Last Night Of The Proms - Last Night Conductors

The following table lists by year the conductors of the Last Night of the Proms. Normally, the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra leads this concert, but guest conductors have directed the Last Night on several occasions.

Conductor	Last Night(s) ...
	-1940s	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s
Sir Henry Wood	1895–1939, 1941–19432
Sir Adrian Boult	19451 4
Basil Cameron
Constant Lambert
Sir Malcolm Sargent	1949–1966
Colin Davis			1967–1968	1970–1972
Norman Del Mar			1969	1973, 1975	1983
Sir Charles Groves				1974, 1976, 1978
James Loughran				1977, 1979	1981–1982, 1984
Sir Charles Mackerras					1980
Vernon Handley					1985
Raymond Leppard					1986
Sir Mark Elder					1987		2006
Sir Andrew Davis3					1988	1990–1992, 1994–2000
Sir John Pritchard					1989
Barry Wordsworth						1993
Leonard Slatkin							2001–2004
Paul Daniel							2005
Jiří Bělohlávek							2007
Sir Roger Norrington							20081
David Robertson							20091 5

• Note 1: Duties undertaken as Guest conductor, rather than as resident Chief Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Note 2: The seasons of 1940 and 1944 were curtailed by German bombing, so there was no official "Last Night", Wood died shortly before what should have been the end of the 1944 season
• Note 3: Sir Andrew Davis from 1994 onwards
• Note 4: Constant Lambert, Basil Cameron and Sir Adrian Boult jointly undertook proceedings upon the return in 1945
• Note 5: Robertson has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC SO since 2005