Today saw the much-anticipated unveiling of the programme for this year’s BBC Proms, taking place from 15 July to 10 September 2016.

We’re delighted to be able to announce that 30 Askonas Holt artists are involved in 33 performances, including eight artist debuts:

• Julie Fuchs, who will join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marc Minkowski for Poulenc’s Stabat Mater (20 July)
• Rosa Feola, who joins Le Cercle de l’Harmonie for their Proms debut (22 July)
• Enrique Mazzola, who conducts ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’ with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (25 July)
• Johannes Moser, who will perform Dutilleux’s ‘Tout un Monde Lontain’ with the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena (9 August)
• Jonathan Cohen and his orchestra Arcangelo, who perform Shakespeare-inspired music at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (13 August)
• Rafael Payare, who will lead the Ulster Orchestra in Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and a new commission by Piers Hellawell (21 August)
• Joseph Middleton, who joins Iestyn Davies and Carolyn Sampson for the closing Chamber Prom at Cadogan Hall (5 September)
• Oliver Johnston, who joins Sakari Oramo and raft of young singers for The Last Night of the Proms (10 September)

In addition to the many Askonas Holt artists appearing at the festival, our Tours & Projects department is responsible for bringing some of the world’s great orchestras to the Royal Albert Hall:

• Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle (2 & 3 September)
• Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel (4 September)
• Staatskapelle Dresden with conductor Christian Thielemann, who makes his BBC Proms debut (7 & 8 September)

The full BBC Proms programme can be viewed here. Radio and TV broadcasts can be viewed here.

Booking will open on 7 May 2016.

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Askonas Holt at the 2016 BBC Proms | Download as a PDF 

AH artists in capitals. 

JULY

16 July 2016
MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov
Border Guard: JAMES PLATT
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano

17 July 2016 
MOZART & HAYDN
Soprano: LUCY CROWE 
Tenor: ROBIN TRITSCHLER
King’s College Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Stephen Cleobury

19 July 2016
BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis
Bass: HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Gianandrea Noseda

20 July 2016

POULENC: Stabat Mater
Soprano: JULIE FUCHS *Proms debut*
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Marc Minkowski

22 July 2016
MOZART & MENDELSSOHN
Soprano: ROSA FEOLA *Proms debut*
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Jérémie Rhorer

23 & 24 July 2016
BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Organ: WAYNE MARSHALL 
BBC Ten Pieces Prom

24 July 2016

BEETHOVEN, LINDEBERG (new work)
Soprano: MIAH PERSSON
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski

25 July 2016
ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra / ENRIQUE MAZZOLA *Proms debut*

29 July 2016
MAHLER: Symphony No.3
Mezzo-soprano: SARAH CONNOLLY
London Symphony Orchestra / BERNARD HAITINK

30 July 2016
BERLIOZ: Romeo and Juliet
Tenor: JEAN-PAUL FOUCHÉCOURT
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner

31 July 2016
RAVEL, AUERBACH (UK premiere), DEBUSSY
BBC Symphony Orchestra / EDWARD GARDNER
Violin: Vadim Gluzman

AUGUST

1 August 2016
SCHUMANN: Violin Concerto in D minor
Violin: THOMAS ZEHETMAIR
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / John Storgårds

6 August 2016
ROSSINI: Petite Mass Solonnelle
Bass: JAMES PLATT
Soprano: Elizabeth Watts
Mezzo-soprano: Kathryn Rudge
Tenor: Peter Auty
BBC Singers / David Hill

6 August 2016
IRIS TER SCHIPHORST (London premiere), STRAUSS, HOLST, COLIN MATTHEWS
National Youth Orchestra / EDWARD GARDNER

9 August 2016
DUTILLEUX: Tout un Monde Lontain
Cello: JOHANNES MOSER *Proms debut*
BBC Philharmonic / Juanjo Mena

11 August 2016
BARTÓK, HAYES, DVOŘÁK
BBC National Orchestra of Wales / THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD
Violin: Tai Murray

12 August 2016
WALTON, WATKINS, WEBERN, BRAHMS
BBC National Orchestra of Wales / THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD
Cello: Paul Watkins

13 August 2016
Shakespeare-inspired programme at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Arcangelo / JONATHAN COHEN *Proms debut*

15 August 2016
PROKOFIEV, FRANCISCO COLL (London premiere), THOMAS ADÈS (world premiere of new version), BEETHOVEN
Britten Sinfonia / THOMAS ADÈS 
Cello: Steven Isserlis
Violin: Augustin Hadelich

17 August 2016
WIDMANN, LISZT, WAGNER
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / DANIEL BARENBOIM
Piano: Martha Argerich

20 August 2016
MOZART: Mass in C Minor
Soprano 1: LOUISE ALDER
Tenor: BENJAMIN HULETT
Tenor: MATTHEW ROSE
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov

21 August 2016
HELLAWELL (world premiere), HAYDN, TCHAIKOVSKY
Ulster Orchestra / RAFAEL PAYARE *Proms debut*
Cello: Narek Hakhnazaryan

21 August 2016
PINTSCHER: Reflections on Narcissus
Cello: ALISA WEILERSTEIN 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Matthias Pintscher

26 August 2016
MOZART: Requiem
Soprano: LUCY CROWE
Bass: NEAL DAVIES
Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer

29 August 2016

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major
Piano: DANIEL BARENBOIM
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt

31 August 2016
ZEMLINSKY: Lyric Symphony
Baritone: CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Simone Young

SEPTEMBER

2 September 2016
BOULEZ, MAHLER
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER / SIR SIMON RATTLE

3 September 2016
ANDERSON (UK premiere), DVOŘÁK, BRAHMS
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER / SIR SIMON RATTLE

4 September 2016 
DESENNE (UK premiere), VILLA-LOBOS, RAVEL
SIMÓN BOLÍVAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VENEZUELA / Gustavo Dudamel

4 September 2016
ROSSINI: Semiramide
Nino’s Ghost: JAMES PLATT
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Mark Elder

5 September 2016 
Cadogan Hall Lunchtime Prom
Tenor: IESTYN DAVIES
Soprano: Carolyn Sampson
Piano: JOSEPH MIDDELTON *Proms debut*

5 September 2016
MOZART, BRUCKNER
Staatskapelle Berlin / DANIEL BARENBOIM

6 September 2016
MOZART, BRUCKNER
Staatskapelle Berlin / DANIEL BARENBOIM

7 September 2016 
MOZART & BRUCKNER
STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN / Christian Thielemann *Proms debut*
Piano: Daniil Trifonov

8 September 2016 
BEETHOVEN, REGER, STRAUSS
STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN / Christian Thielemann *Proms debut*
Violin: Nikolaj Znaider

10 September 2016
Last Night of the Proms
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music
Tenor: OLIVER JOHNSTON *Proms debut*
JONATHAN DOVE: Our Revels Now Are Ended
Baritone: DUNCAN ROCK
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo