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Dec 2023
The newest orchestral work by Donghoon Shin, Upon His Ghostly Solitude, receives its Asian and Dutch premieres over the coming months, conducted by Jaap van Zweden and Osmo Vänskä.
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Dec 2023
The acclaimed Offenbach edition is much in evidence with numerous productions of Orpheus in the Underworld, performances of Les Brigands in Berlin and Frankfurt, Le Voyage dans la lune in Vienna, and a historic return of Fantasio to the Salle Favart in Paris.
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Dec 2023
The Lost Birds, Christopher Tin’s elegy for the increasing extinction of bird species, is now published by Boosey & Hawkes as a vocal score, providing the choral materials for performance in a range of possible versions.
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Dec 2023
Cellist Johannes Moser gives the premiere of Detlev Glanert’s new concerto in Luxembourg on 19 January, followed by performances in Cologne and Toronto. The first half of 2024 also sees Glanert’s opera The Jewess of Toledo unveiled in Dresden and a new percussion concerto for Christoph Sietzen.
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Nov 2023
Sebastian Currier’s Ongoingness receives its world premiere with harpist Bridget Kibbey and the Calidore String Quartet on January 21, 2024.
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Nov 2023
The newest music theatre work by Manfred Trojahn has its world premiere on 3 December at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Septembersonate is based on a story by Henry James, in which a middle-aged man encounters the ghostly apparition of what he could have become if he had led his life differently.
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Nov 2023
The Berliner Philharmoniker has released a new box of Unsuk Chin recordings, documenting its collaborations with the composer over the past 20 years. The audio CDs and Blu-ray feature six major works, including the first recording of Le silence des Sirènes, as well as a 45-minute filmed interview.
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Nov 2023
Two major festival features for Steve Reich are presented by Radio France and the Hallé in Manchester in early February. The Présences series of 11 concerts in Paris includes the European premiere of Reich’s most recent work Jacobs’s Ladder, while Colin Currie leads a three-day collaboration between the Hallé orchestra and the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Nov 2023
The spring season provides a wide range of Boosey & Hawkes repertoire. Highlights include Steve Reich features in Paris and Manchester, new concertos from Detlev Glanert, Magnus Lindberg and Anna Clyne and celebrations for Karl Jenkins's 80th birthday.
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Nov 2023
The latest large-scale work by Karl Jenkins, One World, receives its concert premiere at the Brucknerhaus in Linz on 19 November with the performance live streamed. This follows the summer release of the album by Decca Records and the publication of the vocal score by Boosey & Hawkes.
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Nov 2023
The Cello Concerto by Australian-born composer Brett Dean has won the 2023 Ivor Novello Award for best orchestral composition of the year. Now living in the UK, Dean is this season’s Composer in Residence at the Wigmore Hall, featured across a series of concerts.
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Nov 2023
Boosey & Hawkes is sad to announce the death of American composer David Del Tredici, who passed away at age 86 on November 18, 2023.
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Nov 2023
Unsuk Chin’s Operascope receives its North American premiere with Esprit Orchestra and Alex Pauk on January 24, 2024. The work also travels to São Paolo in February, and Cologne and Paris in April.
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Oct 2023
The Asian premiere of Tod Machover’s chamber opera Schoenberg in Hollywood is presented on 4 November by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as part of a celebratory series of events for Schoenberg’s 150th anniversary.
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Oct 2023
Boosey & Hawkes releases the piano-vocal score for David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s opera JFK this fall in honor of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy—a historical moment that has inspired numerous musical tributes over the decades.
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Oct 2023
The Los Angeles Philharmonic presents two Gabriela Ortiz premieres as part of the California Festival, a new multi-institutional initiative showcasing works written in the past five years.
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Oct 2023
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 Hilary Hahn, Simone Young, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
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Oct 2023
“Light, graceful, refreshing. Twenty minutes passed like a song.” —The New York Times
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Oct 2023
Courtney Bryan has been awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship in acknowledgement of her exceptional talent and creativity.
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Oct 2023
Sean Shepherd is the recipient of the 2024 Charles Ives Living Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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