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Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce that Thomas Bangalter, co-founder of Daft Punk, has signed a new agreement to publish the music from his ballet score Mythologies. The full evening ballet, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, has been touring France and Italy and its first recording is released by Erato in April. Individual tableaux from the 90-minute orchestral score are now available for concert performance.

Steve Reich’s three string quartets—Different Trains, Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11—are recorded by the Mivos Quartet and released together for the first time on one recording by Deutsche Grammophon.

Glasslands, composed for saxophonist Jess Gillam, receives its world premiere with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Han-na Chang on February 18-19.

As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth on 1 April 2023, we invite you to join worldwide celebrations for the iconic composer and pianist.

Red Wood premieres in February as part of The Soraya’s Treelogy Project, a celebration and a call to action to save California’s iconic redwood, sequoia, and Joshua trees. The work will be performed by the composer on electric guitar alongside Delirium Musicum.

The Paris Opéra presents a new production of John Adams’s ever-topical Nixon in China in March, with the cast led by Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming as the presidential couple, and Gustavo Dudamel on the rostrum.

The London Sinfonietta pays tribute to Harrison Birtwistle, who died last year, with a concert on 5 March devoted to his music. The programme at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London features commissioned works including In Broken Images, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Both of Magnus Lindberg’s major new works receive UK premieres at the Barbican in the coming months. His orchestral Serenades is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu and Yuja Wang tours Piano Concerto No.3 to Paris, Hamburg, Rome and London.

In March, Her tears fell with the dews at even by James MacMillan receives its world premiere with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck.

2023 is the centenary of the first public performance of William Walton’s witty and ever popular collaboration with poet Edith Sitwell.

In February, the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble gives the world premiere of Turnage’s New England Etudes.

At the beginning of 2023, Aziza Sadikova signed an exclusive contract with Boosey & Hawkes. Under the umbrella of Concord Music Publishing, this will expand the focus of the joint Boosey & Hawkes | Sikorski programme featuring music from former Soviet regions. The agreement includes worldwide rights to Sadikova’s future and nearly all her earlier works.

Radio France’s Présences festival features the music of Unsuk Chin in February with 15 of her works. Highlights include the world premiere of her new orchestral score Alaraph, conducted by François-Xavier Roth.

Machover’s new 30-minute theatrical work brings Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory to life on stage.

Brett Dean’s Beethoven-inspired piano concerto receives its US premiere in February with pianist Jonathan Biss, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Francesco Lecce-Chong in Minnesota.

The Secretaría de Cultura Federal (Federal Cultural Secretary of Culture) and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts) announced composer Gabriela Ortiz as the 2022 recipient of the Bellas Artes Gold Medal.

In January, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons give the world premiere of Steven Mackey’s Concerto for Curved Space, a work that draws on the composer’s interest in physics and contemplates our perceived reality of the universe.

The Dutch composer received the International Opera Award for his opera Upload. The prize in the category ‘Digital Opera’ was ceremoniously awarded to Michel van der Aa at the Teatro Real in Madrid on 28 November.

David T. Little’s Black Lodge garnered strong reviews after its presentation at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O22 in October.

Anna Clyne's new clarinet concerto for Martin Fröst, Weathered, is unveiled by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden on 5 January in Amsterdam, with its UK premiere by the Philharmonia following on 23 March in London. In this interview the composer reveals the genesis of the new work.