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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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Mar 2024
Maria Herz gained popularity as a composer in the early 20th century, before fading into obscurity in the following decades. A century later, her music is experiencing a resurgence. 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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Mar 2024
Grace-Evangeline Mason's ethereal musical language embraces a variety of orchestral textures, and has been championed by orchestras around the world. 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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Feb 2024
Detlev Glanert’s Cello Concerto receives its North American premiere in March with cello soloist Johannes Moser, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Osmo Vänskä.
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Feb 2024
America’s great orchestral composer Christopher Rouse—whose 75th anniversary is celebrated in 2024—created a rich catalog of music marked by extreme emotional depth and colorful orchestration.
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Feb 2024
American Composers Orchestra launches EarShot Publishing, administered worldwide by Boosey & Hawkes, which represents select orchestral works developed through its national EarShot composer advancement programs.
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Feb 2024
In addition to honouring Karl Jenkins with a Lifetime Signing deal, marking his 80th birthday this month, Decca also releases a new collection of his most popular pieces on 16 February.
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Feb 2024
Clyne’s new piano concerto ATLAS, composed for acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk, is inspired by the artwork, ideas, and processes of German painter Gerhard Richter. ATLAS debuts in Dallas in March, followed by performances in Birmingham and New Jersey this season.
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Feb 2024
Oscar Bettison’s new chamber work I Am a Garden Adorned is unveiled in Santa Fe, performed by loadbang in February.
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Jan 2024
The Nash Ensemble presents A Celebration of the Life and Music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle at the Wigmore Hall in London on 26 March, honouring four decades of creative collaboration with the composer up to his death in 2022. The three concerts, culminating in a performance of The Moth Requiem, see the Nash Ensemble joined by the BBC Singers and students from the Royal Academy of Music.
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Jan 2024
Part of our “Performer Picks” series of interviews with world-renowned artists about their favorite works in the B&H catalog. Read other "Performer Picks" interviews with Alisa Weilerstein, Patrick Summers, and Julia Bullock.
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Jan 2024
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra tours Mark Simpson’s Violin Concerto with soloist Nicola Benedetti between 21 and 23 March. A few days later, Simpson’s new Rilke setting Phôs, composed as a pairing for Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor, is unveiled by the Salzburg Bach Choir and Mozarteum Orchestra.
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Jan 2024
Frenzy, the new orchestral work by John Adams, is toured by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle in March, with concerts in London, Bristol, Dortmund, Luxembourg and Paris. Future performances are planned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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Jan 2024
Celebrating his 80th birthday in February, Karl Jenkins conducts the 3000th performance of The Armed Man at the Royal Albert Hall on 10 March, followed by a UK tour. His recent saxophone concerto Stravaganza for Jess Gillam receives its UK premiere in Swansea and Jenkins is featured on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week.
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Jan 2024
The 2024 Ernst von Siemens International Music Prize, with a value of 250,000 euros, will be awarded to the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin at a ceremony in Munich on 18 May. New publications by Chin in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series, released in the coming months, include Violin Concerto No.1, cosmigimmicks and the Cello Concerto.
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Jan 2024
Mackey’s new guitar concerto Aluminum Flowers debuts twice this spring with guitar virtuosi JIJI in March and Gretchen Menn in April. Also in March, Mackey’s Ratcatcher for saxophone and piano is premiered at Carnegie Hall.
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Jan 2024
Coming months bring the European premiere of James MacMillan’s light-filled Fiat Lux in London and first performances of his new Robert Burns setting Composed in August in Scotland and Estonia.
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Jan 2024
Lawrence Power is viola soloist in Magnus Lindberg’s new ‘Mozart’-sized concerto, receiving its premiere in Helsinki on 28 February with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon.
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