Sat 22 Aug 2026

• 19:30

  Chineke! Orchestra with Angel Blue

  Royal Albert Hall

  The Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms under Jonathon Heyward, bringing with it Dvořák’s ecstatic hymn to nature, the Symphony No. 8, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with star American soprano Angel Blue

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  The Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms under Jonathon Heyward, bringing with it Dvořák’s ecstatic hymn to nature, the Symphony No. 8, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with star American soprano Angel Blue

  Programme

  • • • Edmund Thornton Jenkins
      • Dance Suite(15 mins)reconstr. & arr. Tuffus Zimbabwe; world premiere
    • • Samuel Barber
      • Knoxville: Summer of 1915(15 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Antonín Dvořák
      • Symphony No. 8 in G major(34 mins)

  Performers

  • Angel Blue

    soprano
    soprano
  • Chineke! Orchestra
  • Jonathon Heyward

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Edmund Thornton Jenkins
  • Samuel Barber
  • Antonín Dvořák

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