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Sikorski Music Publishing will be combined with Concord Music Publishing's venerable Boosey & Hawkes division, bringing together two giants of Russian classical copyrights.

In June, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents Meredith Monk’s ATLAS for the first time since its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera in 1991. The production is directed by Yuval Sharon, representing the first time Monk is allowing for another artist to produce her work.

This summer, Boosey & Hawkes composers are featured in music festivals throughout the US. We've compiled a list of select major performances and premieres.

Celebratory performances in 2019 feature works returned to the stage thanks to the Offenbach Edition Keck, including Fantasio, Barkouf and Le Roi Carotte.

James MacMillan’s new Symphony No.5: ‘Le grand Inconnu’ provides the finale to his 60th birthday feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival (10-17 August).

Composer Anna Clyne discusses her collaboration on The Nico Project, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July. One of pop culture’s most enigmatic figures, Nico is conjured up from the shadows with a stirring theatrical immersion into her sound, her identity and the world in which she fought to be heard.

A new reduced scoring of Richard Strauss's Salome will take the stage in Vienna in January 2020. Eberhard Kloke's rescoring for 59 players allows the classic opera to be performed for the first time in theatres with smaller orchestral pits.

A new range of tote bags celebrates 20th century works in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series. The exterior adopts the iconic brown and green of the cover, while the reversible interior carries a page from inside the score.

Unsuk Chin's new concerto for orchestra, SPIRA, exploring nature's proliferation under mathematical principles, was premiered in Los Angeles in April under the baton of Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla.

Austrian composer Bernd Richard Deutsch is attracting international attention with his sequence of prestigious commissions and a residency with the Cleveland Orchestra, launched in March by the US premiere of Okeanos for organ and orchestra.

Elena Kats-Chernin's Iphis, exploring teenage gender confusion with sensitivity and humour, heads a year of opera premieres for the composer, in Germany and Australia.

Yuja Wang took the lid of the boisterous solo piano part in John Adams's new concerto in Los Angeles in March. Must the Devil Have all the Good Tunes? was toured to South Korea and Japan and receives its first European performance at the Edinburgh Festival in August.

Håkan Hardenberger was trumpet soloist in Robin Holloway's vivid new concertante work Phaeton's Journey: Son of the Sun, based on the story in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

“This is not quite like anything [Reich] has done before.” —Wall Street Journal

The Edinburgh International Festival celebrates the life and work of Scotland's foremost composer in August, including the world premiere of his Symphony No.5: ‘Le grand Inconnu’.

Dmitri Braginsky's new book, Shostakovich and Football: Escape to Freedom, examines the composer's lifelong passion for the sport, through historic documents from the Soviet era and a lavish selection of photos.

Leading Dutch composer Louis Andriessen celebrates his 80th birthday on 6 June, and Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw leads the festivities with a four-day series of events (23-26 May).

Following tours around the US and to the Vatican for its European premiere, Kim André Arnesen's The Holy Spirit Mass is now published in vocal score format.

The BBVA Foundation honors John Adams with its Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category in its eleventh edition.

Oceane, a mysterious woman from the sea, is the central character and disruptive force in the new opera by Detlev Glanert, which enjoyed a triumphant stage premiere at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.