Proms 2026

BBC Young Composer workshops offer 12- to 18-year-olds the opportunity to create, collaborate and hone their music making skills together with support from experienced composers and musicians.

The Unthanks join the Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Ellie Slorach for a concert of songs shaped by the North

For their first Prom of the 2026 season, Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform spiritually charged works by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski, Messiaen and Strauss, each reflecting on death and the afterlife

A celebration of musicians who have launched their careers under the groundbreaking BBC Introducing scheme, featuring a line-up of fresh performers that you’ll want to tell friends you saw here first

Mercury Prize-nominated South Tyneside-born singer-songwriter Nadine Shah collaborates with the Royal Northern Sinfonia in the latest of the orchestra’s series of bold musical dialogues

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler’s brooding Sixth Symphony, and celebrate the centenary of Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, with a rare performance of his powerful orchestral elegy Stele

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Strauss’s monumental tone-poem alongside Betsy Jolas’s evocative Tales of a Summer Sea. Sueye Park joins them for Sibelius’s Nordic-tinged Violin Concerto

The Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut with British tenor Laurence Kilsby in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque: John Dowland and Henry Purcell

Gianandrea Noseda leads massed forces in Beethoven’s monumental ‘Choral’ Symphony. We also hear the UK premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s These Righteous Paths with South African cellist Abel Selaocoe

The Spanish National Orchestra makes its Proms debut with a set of heat-soaked musical postcards that includes Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro and Rodrigo’s much-loved Concierto de Aranjuez with guitar phenomenon Rafael Aguirre as soloist