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Proms Extra

Proms Extra are fun participatory events, for all ages and musical ability, that happen around the Proms concerts, including free workshops, talks and special events at the Imperial College Union. Proms Extra events enhance your engagement with the concert programmes by providing context and insight, creating entry points and making the music more accessible to new and veteran audiences alike.
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Proms Extra Calendar

By Year

  • Fri 17 Jul 2015

    • 16:30
      Royal College of Music

      A live Proms edition of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s In Tune, presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein – with interviews and live performances from artists appearing this season.

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  • Sat 18 Jul 2015

  • Sun 19 Jul 2015

  • Mon 20 Jul 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      HK Gruber discusses the world premiere of his percussion concerto 'into the open …', with Christopher Cook

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  • Tue 21 Jul 2015

  • Wed 22 Jul 2015

    • 17:15
      Royal College of Music

      Hugh Wood, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of 'Epithalamion' and introduces performances of his chamber works, with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.

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  • Thu 23 Jul 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Tom Service explores Beethoven's writing for the piano, with Misha Donat and David Owen Norris.

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      Proms Extra
    • 22:00
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

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  • Fri 24 Jul 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      German culture experts Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain on the great German Romantic poetry that inspired Beethoven throughout his life, from Schiller’s 'Ode to Joy' to Goethe’s 'Egmont' and Treitschke’s 'Fidelio'.

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  • Sat 25 Jul 2015

  • Sun 26 Jul 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      In conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes looks back over his four-year project with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and discusses Beethoven's piano concertos.

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  • Mon 27 Jul 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Composer Steven Price, who won an Oscar for 'Gravity', discusses the ways in which Holst's Planets Suite is still inspiring film composers to make an 'other-worldly' sound. New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon presents.

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      Proms Extra
  • Tue 28 Jul 2015

    • 17:15
      Royal College of Music

      David Nice and Fiona Noble delve into the life of Prokofiev and his five piano concertos with Petroc Trelawny.

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  • Wed 29 Jul 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      In 1915 Ezra Pound published 'Cathay', a collection of poems translated from classical Chinese. The poets Jo Shapcott and Sean O'Brien discuss what have been called poems of 'a supreme beauty' with Rana Mitter.

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  • Thu 30 Jul 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      150 years after 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' became a publishing sensation the writer Lynne Truss and children's novelist Philip Ardagh discuss its enduring appeal with, Anne McElvoy.

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      Proms Extra
    • 22:15
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

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  • Fri 31 Jul 2015

    • 17:15
      Royal College of Music

      Tom Service explores the historical context of Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony, with Marina Frolova-Walker and David Fanning.

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  • Sat 1 Aug 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      Erik Levi discusses the relationship between Bruckner’s Mass in F minor and the Viennese tradition of sacred music, with Xabier Armendáriz and Tom Service.

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  • Sun 2 Aug 2015

  • Mon 3 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      1895 was a critical year for Oscar Wilde. New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari explores this tumultuous year with Philip Hoare, the author of 'Oscar Wilde's Last Stand' and Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson and co-editor of his Complete Letters.

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      Proms Extra
  • Tue 4 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Sara Mohr-Pietsch hosts an introduction to Monteverdi's Orfeo, with guests Sarah Lenton and David Vickers.

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  • Wed 5 Aug 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      J. P. E. Harper-Scott and David Matthews offer some insights into Walton's Symphony No.2 in the context of twentieth century British music, with Petroc Trelawny.

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  • Thu 6 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Marina Frolova-Walker and William Mival discuss Scriabin's *The Poem of Ecstasy* and the world of the composer. Martin Handley presents.

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      Proms Extra
    • 21:45
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

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  • Fri 7 Aug 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      Join Christopher Dingle and Peter Hill to explore the life and works of Olivier Messiaen with patriclar focus on the newly orchestrated *Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui)*, in conversation with Christopher Cook.

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  • Sun 9 Aug 2015

    • 18:15
      Royal College of Music

      Novelists Helen Dunmore and Louise Welsh discuss DH Lawrence's 'The Rainbow', first published 100 years ago, an exploration of the effect of industrialisation on pastoral life.

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  • Mon 10 Aug 2015

  • Tue 11 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Jazz historian and broadcaster Alyn Shipton, explores swing music and its influences, with guests Catherine Tackley and Harvey G. Cohen.

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      Proms Extra
  • Wed 12 Aug 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      Marking the 90th Birthday year of the eminent composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, Julian Anderson and Nicolas Hodges survey his life and career, in conversation with Tom Service.

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      Proms Extra
  • Thu 13 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Petroc Trelwany delves into Messiaen's mammoth Turangalîla-Symphonie with guests Nigel Simeone and Caroline Rae.

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      Proms Extra
    • 22:00
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

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  • Fri 14 Aug 2015

    • 17:15
      Royal College of Music

      Sir Nicholas Kenyon, former director of the Proms and author of the Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart, introduces Mozart's 'The Abduction from the Seraglio',with Karl Lutchmayer and Louise Fryer.

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      Proms Extra
  • Sat 15 Aug 2015

  • Mon 17 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      1895, the year of the first Proms concerts, the National Trust was founded with the aim of saving the nation's heritage and open spaces. The Trust's Director Dame Helen Ghosh and the nature writer Patrick Barkham discuss its history with Anne McElvoy.

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      Proms Extra
  • Tue 18 Aug 2015

  • Wed 19 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Tim Jones and Roderick Swanston explore the nature of the piano concerto in the context of Mozart’s own examples, with a focus on the Piano Concerto No. 22. Ian Skelly presents.

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  • Thu 20 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      The Danish-born historian and lecturer Lars Tharp and the writer on children's literature Julia Eccleshare explore the work and legacy of Hans Christian Andersen with Ian McMillan.

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      Proms Extra
    • 22:45
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

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  • Fri 21 Aug 2015

  • Sat 22 Aug 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      In 1895, the year the Proms began, the pioneering Lumière Brothers developed their Cinématographe, the world’s first motion-picture film camera. Film historian Ian Christie discusses how film became an art.

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  • Sun 23 Aug 2015

  • Mon 24 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Gerard McBurney offers an introduction to Shostakovich’s unfinished opera 'Orango', whose Prologue he has orchestrated, with Marina Frolova-Walker. Tom Service presents

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  • Tue 25 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      In the centenry of Nielsen's birth, Christopher Cook looks at the differing compositional styles present in his concertos with guests Mikkel Zangenberg, Daniel Grimley and tonight's soloist Emily Beynon.

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      Proms Extra
  • Wed 26 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Rachel Beckles Willson offers an insight into Bartók’s 'Concerto for Orchestra' and discusses the life and work of the Hungarian composer, with Gavin Plumley and Ian Skelly.

      Also part of
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      Proms Extra
  • Thu 27 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Alissa Firsova, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of Bergen’s Bonfire and introduces performances of her chamber works.

      Also part of
      Proms 2015
      Proms Extra
    • 21:45
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

      Also part of
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  • Fri 28 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra perform the winning pieces of the 2015 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition.

      Proms Extra
  • Sat 29 Aug 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Daniel M. Grimley and Andrew Mellor explores Sibelius’s choral symphony 'Kullervo' and its influences, in conversation with Martin Handley.

      Also part of
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      Proms Extra
  • Sun 30 Aug 2015

    • 13:45
      Royal College of Music

      Michael Gunton, Executive Producer of 'Life Story', and Murray Gold, who composed the music, describe their work on the much acclaimed series.

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      Proms Extra
    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Ian Skelly looks at the work of the acclaimed San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with their principal trombone Timothy Higgins and former Head of Artistic Planning, John Mangum.

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  • Mon 31 Aug 2015

  • Tue 1 Sep 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Nicholas Baragwanath and Gavin Plumley explore the musical styles of Brahms's era and how this affects present-day performances of the composer's works, in conversation with Martin Handley.

      Also part of
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  • Wed 2 Sep 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Founded in 1895, the London School of Economics shares its 120th anniversary with the Proms. Professor Michael Cox explores the key events in the history of the university founded by the Fabians to promote greater equality.

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  • Thu 3 Sep 2015

    • 16:45
      Royal College of Music

      B Tommy Andersson, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of 'Pan' and introduces performances of his chamber works.

      Also part of
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  • Fri 4 Sep 2015

  • Sat 5 Sep 2015

  • Sun 6 Sep 2015

  • Mon 7 Sep 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Shahidha Bari traces the history of the 'One Thousand and One Nights', the collection of stories and folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.

      Also part of
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      Proms Extra
  • Tue 8 Sep 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan and poet Kate Clanchy introduce the winning entries in this year’s ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Poetry Competition – and welcome some of the winners on stage to read them.

      Also part of
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      Proms Extra
  • Wed 9 Sep 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Andrew McGregor investigates Charles Ives's 'Symphony No.4' in the context of his life, with guests Richard Bernas and Stephen Montague.

      Also part of
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      Proms Extra
    • 22:15
      Royal Albert Hall

      Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

      Also part of
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  • Thu 10 Sep 2015

    • 17:15
      Royal College of Music

      Gavin Plumley and Erik Levi discuss the life and work of Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, including his Symphony No.2, in conversation with Martin Handley.

      Also part of
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  • Fri 11 Sep 2015

    • 17:45
      Royal College of Music

      Join Proms Director, Edward Blakeman, and Chris Cotton, Chief Executive of the Royal Albert Hall, as they look back over the 2015 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms season.

      Also part of
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  • Sat 12 Sep 2015