Snape Proms 2018
1 - 31 August 2018
Thank you for coming to this year’s Snape Proms and helping the season break its attendance record, with more than 23,000 tickets sold and the concert hall at 93% of capacity. More than 3,000 of the tickets cost just £6.50.
This year we invited you to rate your performance experience and your booking and visitors experience for each concert you came to, with the option to leave us more detailed comments. We received more than 4,500 responses. 93% of responses rated the performance experience as ‘Very Good’ (80%) or ‘Good’ (13%). 93% also rated the booking and visitor experience as ‘Very Good’ (70%) and ‘Good’ (23%).
“We love coming to the Snape proms and see it as a real privilege that we are able to enjoy fantastic range of music for an incredibly reasonable price. The atmosphere among prommers is very friendly and we get to know the regulars. The whole experience is second to none.”
“Very impressed with the breadth of performances in your prom season. The brilliance of the performance was inspiring and felt we all shared in a love of music as a whole.”
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
The Uke, the whole Uke and nothing but the Uke
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
George Benjamin conductor
Tamara Stefanovich piano
Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain
George Benjamin Dance Figures
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Ligeti Lontano
Debussy La Mer
Britten-Pears Orchestra I
Marin Alsop conductor
Prokofiev Symphony No.1 ‘Classical’
Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
Ravel Mother Goose (complete)
Piccadilly Dance Orchestra & Lance Ellington
Jazz Age classics from Crosby, Sinatra and Porter
Family Concert
Britten-Pears Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Tom Redmond narrator
Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Suffolk Youth Orchestra
Philip Shaw conductor
Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol
Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Joaquin Turina Danzas Fantasticas
Mussorgsky arr. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
The Blues Band
The finest purveyors of rhythm & blues
Roberto Fonseca
The unmistakable music of Cuba, with a new modern sound
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger violin / director
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Bach Harpsichord Concerto BWV 972
and music by Vivaldi including Lute Concerto in D major RV 93
Courtney Pine featuring Omar
A jazz giant and a soul pioneer
Trio Isimsiz
Haydn Piano Trio in A flat, Hob.XV.14
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.2 in C minor
Brahms Piano Trio No.1 in B
Britten-Pears Orchestra II
Marin Alsop conductor
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Apollo's Fire
An Appalachian folk gathering
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Elsa Dreisig soprano
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
David Robert Coleman Looking for Palestine (UK premiere)
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy
John Wilson Orchestra
Can’t Help Singing – Hollywood’s Leading Ladies in Concert
Kim Criswell vocalist
John Wilson conductor
Georgie Fame and BBC Big Band
We say Yeh Yeh!
Christian Blackshaw & Soloists from the Berliner Philharmoniker
Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493
Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major ‘The Trout’, D. 667
Takács String Quartet
Mozart Quartet in D major K575
Dvořák Quartet in E flat major Op.51
Mendelssohn Quartet in F minor Op.80
Beethoven's Fifth
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
Imogen Cooper piano
Mozart Ballet Music from Idomeneo
Piano Concerto No.25 in C major
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor
Woman to Woman
Judie Tzuke, Beverley Craven, Julia Fordham
Aldeburgh Carnival
Angela Hewitt
Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
Altan
The captivating sounds of Donegal
Hailey Tuck
Snape debut for jazz’s rising star
Miloš Karadaglić and Friends
Guitar music from Bach to the Beatles
Come and Sing Disney
The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band
2018 National Champion Band of Great Britain
The Dime Notes
Blues-drenched 1920s New Orleans jazz
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Ben Parry conductor
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb 16’
Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo 4’
Ravel Trois Chansons 7’
and music by Leighton, Gurney, Nico Muhly, Kerry Andrew and world premieres by Ben Parry and Errollyn Wallen
Gretchen Peters
Nashville songwriter-poet
Friday Night is Music Night
Craig Revel-Horwood invites you to a fab-u-lous evening of music from the worlds of stage and screen.
Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings
Ex-Bellowhead frontman’s new musical directions
Abdullah Ibrahim
South Africa’s legendary jazz pianist