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The Offenbach Edition Keck, creating quality performance materials and rediscovering neglected works, was much in evidence in the composer’s bicentenary.

Major recent works by Sofia Gubaidulina, travelling widely this season, include the Triple Concerto for violin, cello and accordion, Dialogue: I and You for violin and orchestra, and the oratorio On Love and Hatred.

Harrison Birtwistle's most recent work, ...when falling asleep, was premiered in Birmingham in September and toured to Hamburg in an 85th birthday programme.

Assange - Fragments of an Un-time is Iris ter Schiphorst's new work for female voice, ensemble and sampler, exploring the crucial ongoing importance of press freedom.

The poetry of Edith Södergran lies behind Magnus Lindberg's recent ensemble work, Shadow of the Future, composed for the Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Clyne draws inspiration from poetry, art, and music in two new works premiering this spring: Breathing Statues for string quartet, written for Calidore String Quartet; and COLOR FIELD, for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Miller Theatre’s Composer Portrait series showcases Oscar Bettison’s dark and idiosyncratic musical style on February 20. Alarm Will Sound and Alan Pierson perform Livre des Sauvages and Pale Icons of Night, Bettison’s new violin concerto featuring soloist Courtney Orlando.

The new decade was launched with a UK TV screening of the new BalletBoyz film of Prokofieff's classic, danced to Kenneth MacMillan's immortal choreography.

Leading German composer Manfred Trojahn has signed an exclusive publishing contract with Boosey & Hawkes. New works include a setting of Hofmannsthal’s ‘Chandos Letter’ with stagings in Bonn and Vienna in February 2020.

Norwegian choral composer Kim André Arnesen has completed two major new choral cycles, Nordic Christmas and Voices of the Silenced, both touring the United States this winter.

The 60th birthday year of Mark-Anthony Turnage in 2020 is launched with a new horn concerto, Towards Alba, followed by opera stagings in Germany and Sweden and concert features in London and Aldeburgh.

Celebrate the iconic Hawkes Pocket Scores series with a new range of mugs and tote bags. Six designs feature classic scores by Bartók, Copland, Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff, Reich and Stravinsky.

Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, aged 88, has been awarded the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal at a ceremony in London. Her Triple Concerto receives its UK premiere in Manchester on 14 December with the BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber.

2020 is the 50th anniversary of the death of Roberto Gerhard, who fused Spanish folk influences with modernism to expand the horizons of contemporary music. Concert and academic events include those in his native Catalonia and his adoptive home in the UK.

SPIRA, Unsuk Chin's new Concerto for Orchestra, receives its first European performances in early 2020, visiting Stockholm, Birmingham, Hamburg - part of a season-long residency at the Elbphilharmonie - and Paris.

Carlisle Floyd’s celebrated 1970 opera Of Mice and Men turns 50 in January.

Following the album release and world premiere performance of Karl Jenkins’s Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption, the new choral and orchestral work receives its US Premiere at Carnegie Hall in a concert honoring the 20th anniversary of The Armed Man.

The newly redesigned website for Aaron Copland offers extensive features and rich content.

Premiered by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langrée on October 18, Rouse’s Symphony No. 6 was roundly praised as one of the late composer’s finest works.

Celebrate the iconic Hawkes Pocket Scores series with a new range of mugs, just released on sale by Boosey & Hawkes. Six designs feature classic scores by Bartók, Copland, Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff, Reich and Stravinsky.