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The powerful world premiere staging of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera, Festen, at the Royal Opera in London attracted public acclaim and a sweep of 5-star reviews from press.

Boosey & Hawkes | Sikorski launches its new series of web videos with leading international conductors discussing the music of Dmitri Shostakovich in his 50th anniversary year.

Read critical acclaim for John Adams’s new piano concerto for Vikingur Ólafsson following first performances in San Francisco and Zürich.

Composer-conductor James MacMillan is featured across multiple Minnesota orchestral and choral presentations during one week between March and April.

Clyne’s Concerto for Augmented Orchestra receives its world premiere with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in February, followed by March performances with the New World Symphony and BBC Philharmonic.

Unknown until recent years, Maria Herz’s music written between the two World Wars continues to be rediscovered. Her Cello Concerto, composed close to a century ago under the pseudonym of her deceased husband, has received its first recording on the Capriccio label and the work’s UK premiere is presented by the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester on 27 February.

Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolución diamantina won multiple honors at the 67th GRAMMY® Awards. Ortiz was awarded the GRAMMY® for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Revolución diamantina; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, composer Gabriela Ortiz and engineers Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay were awarded the GRAMMY® for Best Classical Compendium; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel were awarded the GRAMMY® for Best Orchestral Performance.

Explore highlights this spring in North America, including the Metropolitan Opera’s presentation of John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra (conducted by the composer himself), the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s PALETTE for Augmented Orchestra in St. Louis, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Seoul Festival, curated by Unsuk Chin.

Composer Johannes Boris Borowski has recently turned increasingly to writing for the human voice. In February, his new choral cycle based on Viriginia Woolf, commissioned by the SWR Vocal Ensemble, receives first performances in Stuttgart and Amsterdam.

The Hamburg State Opera presents the world premiere on 18 May of Unsuk Chin’s second opera, Dark Side of the Moon, staged by the theatre collective Dead Centre. The new stagework explores a dangerous Faustian alliance between quantum physics, psychoanalysis and diabolical forces.

The Elbphilharmonie’s Visions Festival opens in Hamburg on 7 February with the world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch’s new setting of Goethe, Urworte, with Alan Gilbert leading the MDR Radio Choir, NDR Vocal Ensemble and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

The BBC Singers present the UK premiere of James MacMillan's major choral work, Ordo Virtutum, at the Barbican’s Milton Court on 13 February. The 50-minute score for choir and percussion sets Hildegard of Bingen’s pioneering 12th century text.

BBC Radio 3’s new series of commissions, 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century, celebrating the first quarter of the 2000s, includes new orchestral works from Anna Clyne, Karl Jenkins and Elena Kats-Chernin.

Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto receives its North American premiere with Lawrence Power, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Hannu Lintu in March.

Olga Neuwirth’s Tombeau I is premiered in Paris on 8 February as part of her composer feature at Radio France’s Festival Présences, while Tombeau II: Hommage à Pierre Boulez gains its first performance on 26 January from the London Symphony Orchestra within a Boulez centenary feature.

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage shares the eight tracks he would take with him if cast away to a desert island on the BBC Radio 4 classic series.

Discover several recent concert openers by Boosey & Hawkes composers.

Sebastian Currier’s large-scale choral work Mysterium receives its world premiere with The Crossing and Donald Nally in Philadelphia this February.

Videmus Inc. publishes American composer Julia Perry’s previously unavailable catalog of music through a licensing partnership with Boosey & Hawkes.

The Recording Academy announced nominations for the 2025 GRAMMY Awards, with composers Gabriela Ortiz and John Adams among the nominees.