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Deep Time, the major recent work by Harrison Birtwistle has won BASCA's British Composer award in the Orchestral category. First performances were conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Philharmonie and the BBC Proms.

Visit the new Offenbach Edition Keck website, updated in readiness for the composer's bicentenary in 2019 and now available on all devices. Next year also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Offenbach Edition Keck that has done so much to provide definitive editions of his works.

The final work by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, who died in 2016, is premiered in Paris in February with orchestration completed by Kalevi Aho. The first performance of Two Serenades for Violin and Orchestra features Hilary Hahn as soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck.

The Cello Concerto of Gerald Finzi, his last completed work and his most substantial abstract score, receives a much admired new recording on Chandos with Paul Watkins as soloist.

Håkan Hardenberger is soloist in Robin Holloway's new concertante work for trumpet and orchestra, Phaeton's Journey: Son of the Sun, premiered by the BBC Philharmonic in February.

English National Opera's timely new production of Benjamin Britten's pacifist War Requiem sees the work reaching new theatrical audiences in London.

2019 sees the 60th birthday of composer James MacMillan and celebrations include international peformances, festival features and premieres of recent works.

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.