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Radio 3 has supported 70 New Generation Artists over the past 10 years. The ongoing scheme provides some of the world's most exciting young artists with a wide-ranging programme of opportunities and experiences over a two-year period. Many of the NGA alumni are now firmly established as among the leading musicians on the international scene, including such respected artists as mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and soprano Ailish Tynan – who perform at this year's First Night – and trumpeter Alison Balsom, who plays on the Last Night. There are currently 14 artists and ensembles on the scheme.

Adam Gatehouse, founder of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, says: "The New Generation Artists' involvement in this year's 91Èȱ¬ Proms demonstrates the remarkable calibre of the participants – past and present – and is a powerful testimony to Radio 3's commitment to discovering and nurturing exceptional talent. New Generation Artists need to be versatile, inquisitive and willing to collaborate freely – we delight in bringing together many different artists in perpetually varying combinations, and some go on to form lasting partnerships. Each is a strong individualist who will approach music in his or her own way. That is why these are musicians who truly have the potential to be the stars of tomorrow."

Radio 3 New Generation Artists Weekend – Cadogan Hall
(29–31 Aug)

Each of the three days will host four chamber music concerts at Cadogan Hall with over 50 past and present New Generation Artists performing a huge range of music, as soloists and chamber musicians, including four 91Èȱ¬ commissions, two of which are world premieres.

The programme of events for the weekend comprises:

Jerusalem Quartet playing Haydn and Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie performing Goehr's Since Brass nor Stone, commissioned for them by the 91Èȱ¬ and the RPS in 2008 (29 Aug, 11.00am)

Alina Ibragimova and Tai Murray performing solo violin works by Bach and Bartok (29 Aug, 1.00pm)

Galliard Ensemble and Aronowitz Ensemble with double bass player Luis Cabrera performing Spohr's Nonet to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death (29 Aug, 2.30pm)

Natalie Clein, Tom Poster, Andrew Kennedy, Jennifer Pike and Jonathan Lemalu in a concert marking the 75th anniversary of the deaths of Delius, Elgar and Holst (29 Aug, 4.30pm)

four NGA quartets – Meta4, Psophos Quartet, Royal String Quartet and Pavel Haas Quartet – combining to play the rarely performed Allegro for four string quartets by the near-forgotten Johannes Bernardus van Bree, together with works by Haydn, Debussy and Szymanowski (30 Aug, 11.00am)

current NGA violist Maxim Rysanov playing Bach's Suite No. 4 in E flat major and Danjulo Ishizaka playing Kodaly's Sonata for solo cello (30 Aug, 1.00pm)

Alice Coote and Steven Osborne performing together for the first time with songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Martinu's Promenades performed by Emily Beynon, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani to mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death (30 Aug, 2.30pm)

Elizabeth Watts, Daniela Lehner, Alison Balsom and Mahan Esfahani marking four important composer anniversaries: Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn (30 Aug, 4.30pm)

pianist Simon Trpceski playing Chopin and Mendelssohn and Simon Crawford-Phillips (from the Kungsbacka Piano Trio) and Ashley Wass performing the two-piano version of Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring (31 Aug, 11.00am)

world premiere of 91Èȱ¬ Proms commission from pianist and composer John McCabe, Study No. 12 (Sonata), written for this weekend and performed by Ashley Wass; and eight cellists – soloists and ensemble members – joining together to perform Villa-Lobos's arrangement of a Bach Prelude and Fugue and Bachiana Brasileira No. 5 with soprano Ailish Tynan in the 50th-anniversary year of the composer's death
(31 Aug, 1.00pm)

Christian Poltera playing Britten Cello Suite No. 3 and the Szymanowski Quartet joining forces with cellist Claudio Bohorquez in Schubert's String Quintet (31 Aug, 2.30pm)

world premiere of 91Èȱ¬ commission And Distant Shore by Tom Arthurs, for two trumpets and piano, performed by the composer with Giuliano Sommerhalder and Richard Fairhurst as part of a jazz-influenced programme, also featuring the Aronowitz Ensemble and Gwilym Simcock performing a 91Èȱ¬/RPS Commission from 2008 composed by Simcock, entitled Contours (31 Aug, 4.30pm).

Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the Royal Albert Hall

Beyond the 10th-anniversary weekend, the Radio 3 New Generation Artists feature throughout the 91Èȱ¬ Proms this year, from the First Night to the Last.

Highlights of Radio 3 New Generation Artists' appearances at the Proms include:

Alice Coote performing Brahms's Alto Rhapsody and Ailish Tynan performing Chabrier's Ode a la musique on the First Night (17 July)

Elizabeth Watts singing Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross with the 91Èȱ¬ Singers and Manchester Camerata under Douglas Boyd (20 July)

Jennifer Pike playing Holst and Saint-Saens with the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic under Tecwyn Evans in the Free Family Prom (26 July)

Sally Matthews singing in Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2, Lobgesang, with the Halle and its choirs, conducted by Sir Mark Elder (30 July)

Belcea Quartet playing Haydn and Britten in Proms Chamber Music
(3 Aug)

pianists Francois-Frederic Guy, Tom Poster, Ashley Wass and Llyr Williams in Stravinsky's Les noces and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips and percussionist Colin Currie in Bartók on Multiple Pianos day (9 Aug)

Alban Gerhardt giving the world premiere of Unsuk Chin's Cello Concerto, commissioned by the 91Èȱ¬, with Ilan Volkov and 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra (13 Aug)

Christine Rice singing Euridice in Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus (14 Aug)

bass-baritone James Rutherford in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
(15 Aug)

Shai Wosner playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor under Donald Runnicles (26 Aug)

Colin Currie performing Xenakis's Ais with the 91Èȱ¬ Symphony and David Robertson (2 Sept)

Alison Balsom performing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto on the Last Night (12 Sept).

New Generation Artists alumni participating in the 2009 91Èȱ¬ Proms

violinists Ilya Gringolts and Alina Ibragimova

viola players Lawrence Power and Antoine Tamestit

cellists Claudio Bohorquez, Natalie Clein, Alban Gerhardt, Danjulo Ishizaka, Guy Johnston (Aronowitz Ensemble), Li-Wei, Marie Macleod (Aronowitz Ensemble) and Christian Poltéra

sopranos Sally Matthews and Ailish Tynan

mezzo-sopranos Alice Coote and Christine Rice

tenor Andrew Kennedy

bass-baritones Jonathan Lemalu and James Rutherford

flautists Emily Beynon and Sharon Bezaly

clarinettist Ronald van Spaendonck

bassoonist Helen Simons (Galliard Ensemble)

trumpeter Alison Balsom

percussionist Colin Currie

pianists Simon Crawford-Phillips (Kungsbacka Piano Trio), Francois-Frederic Guy, Steven Osborne, Simon Trpceski, Ashley Wass and Llyr Williams

jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock

the Aronowitz Ensemble, Belcea Quartet, Galliard Ensemble, Jerusalem Quartet, Kungsbacka Trio, Psophos Quartet, Royal String Quartet, Szymanowski Quartet.

Current New Generation Artists performing in the 2009 91Èȱ¬ Proms

violinists Tai Murray and Jennifer Pike (2002 91Èȱ¬ Young Musician of the Year)

violist Maxim Rysanov (Gramophone's 2008 Young Artist of the Year)

cellist Andreas Brantelid

soprano Elizabeth Watts (winner of the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the 91Èȱ¬ Cardiff Singer of the World in 2007)

mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner

tenor Allan Clayton

trumpeters Tom Arthurs (jazz) and Giuliano Sommerhalder

harpischordist and pianist Mahan Esfahani (the scheme's first early music artist)

pianists Shai Wosner (recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti–Buitoni Trust Award) and Tom Poster

ensembles Meta4 and Pavel Haas Quartet.