Late Night Proms Events
Thu 27 Aug 2026
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Scottish composer Erland Cooper and special guests perform an intimate late-night concert of classical and ambient music inspired by Radio 3 Unwind’s Ultimate Calm series. A uniquely escapist night-time experience.
Scottish composer Erland Cooper and special guests perform an intimate late-night concert of classical and ambient music inspired by Radio 3 Unwind’s Ultimate Calm series. A uniquely escapist night-time experience.
Programme
- Music for Growing Flowers (Nocturne)(15 mins)world premiere of this arrangement
- Satie Reinventé – excerpts(12 mins)world premiere of this arrangement
- Suite bergamasque – Clair de lune(3 mins)arr. Erland Cooper
- A Pile of Dust(5 mins)
- Three Birds (after Ravel)(6 mins)
- Andante Festivo(5 mins)
- Abendlied(3 mins)
Performers
- Alice Boydsoundscapes/synthesizers/vocals
- Belle Chenpiano/synthesizers
- Lucinda Chuacello/vocals
- Erland Cooperpresenter/piano
- Kat Tinkerpiano/synthesizers
- Isobel Waller-Bridgepiano
- Alexandra Wooddirector/violin
Also part ofProms 2026Seats from £12.20 to £30.56 (including booking fee)
Wed 2 Sep 2026
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
The Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie Group appear in a Late-Night Prom that combines choral works by Renaissance composers including Hildegard of Bingen, Josquin and ±Êé°ù´Ç³Ù¾±²Ô with Steve Reich’s take on traditional Hebrew Psalms, Tehillim
The Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie Group appear in a Late-Night Prom that combines choral works by Renaissance composers including Hildegard of Bingen, Josquin and ±Êé°ù´Ç³Ù¾±²Ô with Steve Reich’s take on traditional Hebrew Psalms, Tehillim
Programme
- Messe de Nostre Dame – Kyrie(4 mins)
- Beata viscera(2 mins)
- Motet ‘Intemerata Dei mater’(7 mins)
- Symphony of the Harmony of Heavenly Revelations – O orzchis Ecclesia(2 mins)
- Veni sancte spiritus/Veni creator spiritus(6 mins)
- Phos hilaron ('Hail, gladdening light’)(2 mins)
- O virgo prudentissima(6 mins)
- Tehillim(30 mins)
Performers
- Owain Parkdirector
- Colin Currieconductor
Seats from £14.24 to £39.74 (including booking fee)
Tue 8 Sep 2026
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Jules Buckley returns with his own ensemble in a new collaboration with American singer-songwriter Weyes Blood – a typically imaginative meeting of musical minds in an intimate late-night setting
Also part ofProms 2026Seats from £14.24 to £39.74 (including booking fee)
Tue 11 Aug 2026
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers for a genre-busting programme that features music by Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, John Coltrane and Caroline Shaw
Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers for a genre-busting programme that features music by Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, John Coltrane and Caroline Shaw
Programme
- Welcomearr. Harry Baker
- It Don't Mean a Thing (if it Ain't Got That Swing)(5 mins)arr. Harry Baker
- The Wood Pigeon(5 mins)Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ commission: world premiere
- Sandman’s Castle(7 mins)excerpt
- Rothko Chapel(6 mins)excerpt
- Partita – Sarabande(5 mins)
- Czech Suite, Op. 39 – Finale (Furiant)(5 mins)
- Serenade to Music(14 mins)arr. R. Douglas
- Orologeria aureola(5 mins)
- Pyramid Song(5 mins)arr. Simon Hale
- Panda Chant II(2 mins)
Performers
- Evelyn Glenniepercussion
- Tom Fetherstonhaughconductor
Wed 5 Aug 2026
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo make their Proms debut 40 years since the release of Paul Simon’s era-defining album Graceland, which brought the group to international attention
South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo make their Proms debut 40 years since the release of Paul Simon’s era-defining album Graceland, which brought the group to international attention
Programme
- Nomathemba (Mother of Hope)
- The Boy in the Bubblearr. Peter Edwards
- Gumbootsarr. Peter Edwards
- Gracelandarr. Peter Edwards
- All Around the World – That Was Your Motherarr. Peter Edwards
- Halala South Africa (Long Walk to Freedom)
- I Know What I Knowarr. Peter Edwards/Laura Mvula
- Crazy Love, Vol. IIarr. Peter Edwards
- Under African Skiesarr. Peter Edwards
- Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµlessarr. Peter Edwards/Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoesarr. Peter Edwards
- You Can Call Me Alarr. Peter Edwards
Performers
- Will Taylor & Nick Hill (Flyte)
- Peter Edwardsdirector
Tue 21 Jul 2026
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
The Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut with British tenor Laurence Kilsby in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque: John Dowland and Henry Purcell
The Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut with British tenor Laurence Kilsby in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque: John Dowland and Henry Purcell
Programme
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite(5 mins)
- Lachrimae antiquae(5 mins)
- The King of Denmark's Galliard(4 mins)
- Can she excuse my wrongs?(3 mins)
- Sorrow, stay, lend true repentent tears(4 mins)
- The Earl of Essex Galliard(2 mins)
- Flow, my tears(5 mins)
- The Frog Galliard(3 mins)
- Now, O now, I needs must part(4 mins)
- The Fairy Queen – ‘If love’s a sweet passion’(5 mins)
- Strike the viol(4 mins)
- The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman(3 mins)
- An Evening Hymn(5 mins)
Performers
- Laurence Kilsbytenor
- Thomas Dunforddirector/lute
Composers
Tue 9 Sep 2025
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Join mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and his ensemble Between Worlds for a sonic tour of the countries that border the Black Sea, as they perform traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer plus works by Bartók, Taktakishvili and David Bruce
Also part ofProms 2025
Tue 12 Aug 2025
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Praised for their ‘bewitching, colourful and easy-listening grooves’, Nigerian sensations Kingsley Okorie and Benjamin James bring their distinctive brand of ‘highlife fusion’ to the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Proms
Also part ofProms 2025







