All London's live music

James Gaffigan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence with 100 years of American music.

“What happens when the dream you’ve been chasing collides with real life?” Dreamer is a vibrant musical journey through the highs, lows, and in-between moments of ambition...

“What happens when the dream you’ve been chasing collides with real life?” Dreamer is a vibrant musical journey through the highs, lows, and in-between moments of ambition...

With velvety vocals packing an emotional punch and songs straddling soul, Motown, gospel, R&B and funk, Marvin Gaye embraced a unique range spanning intimacy and protest, the physical and the spiritual.

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in one of the repertoire’s most monumental musical statements.

Afrobeat ambassador and legendary musician Dele Sosimi performs an extended live show with his full all-star Afrobeat Orchestra.

Le Figaro called him a ‘new cello genius’. Now prize-winning Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his Proms debut with Elgar’s achingly passionate concerto.

Maverick clarinet virtuoso Martin Fröst – praised for his ‘unsurpassed musicianship’ by The New York Times – explores the evolution of dance in a wide-ranging programme that contrasts the courtly with the rustic and climaxes in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7: dance unleashed as never before.

CLAPHAM COMMON BANDSTAND CONCERTS 2026

Two 20th-century ballets lie at the heart of this colourful concert by Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Cristian Măcelaru, whose own childhood was spent in communist Romania, conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s devastatingly powerful Symphony No. 10.

The richest man in Vienna has commissioned an evening’s entertainment. But when an opera and a comedy troupe are forced to share the same stage, all bets are off.

KPJO is a handpicked, project-based ensemble, made up of the UK’s finest jazz and big band musicians, alongside rising-star young artists.

Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Miles Davis transformed modern jazz with music that embraced the world around him – a new and exhilarating collage of modal scales, electronic and classical influences, expansive new structures and, of course, technical virtuosity.

‘How should I describe such a colossal crisis?’ Mahler wrote in 1909. ‘Yet I am thirstier than ever for life …’ Personal and professional loss had taken the composer to the brink, but even as he faced tragedy, he experienced the pleasures of living with renewed intensity.

Live at Alexandra Palace Theatre this August, Mandle Cheung leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brighton Festival Chorus, joined by soloists Elizabeth Watts and Jennifer Johnston.

A high-energy celebration of afrobeats and amapiano, set to ignite the dancefloor.

Europe’s first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra Chineke! is back. It opens with the premiere of a suite drawn from music for a ballet left incomplete by the South Carolina-born Edmund Thornton Jenkins, who died aged only 32.

All the hits, a full orchestra and a live band – it’s time to go big and celebrate 30 years of Chicane.

One hundred years since wailing siren, whip, and wind machine announced the arrival of Varèse’s Amériques in the concert hall, the Proms celebrates this exhilarating urban hymn to the composer’s adopted home of New York City.

An all-American celebration, from the urban rhythms of Bernstein’s West Side Story and On the Town to Copland’s barn dances and Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue.

No character in cinema history has a more instantly recognisable theme tune, or has inspired more classic pop songs, than James Bond.

A long-awaited Proms debut for the Metropolitan Opera’s Met Orchestra – praised for its ‘white-hot musical drama’ – under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Star mezzo-soprano and former Last Night of the Proms soloist Joyce DiDonato joins Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Met Orchestra for their second concert of the season.

One of the defining ensembles of London’s new jazz generation.