Explore contemporary music

Boosey & Hawkes is publisher to many of the world's leading contemporary composers, commissioned to create new works for the top international orchestras, ensembles and soloists.

Please view our list of living contemporary composers and listen to soundclips of their music.

If you would like to discuss repertoire plans featuring any of our house composers on the list below, please contact your nearest B&H Promotion Department:
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b.1970 Oss, Netherlands
Here Trilogy ... One ... After Life ...

>Listen to Michel van der Aa’s music

b.1979 Prague, Czech Republic
Whence Comes the Voice ... Ça tourne ça bloque ... Sinuous Voices ...

b.1947 Worcester, USA
Nixon in China ... Short Ride in a Fast Machine ... Violin Concerto ...

>Listen to John Adams's music

b.1947 Baku, Azerbaijan
Crossing II ... Silk Road ... Nasimi-Passion ...

>Listen to Franghiz Ali-Zadeh's music

b.1973 Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union
The Little Mermaid … Icarus … Arctica: Symphony No.4 …

>Listen to Lera Auerbach's music

b.1975, Jersey, UK
O Death ... Livre des Sauvages ... Pale Icons of Night ...

>Listen to Oscar Bettison's music

b.1979 Hof, Germany
Stretta ... Wandlung ... Allein ...

>Listen to Johannes Boris Borowski’s music

b.1982 New Orleans, USA
Gathering Song … House of Pianos … Syzygy …

b.1974 Mexico City, Mexico
Noctámbulos ... Ínguesu ... La Mengambrea ...

>Listen to Enrico Chapela's music

b.1951 Shanghai, China
Er Huang ... Joie Eternelle ... Luan Tan

>Listen to Qigang Chen's music

b.1961 Seoul, South Korea
Violin Concerto ... Alice in Wonderland  ... Gougalon ...

>Listen to Unsuk Chin's music

b.1980 London, UK
Within Her Arms ... Night Ferry ... This Midnight Hour ...

>Listen to Anna Clyne's music

b.1976 Barcelona, Catalonia
Focs d'artifici ... Metaverse III ... Oscillation ...

b.1959 Providence, USA
Nightmaze ... Quartetset ... Time Machines ...

>Listen to Sebastian Currier's music

b.1954 Cedar Rapids, USA
Brooklyn Bridge ... Fire and Blood ... Time Machine ...

>Listen to Michael Daugherty's music

b.1961 Brisbane, Australia
Carlo ... Beggars and Angels ... Hamlet ...

>Listen to Brett Dean's music

b.1937 Cloverdale, USA
Final Alice ... Haddocks' Eyes ... The Spider and the Fly

>Listen to David Del Tredici's music

b.1977 Mödling, Austria
Mad Dog ... Triple Concerto ... Okeanos ...

>Listen to Bernd Richard Deutsch’s music

b.1948 Havana, Cuba
Kites ... Conversations with Cachao ... Gran Danzón (The Bel Air Concerto) ...

>Listen to Paquito D'Rivera's music

b.1993 Vienna, Austria
Azinheira … mastering silence … Stehen

b.1950 Leningrad, Russia
Earthly Life ... Secret Way ... Night in Appen ...

b.1960 Hamburg, Germany
Mahler/Skizze ... Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning ... Secret Room ...

>Listen to Detlev Glanert's music

b.1960 La Plata, Argentina
Ainadamar ... La Pasión según San Marcos ... Ayre ...

>Listen to Osvaldo Golijov's music

b.1943 Vienna, Austria
Frankenstein!! ... Cello Concerto ... Aerial ...

>Listen to HK Gruber's music

b.1944 Leverkusen, Germany
Fanal ... Aura ... Gegenklänge ...

>Listen to York Höller's music

b.1943 Leamington Spa, UK
Clarissa ... Second Concerto for Orchestra ... Violin Concerto ...

>Listen to Robin Holloway's music

b.1970 Stirling, UK
Flex ... Ignition ... Splintered Instruments ...

>Listen to David Horne's music

b.1944 Penclawdd, UK
Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary .... The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace ... Requiem ...

>Listen to Karl Jenkins's music

b.1963 Shanxi, China
Kalaviuka ... Liu Yun ... Diaspora ...

b.1959 Cologne, Germany
Schuberts Traum ... Wind Stille Zeit ... Inferno ...

>Listen to Johannes Kalitzke's music

b.1957 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Clocks ... Zoom and Zip ... Heaven is Closed ...

>Listen to Elena Kats-Chernin's music

b.1937 Zurich, Switzerland
...said the shotgun to the head. ... Aufbruch ... Drumphony ...

>Listen to Thomas Kessler's music

b.1968 Berlin, Germany
The Snow Queen ... The Sorcerer's Apprentice ... Three love songs ...

>Listen to Marius Felix Lange's music

b.1958 Helsinki, Finland
Feria ... Fresco ... Clarinet Concerto ...

>Listen to Magnus Lindberg's music

b.1978 New Jersey, USA
Dog Days .... Soldier Songs ... The Conjured Life ...

>Listen to David T. Little's music

b.1953 Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Sparkler ... Toy Symphony ... Death and the Powers ...

>Listen to Tod Machover's music

b.1956 Frankfurt, Germany
Physical Property ... Deal ... Time Release ...

>Listen to Steve Mackey's music

b.1959 Kilwinning, UK
The Confession of Isobel Gowdie ... Veni, Veni, Emmanuel ... Seven Last Words ...

>Listen to James MacMillan's music

b.1994 Wolverhampton, UK
The Yellow Wallpaper ... Upon Weightless Wings ... The Imagined Forest ...

>Listen to Grace-Evangeline Mason's music

b.1960 Tulsa, USA
Double Bass Concerto ... Violin Concerto ... Double Concerto ...

>Listen to Edgar Meyer's music

b.1942 New York City, USA
Astronaut Anthem ... Possible Sky ... Stringsongs ...

>Listen to Meredith Monk's music

b.1968 Graz, Austria
locus...doublure...solus ... Lost Highway ... torsion: transparent variation ...

>Listen to Olga Neuwirth's music

b.1980 Subotica, Serbia
cvetic kucica... ... gesualdo dub ... da ispravitsja ...

>Listen to Marko Nikodijevic's music

b.1961 Berlin, Germany
Dokumentation I ... Polaroids ... Furcht und Begierde ...

>Listen to Helmut Oehring's music

b.1964 Mexico City, Mexico
Yanga … Téenek … Únicamente la verdad

b.1971 Marl, Germany
works on a new full-evening music theatre work

b.1966 Ordos, China
The Sun Shadow VI ... Seeking Sound ... Poetry of the Land ...

b.1964, Suomussalmi, Finland
Soliloque Suite ... Swarm ... A Sensuous Encounter in the Eastern Garden ...

b.1947 Detmold, Germany
Interplay ... Dreamdance (Traumtanz) ... Bruckner-Essay ...

b.1936 New York City, USA
Music for Eighteen Musicians ... Different Trains ... City Life ...

>Listen to Steve Reich's music

b.1971 Tallinn, Estonia
Minona ... Through a lens darkly ... Inter Lacrimas et Luctum ...

>Listen to Jüri Reinvere's music

b.1975 Linz, Austria
Sostenuto ... Islands ... Abuduction into the magic kingdom ...

b.1948 Düsseldorf, Germany
Fünf Bruchstücke ... Nachtstück ... Benjamin ...

>Listen to Peter Ruzicka's music

b.1978 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Mirroring Contrapunctus XII ... Silberklang ... Alles über Sally ...

b.1985 Gräfelfing, Germany
Bartleby Narration ... Pax - Poème théâtral ... History Cantata No.2 ...

b.1956 Hamburg, Germany
Hundert Komma Null ... Silence Moves I and II (with Helmut Oehring) ... Die Gänsemagd ...

>Listen to Iris ter Schiphorst's music

b.1964 Dessau, Germany
Fadensonnen ... SOL-STITIUM ... TagNachtTraumstaub ...

b.1948 Hamburg, Germany
Concerto for viola da Gamba and Orchestra ... 1st Symphony - The Voices of Chartres ...

b.1961 Berlin, Germany
Robin Hood ... Medea, Stimmen ... Spielzeit ...

>Listen to Frank Schwemmer's music

b.1935 Vienna, Austria
Vienna Chronicles ... Tree Songs ... Sinfonia-Sinfonietta ...

>Listen to Kurt Schwertsik's music

b.1979 Reno, USA
Wanderlust  ... These Particular Circumstances ... Tuolumne ... 

>Listen to Sean Shepherd's music

b. 1983 Seoul, South Korea
Double Act ... Upon His Ghostly Solitude ...

b.1988 Liverpool, UK
The Immortal ... Pleasure ... Cello Concerto ...

>Listen to Mark Simpson's music

b.1968 Belgrade, Serbia
Svadba - Wedding ... Evta ... Géométrie sentimentale ...

>Listen to Ana Sokolovic's music

b.1949 Cremlingen, Germany
Ein Brief ... Sonette an Orpheus ... Introduction and faster movement ...

>Listen to Manfred Trojahn’s music

b.1960 Corringham, UK
From the Wreckage ... Chicago Remains ... Speranza ...

>Listen to Mark-Anthony Turnage's music

b.1959 Montecchio Maggiore, Italy
Pinocchio ... The Snow Queen ...

>Listen to Pierangelo Valtinoni's music

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For the latest news about B&H contemporary composers please visit our News Centre, including the following highlights:
> World Premiere of Anna Clyne’s PALETTE for Augmented Orchestra
> Magnus Lindberg: new Viola Concerto travels internationally
> Mark Simpson: Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth in Berlin
> Ortiz’s Dzonot is “glittering,” “dazzling,” and “full of sonic imagery”