The Ivors Academy has announced the 34 composers and librettists who have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. The ...

Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of daringly experimental modern music who was recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, died April 18 at his home in Mere, England. He was 87.

Jonathan Harvey, a British modernist composer whose operas and other works reflected a deep engagement with spirituality, has died at age 73. Faber Music, which published many of Harvey’s compositions ...

Prolific and multifaceted British composer and conductor Peter Maxwell Davies died Monday at age 81 at his home in the Orkney Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland. His death, from leukemia, was ...

A festival that celebrates one of the country's most popular composers Sir Malcolm Arnold will mark its 20th year by playing ...

LONDON (AP) — British composer John Tavener, whose austere choral and orchestral works reflected his religious journey from West to East, died Tuesday. He was 69. Tavener's publisher, Chester Music, ...

I have a hunch that music-lovers all over the world, who consider themselves well-versed in the kind of twentieth-century music that does not offend them, have not heard of the English composer Gerald ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British composer Harrison Birtwistle won his fifth major award from Britain's Royal Philharmonic Society on Tuesday, taking the prize for small chamber composition in his 80th ...