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The Paraorchestra brings an immersive take on Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, presenting this seminal work with the players distributed across Beacon Hall

A special live edition of the acclaimed late-night Radio 3 jazz show ’Round Midnight, this year with a focus on centenary artist John Coltrane

The National Open Youth Orchestra – the world’s first disabled-led national youth ensemble – and members of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ NOW perform music by Vivaldi, Charlotte Harding and Michael Betteridge

Nigel Short conducts his award-winning choir Tenebrae in the Proms premiere of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles, a 500-mile musical pilgrimage whose Minimalist patterns meet the beauty of plainchant and bell chimes

Celebrated Finnish musicians Anu Komsi and Sakari Oramo perform György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments – an armful of fragile and hauntingly lyrical miniatures – as part of the composer’s 100th-birthday celebrations

A mini choral convention, shining a spotlight on voices from the North East as well as on the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Singers, featuring a selection from Parry’s Songs of Farewell.

Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of musical innovations and provocations, featuring works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Mozart and a 14-year-old Mendelssohn

The Royal Northern Sinfonia’s Music Director Dinis Sousa is joined by principal musicians Helena Gourd and Jude Carlton to perform the mesmerising meditation that is centenary composer Morton Feldman’s Crippled Symmetry

Mercury Prize-nominated South Tyneside-born singer-songwriter Nadine Shah collaborates with the Royal Northern Sinfonia in the latest of the orchestra’s series of bold musical dialogues

A celebration of musicians who have launched their careers under the groundbreaking Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Introducing scheme, featuring a line-up of fresh performers that you’ll want to tell friends you saw here first