Soloists

Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova features in four Proms across the season: two solo Late Night performances of Bach (31 July, 1 August), a Proms Saturday Matinee concert with Apollo’s Fire (15 August) and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the visiting Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (27 August)

German pianist Lars Vogt is the first of 27 piano soloists who feature across the season, performing the first of six Mozart piano concertos with Sakari Oramo and the
BBC Symphony Orchestra on the First Night of the Proms (17 July). Other piano soloists include Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan, Alexei Volodin performing all five Prokofiev piano concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev (28 July), virtuosic sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque together for Mozart’s Double Concerto in E flat major, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov (31 July), and Mitsuko Uchida performing Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto (4 September). Leif Ove Andsnes plays and directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (23, 24, 26 July), while Daniel Barenboim both plays with and conducts the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra (18 August)

The current holder of the title of BBC Young Musician, Martin James Bartlett makes his Proms debut with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (9 August). Other former finalists of BBC Young Musician also perform at this year’s Proms, including percussionist Colin Currie (20 July), clarinettist Mark Simpson (22 July), violinist Nicola Benedetti (10 August), flautist Emily Beynon (25 August), trumpeter Alison Balsom (6 September) and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor (12 September)

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Kitty Whately leads a cabaret celebration of Stephen Sondheim at 85 with special guests Siân Phillips and Jamie Parker (17 August)

Stephen Farr takes to the Royal Albert Hall’s famous organ to perform John Leifs’s Organ Concerto (21 August)

Alison Balsom performs the world premiere of Guy Barker’s BBC commission The Lanterne of Light (6 September). Barker leads the Guy Barker Big Band in the Story of Swing with Winston Rollins and the Winston Rollins Big Band (11 August)

Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená is joined by two British singers, tenor Toby Spence and baritone Roderick Williams, in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on the season’s penultimate night (11 September)

The traditional Last Night celebrations feature pianist Benjamin Grosvenor with operatic superstars Jonas Kaufmann and Danielle de Niese (12 September)

DEBUT PROMS ARTISTS IN 2015 INCLUDE:
Instrumentalists
• Margaret Cookhorn – contra-bassoon (19 July)
• Naughty Boy – DJ (22 July)
• Sergei Babayan – piano (28 July)
• Alexei Volodin – piano (28 July)
• Jia Li – pipa (29 July)
• Jing Chang – zheng (29 July)
• Nan Wang – erhu (29 July)
• Nils Frahm – keyboards (5 August)
• Winston Rollins – trombone/band leader (11 August)
• Jack Liebeck – violin (16 August)
• Jeremy Denk – piano (24 & 30 August)
• Sophie Cherrier – flute (26 August)

Singers
• Dmytro Popov – tenor (19 July)
• Kostas Smoriginas – bass-baritone (19 July)
• Meng Meng – soprano (29 July)
• Pia Komsi – soprano (29 July)
• Angela Meade – soprano (2 August)
• Raymond Aceto – bass (2 August)
• David Danholt – tenor (20 August)
• Johanna Rusanen-Kartano – soprano (29 August)
• Waltteri Torikka – baritone (29 August)
• Jamie Barton – mezzo-soprano (1 September)
• Benjamin Appl – baritone (1 September)
• Klara Ek – soprano (3 September)

Conductors
• Richard Davis (22 July)
• Franck Ollu (25 July)
• Jeremy Holland-Smith (30 August)
• Maxime Tortelier (10 September)

Orchestras and ensembles visiting the Proms for the first time
• Elysian Singers (27 July)
• Apollon Musagète Quartet (3 August)
• A Winged Victory for the Sullen (5 August)
• B’Rock – Baroque Orchestra Ghent (8 August)
• Apollo’s Fire (15 August)
• Polytech Choir (29 August)
• Emerson String Quartet (31 August)
• The Benedetti-Elschenbroich-Grynyuk Trio (7 September)