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Renowned orchestral and opera composer Unsuk Chin will be spotlighted in performances with the Oregon and Seattle symphonies in January.

On January 21, DCINY spotlights composer-in-residence Karl Jenkins at Carnegie Hall with a special concert feting the composer’s 75th birthday. The concert features the US premiere of Symphonic Adiemus.

Olga Neuwirth’s Lost Highway received a new critically acclaimed staging by Yuval Sharon at Frankfurt Opera in September. The following month Neuwirth’s Lost Highway Suite landed in New York and was given a strong US premiere by International Contemporary Ensemble.

Reviews from the North American premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Remembering praised the 30-minute work’s impressive emotional range and beautiful final movement.

Steve Reich’s latest orchestra work (in fact, his first orchestral work in over 30 years) premiered in Los Angeles and London, winning over audiences and critics alike.

This December, John Adams’s Christmas oratorio El Niño is presented in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 14-15 and in Berlin, Germany, on December 15. Later in the month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presents the world premiere of a new chamber version.

Tod Machover spent 20 years developing the idea for his opera Schoenberg in Hollywood. The long incubation paid off in a big way on November 14, when the Boston Lyric Opera gave the world premiere to critical acclaim.

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.