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Kent Nagano conducts new orchestral work incorporating live AI technology as part of the MIT Media Lab's 40th anniversary celebration

The new evening-length oratorio responds to Haydn's The Creation, bringing together soloists Cécile McLorin Salvant, Davóne Tines, Cyro Baptista, and Kayhan Kalhor under the baton of Eric Jacobsen.

The 2026–2027 season marks Adams's 80th birthday with major opera productions, international orchestral tours, and performances conducted by the composer.

Following the completion of the set of 15 full scores of Shostakovich’s symphonies in a new edition, Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski have released scores and reductions of the composer’s concertos and vocal scores of Symphony No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ and Symphony No.14.

Eric Whitacre leads The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in the North American premiere of his recent work Eternity in an Hour.

Scottish orchestras present the UK premieres this month of Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No.1 and Enrico Chapela’s electric violin concerto Antiphaser. Philippe Quint is soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee and Chloë Hanslip joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow.

The 50th anniversary of Britten’s death falls on 4 December 2026, marked by events in his home town of Aldeburgh and throughout the wider musical world. Boosey & Hawkes is completing its video series Benjamin Britten: Notes from the Archive created in collaboration with The Red House in Aldeburgh.

The latest work by composer Joe Hisaishi is a Concerto for Orchestra with performances in coming months in the USA and Singapore with the Colorado Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Orchestre de Paris. First European performances follow in November with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the composer’s baton in the UK, Germany and Switzerland.

Eric Whitacre travels to Barcelona to conduct three concerts as guest composer at the Palau de la Música Catalana. Highlights include the Spanish premiere of Eternity in an Hour, also released this month in its premiere recording.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Elim Chan, performs the world premiere of Dance Card by Donghoon Shin in October.

Explore Einojuhani Rautavaara’s works from the Boosey & Hawkes and Fennica Gehrman catalogues in preparation for the composer’s 2028 centenary of birth. From modernism to romanticism and mysticism, from birdsong to angelic visitations, his music offers a diverse range to performers and audiences.

Boosey and Hawkes has released three new Arthur Bliss publications in collaboration with The Bliss Trust. An early violin sonata movement and a collection of seven songs are joined by an album assembling four piano works including Valses Fantastiques, returned to the catalogue a century after its composition.

Acclaimed for his orchestrations of 19th century classics by Schubert and Brahms, Detlev Glanert has turned to the piano cycle Das Jahr by Fanny Hensel (1805-47), too often overshadowed as a composer by her brother Felix Mendelssohn.

Tamara Stefanovich is soloist in the first performances of Mark Simpson’s new Piano Concerto, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and Saffron Hall on 23/24 October, and with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra on 19 November, all conducted by Edward Gardner.

The complete solo piano works of Alberto Ginastera are brought together for the first time in a new publication from Boosey & Hawkes.

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

The coming season brings an extensive collection of new and recent works by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski composers, including Unsuk Chin, Anna Clyne, Brett Dean, Magnus Lindberg, James MacMillan and Mark-Anthony Turnage, together with celebrations for Steve Reich’s 90th and John Adams’s 80th.

Composer Elena Firsova reflects on her 50-year friendship with Sofia Gubaidulina and the extraordinary task of completing Prolog, Gubaidulina’s final orchestral work, ahead of its world premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons.

John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning On the Transmigration of Souls returns to concert halls around the world this season, marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. At the center of the commemorations, Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic perform the work in New York before taking it on a major European tour.

The composer of Parasite, Squid Game, and Mickey 17 film scores joins the Boosey & Hawkes roster with his acclaimed orchestral work Inferno.