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A fascinating and wide-ranging book of interviews from Boydell & Brewer

NMC release a disc including Poetry Nearing Silence

Heaven is Shy of Earth and The Comedy of Change released on Ondine

An outstanding choral disc from The Choir of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge

The Callithumpian Consort will perform fifteen works as part of the 2018 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice

The largest retrospective of Anderson’s music to date featured over ten works across three concerts

Anderson has been announced winner of this year’s BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award for the recent portrait disc of his music from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alleluia and The Stations of the Sun feature on a new disc from the LPO

Julian Anderson, a firm fixture on the British contemporary classical music scene, has further cemented his standing by winning two British Composer Awards making them his 5th and 6th wins.

A selection of Anderson's chamber works premiere in the US.

Anderson's first opera receives glowing reviews from the German press.

Last week saw the world premiere of his Second String Quartet 300 Weihnachtslieder as part of his ongoing time as Composer in Residence at the Wigmore Hall.

Julian Anderson’s first opera Thebans burst into life at its English National Opera premiere on 3 May and scored a huge success for the composer.

Julian Anderson speaks to the FT's Andrew Clark ahead of the premiere of his first opera 'Thebans' at ENO.

Julian Anderson opera Thebans opens at ENO in May. He speaks here about its inspiration, structure and music.

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

Julian Anderson’s orchestral piece 'The Discovery of Heaven' has beat off stiff competition to won a coveted 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award.

Anderson’s reputation as a master of orchestral composition was resoundingly confirmed with the recent premiere of The 'Discovery of Heaven' by the LPO.

Anderson's role as composer in residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra continues this spring with the world premiere of a major new orchestral work.

Julian Anderson’s place at the very heart of contemporary music was further confirmed yesterday by two British Composer Awards.

Julian Anderson was interviewed regarding 'The Comedy of Change' in conjunction with an Ensemble Intercontemporain performance of the work.

15 December 2010 marked the start of Julian Anderson’s residency with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with a concert programming his orchestral work 'The Stations of the Sun'.

Julian Anderson’s Heaven is Shy of Earth for mezzo-soprano, SATB choir and orchestra, based on poetry by Emily Dickinson was a huge success at its 2006 premiere, with the Sunday Times describing it as ‘a powerful, beautiful and curious work’ and the Guardian praising its ‘shimmering soundworld’.

Anderson describes his latest orchestral work 'Fantasias' as ‘a celebration of the modern symphony orchestra’. It seems fitting then, that this exhilarating 5-movement work should be performed by one the most forward-looking and youthful of musical establishments, the UK’s National Youth Orchestra.