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Blaufox joins Boosey’s New York office to spearhead composer and repertoire promotion strategy for the company’s expansive activities in North and South America.

Harrison Birtwistle celebrated his 85th on 15 July and the birthday year brings a series of performances ranging from epic opera to intimate chamber works.

Elena Kats-Chernin's new opera charts the turbulent story of Australian artist Brett Whiteley, whose meteoric rise to fame was ended by a fatal addiction to drink and drugs.

Boosey & Hawkes distinguished itself once again at the Music Publishers Association’s annual Paul Revere Awards ceremony in New York City, winning First Prize in the category of “Cover Design Featuring Photography.”

Anna Clyne discusses her new Rumi-imspired cello concerto, DANCE, written for soloist Inbal Segev. It premieres at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in August, led by Cristian Macelaru.

“The truth … is that ATLAS is strong enough to withstand many different approaches and performances. In the future, if the world proceeds as it should, this is a piece that will be done again and again.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Sikorski Music Publishing will be combined with Concord Music Publishing's venerable Boosey & Hawkes division, bringing together two giants of Russian classical copyrights.

In June, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents Meredith Monk’s ATLAS for the first time since its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera in 1991. The production is directed by Yuval Sharon, representing the first time Monk is allowing for another artist to produce her work.

This summer, Boosey & Hawkes composers are featured in music festivals throughout the US. We've compiled a list of select major performances and premieres.

Celebratory performances in 2019 feature works returned to the stage thanks to the Offenbach Edition Keck, including Fantasio, Barkouf and Le Roi Carotte.

James MacMillan’s new Symphony No.5: ‘Le grand Inconnu’ provides the finale to his 60th birthday feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival (10-17 August).

Composer Anna Clyne discusses her collaboration on The Nico Project, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July. One of pop culture’s most enigmatic figures, Nico is conjured up from the shadows with a stirring theatrical immersion into her sound, her identity and the world in which she fought to be heard.

A new reduced scoring of Richard Strauss's Salome will take the stage in Vienna in January 2020. Eberhard Kloke's rescoring for 59 players allows the classic opera to be performed for the first time in theatres with smaller orchestral pits.

A new range of tote bags celebrates 20th century works in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series. The exterior adopts the iconic brown and green of the cover, while the reversible interior carries a page from inside the score.

Unsuk Chin's new concerto for orchestra, SPIRA, exploring nature's proliferation under mathematical principles, was premiered in Los Angeles in April under the baton of Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla.

Austrian composer Bernd Richard Deutsch is attracting international attention with his sequence of prestigious commissions and a residency with the Cleveland Orchestra, launched in March by the US premiere of Okeanos for organ and orchestra.

Elena Kats-Chernin's Iphis, exploring teenage gender confusion with sensitivity and humour, heads a year of opera premieres for the composer, in Germany and Australia.

Yuja Wang took the lid of the boisterous solo piano part in John Adams's new concerto in Los Angeles in March. Must the Devil Have all the Good Tunes? was toured to South Korea and Japan and receives its first European performance at the Edinburgh Festival in August.

Håkan Hardenberger was trumpet soloist in Robin Holloway's vivid new concertante work Phaeton's Journey: Son of the Sun, based on the story in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

“This is not quite like anything [Reich] has done before.” —Wall Street Journal