Performances of Leonidas Kavakos at BBC Proms

Sun 2 Aug 2026

• 19:30

  Kavakos Plays Tchaikovsky

  Royal Albert Hall

  Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the evening are Scriabin’s iconoclastic Symphony No. 2 and the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass

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  Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the evening are Scriabin’s iconoclastic Symphony No. 2 and the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass

  Programme

  • • • Dani Howard
      • Concerto for Brass, ‘SIGNAL’(18 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
    • • Pyotr Tchaikovsky
      • Violin Concerto in D major(33 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Alexander Scriabin
      • Symphony No. 2 in C major(41 mins)

  Performers

  • Leonidas Kavakos

    violin
    violin
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Paavo Järvi

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Dani Howard
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • Alexander Scriabin

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  Part of

  Proms 2026