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Jun 2025
Gabriela Ortiz curates six concerts of chamber and orchestral music as the 2025 director of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music this July.
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Jun 2025
What Belongs to You is the winner of Music Critics Association of North America's 2025 Award for Best New Opera, given annually to a new work in recognition of both musical and theatrical excellence.
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Jun 2025
Guitarist Sean Shibe is soloist in Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA, premiered at the BBC Proms on 22 July. Scored for electric guitar and orchestra, the new work is inspired by a series of hallucinations documented by sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick.
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Jun 2025
The newest work by HK Gruber is a clarinet concerto premiered at the Carinthian Summer Festival by Sharon Kam on 5 July, exploring the defiant genre of Finnish tango.
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Jun 2025
Read what critics are saying about The Metropolitan Opera's production of Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams.
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Jun 2025
The Phoenician Scheme prominently features the music of Igor Stravinsky, including recordings of The Firebird, Petrushka, and Apollon Musagète.
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Jun 2025
Following its premiere this month in Pittsburgh, Lera Auerbach’s new orchestral work Frozen Dreams receives its first European performances with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck on 21 and 22 June.
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Jun 2025
The new Turning Points brochure examines 20th century composers whose lives and musical careers were ended by murder or damaged by exile, banishment or suppression.
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Jun 2025
The Australian premiere of David T. Little’s ensemble work Ghostlight sees the composer attending performances in Sydney and Canberra in July. Little’s What Belongs to You has just won the MCANA Best New Opera award.
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May 2025
The Hamburg State Opera presented in May the premiere of Unsuk Chin’s second opera, Dark Side of the Moon, in which the worlds of physics and psychoanalysis collide.
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May 2025
From Dust, the virtual reality opera by Michel van der Aa, has won the Immersive Competition at the 78th Festival de Cannes. Premiered in Rotterdam in December, the opera is presented at the Holland Festival between 13 and 29 June.
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May 2025
Sean Shepherd’s Latticework premieres this summer with violinist Leila Josefowicz and cellist Paul Watkins.
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May 2025
A compiled list of 2025 summer festival highlights around the United States.
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May 2025
May brought the final publications in the newly revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The four scores, released to complete the set, range from experimental early Soviet symphonies to Shostakovich’s late, great song-symphony exploring themes of mortality.
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Apr 2025
La Biennale di Venezia has awarded Meredith Monk the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of Biennale Musica 2025.
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Apr 2025
In its 25th anniversary year, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace has reached the highest ever position for a work by a living composer in the Classic FM Hall of Fame; its arrival in at number two marks it as Britian’s favourite piece of contemporary classical music for the third year in a row.
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Sokolovic’s You Can Die Properly Now receives its world premiere with soprano Emma Pennel and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in May.
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Anne Akiko Meyers premieres Eric Whitacre’s The Pacific Has No Memory this spring, including a performance at Carnegie Hall on May 17.
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Apr 2025
Lera Auerbach’s new orchestral work Frozen Dreams receives its world premiere with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck in June.
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Apr 2025
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina died on 13 March, aged 93, prompting obituaries, tributes and homages to the great Russian composer.
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