The 2026 BBC Proms season presents a rich and varied programme of music, bringing together world-renowned orchestras, choirs, conductors, and soloists for the eight-week summer festival of daily classical music at London’s Royal Albert Hall and venues across the UK.
This year's Proms lineup includes concerts from two VBPR clients: Sakari Oramo, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Hallé orchestra, under the baton of Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong.
Sakari Oramo will conduct four performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra during year's Proms season, including the Last Night of the Proms, in programmes that combine beloved classics with contemporary works and UK premieres. At the Bristol Proms, Oramo will also perform as violinist in an intimate performance alongside Finnish soprano Anu Komsi.
Oramo opens his BBC appearances on Monday 22 July with György Kurtág’s Stele, presented in honour of the composer’s centenary year, alongside Mahler’s Symphony No.6 ‘Tragic’.
On Tuesday 28 July, he conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite, alongside Sibelius' Second Symphony and Britten's Cello Concerto featuring soloist Guy Johnston.
On Sunday 9 August, Oramo, also an accomplished violinist, appears alongside Finnish soprano Anu Komsi at the Bristol Beacon, where the duo will perform Kurtág's Kafka Fragments, a haunting and lyrical duet for soprano and violin.
Oramo returns to the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 6 September, to conduct Dvořák 's Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Britten’s A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra provides a suitably rousing introduction to this programme marking both the 80th anniversary of the work’s premiere and the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. It will be followed by a new Triple Concerto for saxophone, horn and cello by Gwilym Simcock, with Jess Gillam, Ben Goldscheider and Sheku Kanneh-Mason as soloists, reunited a decade after competing in the final of the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition.
Sakari Oramo presides over the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 12 September, the seventh time he has conducted the festival’s famous closing celebration, which this year will feature soloists Yuja Wang and Nicky Spence.
On Wednesday 5 August, the Hallé orchestra and their Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong return to the Proms with a programme centred round Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2. The orchestra will also be joined by Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu to perform Nadia Boulanger's vibrant Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, and the concert opens with a performance of La vallée des cloches, the fifth movement of Ravel's Miroirs orchestrated by close friend and collaborator of the Hallé Colin Matthews.