Russian-born composer Sergej Newski will receive the Berlin Art Prize for Music in 2014. It is awarded to honour artistic achievement and to promote creative work. The award ceremony takes place on March 18.

Hungarian composer, conductor, and educator Peter Eötvös will celebrate his 70th birthday on January 2nd. Ten years ago, on the occasion of Eötvös’s 60th birthday, we asked Claudio Abbado, György Kurtag, Helmut Lachenmann, and Karlheinz Stockhausen to comment. These were their statements.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite works from our catalogs. We start here with a text by Dai Fujikura about Peter Eötvös’ work Atlantis.

June will see two world premieres for Julia Wolfe. unEarth will premiere on June 1 at David Geffen Hall with Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic (lead commissioner), featuring Soprano Else Torp. Pretty (commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and St. Louis Symphony) will premiere on June 8 with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic.

In his blog “The Almonac” Henrik Almon, library manager at Ricordi Berlin, presents works from the publishers’ inexhaustible repertoire that are worth hearing straight away yet are rather seldom to be found in the programming of the major opera houses and orchestras.

On November 20, Giorgio Battistelli’s Julius Caesar makes its world premiere for the inauguration of the 2021-2022 opera season at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.

Written for the Neue Vocalsolisten (ECLAT 2012) and dedicated to Christine Fischer, Herzstück is a work for vocal ensemble to a text by Heiner Müller, the author from whom Luca Francesconi adapted the libretto of his opera Quartett.

The Universal Music Publishing Classical Team informs about its daily operations during these challenging times.

 Graham Fitkin receives the prestigious British Composer Award.