Proms 2026 Evelyn Glennie and the Fantasia Orchestra - BBC Proms

11 Aug 2026, Royal Albert Hall

22:15 Tue 11 Aug 2026 Next Event

Evelyn Glennie and the Fantasia Orchestra

22:15 Tue 11 Aug 2026 Royal Albert Hall

Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme that features music by Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, John Coltrane and Caroline Shaw

Programme

- - John Coltrane
  - Welcomearr. Harry Baker
- - Duke Ellington
  - It Don't Mean a Thing (if it Ain't Got That Swing)(5 mins)arr. Harry Baker
- - Héloïse Werner
  - The Wood Pigeon(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Vincent Ho
  - Sandman’s Castle(7 mins)excerpt
- - Morton Feldman
  - Rothko Chapel(6 mins)excerpt
- - Caroline Shaw
  - Partita – Sarabande(5 mins)
- - Antonín Dvořák
  - Czech Suite, Op. 39 – Finale (Furiant)(5 mins)
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Serenade to Music(14 mins)arr. R. Douglas
- - Evelyn Glennie
  - Philip Sheppard
  - Orologeria aureola(5 mins)
- - Radiohead
  - Pyramid Song(5 mins)arr. Simon Hale
- - Meredith Monk
  - Panda Chant II(2 mins)

Performers

Evelyn Glennie
percussion
percussion
BBC Singers
Fantasia Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme connecting Vaughan Williams’s lyrical Serenade for Music – written for Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood – via Radiohead and the jazz of John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to the exhilarating invention of Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita. We also hear a world premiere from French-British soprano and composer Héloïse Werner.

British Sign Language-interpreted by Sean Chandler

There will be no interval

Part of

Proms 2026 British Sign Language-interpreted Proms Late Night Proms Choral music and opera

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Proms 2026 Calendar

July
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