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May 2024
The world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Vexierbild opens the 2024 Grand Teton Music Festival, led by Sir Donald Runnicles, this June.
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May 2024
As part of his final season at the helm of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits brings Voices from the East to the Royal Festival Hall in London on 19 May. This extraordinary three-concert voyage of discovery introduces symphonic music by composers published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski including Ali-Zadeh, Garayev, Kancheli, Terterian and Lyatoshinsky.
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May 2024
The Royal Opera in London has announced the premiere next season of a new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Festen is based upon the acclaimed film by Thomas Vinterberg and the new stagework sees Turnage working with librettist Lee Child of Billy Elliott fame.
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Apr 2024
The Vienna Konzerthaus plays host to the Austrian premiere of HK Gruber’s orchestral suite Short Stories from the Vienna Woods on 22 April, with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by the composer.
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The Wigmore Hall concludes Brett Dean’s composer residency in style with a day of three concerts featuring his chamber music on 20 April. The morning concert includes the first complete performance of Dean’s Homage Etudes by pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, who recently unveiled the latest Liszt-themed homage Faustian Pact.
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Apr 2024
June brings an Unsuk Chin focus at the Aldeburgh Festival, including the UK premiere of Alaraph for orchestra, and the culmination of her season-long feature in Amsterdam with the Dutch premiere of Alice in Wonderland in the NTR ZaterdagMatinee series.
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Apr 2024
Acclaimed young Spanish violinist María Dueñas joins the European tour of Gabriela Ortiz’s concerto Altar de Cuerda, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, visiting Barcelona, Paris and London in May and June.
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Christopher Tin, commissioned by Washington National Opera, has composed a new ending to Giacomo Puccini's unfinished masterpiece Turandot. The new ending debuts in May at the Kennedy Center, marking the 100th anniversary of Puccini’s death.
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In April, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gives the North American premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s The Wrath of God alongside Detlev Glanert’s Trumpet Concerto, performed by BSO principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs.
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The Metropolitan Opera presents John Adams’s El Niño in a new production by director Lileana Blain-Cruz, starring soprano Julia Bullock and bass-baritone Davóne Tines.
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Apr 2024
Women’s History Month in March saw three new composers added to our ongoing series of women composer features: the Uzbek-born Berlin-resident Aziza Sadikova, Maria Herz whose output was curtailed after her flight from Nazi Germany, and young British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason with her ethereally painted landscapes.
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Apr 2024
Following its Dallas premiere in March, Anna Clyne’s new piano concerto ATLAS receives its European premiere on 1 May with soloist Jeremy Denk and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazuki Yamada.
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Apr 2024
Last year saw the launch of a newly revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The latest releases include his most performed score Symphony No.5, alongside the orchestral Nos.4, 7, 8 and 10 and No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ with solo bass and male chorus.
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Simon Rattle was at the helm for the thrilling world premiere of John Adams’s new orchestral work, Frenzy, which travelled in March with the London Symphony Orchestra from London to Bristol, Dortmund, Luxembourg and Paris.
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Composer Steven Mackey is one of 19 new members inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2024.
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Mar 2024
Unsuk Chin’s orchestral work Alaraph receives its US premiere with the San Francisco Symphony and Ryan Bancroft this May.
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Coming months bring the world premiere in Canada of Kim André Arnesen’s latest nature-inspired work, Bird and Rainfall, and the UK premiere of The Stranger, surveying themes of human migration displacement, at the Brighton Festival in the UK.
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Mar 2024
James MacMillan becomes the 26th Fellow of The Ivors Academy, joining a roll-call of extraordinary composers and songwriters. The presentation takes place at the Barbican in London on 15 March when the composer conducts the European premiere of his recent work Fiat Lux, scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
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Mar 2024
How do the two art forms come together? What motivates choreographers when selecting music and composers when writing for ballet? In her article, our London-based publishing colleague Emma Kerr, who is an experienced dance enthusiast, provides some personal insights.
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Mar 2024
Aziza Sadikova’s boundless creativity and multifaceted musical language form a universe of its own and has captivated musicians and audiences around the globe. Part of a profile series throughout March – Women’s History Month – in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world. View more women composer profiles here.
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