Soloists/Debut artists

Violinist Janine Jansen* both performs with and is conducted by Sakari Oramo across three Proms during the festival: Jansen is conducted by Oramo at the world-famous Last Night of the Proms (13 September) and in a performance of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (13 August) as well as giving a chamber recital at Cadogan Hall where she will be joined by Oramo in a performance of Prokofiev’s Sonata in C major for two violins (11 August)

Benjamin Grosvenor*returns to the Proms to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic (8 August) and gives the world premiere of a Judith Weir work commissioned specially for him in a recital at Cadogan Hall (1 September)

A selection of this year’s leading international soloists

British baritone Roderick Williams joins Janine Jansen* in the Last Night celebrations (13 September)

Nina Stemme returns to the Proms as Salome as part of the 150th-anniversary Strauss celebrations (30 August)

In a concert which sees him both conduct and perform alongside his Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell plays Bruch’s First Violin Concerto under the baton of the ensemble’s founder, Sir Neville Marriner (10 August)

Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel* joins the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with Edward Gardner to perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (10 August). Other pianists include Ingrid Fliter* (28 July) and Denis Matsuev (7 September)

Alison Balsom* gives the UK premiere of Qigang Chen’s Joie éternelle with the China Philharmonic under Long Yu in the orchestra’s first ever visit to the Proms (19 July)

James Gilchrist, known worldwide for his interpretation of the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion, will reprise the role at the Proms for the very first time in a performance with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Sir Roger Norrington (26 July)

To mark the centenary of the First World War, Anthony Marwood gives the London premiere of Sally Beamish’s Violin Concerto, a work inspired by three passages from Erich Maria Remarque’s antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1 August)

Other leading violinists include Julia Fischer (21 July), Tasmin Little (25 July), Daniel Hope (29 July) and James Ehnes (12 August)

*current or previous members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme

Debut artists

A selection of this year’s debut artists:

Piano

• Haochen Zhang (China Philharmonic Orchestra, 19 July)
• Kristian Bezuidenhout (PCM, 28 July)
• Jonathan Biss* (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 15 August)
• Louis Schwizgebel* (National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, 10 August)
• Zhang Zuo* (Ulster Orchestra, 25 August)

Conductors

• Long Yu (China Philharmonic, 19 July)
• Sascha Goetzel (Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, 29 July)
• George Petrou (Armonia Atenea, 2 August)
• Gareth Malone (Proms Military Wives Choir, 3 August)
• Ben Gernon (Scottish Chamber Orchestra, 8 September)

Strings

• Matthew Trusler violin (BBC National Orchestra of Wales, 6 August)
• Lise Berthaud* viola (BBC Symphony Orchestra, 10 September)

Singers

• Christine Goerke (31 August)
• Paloma Faith (4 September)
• Rufus Wainwright (11 September)

Other notable debut artists

Sheng player Wu Wei performs Unsuk Chin’s concerto for sheng and orchestra in the Seoul Philharmonic’s first ever Prom (27 August)

American saxophonist Timothy McAllister gives the UK premiere of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop (4 September)

Clarinettist Dimitri Ashkenazy performs Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Strathclyde Concerto No. 4 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ben Gernon (8 September)

Orchestra and ensembles visiting the Proms for the first time

• China Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Long Yu (19 July)
• Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sascha Goetzel (29 July)
• Armonia Atenea (Athens) conducted by George Petrou (2 August)
• Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds (9 August)
• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis (19 August)
• Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov (22 August)
• Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Myung-Whun Chung (27 August)
• Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin conducted by Donald Runnicles (30 August)
• Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui (2 September)
• Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Han-Na Chang (7 September)
• *current or previous members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme