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Composer focus: Julian Anderson on the dance stage

Luminous, athletic, diaphanous music has energised Rambert and The Royal Ballet

Repertoire Focus: Sculthorpe’s Rites of Passage at 50

Defining Australian dance work for theatre reaches half century

Greenwood choreographed for Royal Danish Ballet by Carling Talcott-Steenstra

Music for strings appears as part of company's choreographic laboratory Koreorama no.2

Northern Ballet tour Davis’ A Christmas Carol

Festive favourite choreographed by Massimo Morricone receives latest revival

Crystal Pite’s Lauridsen choreography takes the stage at Sadler’s Wells and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with the National Ballet of Canada

Iconic motet O Magnum Mysterium appears as part of Angels' Atlas

William Yong’s Britten choreography to appear at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with National Ballet of Canada

UtopiVerse takes up Britten's music for string quartet for multidisciplinary work

A holistic approach to the Piano Performance Music Exam for early grades

Author and teacher Karen Marshall shares tips for maintaining aural, sight-reading and technical work alongside preparing for piano performance exams.

Ask the author: Pam Wedgwood

Pam Wedgwood is one of the UK’s most established educational composers, recently winning the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Art of Piano Education Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2024. We caught up with her recently to ask a few questions submitted by our Faber Music Teachers’ Community.

Thomas Adès receives RPS Gold Medal

Sir Simon Rattle presents Royal Philharmonic Society award to composer live onstage at BBC Proms

Staying sharp: why music teachers should never stop learning

Mark Wilson and Paul Wood, creators of Stringtastic, share some of the benefits of exploring new resources as a teacher.

Back to Basics

An introduction to the Faber Music 'Basics' series, by Paul Harris.

Critics praise UK premiere of Coll’s Cello Concerto at BBC Proms from Sol Gabetta

Acclaim for performance from BBC Symphony Orchestra and Tianyi Lu - as well as a new encore for Gabetta

Leith curates orchestral portrait concert with Philharmonia at Bold Tendencies

Naomi Woo conducts Oliver Leith: Written in Swamp and Gold, showcasing Cartoon Sun, Honey Siren, and Pearly, woody, goldy, bloody, or, Abundance

Rasch’s Die wunderbaren Jahre to premiere at Theater Regensburg

Portrait of life in former East Germany for 3 singers, narrator, and chamber ensemble after writings by Reiner Kunze

Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral to premiere Hess’ The Spark of Life

Andrew Carwood premieres work for choir and organ commissioned by Royal Humane Society

Ryan Bancroft conducts Hillborg’s Sound Atlas in Stockholm, Helsinki, and Los Angeles

Performances include Finnish and US premieres of 20-minute work

Davis’ The Adventurer and The Immigrant tour Catalonia

Orquestra Simfònica Julià Carbonell de les Terres de Lleida perform scores for Chaplin Mutuals

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Sigurðsson’s No Nights Dark Enough and For Love of Her (do but kill me) at the Concertgebouw

October performance includes Netherlands premiere of For Love of Her (do but kill me) with Jodie Landau and Dima Slobodeniouk

George Benjamin conducts Swiss premiere of Concerto for Orchestra at Lucerne Festival

Festival performance follows Portuguese and Spanish premieres in April and June 2024

Simon Rattle and BRSO give UK premiere of Adès’ Aquifer at the BBC Proms

Irish and Finnish premieres to follow in autumn 2024

Critics celebrate Miller’s I cannot love without trembling at the BBC Proms

Lawrence Power and BBC Philharmonic give acclaimed London debut of 25-minute work

Queensland Symphony Orchestra and William Barton perform Sculthorpe’s Kakadu

1988 orchestral work performed with celebrated dijeridu player

Brand’s Blackmail receives Macedonian premiere at Silent and Classical Film Festival

Score for Hitchcock classic performed by musicians from Fame's Institute

Han-Na Chang and Vancouver Symphony perform Davies’ Plumes

5-minute work for chamber orchestra performed in November