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Boosey & Hawkes has published Karl Jenkins: Piano, a collection of initimate and spiritually uplifting classics reimagined for solo piano by the composer.

Reich/Richter is Steve Reich’s latest work for large ensemble, which he composed for a film by renowned painter Gerhard Richter and filmmaker Corinna Belz. It debuts on April 6–June 2, 2019, at The Shed, New York City’s new arts center, performed live by Ensemble Signal and the International Contemporary Ensemble, in alternation.

Anna Clyne has been announced as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's new Associate Composer for the next three years, including plans for performances and a newly commissioned work.

The ever-transgressive Del Tredici presents the world premiere of MONSTERS, a towering hourlong piano composition, with pianists Eric Moe and Rob Frankenberry at Columbia University on March 27.

Doreen Rao, Founder and Editor Emeritus of the Boosey & Hawkes series Choral Music Experience, has been awarded the 2019 Robert Shaw Choral Award

Steve Reich discusses composing Reich/Richter, a new 37-minute work for large ensemble, for a film by renowned painter Gerhard Richter, created in collaboration with filmmaker Corinna Belz. Reich/Richter debuts on April 6 at The Shed, New York City’s newest arts space, performed live by Ensemble Signal and the International Contemporary Ensemble through June 2.

The Cleveland Orchestra introduces Bernd Richard Deutsch's brand of colorful, virtuosic orchestral writing to its audiences this March with the US premiere of Okeanos.

The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the 2019 Erasmus Prize to the American composer and conductor John Adams.

Unsuk Chin is the 2019 winner of the Hamburg Bach Prize. The South Korean composer is honoured with this most important music award made by the Hanseatic city for her unique artistic work and her outstanding contribution to contemporary music .

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to announce the death of leading opera and art song composer Dominick Argento, who passed away aged 91 on February 20, 2019, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

John Adams’s Gold Rush opera, Girls of the Golden West, is staged in Europe for the first time by Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, opening on 28 February.

Martland Memorial, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s concerto-style musical tribute to friend and fellow composer Steve Martland, was written to showcase Colin Currie’s brilliance as a percussion soloist. Currie joins Osmo Vänskä and The Minnesota Orchestra in March to give the US premiere of the work on March 14.

Pianist Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic form a formidable all-star team to premiere John Adams’s latest piano concerto, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? After the world premiere on March 7, the orchestra and pianist take the new work on tour to Asia and Europe, as well as to New York in November.

Detlev Glanert introduces his new opera about a fascinating woman from the sea, to be premiered at the Deutsche Oper in April, staged by Robert Carsen and conducted by Donald Runnicles.

David T. Little’s JFK makes its European debut on March 24 at Theater Augsburg with a new cast and staging, directed by Roman Hovenbitzer.

A feast of Stravinsky is presented by the Konzerthaus in Berlin (3-13 March), with Iván Fischer conducting music from the three great early ballets together with works from the composer’s neo-classical years.

Decca celebrates the 75th birthday of Karl Jenkins this month with his new Piano Album and the re-release of a selection of his greatest recordings including Adiemus and The Armed Man, while the composer embarks on a UK tour.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla presents the world premiere of Unsuk Chin's new concerto for orchestra on 5 April.

Three new works by Sebastian Currier are premiered this winter and spring in Boston and New York (with additional performances in Chicago and Leipzig), including a piano trio written for Anne-Sophie Mutter and a violin concerto to be premiered by Baiba Skride with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons.

Testament, Mark-Anthony Turnage's powerful new setting of Ukrainian poetry, received first performances in the UK and Germany with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Weimar Staatskapelle conducted by Kirill Karabits.