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The Kronos Quartet will perform Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ‘The Sea Ranch Songs’ in the White Barn at Sea Ranch, CA on Saturday
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Catch the world premiere of Odaline de la Martinez’s ‘Scenes from Imoinda’ at The Warehouse, London tomorrow!

Merlyn Ensemble conducted by Vincent Godfrey. Soloists: Donna Bateman and Sandeep Gurrupadi
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October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Oliver Searle’s ‘Sequenza for Clarinet’ will be performed at Sound in Aberdeen on Saturday
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October 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Stephanie Lamprea and Jessica Kerr will perform Angela Elizabeth Slater’s ‘My skin’ at the Sound Festival in Aberdeenshire on Saturday
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October 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Congratulations, Bushra El-Turk! Her string quartet ‘Three Tributes’ has been nominated for an Ivors Classical Award.

Read all about the work, commissioned and premiered by the Dudok Quartet, here:
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October 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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For Your Consideration
2026 Grammy Awards
‘Noise Uprising’
Christopher Trapani, Composer @trapanicomposer.bsky.social
Sophia Burgos
Sofia Jernberg
Zwerm
New World Records @newworlddram.bsky.social
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October 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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For Your Consideration
2026 Grammy Awards
A Chaos of Light and Motion
Jack Van Zandt, Composer
Stacey Fraser, Soprano
Neuma Records @neumarecords.bsky.social
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October 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Project 40 Ensemble, conducted by Florence Price, will perform Erika Fox’s ‘Shir’ at St John’s Waterloo on Wednesday
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September 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Cellist Christina Meißner will perform John Palmer’s entire ‘Lux Tetralogy’ at Christuskirche, Chemnitz on Friday
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September 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The soprano Yuliya Trishkeu and pianist James Gillett will perform Adam Gorb’s ‘Beggars Belief’ at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester on Saturday as part of Opera Vera’s debut production ‘To Life Beyond’
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September 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Today is the anniversary of the death of Hildegard von Bingen. To celebrate her life and to honour her ongoing legacy, we’ve put together an overview of her influence on contemporary music
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September 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Oboist Timothy Rundle and pianist Caroline Palmer will premiere Richard Birchall’s ‘Sonata for Oboe and Piano’ at Hemsted Park on Friday
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September 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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As we publish two Shakespeare settings by Ailsa Dixon, her daughter, Josie Dixon, writes a guest article about the role of The Bard in her mother’s compositional work
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September 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Emma-Ruth Richards is the composer-in-residence at the Leicester International Music Festival beginning this Wednesday
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[photo Emma-Ruth Richards © Keith Malone]
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September 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Liz Dilnot Johnson’s new Substack, ‘WAY IN’, is a space for her regular writings and provides valuable insight into her work. Read all about it here:
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September 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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North Sea Voices and Ely Collegium, conducted by Susannah Self with Jonathan Stamp as organ soloist will premiere the organ reduction version of Self’s ‘Stabat Mater’ at Binham Priory on Saturday
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September 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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New Music for youth orchestra? Exciting, contemporary pieces for musicians of all ages? Yes please!

Composers Edition’s Isa Gibbs introduces a selection of works in the catalogue composed for youth orchestras
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September 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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New York City’s New Chamber Ballet presents a new, full-length ballet choreographed by Miro Magloire to music by Tonia Ko.

This Friday and Saturday at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY

[photo © New Chamber Ballet]
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September 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The Kronos Quartet will perform Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ‘Gold Came From Space’ at Abbey Bellelay, Saicourt, Switzerland on Friday
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September 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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APOLLO5 will premiere Edward-Rhys Harry’s ‘Nameless Streams’ at the North Wales International Music Festival on Friday
[photo © Andy Staples]
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September 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Carson Cooman has recorded all of Liz Lane’s organ works, which were originally written as gifts for the composer’s father. Listen to them all here:
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September 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Vokalensemble tempo d’affetto will perform works by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson at Walcheturm, Zurich on Sunday
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September 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Congratulations to Christopher Trapani, whose piece ‘Noise Uprising’ has been nominated for the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation’s Composition Prize!
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September 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Tom Poulson will perform Oliver Searle’s ‘Trumpet Concerto in Bb’ – a work for solo trumpet and fixed media track – at Västerås Concert Hall, Sweden on Friday
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September 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Find out more about the resurgence of interest in Dixon’s (1932-2017) music, and the rediscovery of her ‘lost’ Scherzo:
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August 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM