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Packed with a round up of major premieres, the most important events in the coming season and the latest contemporary music news from around the world. Read more

It is with deep sadness that Faber Music announces the death of Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. Read more

Throughout his long career, Sculthorpe has been a prolific composer of string quartets, and also a composer very much concerned with current affairs. Read more

Peter Sculthorpe has recieved a prestigious Art Music Award for 'Distinguished Services to Australian Music'. Read more

The City of London Festival explores the music of Sculthorpe as part of its South Pacific theme. Read more

Peter Sculthorpe has received the rare and prestigious honour of being made Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Católica by H.M. the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I. Read more

The Times’ 31 December issue identified important arts events for 2011. Richard Morrison flagged up the City of London Festival’s Australian focus and suggested the highlight to be the London premiere of Peter Sculthorpe’s Requiem, with didgeridoo, in Southwark Cathedral on 4 July. Read more

Peter Sculthorpe has made an eloquent plea for action on climate change, writes Steve Meacham in Australian newspaper The Age. Read more

A trip to the UK beckoned when Sculthorpe’s latest String Quartet (No 18) from his extensive anthology was performed by the Toyko Quartet at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Read more

Peter Sculthorpe’s much-lauded Requiem for didjeridu, SATB chorus and orchestra is to be performed by three different Australian groups in April 2005. Read more

Naxos Records have released a new disc of music by Peter Sculthorpe. Featuring many of his finest orchestral works, the recording was Disc of the Week in London’s Evening Standard in December 2004, and Disc of the Month in Naxos UK’s December newsletter. It is already attracting glowing praise elsewhere: Read more

In this, his 75th birthday year, Peter Sculthorpe has recently completed a major new Requiem for SATB chorus, orchestra and solo didjeridu. It has been jointly commissioned by the Adelaide and Lichfield Festivals, and following its recent Adelaide Festival premiere on 3 March it will soon be given its European premiere at the Lichfield Festival on 12 July in the presence of the composer. Read more