Eight celebrities, including our very own Bradley Walsh, will compete to enter the conductor's podium at the Proms in a new BBC series.
The show will train the celebrities in orchestral, choral and operatic music and the winner will conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra at the BBC Proms in the Park.
Musician Goldie, former Blur bassist Alex James, newsreader Katie Derham, actress Jane Asher, broadcaster Peter Snow and comedian Sue Perkins are taking part in Maestro, on BBC2, alongside ex-Starsky and Hutch star David Soul and former Coronation Street actor Walsh.
They will enter a week-long Baton Camp and be assigned their own professional conductor to act as a mentor and help them rehearse during the summer.
The celebrities will conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in weekly BBC2 shows, presented by Clive Anderson, in front of a studio audience and a panel of leading musicians.
The judging panel, consisting of Sir Roger Norrington, who is conducting the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, composer and cellist Zoe Martlew, conductor Simone Young and double bassist Dominic Seldis, will decide, with members of the orchestra, who gets voted off.
The winning celebrity will conduct in front of a live audience of 30,000 people in Hyde Park on September 13, as part of the BBC Proms' world-famous Last Night celebrations.
All those taking part are described as "amateurs with a passion for classical music".
Peter Maniura, head of BBC classical music television, said: "Maestro will take the audience on a fascinating, surprising, thrilling and informative journey into the heart of music-making.
"It will delve into the practicalities, magic and mystery of what a conductor actually does to make great music happen."
