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The 4 Strings publications of contemporary repertoire, published by Boosey & Hawkes and edited by Liz Partridge, are attracting additional interest in lockdown. Flexible string ensemble options and minus-1 audio tracks are ideal for remote musicians and teaching groups.

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to learn of the death of Edward Huws Jones, the compiler and editor of the acclaimed Fiddler books, one of the most successful series of educational publications in the B&H catalogue.

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.

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

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.

Val Whitlock and and Shirley Court, authors of the acclaimed educational series Singing Sherlock, spoke to us about their fifth book - available now from Boosey & Hawkes.

Two major works by Serge Prokofieff dating from the 1930s, his Cello Concerto inspired by Piatigorsky and the Chant symphonique, have joined the prestigious Hawkes Pocket Scores series.

Boosey & Hawkes distinguished itself once again at the Music Publishers Association’s annual Paul Revere Awards ceremony in New York City, winning First Prize in the category of “Cover Design Featuring Photography.”

Dmitri Braginsky's new book, Shostakovich and Football: Escape to Freedom, examines the composer's lifelong passion for the sport, through historic documents from the Soviet era and a lavish selection of photos.

A new range of tote bags celebrates 20th century works in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series. The exterior adopts the iconic brown and green of the cover, while the reversible interior carries a page from inside the score.

Following tours around the US and to the Vatican for its European premiere, Kim André Arnesen's The Holy Spirit Mass is now published in vocal score format.

The Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores service, free to visitors of boosey.com, is now rolled out to Apple device users as well as via PC and Android.

Boosey & Hawkes has published Karl Jenkins: Piano, a collection of intimate and spiritually uplifting classics reimagined for solo piano by the composer.

Doreen Rao, Founder and Editor Emeritus of the Boosey & Hawkes series Choral Music Experience, has been awarded the 2019 Robert Shaw Choral Award

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.

Commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Stabat Mater was the first ever work to be performed and live-streamed at the Sistine Chapel in April 2018. The vocal score is now available, scored for mixed voices and string orchestra.

Music from the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue is now available from nkoda, the new subscription service for digital sheet music, launching this week on iPad.

Elena Kats-Chernin pays tribute to Erik Satie with her new collection of piano miniatures, recorded by ABC Classics, internationally released for download by Deutsche Grammophon, and published as a piano score by Boosey & Hawkes.

The music of Igor Stravinsky's Funeral Song Op.5, composed by the young composer as an orchestral memorial to his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, disappeared after just one performance in 1909. Following its rediscovery in 2015 and world premiere in St Petersburg last December, orchestras around the world have swiftly added Funeral Song into their current seasons.