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The ultimate observer, Ismi is able to make people see familiar things anew through his unique perspective.

To celebrate the launch of Finnish writer Riikka Pulkkinen’s new novel Enchantment (in translation by Tabatha Leggett), she will be present at Veranda.

Dalia Stasevska and massed BBC forces launch the 2026 season with an American accent.

‘Sensational’ 2025 Sibelius Competition-winner Sueye Park makes her Proms debut, joining John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.

Heroes fall but fight on in a programme of monumental soundscapes, poised on the edge of life and death.

Von Hertzen Brothers have never been an easy band to categorise by genre. Their music is often and better illustrated in terms one might use to describe a novella, painting or a movie: Dynamic. Thou...

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten’s death, former BBC Young Musician winner Guy Johnston brings the composer’s Cello Symphony to the Proms

Part song-cycle, part personal diary, at once a duet and a duel between soprano and violin, György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments is a collection of musical aphorisms – an armful of miniatures that both p...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the combined orchestras of London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School in three 20th-century orchestral masterworks.

Classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close. Superstar pianist Yuja Wang is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and massed BBC forces, all marshalled by Sakari O...

Erja Lyytinen is one of the leading blues-rock guitarists on the international touring circuit. Throughout her recording career, the High-Flying Finn has released twelve studio albums as well as sev...

Finnish progressive rock visionaries Von Hertzen Brothers, return to the UK in October 2026 for a very special run of intimate seated theatre shows.