rising stars of classical music

Radio 3's New Generation Artists: music by Britten, Shostakovich, Schumann and Schubert.

New Generation Artists: the Leonkoro Quartet plays Britten's Second Quartet, Santiago Cañón-Valencia plays a Cello Sonata by Shostakovich and Niamh O'Sullivan sings Hamilton Harty.

Georgia Mann introduces recordings made in the BBC studios featuring the current Radio 3 New Generation Artists.  Today, the multi-award-winning Leonkoro Quartet venture into English music with Benjamin Britten's Second Quartet. Written in 1945, soon after his opera Peter Grimes had catapulted him into the limelight, the quartet's last movement Chacony paid homage to Henry Purcell on the 450th anniversary of his death. Also today, Shostakovich's Cello Sonata of 1934, a work which the cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia says requires the player 'to delve deep and to play with complete abandon.'  And, to bookend the programme, the glorious voice of Irish mezzo Niamh O'Sullivan.  


Hamilton Harty: Sea Wrack
Niamh O'Sullivan (mezzo-soprano)
Gary Beecher (piano)

Rob Luft: Blue, White and Dreaming
Fergus McCreadie (piano)
Rob Luft (electric guitar)

Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
Leonkoro Quartet

R. Schumann: Mit Myrten und Rosen from Liederkreis  Op.24 and Die Beiden Grenadiere (Op.49 No. 1)
William Thomas (bass)
Dylan Perez (piano)

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40
Santiago Cañón-Valencia (cello)
Naoko Sanoda (piano)

Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D.343
Niamh O'Sullivan (mezzo-soprano)
Gary Beecher (piano)


The BBC New Generation Artists scheme was founded in 1999 to support some of the world’s finest young instrumentalists, singers and ensembles at the start of their international careers, through performance and broadcast opportunities. The distinguished list of alumni now numbers well over a hundred, among them many of the most exciting musicians working on the world stage today.

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