Assoc. prof. Kostas Smoriginas will perform at PROMS-the World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival at Royal Albert Hall, London
The 2025 BBC Proms line-up has been revealed, showcasing a staggering 19 Intermusica artists making exciting debuts and celebrated returns to the festival. This year also shines a spotlight on conductor Elim Chan, who directs the flagship Last Night of the Proms for the first time.
About This Event
A jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band – part of a concert that brings these two sound- worlds together. Jazz is represented by the syncopated brilliance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, performed by Proms favourite and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. Shostakovich supplies the symphony – the snarling, sometimes shockingly tender ‘Babi Yar’, bearing witness to the horrors of a Nazi massacre of Jews in Soviet Ukraine.
Kostas Smoriginas
Friday 15 August
Lithuanian bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas returns to this year’s BBC Proms in a performance of Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony “Babi Yar”, on 15 August. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales will be conducted by Ryan Bancroft.
More information:
Proms 2025 Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel – BBC Proms – BBC
