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Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh reveals her musical inspirations, shares significant moments in her education and explains what audiences can expect from her music in a 75th birthday interview.

Learn about the life and career of Ursula Mamlok ahead of her100th birthday in 2023, including both her personal journey from Germany to the US and her musical journey in finding her own refined style of serial composition.

Composer Anna Clyne sets poetry by Emily Dickinson in a film directed and choreographed by Kim Brandstrup.

Paquito D’Rivera’s Dalí in the Tropics for French horn, jazz trio and orchestra debuts with the New Jersey Symphony and principal horn player Chris Komer in June.

Boosey & Hawkes presents a series of short video documentaries celebrating the newly-discovered Romantic composer Leokadiya Kashperova in her 150th anniversary year. The five weekly episodes are hosted by Graham Griffiths whose search for the lost composer has led to the new Boosey & Hawkes Kashperova Edition.

Boosey & Hawkes and the Finzi Trust are pleased to announce the winners of international singing competition Sing Finzi 2021. The winning singer is Kieran Rayner and winning pianist, Steven McGhee.

The first orchestral work by Olga Neuwirth following the signing of her new contract with Boosey & Hawkes is premiered in Lyon on 20 May. Dreydl is a rhythmically infused score named after the four-sided spinning top, premiered as part of the composer’s residency with the Orchestre National de Lyon.

On 8 May, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn, will perform Johannes X. Schachtner's latest work I Quattro Sonetti Vivaldiani for the first time in Heilbronn, Germany.

Gabriela Ortiz signs an exclusive publishing agreement with Boosey & Hawkes to represent her catalog of works for orchestra, opera, and chamber ensemble, which have been championed by major artists and companies around the world.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of long-lost Romantic composer Leokadiya Kashperova on 16 May brings a celebration concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge. The programme, presented by Donne, Women in Music, features the UK concert premiere of her Cello Sonata No.2.

Following the death of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Cross pays tribute to the leading British composer of his generation.

Boosey & Hawkes and Rayfield Allied announce with deep sadness the death of Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH on 18 April 2022 at his home in Mere (UK), at the age of 87.

Steven Mackey unveils a new music-theater work Memoir based on his mother’s memoirs of growing up during the Great Depression and raising a family in the 1960s. It debuts in May with the Dover Quartet, Arx Duo, narrator Natalie Christa, and director Mark DeChiazza.

On May 13-June 9, the Metropolitan Opera presents the North American premiere of composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn’s acclaimed opera Hamlet, starring tenor Allan Clayton, soprano Brenda Rae, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, baritone Rod Gilfry, and bass-baritone John Relyea, conducted by Nicholas Carter.

Christopher Tin’s oratorio To Shiver the Sky receives its world premiere in May 2022 with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, the United States Air Force Band, and ModernMedieval.

The popular series of tote bags celebrating the iconic Hawkes Pocket Scores design is extended with titles by John Adams, Britten and Vaughan Williams. The Shop at Boosey.com offers a 20% discount across the range and is also now stocking a new T-Shirt featuring John Adams’s classic Short Ride in a Fast Machine, produced in honour of the composer’s 75th birthday.

Women’s History Month in March saw three new composers added to our ongoing series of women composer features: newly rediscovered Romantic composer Leokadiya Kashperova, 75-year-old Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from the Caucasus region, and recently signed Belgrade-born and Montreal-based composer Ana Sokolovic.

Three concerts featuring the music of Claude Vivier combine to offer a weekend profile on the composer on 6-8 May. The programmes at the Southbank Centre in London include Lonely Child and a staged performance of Musik für das Ende by the London Sinfonietta and Soundstreams.

We sat down with singer Roderick Williams to discuss his role in Michel van der Aa’s new multimedia opera Upload which receives its US premiere in New York this week.

With its new staging in Paris by Krzysztof Warlikowski, conducted by Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place received an accomplished French premiere in March.