Elbphilharmonie Hamburg's VISIONS Festival and the ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart host a series of exciting world- and national premieres by prominent contemporary composers, including recent prize-winners Alex Paxton and Sarah Nemtsov, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Francesca Verunelli, Dai Fujikura, Olga Neuwirth and Alberto Posadas.

Universal Music Publishing Classics & Screen is thrilled to welcome acclaimed composer Mason Bates. His catalog is now represented worldwide by UMP Classics & Screen U.S., under the Ricordi imprint.

In Autumn 2024, American Ballet Theatre presented new productions with music by Isobel Waller-Bridge and Dai Fujikura.

Unusual sounds filled the iconic WDR Funkhaus on November 23rd, when musicians of Musikfabrik Köln took the stage to perform the world premiere of Lisa Streich’s new ensemble piece VOGUE. 

Premiered at Munich’s Musica Viva festival by cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Liza Lim’s new cello concerto A Sutured World has went on to equally enthrall listeners at the Cello Biennale in Amsterdam.

In Autumn 2024, Nicolas Altstaedt premiered Liza Lim's A Sutured World with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich and the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam. We talked to the cellist about Liza's work, his collaboration with the composer and about the different ways in which he worked with the two orchestras.

Casa Ricordi is pleased to announce the signing of composer Giorgio Netti. The collaboration kicks off with the acquisition and publication of his entire catalogue.

The 2024 Donaueschinger Musiktage present two eagerly awaited premieres: The world premiere of Enno Poppe's Streik and the German premiere of Hannah Kendall's Tuxedo: Between Carnival and Lent.

On 16 October 2024, the world premiere of Silvia Colasanti's new opera L'ultimo viaggio di Sindbad, a musical tale in seven pictures, with a libretto by Fabrizio Sinisi freely inspired by texts by Erri De Luca, will be performed. The opera is commissioned by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, and staged in collaboration with RomaEuropa Festival.

The 68th International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice will run from 26 September to 11 October 2024, directed by Lucia Ronchetti. The programme will feature 12 composers from the Universal Music Publishing Classics & Screen rosters and catalogues.