PRESS INFORMATION 15 JULY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 Jamie Cullum Sakari Oramo Chloë Hanslip Bernard Haitink Jean-Baptiste Millot (Isserlis); © Michael Agel (Cullum); © Gerardo Gómez (Dudamel); Marco Borggreve (Hardenberger); Simon Fowler (Flórez); Adriano Heitman (Argerich); Adriano Heitman (Argerich); (Flórez); Simon Fowler Marco Borggreve (Hardenberger); © Gerardo Gómez (Dudamel); Agel (Cullum); © Michael Jean-Baptiste Millot (Isserlis); Steven Isserlis Katie Derham Gustavo Dudamel Sir Simon Rattle BBC/Chris Christodoulou (Barenboim); © BBC/Ray Burmiston/Matt Burlem (Derham); Vern Evans (Gražinyte˙-Tyla) Vern Burmiston/Matt © BBC/Ray BurlemBBC/Chris (Derham); Christodoulou (Barenboim); 15 JULY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 Sol Gabetta Roderick Williams Bryn Terfel Håkan Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla Hardenberger Alistair McGowan Daniel Barenboim Martha Argerich Juan Diego Flórez Quincy Jones David Bowie Marin Alsop Benjamin Ealovega (Oramo); Benjamin Ealovega (Hanslip); Todd Rosenberg (Haitink); Johann Sebastian Haenel (Rattle); BBC/Chris Christodoulou (Terfel); Adriane White (Alsop); White (Alsop); Adriane BBC/Chris Christodoulou (Terfel); Johann Sebastian Haenel (Rattle); Rosenberg (Haitink); Todd (Hanslip); Benjamin Ealovega (Oramo); Benjamin Ealovega (Williams) Benjamin Ealovega Arens (Gabetta); Uwe Images (Jones); © Edu Hawkins/Redferns/Getty (Bowie); Archive Bowie The David & Archive Duffy/Duffy 2 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 3 CONTENTS SEASON AT A GLANCE The Royal Albert Hall has been home to the Proms since 1941, and has since hosted over 4,300 Proms concerts Proms At … 6 75 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall In the year in which the Olympics are John Wilson and the John Wilson 76 Proms Extra events at the Imperial staged in Brazil, the Proms celebrates the Orchestra return to the Proms to mark the Celebration of the Cello 7 College Union music and musicians of Latin America, 120th anniversary of Ira Gershwin’s birth Shakespeare 400 8 30 premieres including 13 world premieres featuring performances from the São Paulo with a tribute to one of America’s most Latin America 9 and 17 UK or London premieres Symphony Orchestra, pianists Martha celebrated and dynamic song-writing duos 9 Late Night Proms Argerich and Gabriela Montero, tenor Young Artists, Young Audiences 10 8 Matinees Juan Diego Flórez, cellist Sol Gabetta and Sakari Oramo, Chief Conductor of the Proms Debuts 11 8 Proms Extra Lates music by Villa-Lobos and Ginastera, who BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducts 8 Proms Chamber Music at Cadogan Hall this year would have been 100 both the First and Last Nights of the International Guests 12 4 Proms At … Proms, including Proms Inspire winner UK Guests 13 4 Last Night celebrations around the UK String players from the São Paulo Tom Harrold’s world premiere Raze Symphony Orchestra let their hair down Late Nights & More… 14 Proms At … The Proms takes four with Marin Alsop and members of the As part of a series of weekend matinee Albert Hall © Royal New Music 16 Saturday matinees to further venues São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra for concerts aimed at family audiences, Tom around London: The Chapel, Old a Late Night Prom celebrating Brazilian Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Last Night of the Proms 18 Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Sam popular music and unpick Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 Proms in the Park 19 Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s in C major, played from memory by the Proms Extra 20 Globe; Roundhouse, Camden; Bold From a weekend of concerts by youth Aurora Orchestra Katie Derham and professional dancers French pianist and Satie champion Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, ensembles and choirs around the UK to from BBC Strictly Come Dancing Alexandre Tharaud is joined by actor Multiplatform Proms 21 Peckham the return of the hugely popular CBeebies Rossini will be centre stage at the Proms present an evening of music and dance and impressionist Alistair McGowan for Watch the 2016 Proms 22 Proms and two Proms devoted to the BBC’s with a number of performances of his from Vienna to Latin America and back a cabaret of music and words to mark The Proms puts the spotlight on the cello Ten Pieces II project, this summer celebrates works, including his operas The Barber with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the 150th anniversary of Satie’s birth with 10 concertos ranging from Elgar’s a huge range of youth music-making of Seville and Semiramide English National Ballet Music Director, Cello Concerto performed by Sol Gabetta Gavin Sutherland The City of Birmingham Symphony on the First Night to the world premiere In the 50th-anniversary year of his The works of Henri Dutilleux appear Orchestra makes its first London of Huw Watkins’s Cello Concerto first appearance at the Proms, Bernard throughout the season, from Ainsi la Musical giant Quincy Jones is joined by appearance with young Lithuanian performed by his brother, Paul Watkins Haitink conducts Mahler in what will be nuit to The Shadows of Time, 100 years Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, who becomes the his 88th Prom since the composer’s birth to celebrate his extraordinary career orchestra’s Music Director next season The Proms marks 400 years since the spanning six decades death of Shakespeare with a broad As part of this year’s Late Night Proms Two great Russian nationalistic works Jamie Cullum returns to the Proms with survey of music inspired by the Bard series, the Proms reflects on the legacy appear in the opening weekend of the All three of Stravinsky’s landmark ballets the Heritage Orchestra, Roundhouse from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to of two musical giants: David Bowie and Proms − Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky for the Ballet Russes are performed over Choir and talent from the BBC Music extracts from Kiss Me, Kate Pierre Boulez and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov one weekend by Scottish orchestras Introducing scheme 4 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 5 The first performance In 1971 Pierre of Elgar’s Cello Boulez conducted PROMS AT … CELEBRATION OF THE CELLO Concerto at the the BBC Symphony Proms was on 30 Orchestra in the August 1922 with Music matched to four different venues across London: first ever Prom at The Proms puts the spotlight on the cello this year with 10 concertos (four of them soloist Beatrice the Roundhouse, The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich; world or UK premieres) plus a Proms Chamber Music concert featuring multiple Harrison Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe; Roundhouse, Camden; Camden cellos led by Guy Johnston. Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham. Proms At … The Chapel, Old Royal Proms At … Roundhouse, Camden Roundhouse, Camden Elgar Cello Concerto Charlotte Bray Falling in the Fire Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 Naval College, Greenwich Programme to include: Sol Gabetta cello BBC commission: world premiere Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Rossini Petite messe solennelle Sir Harrison Birtwistle The Message BBC Symphony Orchestra Guy Johnston cello Ulster Orchestra Elizabeth Watts soprano Ligeti Ramifications Sakari Oramo, 15 July BBC Symphony Orchestra Rafael Payare, 21 August Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Georg Friedrich Haas Open Spaces II Sakari Oramo, 14 August Peter Auty tenor UK premiere Debussy Cello Sonata Matthias Pintscher Reflections James Platt bass David Sawer April \ March Bjørg Lewis cello Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés on Narcissus Richard Pearce harmonium BBC co-commission: world premiere Will Pearson 18 July UK premiere of version with orchestra Alisa Weilerstein cello Iain Farrington piano London Sinfonietta Steven Isserlis cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Singers Andrew Gourlay, 20 August Music for multiple cellos, including Britten Sinfonia Matthias Pintscher, 21 August David Hill, 6 August works by Bach, Brahms, Elgar, Thomas Adès, 15 August Proms At … Bold Tendencies Multi- Villa-Lobos and Klengel Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 Proms At … Sam Wanamaker Storey Car Park, Peckham Guy Johnston and friends cellos Colin Matthews Berceuse for Dresden Truls Mørk cello © 2010 ORNC and Jigsaw Design & Publishing © 2010 ORNC and Jigsaw Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Steve Reich Vermont Counterpoint; 25 July London premiere Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Shakespeare-themed works by Purcell, Eight Lines; Music for a Large Ensemble Leonard Elschenbroich cello Vasily Petrenko, 25 August Blow, Locke and Draghi, including Multi-Story Orchestra Dvo∑ák Cello Concerto Hallé excerpts from music for ‘Timon of Athens’, Christopher Stark, 3 September Alban Gerhardt cello Sir Mark Elder, 16 August ‘The Fairy Queen’ (after ‘A Midsummer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Night’s Dream’) and ‘The Tempest’ Charles Dutoit, 3 August Katherine Watson soprano Samuel Boden tenor The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich Dutilleux ‘Tout un monde lointain …’ Callum Thorpe bass Johannes Moser cello Arcangelo BBC Philharmonic Jonathan Cohen, 13 August Juanjo Mena, 9 August Huw Watkins Cello Concerto BBC commission: world premiere Paul Watkins cello BBC National Orchestra of Wales © Harald Hoffmann/Decca Thomas Søndergård, 12 August Quintin Lake Pete Le May Le May Pete Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Alisa Weilerstein 6 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 7 SHAKESPEARE 400 LATIN AMERICA Pianist Martha Argerich first appeared at the Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet overture launches