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The coming season brings an extensive collection of new and recent works by Boosey & Hawkes composers, including Unsuk Chin, Anna Clyne, Brett Dean, Detlev Glanert and James MacMillan.

Read our season preview of premieres, new productions, and other performance highlights in North and South America.

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, Elliott Carter’s Late Music by John Link places the composer’s music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of post-war contemporary concert music.

Explore music by “Father of American opera” Carlisle Floyd, whose centennial will be celebrated in 2026, the same year that marks the 250th anniversary of America.

In September, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and composer-clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera join the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor José Luis Gomez for the world premiere of D’Rivera’s The Journey.

This September and October, the Los Angeles Philharmonic performs three recent orchestral works by Gabriela Ortiz at Disney Hall as part of its Pan-American Music Initiative, then embarks on a multi-city tour featuring Ortiz's music, with performances in Boston, New York, Mexico City, and Guanajuato.

During the 2022-2023 season, Anna Clyne’s hit cello concerto DANCE is featured in a 10-city global tour with cellist Inbal Segev and Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship alumnae.

As the concluding event of Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary celebration, Leonard Bernstein’s MASS returns 51 years after its world premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Gaffigan, 2020 Marian Anderson Award winner Will Liverman as the Celebrant, and directed by Alison Moritz.

The aqueous, eroding environment of Venice provides the perfect launch city for Michel van der Aa’s new chamber music theatre work on 19 September. The Book of Water features actors Samuel West and Timothy West, soprano Mary Bevan and a string quartet from Ensemble Modern.

Following the merging of Sikorski with Boosey & Hawkes, Serge Prokofieff’s music is now represented over combined territories. New joint brochures for the composer signal the close collaboration going forward, exploring his operas, ballets and concert works.

Boosey & Hawkes welcomes Ondrej Adámek among its house composers with a new publishing agreement covering future and previously unpublished works. The collaboration is launched with the world premiere of Whence Comes the Voice? by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on 4 September, conducted by the composer.

The world premiere of Brett Dean’s new evolution cantata, In this brief moment, is performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on 24 September. The new work travels internationally in future years to Hamburg, Lyon, Sydney and Madrid.

On 15 August the BBC Proms presents the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s recent orchestral score, Time Flies, a triptych celebrating the cities of London, Hamburg and Tokyo.

Nicola Benedetti gives the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto No.2 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Perth on 28 September. The soloist tours the new concerto internationally with performances over coming seasons scheduled by the Dallas Symphony, St Louis Symphony and Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

A new instrumental ‘setting’ of the REQUIEM by Peter Ruzicka is premiered in Hamburg under the baton of Kent Nagano on 2 September. The coming months also see first performances of EINGEDUNKELT at Donaueschingen and DEPART: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in Zürich.

GRAMMY-Award winning composer Christopher Tin announces his latest album, The Lost Birds, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and VOCES8, out September 23 on Decca Classics.

According to What, Olga Neuwirth’s new double concerto for cello, percussion and chamber orchestra, is premiered by the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra on 22 September, travelling on to Musikprotokoll in Graz in October, Orebro in January, and Cité de la Musique in Paris next April.

John Adams’s new opera, Antony and Cleopatra, debuts this fall at San Francisco Opera, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim.The opera is a co-commission and co-production with San Francisco Opera, Barcelona’s Liceu Opera, Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, and the Metropolitan Opera.

This summer sees significant premieres of two Detlev Glanert works in the United States: the North American premiere of Idyllium for orchestra and the world premiere of his new String Quartet No. 3.

The world's only annual Shostakovich Festival starts on 30 June in the Saxon spa town of Gohrisch featuring chamber musicians and performances by the Dresden Staatskapelle.