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The London Sinfonietta pays tribute to Harrison Birtwistle, who died last year, with a concert on 5 March devoted to his music. The programme at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London features commissioned works including In Broken Images, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Both of Magnus Lindberg’s major new works receive UK premieres at the Barbican in the coming months. His orchestral Serenades is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu and Yuja Wang tours Piano Concerto No.3 to Paris, Hamburg, Rome and London.

In March, Her tears fell with the dews at even by James MacMillan receives its world premiere with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck.

The Paris Opéra presents a new production of John Adams’s ever-topical Nixon in China in March, with the cast led by Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming as the presidential couple, and Gustavo Dudamel on the rostrum.

2023 is the centenary of the first public performance of William Walton’s witty and ever popular collaboration with poet Edith Sitwell.

In February, the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble gives the world premiere of Turnage’s New England Etudes.

At the beginning of 2023, Aziza Sadikova signed an exclusive contract with Boosey & Hawkes. Under the umbrella of Concord Music Publishing, this will expand the focus of the joint Boosey & Hawkes | Sikorski programme featuring music from former Soviet regions. The agreement includes worldwide rights to Sadikova’s future and nearly all her earlier works.

Radio France’s Présences festival features the music of Unsuk Chin in February with 15 of her works. Highlights include the world premiere of her new orchestral score Alaraph, conducted by François-Xavier Roth.

Machover’s new 30-minute theatrical work brings Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory to life on stage.

Brett Dean’s Beethoven-inspired piano concerto receives its US premiere in February with pianist Jonathan Biss, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Francesco Lecce-Chong in Minnesota.

The Secretaría de Cultura Federal (Federal Cultural Secretary of Culture) and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts) announced composer Gabriela Ortiz as the 2022 recipient of the Bellas Artes Gold Medal.

In January, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons give the world premiere of Steven Mackey’s Concerto for Curved Space, a work that draws on the composer’s interest in physics and contemplates our perceived reality of the universe.

The Dutch composer received the International Opera Award for his opera Upload. The prize in the category ‘Digital Opera’ was ceremoniously awarded to Michel van der Aa at the Teatro Real in Madrid on 28 November.

David T. Little’s Black Lodge garnered strong reviews after its presentation at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O22 in October.

Anna Clyne's new clarinet concerto for Martin Fröst, Weathered, is unveiled by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden on 5 January in Amsterdam, with its UK premiere by the Philharmonia following on 23 March in London. In this interview the composer reveals the genesis of the new work.

The centenary of Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) falls on 1 February 2023, offering the opportunity to explore the music of this modernist composer who escaped from Nazi Germany to study and work in New York, returning to Berlin for her final years.

On October 7, 2022, Hilary Hahn released her latest album Eclipse, featuring a stunning performance of Alberto Ginastera’s Violin Concerto.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has released the premiere recording of James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio, conducted by Mark Elder. This major full-evening work explores the Nativity across a wide range of aspects, from childlike wonder, through spiritual reflection to powerful drama.

The rediscovered Romantic composer Leokadiya Kashperova is under the spotlight on BBC Radio 3 as Composer of the Week between 12 and 16 December, ending her 150th anniversary year. A new web video exploring Kashperova's Symphony in B minor is also released in December.

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to announce the death of American composer and writer Ned Rorem, who passed away at age 99 on November 18, 2022 in New York City, in his home on the Upper West Side, surrounded by family and friends. He is survived by six nieces and nephews and eleven grand nieces and nephews.