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Proms season opens with multiple new music premieres
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Proms season opens with multiple new music premieres
The 2026 BBC Proms season presents world premieres by Josephine Stephenson and Thea Musgrave, along with other new works across eight weeks of concerts.
- Josephine Stephenson's "That the Sunrise Not Leave Us Unmoved" receives its world premiere on the opening night.
- Thea Musgrave's bassoon concerto "Out of the Darkness" has its world premiere on August 23, performed by Amy Harman.
- Jessie Montgomery's cello concerto "These Righteous Paths" premieres at the Proms on July 20 with soloist Abel Selaocoe.
- Composer Kristine Tjøgersen said her work "Between Trees" (July 27) gives the audience a feeling of being inside a forest.
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