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Britten Pears Arts’ Aldeburgh Festival will also present the choral collection created to mark
Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in its A Garland for the Queen concert on Saturday 14 June.
The BBC Singers (conducted by Owain Park) will perform the collection as part of a programme
including One Day to Sing by the Singers’ associate composer, Judith Weir, and world premieres
by Hilary Campbell and Britten Pears Young Artist Omri Kochavi. This concert will be
recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

More information about the concert and tickets can be found here.

BBC Proms

The BBC Concert Orchestra will mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with Prom 10: Music for
Royal Occasions celebrating the relationship between music and monarchy with performances by
the orchestra (conducted by Bramwell Tovey) with BBC Singers.

The programme, presented at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 22 July (and broadcast by the BBC
on Sunday 24 July), will encompass a wide range of repertoire including Handel’s Coronation
Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’ and Water Music and work by composers including Britten, the current
Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir, and British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad, who’s
BBC commission, Your Servant, Elizabeth, will receive its world premiere.