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Eric Whitacre launches Deep Field on YouTube, a first-of-its-kind film collaboration with producers Music Productions, multi award-winning artists 59 Productions, and Space Telescope Science Institute. The project features stunning imagery from the Hubble Telescope, as well as Whitacre’s latest “Virtual Choir” project, which engaged over 8,000 voices from 120 countries.

The Paul Sacher Stiftung and Boosey & Hawkes are pleased to announce a new facsimile edition of Bartók's classic Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, offering fresh insights into this modernist masterpiece.

Unsuk Chin is the latest recipient of the New York Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. The prize includes a $200,000 award and a commission to write a work for the Philharmonic.

Steve Reich introduces his new score combining ensemble and orchestra, which is premiered in Los Angeles in November and travels to London and Sydney this season.

At work, at home, or travelling, the new boosey.com offers a wealth of information on composers and their music – whatever your device.

On October 13, Los Angeles Opera stages Little’s Soldier Songs, featuring David Adam Moore in a production by Beth Morrison Projects. Little's operatic career has gained traction with international audiences, and the work receives its German premiere in February 2019.

Oscar Bettison’s first violin concerto, Pale Icons of Night, meditates on the contrasting soft and sharp qualities of nighttime. Violinist Courtney Orlando premieres the new work with Alarm Will Sound on November 6.

English National Opera stages Britten's War Requiem in November, the latest in a series of visual interpretations that have seen the work move from the concert hall to film and stage.

Music from the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue is now available from nkoda, the new subscription service for digital sheet music, launched this summer.

The 75th birthday of Karl Jenkins is celebrated in 2019, including international concerts, a UK tour of The Armed Man, new recordings and performances of his latest works.

The Finnish composer's new setting of poetry by Edith Södergran, Triumf att finnas till… for choir and orchestra, celebrates the determination of the human spirit faced with conflict.

Louis Andriessen's opera about the Delft artist and the women in his life returned to the stage in Heidelberg in May, attracting plaudits from audience and press alike.

The new Viola Concerto by York Höller, written for Tabea Zimmermann, was premiered in Cologne in May and travels on to Seoul in October.

Tod Machover composes his seventh opera Schoenberg in Hollywood for the Boston Lyric Opera, which presents the world premiere on November 14 at Emerson College’s Paramount Center.

Christopher Rouse—celebrated symphonist and composer of more than a dozen concertos for different instruments—has written a new work for the bassoon and orchestra. Cristian Macelaru leads the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and soloist Andrew Cuneo in the world premiere of the concerto on November 16.

The Florentine Opera opens its 2018–2019 season with Carlisle Floyd’s 2016 opera, Prince of Players. The production will also be recorded live for international release.

Testament, the new work for voice and orchestra by Mark-Anthony Turnage, sets poetry from Ukraine and is premiered under the baton of Kirill Karabits.

Beatrice Cenci, Berthold Goldschmidt's opera written in 1950 as an emigré in London, received its Austrian premiere staging at the Bregenz Festival in July.

Throughout the month of October, New York City spotlights Louis Andriessen with programming at the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, and National Sawdust. Programs feature two world premieres and one US premiere, among other specially curated, one-night-only events around the city. At the heart of the diverse offerings is the New York Philharmonic’s "Art of Andriessen" series.

Highlights in Olga Neuwirth’s 50th birthday year include the German premiere of Lost Highway presented by Frankfurt Opera and Ensemble Modern.