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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.

A Tom Coult premiere opens the festival, with works by Hillborg, Adès and Coll also featured.

We are delighted to announce the signing of a new exclusive publishing agreement with UK composer, Martin Ward

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

Dan Jones has scored Channel 4’s new four-part dramatization of William Boyd’s best-selling novel, which commences transmission on Sunday November 21st at 9pm.

Long-awaited premiere of Matthews’s Ninth Symphony was chosen by The Spectator as a musical highlight of 2018.

The Nash Ensemble premiered a Colin Matthews composition as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations on 16 March in London’s Purcell Room.

Royal Albert Hall sees performances of Thomas Adès, Danny Elfman, Jessica Curry, and Simon Parkin

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.

Stunning reviews from the 2009 tour.

Howard Goodall's latest choral piece, "A new heart, a new spirit has been commissioned for the four choirs of Truro Cathedral and will be the first time all four choirs have sung together.

Colin Matthews's A Voice to Wake has been nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award, one of the 2005 British Composer Awards.

The unusual inspirations of science fiction, and the physical properties of light, inform Light is both a particle and a wave, a 20-minute chamber work by Matthew Hindson commissioned for the Australia Ensemble.

Julian Anderson’s residency at the Wigmore Hall begins on 2 November with his composer day.

And the stones sing is a 14-minute choral/orchestral commission from the Presteigne Festival, to be premiered there on 28 August 2010.

Julian Anderson was the recipient of an LPO commission to write a short Fanfare to welcome HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s arrival at the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society convocation at the Royal Festival Hall on 23 June.

Enter our competition on Twitter to be in with a chance of winning one of five signed copies of the official Half a Sixpence songbook!

Faber Music congratulates Dame Evelyn Glennnie, who was made a Companion of Honour in the Near Year’s Honours list.

Jonny Greenwood's 2019 violin concerto 'Horror vacui' has won the Large Orchestral category at The Ivors Composer Awards

Jonathan Harvey’s visionary work 'Weltethos' will be performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 7 October.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum features Anderson’s ensemble work 'The Comedy of Change' in their new music series ‘CONTACT!’ which “connects audiences with some of the most interesting, innovative, and engaging music of our time”.

Andrew Clark talks to Julian Anderson about what guided the composition of the work.

Cantos and the Concerto Grosso both premiere in April

Jonathan Harvey’s visionary work 'Weltethos' will be performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 7 October.