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Discover several recent cello concertos by Boosey & Hawkes composers, including Gabriela Ortiz's Dzonot for Alisa Weilerstein.

Michel van der Aa's latest creation is premiered at De Doelen in Rotterdam on 3 December. From Dust is a virtual reality opera installation in which the audience itself takes part in the action and helps to shape the work. The innovative composer-director-conceptual artist is once again breaking new ground in the world of music theatre.

The consoling Benedictus movement from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is under the spotlight in the latest episode in BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music series, exploring how music can deeply affect the lives of individuals across the world.

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to announce the passing of Barbara Kolb, age 85, composer of evocative, intense works featuring interwoven textures, often inspired by poetry and images.

Gabriela Ortiz’s new cello concerto Dzonot, composed for soloist Alisa Weilerstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has dazzled critics on both US coasts after first performances in Los Angeles and New York.

This fall, the Metropolitan Opera presents Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar in an acclaimed dance-centric production by director and choreographer Deborah Colker. A new piano-vocal score of the opera is now available from Boosey & Hawkes.

Explore music by Latinx and Hispanic music creators in the B&H catalog, from iconic Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera to Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, who serves as Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence this season.

Musicologist Matthew Mugmon writes a series of essays exploring American themes in classical music. Read about how American popular music styles such as jazz, bluegrass, rock, and musical theater served as inspiration for many leading composers such as Leonard Berntein, Steve Reich, Steven Mackey, and more.

Bernd Richard Deutsch’s orchestral work Phantasma is rapidly becoming his most internationally travelled score. Its Austrian premiere at the Musikprotokoll in Graz represents a homecoming both for composer and the artist Gustav Klimt who inspired it.

The Idiot, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s final opera based on the classic Dostoyevsky novel, received rave reviews for a new staging at the Salzburg Festival this summer. Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducted the Vienna Philharmonic and a starry cast in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s compelling production.

Aziza Sadikova’s Farbenzeiten—an arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons—receives its North American premiere with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano in December.

Stockholm turns the spotlight on James MacMillan in November with a four-concert composer festival. Swedish premieres include his ghostly new Concerto for Orchestra, unveiled in London last month, featuring the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

The oeuvre of Hans Winterberg has been revealed to be an immense musical treasure. Under lock and key for many years after the composer's death in 1991, it is now being made accessible and published for the first time by Boosey & Hawkes in cooperation with the Exilarte Centre of the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the composer's grandson.

Recent months have seen the launch of a new Louis Andriessen website and a studio at the Royal Hague Conservatoire recreating his workspace. This autumn has brought multiple performances of his classic De Staat in the Netherlands.

Following its recent premiere in Helsinki, Magnus Lindberg’s new Viola Concerto for Lawrence Power is journeying widely this season – visiting London, Hamburg, Salzburg and St. Louis – and has been released on a new recording by Ondine.

Dmitri Shostakovich has long been established as one of the most important and performed composers of the 20th century, whose works have profoundly shaped the landscape of classical music. Across the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons, to mark the 50th anniversary of his death on 9 August 1975, Boosey & Hawkes | Sikorski launches a Shostakovich Resource Pack and "Beyond the baton" video series.

John Adams’s 2023 orchestral work Frenzy receives its North American premiere with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in November, conducted by the composer himself.

The Royal Opera presents a new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place in London between 10 and 24 October. The nine performances in the Linbury Theatre are staged by Oliver Mears and conducted by Nicholas Chalmers.

Miller Theatre's Courtney Bryan Composer Portrait on September 12 features three recent chamber works by the 2023 MacArthur Fellow, performed by International Contemporary Ensemble and Quince Ensemble.

Asko |Schönberg gives the world premiere of Oscar Bettison’s new work for voices and ensemble at the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht on 4 September. Composed as a companion piece to Louis Andriessen’s iconic De Staat, Bettison’s On the slow weather of dreams is then toured including performances at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Musica festival in Strasbourg.