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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.

The 85th birthday year of Harrison Birtwistle has brought the release of a range of his scores, published for the first time, ranging from orchestral and chamber works to music for piano and guitar.

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser shares fascinating insights into the cello concertos from the Boosey catalog he’s performed over the years.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra turns the spotlight onto Detlev Glanert with a Total Immersion day on 7 December devoted to the composer. Chamber music, film and discussion lead up to the UK premiere of the Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch, his epic score bestriding Heaven and Hell.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's operas continue to travel internationally. His new family opera Coraline, based on the dark novel by Neil Gaiman, is staged in Zürich and Stockholm this season.

The range of tote bags celebrating 20th century works in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series has expanded with new designs featuring iconic scores by Copland, Prokofieff and Rachmaninoff.

Dean’s 2018 Cello Concerto is performed by cellist Alban Gerhardt with conductor Osmo Vänskä leading the Minnesota Orchestra on November 14-16.

Giya Kancheli, the leading Georgian composer who created works for performers Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Bashmet and Gidon Kremer, has died in Tbilisi at the age of 84.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra premieres Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury in Edinburgh on 7 November, the first work commissioned under her new Associate Composer role with the orchestra.

First reviews are appearing for Dmitri Braginsky's remarkable book, Shostakovich and Football: Escape to Freedom, now available from The Shop at Boosey.com.