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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.

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.

The 75th birthday of Bill Whelan is marked in May and the composer discusses his classic Riverdance, touring internationally in its 30th anniversary year. The double celebrations also see publication releases and concert performances, including the premiere of a new Concerto for Orchestra.

Composer Christopher Tin has won acclaim through his music for the Civilization series, including the first ever GRAMMY for a video game score. With the latest Civilization VII released, he discusses the challenges and rewards of writing music for games and how this can overlap with composition for the concert hall.

The latest instrument in Boosey & Hawkes’s Grade by Grade series is cello, with books containing repertoire for grades 1-5 now published.

The Art of the Piano Education Awards has announced Christopher Norton, composer of the million-selling Microjazz series, as recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2025.

The official sheet music for Jacob Collier's World O World, the final track on his 2024 album Djesse Vo/ 4, is now available from Boosey & Hawkes in both the original and a simplified edition.

The consoling Benedictus movement from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is under the spotlight in the latest episode in BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music series, exploring how music can deeply affect the lives of individuals across the world.

First performed by the BBC Singers on Armistice Day 2022, Kerensa Briggs’ Requiem is a heartfelt and poignant setting of nine sections from the Office for the Dead. This moving 35-minute work for mezzo-soprano soloist, mixed chorus, and organ highlights the composer's appreciation of the connection between music and faith.

The oeuvre of Hans Winterberg has been revealed to be an immense musical treasure. Under lock and key for many years after the composer's death in 1991, it is now being made accessible and published for the first time by Boosey & Hawkes in cooperation with the Exilarte Centre of the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the composer's grandson.

Recent months have seen the release of a collection of publications of Magnus Lindberg’s recent works including Serenades and Piano Concerto No.3 in the prestigious Hawkes Pocket Score series, alongside performing materials of chamber works Santa Fe Project and Quintet.

The new Boosey & Hawkes edition of music by rediscovered Russian composer Leokadiya Kashperova is completed with the publication of her Piano Concerto, dating from 1900, together with a group of vocal scores.

Last year saw the launch of a newly revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The latest releases include his most performed score Symphony No.5, alongside the orchestral Nos.4, 7, 8 and 10 and No.13 ‘Babi Yar’ with solo bass and male chorus.

The 2024 Ernst von Siemens International Music Prize, with a value of 250,000 euros, will be awarded to the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin at a ceremony in Munich on 18 May. New publications by Chin in the Hawkes Pocket Scores series, released in the coming months, include Violin Concerto No.1, cosmigimmicks and the Cello Concerto.

Five new organ arrangements have been added to our digital library, all arranged by acclaimed organist Robert Gower. Works feature Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Warlock and Frederick Delius.

Leading organist and choral director Anna Lapwood has signed a publishing contract with Boosey & Hawkes. The new agreement includes her existing choral works and organ transcriptions together with rights to Lapwood’s future publications.

The Lost Birds, Christopher Tin’s elegy for the increasing extinction of bird species, is now published by Boosey & Hawkes as a vocal score, providing the choral materials for performance in a range of possible versions.

Boosey & Hawkes releases the piano-vocal score for David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s opera JFK this fall in honor of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy—a historical moment that has inspired numerous musical tributes over the decades.

October sees the launch of a new revised and corrected edition of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies, bearing fruit from the merging of publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski. The first group of four releases spans the composer’s life from his youthful Symphony No.1 through Nos.9 and 11 to his enigmatic farewell with No.15.

The latest large-scale work by Karl Jenkins, One World, is now released as a recording by Decca Records and the vocal score is published by Boosey & Hawkes. The world premiere on 19 November at the Brucknerhaus in Linz features the World Choir and Orchestra for Peace conducted by the composer.