YORK HÖLLER WINS GRAWEMEYER AWARD

Boosey & Hawkes congratulates York Höller on winning the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for his orchestral cycle Sphären (Spheres). This most prestigious of composition prizes, worth $200,000, was awarded to Höller's work from 136 international entries. A recording of Sphären will be released on the NEOS label in April 2010.

York Höller, born in 1944, signed with Boosey & Hawkes in 1983. He is renowned for works which combine live and electronic sounds and his orchestral scores have been championed by conductors including Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim and Semyon Bychkov. His output ranges in scale from chamber pieces to his Bulgakov-inspired opera The Master and Margarita, premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1989.
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LINDBERG'S EXPO TOURS EUROPE

Magnus Lindberg's new concert-opener EXPO tours Europe in January and February with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, visiting Madrid, Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris and London. The work was commissioned to inaugurate Alan Gilbert as the orchestra's new Music Director, and to launch Lindberg's new composer residency in New York.

The 11-minute work is suitably celebratory, exploring ideas of exposition and exhibition relating to the title EXPO: "The extrovert score emphasises the possibilities of sheer orchestral sound – fleet-fingered strings, massive waves of brass and woodwind, patter for tubas and double basses."
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TURNAGE'S TEXAN TENEBRAE LAUNCHES 50TH

Mark-Anthony Turnage's new orchestral work, Texan Tenebrae, launches the celebrations for his 50th birthday. The premiere is given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski at the Canaries Festival on 21 January. Performances follow in London on 17 April and by co-commissioners the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in future seasons.

Texan Tenebrae looks forward to Turnage's opera Anna Nicole to be premiered at The Royal Opera in London in February 2011. Other commissions to be given first performances during the 50th birthday year of 2010 include a new orchestral work for premiere next summer, and Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad for the Belcea Quartet.
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SCHWERTSIK: MANCHESTER TWIN FOCUS

Kurt Schwertsik's new orchestral work, Nachtmusiken, is premiered by the BBC Philharmonic at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on 16 January, the first of a series of commissions paired with Mahler symphonies. The work hints at the atmosphere of the city shared between Mahler and Schwertsik, and draws on the composer's childhood memories of the nocturnal poetry of Vienna in the dark postwar years.

Schwertsik returns to Manchester for a festival of his music on 23 and 24 February, combining the forces of the Royal Northern College of Music and the BBC Philharmonic. The final orchestral concert features his recent score for trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger, Divertimento Macchiato, and the Irdische Klänge (Earthly Sounds) cycle of works, conducted by HK Gruber.
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NEWS IN BRIEF

>Karl Jenkins new Christmas album on EMI

>Chick Corea wins chamber music award

>Anna Clyne residency with Chicago Symphony

>Grammy nominations announced

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LOUIS ANDRIESSEN: NEW WEB DOCUMENTARY

This new 10-minute web documentary produced by Boosey & Hawkes offers an introduction to Louis Andriessen and his music. The video combines an interview filmed at Andriessen's apartment in Amsterdam with extracts from key works including De Staat, M is for Man, Music, Mozart, and Writing to Vermeer.

Andriessen's latest stagework La Commedia receives first US performances in April in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series and at Carnegie Hall in New York as part of a composer residency. His new work for Bang on a Can is premiered in Milan on 22 March. Andriessen has been named Musical America's 2010 Composer of the Year.
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