George Lewis' " …ohne festen Wohnsitz” ('Of no fixed abode') premieres with Yarn/Wire and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kwamé Ryan, on 8, 9, 10 April. Yarn/Wire is a New York City–based percussion and piano quartet (percussionists Russell Greenberg and Dustin Donahue, pianists Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer) that creates visceral, adventurous new music at the intersection of concert tradition and sonic experimentation. Since forming in 2005, the ensemble has becom

Sean Shibe’s album Vesper presents a collection of contemporary guitar works, including James Dillon's 12 Caprices , which Shibe premiered last year at Wigmore Hall. Recorded here for the first time, the album's miniatures explore the guitar’s expressive range in profoundly different ways: ritualistic and evocative in works by Harrison Birtwistle, elemental in Dillon, and allusive in Adès. Shibe’s interpretations reveal the instrument’s extraordinary colour, subtlety, and ca

Différance premiere with Anssi Karttunen and Olivier Latry On 10 November , Anssi Karttunen and Olivier Latry premiere George Lewis’ Différance for cello and organ at Helsinki’s Musiikkitalo. Written in memory of Kaija Saariaho who passed away in 2023, the work will be premiered on the hall’s organ which a significant donation from Saariaho helped bring into being. Nuances of Water with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Anna Berg’s new orchestral work, Nuances of Water , w

Tonia Ko’s Concertino for Scavengers has been shortlisted to represent Britain at the 2026 ISCM World New Music Days Festival in Bucharest. Members of the ISCM British Section Board submitted six composers to be considered for the 2026 festival, one of which will be selected for performance at in Romania in May. The piece, written for cellist Louise McMonagle, situates the cello in a ‘mini-concerto’, where the orchestra lives within the electronics part and is reactive to he