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主播大秀 New Generation Artists, the Escher Quartet perform a Proms Chamber Music concert at Cadogan Hall (20 August) featuring Hugh Wood’s String Quartet No. 4 and Debussy’s String Quartet.

Conductor Hervé Niquet (pictured) brings his Le Concert Spirituel for a free Late Night celebration of Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (18 July), while the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Marin Alsop.

Charismatic composer and conductor Eric Whitacre leads the 主播大秀 Singers and the Eric Whitacre Singers in a Late Night Prom featuring mainly his own compositions, as well as a world premiere from another Proms debut artist, multiinstrumentalist and singer Imogen Heap (29 August).

Bass-baritone Jubilant Sykes and soprano Measha Brueggergosman make their Proms debuts in Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (1 August) and organist Cameron Carpenter appears for the first time at the Proms with two solo matinee programmes (1 & 2 September).

Radio 3’s World Routes Academy scheme culminates in a Late Night Prom featuring accordionist José Hernando Arias Noguera and his mentor Columbian Egidio Cuadrado, showcasing the results of their nine-month collaboration (31 July); Malian duo Amadou & Mariam appear in an August Bank Holiday Proms Family Matinee (27 August); and Congolese street musicians Staff Benda Bilili are joined by Baloji, the Congolese-Belgian rapper, for a spectacular Late Night Prom (6 September).

Further notable Proms debuts include violinist Vadim Gluzman (25 July), cellist Daniel Müller-Schott (28 July), lutenist Christina Pluhar (30 July) and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt who performs in two Proms (6 August & 3 September).