29 performances at this year’s BBC Proms feature PRS Foundation supported composers and orchestras
The BBC Proms 2024 officially kicks off on Friday 19th July! And this year’s festival of classical music has 29 performances that feature composers who have received PRS Foundation support at crucial moments in their careers, as well as a number of orchestras that have been previously supported to commission, tour and perform pieces of new music.
Additionally 2 of the venues for the performances are Talent Development Network supported organisation venues, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Bristol Beacon.
The list of performances with PRS Foundation grantees are:
- Sunday 21st July at 11:00am – Cheryl Frances-Hoad (Composers Funds and Women Make Music) Beyond the Night Sky performed by The Kings Singers and VOCES8
- Sunday 21st July at 7:30pm – James MacMillan (Resonate, Open Fund for Organisations) Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia performed by the Hallé (Open Fund for Music Creators) Choirs
- Thursday 25th July at 7:30pm – Ryan Wigglesworth (Open Fund for Music Creators, Resonate and supported through Talent Development Partner Britten Sinfonia) conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Third Symphony and Schoenberg’s ‘Verklärte Nacht’,
- Friday 26th July at 7:30pm – Cheryl Frances-Hoad (Composers Funds and Women Make Music), Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air’ performed by Laura van der Heijden and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth (Open Fund for Music Creators, Resonate and supported through Talent Development Partner Britten Sinfonia)
- Friday 26th July at 7:30pm – Royal Northern Sinfonia (Resonate) perform Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with soloist Alena Baeva and the Little Suite by Germaine Tailleferre (Glasshouse Gateshead)
- Saturday 27th July at 11:00am – Southbank Sinfonia (Resonate, Open Fund for Organisations) CBeebies Prom (Glasshouse Gateshead)
- Saturday 27th July at 3:00am – Southbank Sinfonia (Resonate, Open Fund for Organisations) CBeebies Prom (Glasshouse Gateshead)
- Saturday 27th July at 7:30pm – Royal Northern Sinfonia (Resonate) performing with Jordan Rakei
- Saturday 27th July at 10:00pm – Soweto Kinch (Beyond Borders, Open Fund for Organisations) presents Theon Cross (received Talent Development Partner support) performing the tuba (Glasshouse Gateshead)
- Sunday 28th July at 2:30pm – Royal Northern Sinfonia (Resonate) performing titles including Game of Thrones, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter and Star Wars (Glasshouse Gateshead)
- Sunday 28th July at 3:00pm – Edmund Finnis (New Music Biennial, Composers Fund) The Bridal Morn (Glasshouse Gateshead)
- Sunday 4th August at 11:00am – Laura Mvula (Women Make Music) ‘Sing to the Moon’ Brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes and Fantasia Orchestra
- Monday 5th August at 11:15am – Laura Mvula (Women Make Music) ‘Sing to the Moon’ Brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes and Fantasia Orchestra
- Monday 5th August at 7:30pm – London Philharmonic Orchestra (Open Fund for Organisations) perform Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor
- Friday 9th August at 10:30pm – London Sinfonietta (Open Fund for Organisations) perform Heiner Goebbels’s ‘Songs of Wars I Have Seen’
- Saturday 10th August at 7:30pm – Dani Howard (Composers’ Fund) New Work premiere performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (Open Fund for Organisations and New Music Biennial)
- Wednesday 14th August at 7:30pm – Anna Meredith (PPL Momentum Music Fund, International Showcase Fund, New Music Biennial, Women Make Music) ‘The End We Start From’ performed by London Contemporary Orchestra (Open Fund for Organisations)
- Saturday 17th August at 7:30pm – London Symphony Orchestra (Open Fund for Organisations) perform Britten’s ‘War Requiem’
- Sunday 18th August at 7:30pm – Ulster Orchestra (Resonate) perform Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, Busoni’s ‘Comedy Overture’ and ‘A Sussex Landscape’ by Avril Coleridge-Taylor
- Wednesday 21st August at 7:30pm – Aurora Orchestra (Resonate, Open Fund for Organisations) perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by heart
- Thursday 22nd August at 7:30pm – City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Resonate) with Kazuki Yamada present Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in an orchestration by Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood
- Sunday 25th August at 3:00pm – Judith Weir (Women Make Music, Resonate) ‘Madrigal’ performed by the BBC Singers (Bristol Beacon)
- Sunday 25th August at 5:00pm – Evelyn Glennie (Musician in Residence, Kings Cross) performs Jennifer Higdon with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Open Fund for Organisations)
- Monday 26th August at 2:00pm & 4:00pm – Dani Howard (Composers Fund) ‘Argentum’ performed by Southbank Sinfonia (Open Fund for Organisations) (Bristol Beacon)
- Thursday 29th August at 6:30pm – London Philharmonic Orchestra (Open Fund for Organisations) perform Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’
- Friday 30th August at 7:30pm – Michael Tippett (Resonate) The Midsummer Marriage – Ritual Dances performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Thursday 5th September at 7:30pm – Thomas Ades (Resonate) Aquifer, performed by Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
- Sunday 8th September at 7:30pm – Chineke! Orchestra (Resonate) perform Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathetique’
- Tuesday 10th September at 7:00pm – Philharmonia Orchestra (Open Fund for Organisations) perform Britten’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Also one grantee Hannah Peel (PPL Momentum, New Music Biennial) presents her Night Tracks show with New Music Biennial presenter Sara Mohr Pietsche at The Glasshouse Gateshead on Friday 26th and 27th July.