The new four day festival, BBC Proms Australia, brings the world’s biggest classical music festival Down Under.

The BBC Proms is a internationally famous institution, the largest classical music festival in the world, housed under the great dome of the Royal Albert Hall in London. However as of next year this Great British icon will also be part of the Australian cultural calendar, as the BBC Proms Australia debuts for a limited season in April. For four days from April 13 – 16 at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, what’s been described by the BBC as a “taster” festival will offer a series of back to back concerts featuring some of Australia’s top ensembles and artists.

Not only is this first time the Proms has been held outside the UK, but remarkably it will also be the first time orchestras from three state capitals will be billed on the same programme. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Sir Andrew Davis, will share the podium with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and its newly appointed Music Director Alondra de la Parra. The Sydney Youth Orchestra, conducted by the AWO’s Alexander Briger, will feature in a youth programme, Classics for Kids. Among the...