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A new cantata by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon for young women seeking to find their way in the world.
The UK premiere production of André Tchaikowsky’s opera opens at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre tonight
André Tchaikowsky’s award-winning opera receives its UK premiere at Welsh National Opera, followed by a screening of “Rebel of the Keys”, a fascinating new documentary about the composer
Today is the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth. Find out more about our Dahl musical works that you could be performing!
Lyrita Recorded Edition has taken the bold step to release a number of important recordings, this two-disc set by Wilfred Josephs being one of them.
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough talks about his poetic work for cello and orchestra
Two recent CDs on the Hyperion label have brought the compositional skills of Stephen Hough to the listening public. The…
Paul Patterson’s Gloria Op. 21 is one of the seven winning contemporary British choral works
Paul Patterson’s “Fantasia for Harp and String Quartet” will receive its UK premiere this weekend at London’s Wigmore Hall
The orchestral version of Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis received performances by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the direction…
Vocal and orchestral music for the individual songs from Into the Woods is available to hire now from the Concert Library
The Paul Patterson themed evening at this year’s Park Lane Group Young Artists series has won warm praise from the critics
The Galliard Ensemble will be performing the musical version of the Roald Dahl tale at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall this weekend
Wednesday 7th January is “Paul Patterson Day”, including a masterclass and concert, as part of the Park Lane Group’s Young Artists Series at London’s Southbank Centre.
The start of a new year often invites both reflection and celebration.
On Saturday, 3 January 2015, BBC Radio…
Kálmán’s final operetta, Arizona Lady, is being performed in concert this Christmas at the Komische Oper Berlin.
Internationally-renowned opera and recording stars Anna Netrebko and Juan Diego Flórez will star in Emmerich Kálmán’s perenially popular “Die Csárdásfürstin” for this year’s New Year’s Eve concert by the Staatskapelle Dresden
“David Ellis: Concert Music” is a new retrospective of the composer’s work, released on 3rd November
Paul Patterson’s “Armistice - Reflection and Hope” will be performed as part of the museum’s “After the Silence: Music in the Shadow of War” event
Colin Baker is the narrator of Paul Patterson’s Little Red Riding Hood Songbook this weekend at the Wycombe Arts Festival
As both a pianist and composer, Stephen Hough doesn’t fail to deliver… His latest disc for Hyperion is titled “In…
RNCM postgraduate conductor Daniel Parkinson and students from the School of Strings have teamed up with British pianist and Junior…
The International Opera Awards 2014 were held in London on the 7th of April and the aim of the awards…
Stephen Hough’s Sonata for Cello and Piano (left-hand) receives its first US performance in San Francisco on April 13th
The orchestral version of Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis has now had two performances in the US. The first in April…
More than ten years since the project was first mooted (albeit with a different conductor and record label), a recording…
Darling of the operatic stage, Piotr Beczala, is one of todays artists who is putting a real focus on operetta…
This Saturday (1st February), BBC Radio Three’s Music Matters programme features the Polish composer and pianist André Tchaikowsky, who is…
Over the last few months, André Tchaikowsky - both the man and his music - has received quite a bit…
Critic and commentator Norman Lebrecht describes ‘André Tchaikowsky - Volume One: Music for Piano’ as “like nothing you’ve ever heard before”
The 60th birthday of film composer Patrick Doyle was celebrated with a gala concert at the Barbican on Sunday 1st December
Kurt Weill’s largely forgotten Broadway operetta is in repertory at the Staatsoperette Dresden until May 2014
André Tchaikowsky (1935 - 1982) has enjoyed something of a mini revival in the past few months with the posthumous…
October 30th marks the 60th anniveraary of the death of Emmerich Kálmán, the composer who wrote many celebrated operettas, including The Gipsy Princess and Countess Maritza
A celebration of the late composer will take place on November 1st, to coincide with the publication a new biography
An outstanding disc of glorious music, superbly played and recorded.
A Night in Vienna, our first ever full-length operetta concert evening, is now available to hire!
Vespas, gelato sellers, brass bands, a children’s chorus, religious processions and an orgy… justwhat everyone needs in an opera!
It…
A complete catalogue of hire works, works on sale and unpublished works by André Tchaikowsky is available for the first time. Download a PDF copy now!
Today sees the world premiere of André Tchaikowsky’s The Merchant of Venice at the Bregenzer Festspiele.
The American Journal,…
Tonight, ORF3 will be broadcasting the world premiere of Tchaikowsky’s opera, The Merchant of Venice…
If you have the possibility…
Christopher Webber has written an excellent article for Opera Magazine examining the operas of Malcolm Williamson and asking, when they…
David Pountney decision to stage André Tchaikowsky’s The Merchant of Venice at this year’s Bregenz Festival has sparked a lot…
The great Hungarian cellist, who gave the first performance of Ernst von Dohnanyi’s Konzertstuck für violoncello und orchestra, died on 28th April.
Kyrie 4th July 2013 London Oriana Choir/John Drummond St John’s, Smith Square, London
Three Little…
A work that is slowly making its way in to the repertoire of viola players, Bowen’s wonderfully lush concerto from…
Malcolm Williamson’s Concerto for Two Pianos and String Orchestra is a work that doesn’t often get an airing but in…
The American Journal, Opera news, has a spotlight feature about the premiere of Andre Tchaikowsky’s opera The Merchant of Venice…
Sir Colin Davis, whose contribution to the musical world went well beyond being a conductor, died yesterday at the age…
Paul Patterson’s string works have had a good number of performances over the years, gaining a place in the repertoire…
The European premiere of the orchestral version of Hough’s Missa Mirabilis was given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus…
Josef Weinberger Limited is saddened to report of the death of Larry Ashmore, who suffered a stroke on Monday 4th…
In advance of his Carnegie Hall recital, Michael White of the New York Times spoke to Stephen Hough about his…
Below is a list of forthcoming pferformances of work by Paul Patterson, including the premiere of his new Serenade for…
Natalia Markarova’s glorious production of this perennial favourite makes a welcome return to the Royal Opera House in April and…
The premiere of the orchestral version of Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis was given by the Indianapolis Symphony and Indianapolis Symphonic…
Yvonne Kálmán, the daughter of Emmerich Kálmán, has been spreading the word of her father’s music far and wide. Recently,…
The Australian Ballet’s Icons programme is in its final week of the Sydney run at the Sydney Opera House. Part…
One of the greatest musical figures in the operetta world Emmerich Kálmán, is to receive a week-long celebration for the 130th anniversary of his birth.
The first performance at Brangwyn Hall in Swansea has received a fantastic review in the Guardian… the reviewer was Rian…
Paul Patterson’s organ repertoire has been championed by a number of player over the years, most recently by Michael Bonaventure,…
Pianist, composer, artist, writer, hat and cake-lover, Stephen Hough, gives the premiere of his Piano Sonata No. 2 (notturno luminoso)…
Stephen Hough’s evocative song cycle received a performance by The Prince Consort at this year’s Cheltenham Festival las week… another…
Paul Patterson has had a very varied career to date: former trombonist, tutor in Sibelius, workshop leader, competition adjudicator and,…
Paul Patterson’s double concerto, Allusions, is featured in the closing programme of this year’s Presteigne Festival.
The Retorica Violin Duo…
In this interview with Alisdair Hogarth of The Prince Consort (for whom the Other Love Songs cycle was written), Stephen…
The Teatro Communale of Bologna will give the premiere of the Mahler Retuschen of Schubert’s Symphony Nr.9 (ed. David Pickett)
In this performance at the Two Rivers Festival, the Orchestra of the Swan under its guest conductor, Kenneth Woods, will…
Paul Patterson has regularly been commissioned to write works for important performers and ensembles and over the last few years,…
Paul Patterson’s relationship with this innovative festival in England’s south east has been a long one and in the 2012…
The award-winning company, Ballet Cymru, presents an extraordinary vision. Two stories from the mind of the most popular storyteller in…
In its ICONS programme, opening on 30th August, the Australian Ballet performs three cornerstone ballets from the sixties, seventies and…
World premiere performances by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on April 6th and 7th
Paul Patterson’s Magnificat to be performed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Broekn Branches is a collection of compositions by Stephen Hough, released to coincide with his 50th birthday
The two-piano version of York Bowen’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is reviewed in this month’s International Piano Magazine
Paul Patterson’s Phoenix Concerto for Oboe is recorded for the first time by Emily Pailthorpe and the English Chamber Orchestra
Don’t go Christmas crackers - get your Christmas concert sorted today!
Stephen Hough’s Wigmore Hall recital on June 11th will feature the world premiere of his Sonata for Piano (broken branches)
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of pianist Paul Wittgenstein’s death, the original left-hand arrangements of these Quintets have now been restored.
A brand new recording of Paul Patteron’s Violin, Viola and Cello concertos is now available on Dutton Records