The 2025 BBC Proms season presents a compelling lineup of performances by celebrated conductors, soloists, and leading orchestras and choirs, bringing to life rich and varied repertoire that celebrates the breadth and excellence of music. This year’s exciting BBC Proms festival includes three VBPR clients: Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo; the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong; and Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko.

Sakari Oramo will conduct three performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra during this year’s BBC Proms season, starting with the First Night of the Proms on Friday 18 July. The concert will feature violinist Lisa Batiashvili, tenor Caspar Singh, and bass-baritone Gerald Finley, joined by the BBC Chorus, the BBC Singers, and members of the London Youth Choirs. The programme will include Arthur Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas, as well as the world premiere of The Elements by Errollyn Wallen, Master of the King’s Music, commissioned by the BBC.

The second performance, on Thursday 24 July, will see Sakari Oramo lead a programme featuring violinist Augustin Hadelich as soloist, with works including Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, the UK premiere of Anthony Davis’s Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey, and Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks.

For his final performance of the season, on Sunday 7 September, Sakari Oramo will conduct soprano Elizabeth Watts, tenor Laurence Kilsby, pianist Lukas Sternath, and the BBC Singers and Chorus in a programme that includes Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, and Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes.

On Sunday 2 August , the Hallé Orchestra, alongside the Hallé Choir and Youth Choir, will present a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’. The performance will see Principal Conductor, Kahchun Wong, make his BBC Proms debut sharing the stage with soprano Mari Eriksmoen and mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.

On Sunday 7 September, Vasily Petrenko will conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, joined by soloist violinist Arabella Steinbacher, in a programme featuring Respighi’s Pines of Rome, Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 2 ‘A London Symphony’.