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LATEST HEADLINES		NEWS AND REVIEWS News George Benjamin at 50 Grammy nomination for Derek Bermel Tansy Davies receives Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award! Harvey wins Monaco prize for ‘Speakings’ Matthew Hindson's new ballet 'E=mc²' Gramophone Award for Howard Goodall Julian Anderson's 'The Comedy of Change' Jonathan Harvey: HCMF focus 2009 Nigel Hess: ‘A Christmas Overture’ plus other seasonal fare Praise for Derek Bermel's debut orchestral disc ‘Howard Goodall’s Enchanted Voices’ tops the charts Vladimír Godár – Slovak composer signs with Faber Music 'The Tempest' on disc British composer Nicholas Maw dies in Washington DC, 19 May 2009 Howard Goodall scoops Composer of the Year award at 2009 Classical BRITs ‘Into the Little Hill’ bestowed with RPS Award Goodall & Hess nominated for Classical BRIT Awards Newly released: Howard Goodall's Enchanted Voices Diapason d’Or for Benjamin’s ‘Into the Little Hill’ Benjamin’s ‘Into the Little Hill’ dazzles London audiences Salvatore Sciarrino recording earns the prestigious Diapason d’Or award New Colin Matthews disc receives rave reviews Nigel Hess: 'Ladies in Lavender' at Nobel Peace Prize Concert Zimbe! – African-inspired choral work by Alexander L’Estrange premieres Harvey: New work and Gaida Festival focus Acclaim for Goodall’s Eternal Light - on disc, and on stage Benjamin: World Premiere of 'Duet' at Lucerne Festival 2008 Harvey: world premiere of 'Speakings' at BBC Proms 2008 Thomas Adès: In Seven Days, a multi-media piano concerto 'Messages': Harvey choral/ orchestral premiere in Berlin 'Rotter' - Torsten Rasch opera premiered in Cologne Benjamin's opera in Europe & USA George Benjamin: Project San Francisco Matthew Hindson: ‘Dangerous Creatures’, orchestral suite for family concerts Alexander L’Estrange: ‘Zimbe!’ packs out English cathedrals 'The Manchester Carols' - a re-telling of the Christmas story to texts by Carol Ann Duffy Alexander L'Estrange: Zimbe! Come, sing the songs of Africa! Nigel Hess - new representation for concert works Howard Goodall's 'Eternal Light: A Requiem' on tour, on disc and in concert Reviews Malcolm Arnold: Ballet Music CD Carl Davis: 'Cyrano' on tour! Colin Matthews' 'violin concerto is a joy!' Adès's 'The Tempest' on disc (EMI) earns international acclaim Carl Vine: String Quintet (world premiere) John Woolrich: 'Falling Down' (world premiere) Stan Tracey BBC Proms debut 2009 The Tempest (CD) Harvey - Complete String Quartets & Trio (CD) David Matthews: Chandos disc Debussy orch. Colin Matthews (CD) Colin Matthews: 'Sensorium' at the Royal Opera House NYO perform works by Benjamin and Adès Anderson, Matthews and Benjamin: Nash Inventions John Woolrich: Between the Hammer and the Anvil (world premiere) Gustav Holst: The Lure (CD) John Woolrich and David Matthews: PLG Young Artists Series Thomas Adès: Chamber Symphony (CD) George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill, Sometime Voices, Dance Figures (CD) George Benjamin: Duet (world premiere) at the Lucerne Festival Thomas Adès: Tevot at the BBC Proms 2008 George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon at the BBC Proms 2008 John Woolrich: Violin Concerto (world premiere) George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill (UK premiere) Thomas Adès: In Seven Days (world premiere) Knussen & Benjamin: Barbican Hall, London, UK Matthew Hindson/William Barton: Kalkadungu (world premiere) Jonny Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver (US premiere) Oliver Knussen: Symphony No. 3 (San Francisco SO & Tilson Thomas) Sculthorpe and Vine: Huntington Estate Music Festival, Australia
Hindson ballet scoops South Bank Award The David Bintley ballet E=mc2 (to a commissioned orchestral score by Matthew Hindson) has won the prestigious South Bank Show Award at a ceremony held Enchanted Carols: Howard Goodall new choral release Newly out is Howard Goodall's Enchanted Carols, a seasonal follow-up to the enormously popular Enchanted Voices, still riding high in the charts some nine months after Julian Anderson's 'Fantasias' at Severance Hall The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Nott, performed the world premiere of Julian Anderson's Fantasias on 19 November, a commission supported by the Young Composers George Benjamin at 50 2010 celebrates George Benjamin, who will turn fifty on 31 January.  His standing in the international community will be well reflected throughout the year with	Grammy nomination for Derek Bermel US composer Derek Bermel has been nominated for a Grammy Award. This is in the category Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra). The nomination is for Tansy Davies receives Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award! On Monday 9 November Tansy Davies received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for composition.  These generously funded awards (now in their 16th year), are designed to Harvey wins Monaco prize for ‘Speakings’ Magnificent news for Jonathan Harvey in his 70th year, when on 15 October he became only the 3rd British composer to win the Prince Pierre Matthew Hindson's new ballet 'E=mc²' Birmingham Royal Ballet have recently unveiled David Bintley’s latest dance-work, a 35-minute, four-movement ballet, inspired by Einstein’s ‘Theory of Relativity’, and set to a commissioned

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