86 BBC Proms: 72 on the Royal Albert Corridor and 14 at venues throughout the UK
The BBC Proms presents an eight-week celebration of music that includes over 3,000 artists, the primary in a single day Promenade in virtually half a century and greater than 80 solo debuts
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Season Headlines
The 2025 BBC Proms season brings collectively lots of the world’s best worldwide artists and orchestras, greater than 40 excellent ensembles from throughout the UK, and a sequence of live shows that may solely be skilled on the world’s biggest classical music pageant.
The BBC’s personal orchestras and choirs kind the spine of the Proms, making practically 50 appearances all through the season. The BBC Singers carry out at 11 Proms, together with the First and Final Nights, showcasing their broad vary of repertoire.
Sakari Oramo conducts the First Night time of the Proms, with tenor Caspar Singh, baritone Gerald Finley, violinist Lisa Batiashvili – together with the world premiere of The Components by Grasp of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen, commissioned by the BBC. The Final Night time of the Proms will probably be performed by Elim Chan and options trumpeter Alison Balsom and soprano Louise Alder, with two world premieres, by Camille Pépin and Rachel Portman: the latter being the primary girl to win an Academy Award for Finest Authentic Rating.
The BBC Proms makes its debut in each Bradford, as a part of Bradford 2025 UK Metropolis of Tradition, and Sunderland, bringing the pageant to new audiences. The Proms additionally returns to Bristol and Gateshead for 2 three-day weekend residencies, and a particular Promenade in Belfast marks the centenary of Radio 4’s in style Delivery Forecast.
The season encompasses a compelling line-up of worldwide orchestras, together with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Main soloists embrace pianists Yunchan Lim and Sir András Schiff, violinists Hilary Hahn and Janine Jansen, and soprano Golda Schultz.
Nineteen world, European or UK premieres will probably be carried out, together with 10 works commissioned by the BBC, showcasing a rare vary of latest composition.
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Chineke! Orchestra for the primary time, of their tenth-anniversary yr.
Anna Lapwood co-curates the primary in a single day Promenade since 1983, that includes pianist and YouTube sensation Hayato Sumino, cellist Anastasia Kobekina, the Chapel Choir of Pembroke School, Cambridge and the boundary-crossing Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene.
The Proms marks the fiftieth anniversary of the dying of Shostakovich with eight of his works carried out throughout the season, together with Aurora Orchestra taking part in Symphony No.5 totally from reminiscence. Different composer anniversaries embrace Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Arvo Pärt.
Legendary Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut, conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in his symphony impressed by the tragic occasions of Hiroshima: The Finish of the World.
Throughout the season there’s a wealth of opera, together with a collaboration between the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Nationwide Opera for The Girl Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Shostakovich – solely carried out in its entirety as soon as earlier than on the Proms. Glyndebourne brings their new manufacturing of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro to the pageant, and Puccini’s Suor Angelica is carried out by the LSO with Chief Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano.
Giant-scale choral repertoire options all through the season, from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s not often carried out oratorio Sancta Civitas on the First Night time, to Striggio’s Mass in 40 Components from Le Live performance Spirituel. There may be additionally a Proms debut from Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Refrain, with Handel’s Alexander’s Feast.
The Proms continues its custom of collaborating with different BBC manufacturers. Along with the 100 Years of the Delivery Forecast Promenade in Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, Claudia Winkleman hosts The Traitors Promenade on the Royal Albert Corridor, exploring themes of treachery and betrayal in classical music. Live shows for kids embrace a brand new CBeebies Promenade: A Magical Bedtime Story in addition to the CBeebies Promenade: Wildlife Jamboree in Gateshead.
The Proms continues to welcome non-classical artists, presenting their music in new orchestral settings – this yr internet hosting the multi-Grammy successful musicians St. Vincent and Samara Pleasure. Trevor Nelson presents the Soul Revolution Promenade and Anoushka Shankar makes a welcome return to the Proms with the world premiere efficiency of her new album.
Each Promenade will probably be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds. BBC Tv and BBC iPlayer will broadcast 25 programmes, with 9 Proms throughout BBC One and BBC Two, demonstrating the BBC’s dedication to achieve the broadest audiences for classical music.
The Proms continues its dedication to accessible ticket costs with seats from £10 and half-price tickets for under-18s (plus reserving charges), and Promming day standing tickets at £8 (inclusive of reserving charges).
Full Season Data
There will probably be 21 visiting ensembles, with main orchestras together with the Vienna Philharmonic with Franz Welser-Möst, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with Andris Nelsons and violinist Hilary Hahn, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Klaus Mäkelä and violinist Janine Jansen, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Robin Ticciati and soprano Golda Schultz, the Orchestre Nationwide de France with Cristian Mãcelaru, and the Budapest Pageant Orchestra with Iván Fischer, mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng and bass Krisztián Cser.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, performs within the First Night time of the Proms alongside the BBC Symphony Refrain and the BBC Singers, tenor Caspar Singh and baritone Gerald Finley. In suitably celebratory vogue, the First Night time opens with the Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wooden, composed by Sir Arthur Bliss, who died fifty years in the past this yr. Mendelssohn’s overture The Hebrides follows, and the primary half concludes with the Violin Concerto by Sibelius, carried out by the revered Lisa Batiashvili. The world premiere of The Components by Grasp of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen, commissioned by the BBC, opens the second half, and the live performance closes with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sancta Civitas, accomplished 100 years in the past.
The Final Night time of the Proms encompasses a stellar lineup of artists, with Elim Chan conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Refrain and the BBC Singers, and trumpeter Alison Balsom and soprano Louise Alder main the festivities. Classical music’s greatest occasion will embrace two new commissions, by Camille Pépin and Rachel Portman: the latter being the primary girl to win an Academy Award for Finest Authentic Rating.
The BBC continues to champion new music: 19 world, European or UK premieres will probably be carried out, together with 10 works commissioned by the BBC. British composers receiving premieres this season, along with Errollyn Wallen and Rachel Portman, embrace Tom Coult along with his Monologues for the Curious carried out by tenor Allan Clayton, Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA (or 2-3-74; The Divine Invasion of Philip Ok. Dick) carried out by guitarist Sean Shibe, and a brand new piece from Sir John Rutter, written for the BBC Singers. Worldwide composers Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Anthony Davis and Sofia Gubaidulina, who handed away in March this yr, additionally obtain premieres this season.
The Proms marks the fiftieth anniversary of the dying of Shostakovich with eight of his works, together with Aurora Orchestra taking part in Symphony No.5 totally from reminiscence. Ensemble intercontemporain pays tribute to twentieth-century giants Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, each of whom had been born 100 years in the past, and there’s a particular Late Night time Arvo Pärt at 90 Promenade.
The primary in a single day Promenade since 1983 is guest-curated by organist Anna Lapwood and runs from 11pm to 7am. It encompasses a fascinating line-up of artists: pianist and YouTube sensation Hayato Sumino, cellist Anastasia Kobekina, the Chapel Choir of Pembroke School, Cambridge and the boundary-crossing Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene with their violinist/director Bjarte Eike, with extra friends to be revealed quickly.
There will probably be 14 Proms at venues throughout the UK, with three-day Proms weekends on the Glasshouse Worldwide Centre for Music in Gateshead and at Bristol Beacon, together with a welcome return from Paraorchestra in collaboration with folks duo The Breath. There are first-time visits to Bradford, marking the town’s standing as 2025 UK Metropolis of Tradition, with Grammy Award-winner and celebrated ‘Queen of African Music’ Angélique Kidjo, and to Sunderland for a particular version of the nightly Radio 3 jazz programme ’Spherical Midnight with Soweto Kinch. The Promenade in Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra –100 Years of the Delivery Forecast – features a new fee and efficiency from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his band LYR, introduced in collaboration with Radio 4.
Sam Jackson, Controller, Radio 3 and BBC Proms, says: ’With 86 live shows throughout eight weeks, I’m delighted to be asserting the 2025 BBC Proms season. Our summer season of dwell music will see us host the best worldwide orchestras and the very best of British expertise, in repertoire that ranges from the much-loved to the totally new. World-famous soloists reminiscent of Hilary Hahn and Sir András Schiff sit alongside a few of immediately’s brightest younger classical stars: from Yunchan Lim, to Aigul Akhmetshina, to Louise Alder, who performs on the Final Night time of the Proms. As ever, each word will probably be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, with 25 programmes that includes throughout BBC TV and iPlayer. And with tickets for each Promenade accessible from simply £8, we sit up for welcoming concert-goers previous and new to the magic of this distinctive and really particular pageant.’
The BBC Proms performs a central function in supporting British music, and this yr there will probably be a televised Nice British Classics Promenade celebrating composers from Benjamin Britten to Samuel and Avril Coleridge-Taylor, to Grace Williams. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Chineke! Orchestra for the primary time, of their tenth-anniversary yr; Rattle additionally conducts the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra for a sequence of folk-song preparations by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger and Malcolm Arnold.
Opera highlights embrace the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra collaborating with English Nationwide Opera below John Storgårds for The Girl Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, by Shostakovich – solely carried out in its entirety as soon as earlier than on the Proms. As well as, Glyndebourne deliver their new manufacturing of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the Budapest Pageant Orchestra and Iván Fischer carry out Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Fort, and the London Symphony Orchestra & Refrain are performed by Sir Antonio Pappano for a live performance efficiency of Puccini’s Suor Angelica.
Choral music consists of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sancta Civitas, which closes the First Night time of the Proms; Kahchun Wong making his first Proms look because the Hallé’s newly appointed Principal Conductor with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2; and Sir Mark Elder conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Delius’s A Mass of Life. The award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra & Refrain make their Proms debut with Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, and Le Live performance Spirituel performs Striggio’s Mass in 40 Components.
With themes of treachery, betrayal and deceit having run via classical music and opera for hundreds of years, the Proms unveils a collaboration with The Traitors, as Claudia Winkleman hosts two very particular live shows on the Royal Albert Corridor. The Traitors Promenade will function a variety of well-known classical works, alongside new preparations of among the music from this vastly in style BBC programme.
Legendary Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut, conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in his symphony impressed by the tragic occasions of Hiroshima: The Finish of the World. The programme additionally consists of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music, a piece not heard on the Proms for practically 25 years. Fifty years after the dying of one among Hollywood’s most acclaimed composers, the BBC Live performance Orchestra celebrates the nice Bernard Herrmann with a particular Promenade dedicated to his movie scores, lots of which noticed Herrmann collaborate with the director Alfred Hitchcock – together with Psycho and Vertigo.
The BBC Proms continues its custom of orchestral collaborations with non-classical artists and tributes to totally different musical genres. Multi Grammy Award-winners St. Vincent and Samara Pleasure make their Proms debuts: St. Vincent performs brand-new symphonic preparations of tracks from her again catalogue with Jules Buckley and his orchestra, and Samara Pleasure, who received the Grammy for Finest New Artist in 2023, brings her octet to the Proms to showcase iconic requirements from the Nice American Music Ebook with the BBC Live performance Orchestra. Trevor Nelson presents the Soul Revolution Promenade, which traces a path from spirituals via gospel to soul and divulges the function of those genres in supporting the Civil Rights motion. Sitar participant and composer Anoushka Shankar performs the world premiere of her new album Chapter III, alongside her earlier albums Chapters I and II, with the London Up to date Orchestra and Robert Ames.
Greater than 80 artists make their Proms solo debuts, showcasing an thrilling vary of musical expertise. Amongst them are Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, who burst onto the world stage in 2021 when he received the Worldwide Chopin Piano Competitors, and Bashkir mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, who acquired widespread acclaim when, aged 21, she starred within the title function of Carmen at London’s Royal Opera Home in 2018. Akhmetshina sang Carmen final yr on the Metropolitan Opera, turning into the youngest artist to have carried out the function in each homes. The season can also be filled with home-grown expertise: Nicholas McCarthy, the world’s solely skilled one-handed pianist, makes his Proms debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mark Wigglesworth in Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand – within the composer’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary yr. It will likely be the primary time this concerto has been performed on the Proms by a one-handed pianist because the soloist it was composed for, Paul Wittgenstein, carried out it in 1932.
BBC Radio 3 will as soon as once more allow the pageant to achieve tens of millions of individuals by broadcasting each Promenade. Different BBC Radio networks will broadcast highlights. Twenty-five Proms will probably be broadcast on BBC TV and iPlayer with 9 Proms throughout BBC One and BBC Two, demonstrating the BBC’s dedication to reaching broad audiences for classical music. For the primary time, two Proms within the North-East of England will probably be televised. Carried out on the Glasshouse Worldwide Centre for Music, Robert Ames conducts the live performance on Friday, with visitor artists quickly to be introduced, and Dinis Sousa conducts Saturday’s live performance of works by Bach and Mendelssohn, each with the Royal Northern Sinfonia.
The Proms continues its dedication to accessible ticket costs, with Promming day standing tickets remaining at £8 (inclusive of reserving charges), seats beginning at £10 and half-price tickets accessible for under-18s (plus reserving charges).
