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A night to remember in Sheffield as Ensemble 360 play Mozart and Brahms. 

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group present an ambitious mixture of experimental chamber music and disquieting monodrama. 

As part of the New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT new music series at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, Esa-Pekka Salonen drew connections among Olivier Messiaen, two of his students (Pierre Boulez and George Benjamin) and one outlier (Oliver Knussen).

Juliette Bausor and Alasdair Beatson give an exciting and versatile programme of music for piano and flute as part of the European Concert Hall Organisation's ECHO Rising Stars programme.

Auckland Chamber Orchestra’s stunningly played “Voice of the Whale” concert featured 20th-century and contemporary works, including pieces by George Crumb, Michel van der Aa and John Adams.

The Elektrostatic Concert Series has been one of Bristol’s most reliable sources of contemporary classical music events in recent years. This year, the curators have been working with Arcomis, an arts commissioning organisation, and have successfully arranged a pair of highly ambitious concerts, each dedicated to a single instrument.

Le festival dirigé par Suzana Bartal s'est achevé en beauté, avec un récital de Jean-François Heisser et l'alto solo des Berliner Philharmoniker en invité d'honneur.