Huw Edwards and Katya Adler join TV presenter line up for BBC Proms 2023

The Proms 2023 season has been revealed, featuring a huge breadth of programming from Britten to Bollywood, large scale symphonic and choral work to exciting artist debuts. Making her own Proms debut is Katya Adler, and, after more than a decade, Huw Edwards returns to presenting the Proms. Among the concerts they will be bringing to audiences on TV and BBC iPlayer are two of Beethoven’s most well-known and best-loved symphonies. 

Audiences will see Katya across the summer season. She will be presenting a Prom featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka that includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor. The concert also features Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto in G minor with solo violinist Elena Urioste, and Rachmaninov’s orch. Respighi Five Études-tableaux. And Katya presents a Prom that includes the debut of South Korean star Bomsori, alongside the BBC Philharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier, performing Bruch’s much-loved First Violin Concerto, and which also features music from Coleridge-Taylor, Brahms and Bartók. 

Huw Edwards will present a Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ryan Wigglesworth, featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Choral. The concert will be broadcast on the night of the performance, Sunday 23 July from the Royal Albert Hall. Huw will also present a Prom featuring the Sinfonia of London under John Wilson and pianist and former BBC Young Musician winner Benjamin Grosvenor, performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. The Prom will include music from L. Boulanger and Walton. 

All four programmes will be broadcast on BBC Four and will be available to watch on iPlayer for 12 months.  

Fellow BBC News colleague Clive Myrie gets the whole season underway on television presenting the much anticipated First Night on Friday 14 July on BBC Two; while Katie Derham will once again lead the festivities on BBC Two and BBC One for the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 9 September. 

The full TV and Radio presenter line up for the BBC Proms 2023 will be revealed in the coming weeks.  

Katya Adler said: “Everyone knows Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. I love and admire its staying power – the fact that generation after generation, it remains so popular – like many other works in the repertoire. I’m really excited about presenting the Proms. Hopefully audiences at home will be as inspired as I am when listening to this spine-tingling piece, and to the other works on this wonderful programme.” 

Huw Edwards said: “A Welsh person loving music is hardly news! But my love of music started at a very young age with piano lessons and I never looked back. To have the opportunity of introducing an incredible programme including the world-famous hymn to unity that is Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, performed by some of the best in the business – this is something I really look forward to!” 

Suzy Klein, Head of BBC Arts and Classical Music, said: “Huw and Katya are such familiar faces on our screens because of their roles on BBC News and I’m excited to see them bring that context and understanding to this year’s Proms. They’re both classical music fans and aficionados and I can’t wait for audiences to see this lesser known side to them as presenters.” 

BBC television and BBC iPlayer will broadcast 24 programmes, including the First Night on BBC Two, presented by Clive Myrie, and the world-famous Last Night of the Proms on BBC Two and BBC One, presented by Katie Derham. For the first time, all 24 programmes will be available to watch on iPlayer for 12 months.  

Further details of Proms 2023 TV and Radio coverage will be announced closer to First Night, Friday 14 July.  

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