Faber Music CEO Richard King was this week re-elected to the PRS Board as a Publishing Director. PRS for Music represents the rights of songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK and around the world. Read more

We are creating a new Systems Administrator/Developer role in our Harlow-based IT Department. Read more

A new chapter for the superstar pianist and educator... Lang Lang releases his latest publication 'Lang Lang Piano Book'. Read more

Faber Music Distribution is delighted to announce that, from 1st October 2018, it will be the exclusive, worldwide distributor for Trinity College London Press. Read more

London Sinfonietta stage ambitious project in vast warehouse space with Mark Padmore and Elaine Mitchener Read more

Faber Music composers Alexander L'Estrange, Heather Hammond & Karen Marshall win at the Music Teacher Awards 2018. Read more

Faber Music becomes the exclusive distributor of the entire Jamey Aebersold Jazz catalogue for the UK and Europe. Read more

The prestigious award will be presented at Wigmore Hall's Adès day on Saturday 25 March. Read more

Simon Dobson’s Journey of the Lone Wolf is selected as the 2016 Championship set piece for the finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. Read more

A critically acclaimed new release from Sony Classics Read more

The three-year position will see the premiere of a new Piano Concerto Read more

Lang Lang releases his brand new piano series for the beginner - The Lang Lang Piano Method. Read more

Superstar concert pianist Lang Lang’s pioneering digital learning experience for a new generation of players. Read more

Faber Music celebrates Dame Fanny Waterman’s fundamental and vast contribution to music education with the release of her autobiography. Read more

Faber Music is delighted to announce that composer Kenneth Hesketh’s colourful work for brass band The Alchymist’s Journal has been selected by the Music Panel of Kapitol Music Promotions as a test piece for the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain (First Section). Read more

As of 1 April 2015, Faber Music Ltd administers licensing rights in Warner Chappell's catalogue of stage musicals, including the perennial classic Bugsy Malone. We also administer hire rights in the Warner Chappell concert music catalogue for most territories excluding North America. Read more

Faber Music Ltd is delighted to announce a partnership with Warner Chappell Music (WCM) to represent their catalogue of stage musicals for most of the world outside North America. The catalogue includes the perennial classic Bugsy Malone. We will also be administering hire rights in the Warner Chappell concert music catalogue for all territories excluding North America and Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Read more

Faber Music composer Simon Dobson has won his second British Composer Award in the Wind or Brass Band category with Journey of the Lone Wolf for Brass Band and Percussion. Read more

EPTA UK is delighted to present a day devoted to the new piano exams of Trinity College London and the ABRSM, held at Faber Music's central London offices. Read more

Faber Music are delighted that two of its composers, Thomas Adès and Simon Dobson, have both been shortlisted for the 2014 British Composer Awards. The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) have today announced the 35 works shortlisted for the awards Read more

From the world’s most successful concert pianist comes the Lang Lang Piano Academy: mastering the piano, Levels 1-5 Read more

Marion Thorpe CBE – concert pianist, co-founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition and co-author with Dame Fanny Waterman of the best-selling piano methods Piano Lessons 1, 2 and 3 and Me and My Piano – has died aged 87. Read more

Faber operas have featured prominently in the press’ round-up of the best classical performances of 2013 and 2014. Read more

Faber Music is delighted that three of its composers, George Benjamin, Colin Matthews and Matthew Martin, were honoured at this year's British Composer Awards. Read more

Faber Music is delighted that four of its composers have been shortlisted for the 2013 British Composer Awards. Read more

Places are still available for our latest Media Music Academy course – devoted to composing for film, drama and animation – which starts on 6th November. Led by Chris Smith with contributions from an extraordinary range of specialists, this part-time course takes place over five weeks on Wednesday evenings, at Bloomsbury House. Read more

Three Faber composers have made the Evening Standard’s Power 1000 list of London's most influential people 2013. Read more

In our drive to develop and adapt to the ever-changing printed music market, we are searching for a new Sales Development Executive. Read more

Congratulations to St. Michael's Church Sutton Court in Chiswick, winners of Faber Music's choral prize 2013 Read more

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative marketing and design intern for the Summer 2013. Read more

We are devastated to announce the sudden death of our Business Development Director, David Bobby, a hugely respected colleague and dear friend, both within the company and across the entire print publishing industry. Read more

The 2013 BBC Proms are under way, and with a bumper crop of contemporary music and 7 premieres by Faber composers, it is sure to be one of the most exciting seasons yet. Read more

With 10 Faber composers featuring in the Julliard's festival of British Music Since World War II, their place at the heart of Britain’s thriving contemporary music scene is very much confirmed. Read more

Celebrated composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall releases his eagerly anticpated fifth CD with Classic FM: Howard Goodall Inspired and Faber Music is proud to announce the publication of the album-matching songbook in late January. Read more

Our new dance sampler CD "RhythMovement 4" is now available Read more

Dutch press priase the 'wonderous beauty' of George Benjamin's 'Written on Skin' at its Amsterdam premiere. Read more

We are delighted to announce the most wide-ranging and ambitious of our Media Music Academy courses to date, led by renowned media composer Chris Smith. Read more

Faber Music and Save The Children launch a special singing fundraising campaign this Christmas. Read more

Faber Music appoints David Bobby as its Business Development Director. Read more

There have been plenty of ‘flourishes’ and ‘fireworks’ as Oliver Knussen’s 60th birthday celebrations continue. Read more

We are looking to recruit a Business Development Director to direct Faber Music's sales and distribution strategy. Please click here for more information regarding this exciting position. Read more

Faber Music Ltd is pleased to announce that it is the exclusive distributor in the UK and Eire for Mohammed Fairouz, an exciting new signing for Peermusic Classical (New York). Read more

Faber is offering a rare opportunity for a talented systems/web developer to join our Digital Operations team. Click here for more details. Read more

National newspapers have highlighted Faber composers’ events in the annual round-up of ‘must-hear’ concerts. Read more

What better way to begin the New Year than with some of the leading figures in the contemporary music world. On 9th January the Park Lane Group will showcase three Faber composers – Thomas Adès, Francisco Coll and David Matthews – in an evening exploring composer connections and inspirations. Read more

Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical, 'Cats', is now available for performance for the first time to schools and colleges throughout the UK and Ireland. Read more

Following hot on the heels of its success at the 2011 BASCA awards, Julian Anderson’s mighty work Fantasias was given just the vigorously virtuosic performance it deserved. Read more

Jonathan Harvey's 'Weltethos', Torsten Rasch's 'Wouivres' and Colin Matthews's 'Grand Barcarolle' hit the world stage. Read more

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

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-96) was one of the most important composers to have emerged in the Soviet Union in the last century. Following its first ever staged performance in Bregenz in 2010, English National Opera are giving the UK premiere performances of his opera The Passenger. Read more

Following the success of last June’s Media Music Academy, we are delighted to announce our new course, aimed at composers who wish to enter the highly challenging but rewarding world of composing for television advertising. Read more

The final session of Faber's Media Music Academy took place on July 9th, marking the conclusion of this extremely successful course. Read more

Discover all the latest news and reviews in our latest edition of fortissimo! Read more

In July 2010 the BWA held the prestigeous Brit Writer's Awards for un-signed UK writers. The winning songs from the Adult and Under 16s Songwriter category are now available to download from the Faber Music Store. Read more

Faber Music is proud to launch this new and unique course for aspiring film and TV composers, to be held in late June/July 2011 at our Bloomsbury premises Read more

New Christmas repertoire for treble voices, for mixed choirs, for chorus and orchestra, and for just orchestra are all making their mark this year. These include Anthony Bolton's homage to Britten - 'A Garland of Carols', 'The Manchester Carols' a sequence by Carol Ann Duffy and Sasha Johnson Manning (now in versions for SATB, and SSA voices, with orchestra or chamber ensemble), plus other recent carols (from Vladimír Godár, Howard Goodall & Alexander L'Estrange). Read more

‘Everything is rhythm. That’s what music is to me. My rhythms are booming, dynamic, tactile, visual. I think in images that move dynamically.’ The words of Silvestre Revueltas, the Mexican composer whose epic La noche de los Mayas is now out on Deutsche Grammophon with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Coupled with The Rite of Spring it makes for a stunning experience. Read more

David Matthews's 'Symphony No 7' wins over critics at the world premiere performance at Manchester's Mahler Festival in 2010 Read more

We are incredibly excited to announce the imminent publication of Behind Bars by Faber's own Senior New Music Editor, Elaine Gould. One of the most painstakingly researched books on notation ever written, it has been a momentous project, 15 years in the making and is anticipated to become an indispensably authoritative guide to musical notation. Read more

Newly available are orchestral film and TV suites from Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck and twice Classical Brit-nominated Nigel Hess. Read more

Thomas Adès joined the likes of Andrea Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel on the glitzy red carpet in order to receive his award as ‘Composer of the Year’ for the EMI recording of his 2nd opera 'The Tempest', at this season’s televised awards ceremony. Read more

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the most prolific symphonists of the last century, writing 67 in total, many of them drawing on his Armenian heritage. 8 March 2011 sees the centenary of the US composer’s birth. The Peermusic catalogue includes some of his finest works. Read more

US composer Ingram Marshall is best-known for his Fog Tropes, heard on the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island”, but that’s just one of many of his haunting soundscapes that often allude to Sibelius, Indonesian gamelan music and electronic collage techniques. Now he’s coming to the UK, where he’s featured composer at the forthcoming ‘Minimal’ festival at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Halls. Read more

A Garland of Carols is a homage to Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. This charming set of carols includes a translation of the traditional Portuguese carol ‘Beijai o menino’, as well as original works such as Lanterns which evokes a barren winter landscape from which we are transported to a more mystical land in the middle section. Though originally written for trebles, the carols work equally well for female voices, and are suitable for being performed in totality, in smaller groups, or in Read more

We are delighted to announce a new publishing relationship with the UK composer Gabriel Prokofiev whose cutting-edge Concerto for Turntables & Orchestra is now available from us. Read more

Faber Music is sad to report the death of the renowned composer, editor and piano teacher Christine Brown, who has died of cancer at the age of 78. Read more

This premiere recording of The Tempest was released on EMI Classics on 15 June 2009. Read more

The tenth annual Classical BRIT Awards has honoured the British composer Howard Goodall has been awarded Composer of the Year at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards, in a glittering gala event held in London's Royal Albert Hall on 14 May. Read more

Dame Fanny Waterman DBE, co-founder, Chair and Artistic Director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, was presented with a Variety Club Lifetime Achievement Award at the 22nd Variety Club Children’s Charity Business Awards. 400 members of the business community supported the prestigious annual event, which was hosted at the Queens Hotel, Leeds on 12th December, and VIP guests included quadruple Olympic gold medalist Sir Matthew Pinsent OBE and the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Read more

Would you like to: Re-energise your teaching? Explore ideas and discuss teaching issues with one of the UK's leading educationalists? Have a more hands-on approach to training to complement your professional development? Share experiences with other colleagues in a relaxed environment, away from the hustle and bustle of the busy day? ..... and improve your teaching? What is is? Some of you may have attended a workshop, lecture or in-service training with the reknowned music ed Read more

Myth, Magic and Minibeasts is the intriguing title for an exciting day of children’s concerts taking place in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on June 10th. Tying in with both the National Year of Reading and Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture 2008 status, the project aims to introduce both literacy and classical music to 2500 local children of Key Stage 1 age. The concerts will be based on the Introducing Classical Music Through Stories book and CD series by children’s author, musician an Read more

The Government has announced a £40 million initiative to put singing at the heart of every primary school. The investment is part of a wider commitment to provide £332m to support music-making in schools over the next three years. ‘Sing Up’ is the Music Manifesto’s National Singing Programme, and aims to ensure that every primary-school aged child has the opportunity to experience high quality singing as part of their everyday lives in the school, the home and the wider community. The na Read more

Faber Music’s The Language of Song, selected and edited by Nicola-Jane Kemp and Heidi Pegler has won “Best Educational Publication” at the Music Industries Association Awards on October 10th at The Savoy. Singing in foreign languages can be a scary business; the problem of pronunciation and deciphering what the song is about can prove to be a challenge. Whilst the ability to do so is a much needed skill for singers, few vocal training resources tackle this aspect effectively in one book. To a Read more

A celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar who has been voted into the top three guitarists in the world by US magazine Guitar Player, Juan Martín is a native of Andalucía, where he still has a home in Málaga. He spends much time on tour and in London where he has formed an international company, Flamencovision, for the promotion of high quality flamenco which he rehearses and brings direct from Andalucía. He has recorded 14 albums, mostly as a composer and presently has 4 videos distributed b Read more

George Benjamin’s new orchestral Dance Figures has been premiered to much acclaim in Chicago by Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Read more

Steven Isserlis is to premiere Carl Vine’s new Cello Concerto in Sydney on 30 June this year. Commissioned by the Sydney SO it will be conducted by Czech maestro Jiri Bilohlavek in the concert hall of Sydney Opera House. There will be further performances on 2, 3 and 5 July. Read more