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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.

Clyne’s folklore-inspired tone poem travels to Germany for its European premiere with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kazuki Yamada in October.

Bryan’s new opera, based on the play by Tennessee Williams, has been met with acclaim following its world premiere at Bard SummerScape.

Explore works from the Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski catalogues inspired by the iconic example of Franz Schubert. Read work notes outlining the Schubert connections for programmers, conductors and performers and listen to our playlist.

Steve Reich discusses his new work for large ensemble, In All Your Ways, the centerpiece of his 90th-birthday celebrations during the 2026–2027 season. The work receives its world premiere in Edinburgh International Festival with the Colin Currie Group on August 28, then tours to Amsterdam, Toronto, New York, London, Berkeley, Paris, and Los Angeles.

The UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new Festen Suite at the BBC Proms garnered acclaim from press and public alike. The 25-minute orchestral work captures the opera’s party framework while darker undercurrents rise to the surface, with the music alternating between exuberance and blues-tinged elegy.

Brett Dean is Composer in Residence across the coming season with the Berlin Philharmonic, the orchestra where he was violist for 14 years. His return brings two new commissions, multiple roles as composer, instrumentalist and mentor for young musicians at the Karajan Academy, and his conducting debut with the orchestra.

Flanders Opera presents the first Belgian staging of Louis Andriessen’s magnum opus De Materie in September in a new production by Phia Ménard, with eight performances in Antwerp. This year also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Andriessen’s ground-breaking minimalist work Hoketus with performances in the autumn by Het Muziek in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Den Bosch.

Andris Nelsons conducts the world premiere September 24–26, continuing his and the BSO’s close relationship with Gubaidulina’s late orchestral works

The Hallé in Manchester opens its new season with the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Symphony No.6 under the baton of Kahchun Wong. MacMillan is the orchestra’s Featured Composer across a year of concerts, with other highlights including Christmas Oratorio and Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia with Mark Elder on the podium and Concerto for Orchestra with the composer conducting.

The first performance of Steve Reich’s new large ensemble work, In All Your Ways, is presented by the Colin Currie Group at the Edinburgh International Festival on 28 August. Further performances honouring the composer’s 90th birthday on 3 October see the new score travelling across the coming season to Amsterdam, Toronto, New York, Berkeley, London, Paris, Hamburg and Los Angeles.

Setting texts by Carol Ann Duffy, Brett Dean’s new song cycle The World’s Wife is unveiled at the BBC Proms on 29 July, with soprano Claire Booth. Following its world premiere with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ryan Wigglesworth, further performances are planned by co-commissioners in Europe and Australia.

Gerald Finzi’s ode to the patron saint of music, For St Cecilia, provides the finale of the First Night of the 2026 BBC Proms on 17 July, with BBC forces conducted by Dalia Stasevska.

In August, the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin premiere Ana Sokolovic’s Montréal cirque.

La Reina Roja by Gabriela Ortiz receives its world premiere in July with the Impossible Orchestra, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, and Alondra de la Parra.