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