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Boosey & Hawkes won first prizes for notesetting for two of its publications at the 2021 Music Publishers Association’s Paul Revere Awards: John Adams’ Opera Choruses Vol. 1 and Steven Mackey’s Physical Property.

Edward Gardner conducts first performances in July of Robin Holloway’s new orchestration of Britten’s Winter Words, with tenor Nicky Spence and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

At long last, the music community in the US eagerly returns to live performance this summer. We’ve compiled a list of summer festival highlights, including orchestra, chamber music, and opera performances across the country.

Part of our “Performer Picks” series of interviews with world-renowned artists about their favourite works in the B&H catalogue. Read other “Performer Picks” interviews with Marin Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Colin Currie, Bridget Kibbey, Johannes Moser and Patrick Summers.

Works by Mieczyslaw Weinberg have joined our classical catalogue following Sikorski’s publishing union with Boosey & Hawkes. Music by the Polish-born émigré composer, who spent most of his creative live in Moscow, has seen a growing wave of international recognition over the last ten years.

Boosey & Hawkes announces the winners of its Score Video Contest, whose recording will feature in an upcoming score video of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne. The new score video will be revealed in a Live Score Reading event on June 17, Stravinsky’s birthday.

A major festival of Unsuk Chin’s music in Copenhagen leads up to the presentation of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize at a concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on 5 June. Five Danish premieres appear on the week-long programme, including the Piano Concerto, Graffiti and her recent concert-opener subito con forza.

The first performance of Mark Simpson’s new Violin Concerto appeared in April as a streamed premiere with Nicola Benedetti and the London Symphony Orchestra, prompting a host of reviews acclaiming its passion and charged lyricism.

Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, a new film version of the dance phenomenon that has toured the world, is released on Sky Cinema and streaming service NOW on 28 May 2021

Composer and writer Russell Platt guides us through the rich musical output of Ned Rorem—from his lively orchestral works to his iconic songs—in anticipation of Rorem’s centennial on October 22, 2023.

The letters of composer Gerald Finzi are collected together for the first time in a new book by Diana McVeagh, published this month by Boydell Press. The collection positions the composer in the British musical world between the 1920s and 1950s, revealing new aspects of his personality and compositional life.

The latest opera by Detlev Glanert, Oceane, unveiled at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2019, has been awarded the prestigious 2021 International Opera Award for Best World Premiere.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams on 12 October 2022 offers opportunities to explore the remarkable music he wrote for the film Scott of the Antarctic: the composer’s full original score is now available, the edited film version can be screened with live orchestra, while his Sinfonia Antartica can be programmed in concert series celebrating the anniversary.

Part of our “Performer Picks” series of interviews with world-renowned artists about their favorite works in the B&H catalog. Read other "Performer Picks" interviews with Marin Alsop, Colin Currie, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Bridget Kibbey and Johannes Moser.

In June, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis presents the world premiere of Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert’s 25-minute chamber opera, Moon Tea, a colorful, witty retelling of the historic 1969 meeting between the British royal family and the Apollo 11 astronauts upon their return from the moon.

Boosey & Hawkes presents a panel discussion on turning opera into film, joined by some of the most forward-thinking minds in the field today: composers David T. Little and Angélica Negrón, Opera Philadelphia creative producer Sarah Williams, and Beth Morrison, creative producer and president of Beth Morrison Projects.

Explore works for ensemble and orchestra written on the topic of climate change, nature, and the environment.

This month brings first performances of three new works by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Lament is a broadcast premiere by Radio France, Owl Songs is streamed by the Nash Ensemble from the Wigmore Hall in London, and Black Milk is streamed by Psappha from Manchester.

Leading composer Olga Neuwirth has signed an exclusive publishing contract with Boosey & Hawkes to represent her current and future works worldwide. These works will join those composed between 2000 and 2009, already published by Boosey & Hawkes.

B&H is pleased to present a three-volume collection of John Adams’s opera choruses with piano accompaniment, including choral selections from Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, and more.