Cheltenham Music Festival taking place between 30th June - 11th July 2015 at various venues in Cheltenham has confirmed the first performances for 2015, featuring the return of the Festival Proms series.

Highlights include a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho with live soundtrack from acclaimed orchestra the Britten Sinfonia, a night inspired by Gershwin’s ‘An American In Paris’ featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Young Musician 2014 winner Martin James Bartlett, The Kings Singer Singers’ celebrate the 150^th Anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Haydn, Mozart and Rachmaninov with master pianist Steven Osborne and conductor Edward Gardner.

Music Festival Director Meurig Bowen explained: “We’re delighted to announce the return of the Festival Proms series in 2015. The re-booting of the Town Hall programme last year was a major factor in the 2014 festival’s success, with successive sell-outs and a superb, buzzy and relaxed atmosphere at each concert”

The BBC Concert Orchestra launches the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival with a programme inspired by Gershwin’s An American in Paris (Tuesday, June 30). BBC Young Musician 2014 winner Martin James Bartlettis the soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and the concert also includes music by John Adams, Copland, Ravel, Satie and one of the festival’s featured artists, Eric Whitacre.

Edward Gardner conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, July 1 in an enticing programme of Haydn, Mozart and Rachmaninov’s 2^nd symphony. Steven Osborne is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 24, K 491.

The King’s Singers celebrate 150^th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with a wide-ranging and entertaining programme, from madrigals and partsongs to Ligeti’s The Lobster Quadrille and Cy Coleman’s The Rhythm of Life (Thursday, July 2).

On Friday, July 3, Cheltenham Town Hall hosts a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho with a difference: Bernard Herrmann’s masterful score will be played live by one of the UK’s top orchestras, the Britten Sinfonia. Expect the infamous shower scene to be like you’ve never experienced it before...

The Festival Proms comes to a close on Saturday, July 4 with Mahler’s mighty 3^rd symphony. With its massive orchestra and combined chorus of women and children, this is probably a first for Cheltenham Town Hall in its 110 year history. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly joins Cheltenham Bach Choir, Cheltenham Youth Choir and surely the best school orchestra in the world, Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra.

The full Festival line-up will be announced early in the new year.

Tickets go on sale to Members at 1pm on Monday, December 1 and to the general public at 1pm on Wednesday, December 3.