Proms 2026

Titular Organist of the Grand Organ at Notre-Dame in Paris, Olivier Latry returns for an all-Bach programme including an improvisation on Bach’s musical signature

Lucas and Arthur Jussen make their Proms debut in Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos. They join the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada, who also perform two 20th-century classics: John Adams’s Harmonium and Poulenc’s Sinfonietta

Step into the great outdoors with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as they perform nature-inspired works by Kristine Tjøgersen and Joseph Canteloube before Richard Strauss’s epic An Alpine Symphony

Guy Johnston is the soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Cello Symphony. He joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, who also perform Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra pair Elgar’s sweeping First Symphony with two contemporary works: Judith Weir’s Moon and Star and the world premiere of Brett Dean’s The World’s Wife, setting words by Carol Ann Duffy

Join Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as they present CBBC’s hit sketch show Horrible Science live at the Royal Albert Hall with some scientifically proven bangers from the classical canon, including Holst’s The Planets and John Williams’s Star Wars

A mini choral convention, shining a spotlight on voices from the North East as well as on the BBC Singers, featuring a selection from Parry’s Songs of Farewell.

Join Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as they present CBBC’s hit sketch show Horrible Science live at the Royal Albert Hall with some scientifically proven bangers from the classical canon, including Holst’s The Planets and John Williams’s Star Wars

Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of musical innovations and provocations, featuring works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Mozart and a 14-year-old Mendelssohn

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