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Mark Simpson’s Israfel—inspired by Edgar Allan Poe—receives its North American premiere with the Baltimore Symphony and Jonathon Heyward in October.

This fall, composer Gabriela Ortiz unveils Si el oxígeno fuera verde, premiered by The Philharmonia under Santtu-Matias Rouvali in Europe and on the orchestra’s 80th-anniversary US tour.

Steven Mackey’s Anemology for saxophone soloist Timothy McAllister receives its world premiere with the Monterey Symphony and Jayce Ogren in October.

We follow baritone soloist Roderick Williams as he reflects on his experience performing Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in Hiroshima’s Peace Park, observing 80 years since the atomic bombing of the city.

On 29 August 2025, the composer and pianist Rodion Shchedrin passed away at the age of 92. His music fearlessly combined elements of folklore, archaic early forms of music and the avant-garde – creating a sound world that was uniquely his own.

Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce a new worldwide publishing agreement with the renowned Japanese composer and conductor, Joe Hisaishi.

The coming season brings an extensive collection of new and recent works by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski composers, including world premieres by Michel van der Aa, John Adams, Brett Dean, Olga Neuwirth, Gabriela Ortiz, Matthias Pintscher and Mark-Anthony Turnage.

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

Boosey & Hawkes, a Concord company, has signed acclaimed composer Jeanine Tesori to represent her entire classical music catalog, including existing and future works. Tesori is celebrated for her contributions to opera and musical theatre, including works such as Grounded and Blue.

Following close upon the success of his opera Festen, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children, based on the classic novel by Edith Nesbit, is premiered at Glyndebourne on 30 October with a staged concert performance at London’s Southbank Centre on 8 November.

John Adams’s new orchestral work celebrates longtime collaboration with Marin Alsop, premiering in Philadelphia followed by global tour to Poland, Manchester, New York, Vienna, and Chicago.

Urworte, Bernd Richard Deutsch’s setting of Goethe poetry, receives its North American premiere in September with The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, led by Franz Welser-Möst.

Growing interest in Gabriela Ortiz’s music throughout Europe is reflected in three major residencies across the 2025/26 season, with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.

The coming season sees composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson return to his home city for his Artist in Residence role with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The five-concert series is launched on 25 September with the UK premiere of his viola concerto featuring Timothy Ridout.

Boosey & Hawkes | Sikorski continues its series of web videos with conductor Vladimir Jurowski discussing the music of Dmitri Shostakovich in his 50th anniversary year.

With recent performances of Vexierbild in the USA and Australia, Detlev Glanert has completed his set of companion pieces for the four Brahms symphonies, also including Brahms-Fantasie, Idyllium and Weites Land.

On 21 September the Berlin Music Festival presents the concert premiere – close to a century after its composition - of a Bauhaus-influenced geometric dance opera by Marc Blitzstein. The composer of Parabola and Circula was a leading figure of 1920s American new music, a friend of Aaron Copland and mentor of Leonard Bernstein.

Gabriela Ortiz curates six concerts of chamber and orchestral music as the 2025 director of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music this July.

What Belongs to You is the winner of Music Critics Association of North America's 2025 Award for Best New Opera, given annually to a new work in recognition of both musical and theatrical excellence.

Guitarist Sean Shibe is soloist in Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA, premiered at the BBC Proms on 22 July. Scored for electric guitar and orchestra, the new work is inspired by a series of hallucinations documented by sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick.