BBC Proms 2023: What's New
12th May 2023
Features NMC RecordingsThe 152nd year of the BBC Proms features a programme jam-packed with world premieres and newly commissioned works – here are our top picks of new music at the Proms this year, featuring many NMC composers and others.
Prom 1 (14 July) – Bohdana Frolyak: Let There Be Light (BBC commission: world premiere)
Prom 4 (16 July) – Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise
Prom 6 (18 July) – Grace-Evangeline Mason: new work (BBC commission: world premiere)
Proms at Sage Gateshead (22 July) – Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Prom 12 (23 July) – Helen Grime: Meditations on Joy (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)
Prom 14 (25 July) – Noriko Koide: Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain (BBC commission: European premiere)
Prom 15 (late night, 25 July) – Kristina Arakelyan: Dreamland & Star Fantasy
Prom 20 (30 July) – Mason Bates: Piano Concerto (UK premiere)
Prom 21 (31 July) – Derrick Skye: Nova Plexus (BBC commission: world premiere)
Prom 26 (3 August) – Gerald Barry: Kafka’s Earplugs (BBC commission: world premiere)
Prom 44 (18 August) – Samy Moussa: Symphony no. 2 (BBC co-commission: European premiere)
Prom 46 (late night, 19 August) – Ben Nobuto: SERENITY 2.0 & Oliver Leith: A different ‘Fantasie from Suite No. 5 in G minor’
Prom 51 (24 August) – Judith Weir: Begin Afresh (BBC commission: world premiere)
Prom 52 (25 August) – Julia Adolphe: Makeshift Castle (European premiere)
Prom 55 (26 August) – Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances (European premiere)
Prom 60 (31 August) – Thomas Adès: Piano Concerto
Prom 61 (1 September) – Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout
Proms at Perth (3 September) – Michael Tippett: Piano Sonata No. 2
Prom 69a (7 September) – Joanna Marsh: SEEN & Soumik Datta: Awaaz
Prom 71 (9 September) – James B. Wilson: 1922 (BBC commission: world premiere)
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