New Year's concert

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From the BBC’s studios at Maida Vale in London, Georgia Mann presents the World Service’s annual concert featuring members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme past and present. Founded in 1999 with the aim of nurturing and promoting some of the world’s finest young musicians at the start of their international careers, the list of NGA alumni is now well over a hundred and includes some of the biggest names in classical music, including trumpeter Alison Balsom, pianists Igor Levit and Benjamin Grosvenor, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Lisa Batiashvili, soprano Fatma Said, the Quatuor Ebene, and many more. Participants are offered the chance to make studio recordings, perform with the BBC’s orchestras, and at many of the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals including London’s Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms. Today, a chance to hear from award-winning British mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, Swedish violinist Johan Dalene – at 21, one of the youngest ever NGAs – and superstar jazz bass player Misha Mullov-Abbado, a New Generation Artist from 2017 to 2019 and now one of the biggest names on the scene. Image foreground: New Generation Artist Johan Dalene (Credit: Mats Bäcker) Image background: Fireworks display (Credit: Getty Images)