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Learn about Elena Kats-Chernin, the cosmopolitan composer whose versatility embraces ballet, children’s opera, orchestral and piano music. Part of a profile series throughout March – Women’s History Month – in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Meredith Monk is a living legend, celebrated for pioneering an entire genre of musical expression through the human voice. Read about how she came to revolutionize live performance in the '60s and '70s through to today, and her influence on an entire generation of music makers. Part of a weekly series throughout March—Women’s History Month—in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Learn about Sofia Gubaidulina [published by Sikorski], the celebrated Russian composer whose highly individual music has explored humanity’s relationship with the divine for over 50 years. Part of a profile series throughout March – Women’s History Month – in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Olga Neuwirth has made waves across the international music scene with her cross-genre, multi-media theatre pieces. Learn about her fascination with a multitude of topics, from science to politics. Part of a profile series throughout March—Women’s History Month—in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Learn about Lera Auerbach [published by Sikorski], not only a composer but also a distinguished pianist, poet, artist and conductor, whose versatility is reflected in her acclaimed ballets and exciting works for the concert hall. Part of a profile series throughout March – Women’s History Month – in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

From classical pianist and pop instrumentalist to electronic music innovator, renowned composer Iris ter Schiphorst has had a wide-ranging career that has made her a legendary fixture of the adventurous contemporary music scene in Berlin. Part of a profile series throughout March—Women’s History Month—in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Learn about Unsuk Chin’s highly individual music, reflecting the colours and sculptural forms of her imagination, which is performed internationally by leading conductors and ensembles. Part of a profile series throughout March – Women’s History Month – in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Learn about Anna Clyne’s art-inspired music, unusual collaborations, and rapid ascent in the orchestral world in this special feature about her work. Part of a profile series throughout March—Women’s History Month—in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to learn of the death of Edward Huws Jones, the compiler and editor of the acclaimed Fiddler books, one of the most successful series of educational publications in the B&H catalogue.

Best-selling author Dan Brown unveils a new symphonic book project for children called Wild Symphony, releasing on September 1, 2020. Boosey & Hawkes will be the licensor and distributor of the music from Wild Symphony in territories worldwide.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced Brett Dean as its new Composer in Residence and Young Composers programme mentor for the next three years. Commencing in September 2020, the residency brings a selection of the composer’s works, UK premieres and a new LPO commission.

Composer Sebastian Currier discusses his new orchestral work, Track 8, inspired by Beethoven’s lesser-known Eighth Symphony and commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as part of its Beethoven 2020 anniversary celebrations. Conductor Louis Langrée leads the orchestra in the world premiere of Currier’s work on April 3.

The new website of the Peter Maxwell Davies Trust was launched in December, providing an online destination for those exploring the composer and his music.

Andris Nelsons unveils HK Gruber's new Short Stories from the Vienna Woods in Leipzig, Boston and New York, offering symphonic highlights from the composer's acclaimed opera from 2014.

First European performances of John Adams's propulsive concert-opener, I Still Dance, take place in Amsterdam and London in March, conducted by the composer and the work's dedicatee Michael Tilson Thomas.

Following performances in the Netherlands and Germany, Detlev Glanert's epic Requiem for Hieronymous Bosch painted a vivid canvas in London in December, travelling on with conductor Semyon Bychkov to Prague in March.

A Different Drummer, Steven Mackey's timpani concerto premiered in Dallas in November, travels to Europe for its first performances on a French tour around the Paris region in March.

Brett Dean introduces his new piano concerto for Jonathan Biss, transporting us to an Austrian village house where Beethoven struggled with family conflict and deafness.

Recent works by Lera Auerbach include Arctica, her fourth symphony written in collaboration with National Geographic, and Eve's Lament travelling internationally with conductor Marin Alsop.

This season sees two new operas for young audiences by composer Elena Kats-Chernin: Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver was premiered at the Komische Oper in Berlin in November, and June brings her new operatic version of The Wind in the Willows at the Kassel Staatstheater.