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- Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin
(24 April 2008)[→ Go to Jean Sibelius’s page] - Lost Bach composition found back
(22 April 2008)[→ Go to Johann Sebastian Bach’s page] - Lloyd-Webber gets Outstanding Achievement Award
(9 April 2008)[→ Go to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s page] - Pulitzer Prize for David Lang
(8 April 2008)[→ Go to David Lang’s page] - Dutilleux receives prestigeous award
(4 April 2008)[→ Go to Henri Dutilleux’s page] - Harlap to receive “Life Achievement Award”
(20 March 2008)[→ Go to Aharon Harlap’s page] - Oil painting found to represent Mozart
(18 March 2008)[→ Go to Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart’s page] - Welsh composer Alan Hoddinott dies
(13 March 2008)[→ Go to Alun Hoddinott’s page] - Lachert Foundation launches website
(25 February 2008)[→ Go to Piotr de Peslin Lachert’s page] - French Legion of Honour for Zygmunt Krauze
(5 February 2008)[→ Go to Zygmunt Krauze’s page] - Schickele “discovers” new PDQ Bach music
(29 January 2008)[→ Go to P.D.Q. Bach’s page][→ Go to Peter Schickele’s page] - Wolf Prize for Kancheli and Claudio Abbado
(22 January 2008)[→ Go to Giya Kancheli’s page] - 2008 choral composition competition
(16 January 2008)[→ Go to Anonymous’s page] - Cardiff Honorary fellowship for Górecki
(16 January 2008)[→ Go to Henryk Górecki’s page] - BBC British Composer Award for Welsh composer
(21 December 2007)[→ Go to Guto Pryderi Puw’s page] - Peter Wallin completes his Music Manifesto
(20 December 2007)[→ Go to Peter Wallin’s page] - Composer Musheng Chen won composition prize of Tarragona city
(20 December 2007)[→ Go to Musheng Chen’s page] - Karlheinz Stockhausen dies
(7 December 2007)[→ Go to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s page] - One page of Mozart sold for £110,900
(5 December 2007)[→ Go to Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart’s page] - Composer of the Year award for Kaija Saariaho
(16 November 2007)[→ Go to Kaija Saariaho’s page] - Czech composer Petr Eben dies in Prague
(26 October 2007)[→ Go to Petr Eben’s page] - New Balfe biography published
(17 October 2007)[→ Go to Michael William Balfe’s page] - Call for Works for the 60x60 project
(9 October 2007)[→ Go to Anonymous’s page] - Wife of Isang Yun visits Korea after 40 years
(11 September 2007)[→ Go to Isang Yun’s page] - English composer Graham Whettam dies
(23 August 2007)[→ Go to Graham Whettam’s page] - Dai Fujikura wins Hindemith Prize for composition
(17 August 2007)[→ Go to Dai Fujikura’s page] - Tikhon Khrennikov dies at 94
(16 August 2007)[→ Go to Tikhon Nikolaievich Khrennikov’s page] - Third prize for Mahlon Berv in Connecticut
(2 August 2007)[→ Go to Mahlon Berv’s page] - Brinch piano works CD released
(24 July 2007)[→ Go to Gregers Brinch’s page] - Sackler Composition Prize for Sheila Silver
(23 July 2007)[→ Go to Sheila Silver’s page] - Video interview with Christopher Rouse
(20 July 2007)[→ Go to Christopher Rouse’s page] - Golijov Professor in Loyola
(11 July 2007)[→ Go to Osvaldo Golijov’s page] - Miklós Rózsa CD to be released soon
(4 July 2007)[→ Go to Miklós Rózsa’s page] - “Made in America” Commission for Joseph Schwantner
(27 June 2007)[→ Go to Joseph Schwantner’s page] - Classical Brit Awards won by Sir Paul
(7 May 2007)[→ Go to Sir Paul McCartney’s page] - New soundtrack completed by William Camilleri
(1 May 2007)[→ Go to William Camilleri’s page] - David Froom Distinguished Composer of the Year
(18 April 2007)[→ Go to David Froom’s page] - Mahlon Berv finalist in the ASCAP competition
(16 April 2007)[→ Go to Mahlon Berv’s page] - Tehran Conservatory honors Kodály
(11 April 2007)[→ Go to Zoltán Kodály’s page] - 12 new CDs by Jasun Martz
(27 March 2007)[→ Go to Jasun Martz’s page] - Isang Yun’s home in Berlin to become memorial
(19 March 2007)[→ Go to Isang Yun’s page] - Composer John Thow dies at 57
(14 March 2007)[→ Go to John Thow’s page] - Junior composer Mahlon Berv wins competition
(9 March 2007)[→ Go to Mahlon Berv’s page] - John Cage Trust moves to Bard College
(7 March 2007)[→ Go to John Cage’s page] - Danish prize for Arvo Pärt
(28 February 2007)[→ Go to Arvo Pärt’s page] - Penderecki to compose Olympic music
(13 February 2007)[→ Go to Krzysztof Penderecki’s page] - Louis Andriessen scores go to Switzerland
(6 February 2007)[→ Go to Louis Andriessen’s page] - Prestigious prize for Ferneyhough
(4 February 2007)[→ Go to Brian Ferneyhough’s page] - Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95 in Monaco
(2 February 2007)[→ Go to Gian Carlo Menotti’s page] - Polar Music Prize 2007 for Steve Reich
(26 January 2007)[→ Go to Steve Reich’s page] - Cardiff University School of Music appoints Judith Weir
(24 January 2007)[→ Go to Judith Weir’s page] - First Messiaen prize for Ramon Humet
(15 January 2007)[→ Go to Ramon Humet’s page][→ Go to Olivier Messiaen’s page] - Composition by young Mozart found
(28 December 2006)[→ Go to Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart’s page] - Ustvolskaya (87) dies in Saint Petersburg
(27 December 2006)[→ Go to Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya’s page] - US gives $24,000 to produce encyclopedia of Albania's iso-polyphony
(20 December 2006)[→ Go to Vasil Tole’s page] - All Mozart scores for free
(18 December 2006)[→ Go to Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart’s page] - An Oscar at last for Ennio Morricone
(18 December 2006)[→ Go to Ennio Morricone’s page] - $225,000 Charles Ives Living awarded to George Tsontakis
(12 December 2006)[→ Go to William Bolcom’s page][→ Go to Martin Bresnick’s page][→ Go to Stephen Hartke’s page][→ Go to Charles Ives’s page][→ Go to George Tsontakis’s page] - National Medal of Arts 2006 for Bolcom
(9 November 2006)[→ Go to William Bolcom’s page] - Becca Lloyd resident composer at “World Wide Audio Inc”
(9 November 2006)[→ Go to Rebecca Lloyd’s page] - Robin Toan wins Edwin Carr Scholarship
(7 November 2006)[→ Go to Robin Toan’s page] - Prokofiev diaries published for first time
(3 November 2006)[→ Go to Sergey Prokofiev’s page] - Monument for Khachaturian in Moscow
(1 November 2006)[→ Go to Aram Ilyich Khachaturian’s page] - Just published: A Composer's Notes: Remembering Miklós Rózsa
(19 October 2006)[→ Go to Miklós Rózsa’s page] - Karl Jenkins releases CD with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
(11 October 2006)[→ Go to Karl Jenkins’s page] - Moritz Eggert is composer in residence in Bochum, Germany
(7 October 2006)[→ Go to Moritz Eggert’s page] - Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in Norfolk, England
(25 September 2006)[→ Go to Malcolm Arnold’s page] - MacArthur Fellowship 2006 for John Zorn
(20 September 2006)[→ Go to John Zorn’s page] - Steve Reich wins award in Japan
(8 September 2006)[→ Go to Steve Reich’s page] - BCC programs complete Tchaikovsky
(7 September 2006)[→ Go to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s page] - Earliest Bach manuscript discovered
(4 September 2006)[→ Go to Johann Sebastian Bach’s page][→ Go to Dietrich Buxtehude’s page][→ Go to Jan Adams (Johann Adam) Reinken’s page] - Salzburg Festival finale without Stockhausen
(31 August 2006)[→ Go to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s page] - James Tenney, American composer, is dead
(30 August 2006)[→ Go to James Tenney’s page] - Canadian composer John Weinzweig dies at 93
(26 August 2006)[→ Go to John Weinzweig’s page] - Prestigious European award for Magnar Åm
(25 August 2006)[→ Go to Magnar Åm’s page] - Photograph from 1840 shows Mozart's widow
(7 July 2006)[→ Go to Max Keller’s page][→ Go to Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart’s page] - Marlos Nobre is awarded VI Tomas Luis de Victoria Prize
(26 June 2006)[→ Go to Béla Bartók’s page][→ Go to Marlos Nobre de Almeida’s page][→ Go to Tomás Luis de Victoria’s page] - Peter Coukis completes new keyboard work
(24 June 2006)[→ Go to Peter Coukis’s page] - György Sándor Ligeti dies in Vienna
(12 June 2006)[→ Go to György Sándor Ligeti’s page] - Documentary with music by Susman wins prize
(12 June 2006)[→ Go to William Susman’s page] - Soccer World Cup music composed by Moritz Eggert
(29 May 2006)[→ Go to Moritz Eggert’s page] - ASCAP honors Philip Glass
(26 May 2006)[→ Go to Philip Glass’s page] - Manuscript of Shostakovich violin concerto brings double the estimate
(24 May 2006)[→ Go to Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich’s page] - Inaugural meeting of the first Joseph Marx Society
(3 May 2006)[→ Go to Alban Berg’s page][→ Go to Friedrich Cerha’s page][→ Go to Joseph Marx’s page][→ Go to Kurt Schwertsik’s page] - Scott Joplin memorial concert in New York
(3 May 2006)[→ Go to Scott Joplin’s page] - Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" no. 6 completed
(28 April 2006)[→ Go to Edward Elgar’s page] - Wyner's piano concerto won Pulitzer Prize
(27 April 2006)[→ Go to Yehudi Wyner’s page] - Matthys is Laureate in competition contest
(27 April 2006)[→ Go to Marc Achille Matthys’s page] - Nemmers Composition Prize for Oliver Knussen
(25 April 2006)[→ Go to John Adams’s page][→ Go to Oliver Knussen’s page] - Prestigious American award for Ptaszynska
(24 April 2006)[→ Go to Marta Ptaszynska’s page] - New Live Album & DVD for Rae Howell
(18 April 2006)[→ Go to Rae Howell’s page] - Gunther Schuller receives A.I. du Pont Composers Award
(3 April 2006)[→ Go to Gunther Schuller’s page] - Pessina's Concertango released by Naxos
(29 March 2006)[→ Go to Salvatore Messina’s page][→ Go to Paolo Pessina’s page][→ Go to Nino Rota’s page] - New recording of Violin Concerto by Sprague
(27 March 2006)[→ Go to Frank Lee Sprague’s page] - New Giuliani recording coming soon
(27 March 2006)[→ Go to Mauro Giuliani’s page] - Vasil Tole publishes new book
(24 March 2006)[→ Go to Vasil Tole’s page] - John Williams is Film Composer of the Year
(9 March 2006)[→ Go to John (Towner) Williams’s page] - Britten composition discovered after 69 years
(1 March 2006)[→ Go to Benjamin Britten’s page] - Honorary degree for Penderecki at Münster University
(23 February 2006)[→ Go to Krzysztof Penderecki’s page] - Robert Kramer works together with Frank Zappa vocalist
(21 February 2006)[→ Go to Robert Kramer’s page][→ Go to Frank Zappa’s page]
Last update: May 2008
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