2015 in classical music explained

Events

• January 14 – Opening night gala concert at the Philharmonie de Paris^[1]
• January 15 – The Alabama Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Carlos Izcaray as its next music director, as of September 2015.^[2]
• January 19 – The Basel Sinfonietta announces the appointment of Baldur Brönnimann as its first-ever principal conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[3]
• January 23
  • The Konzert Theater Bern announces the appointment of Kevin John Edusei as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2015–2016 season.^[4]
  • The city of Brandenburg an der Havel announces the appointment of Peter Gülke as the next chief conductor of the Brandenburger Theater and of the Brandenburger Symphoniker, effective with the 2015–2016 season.^[5]
• January 28
  • The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande announces the appointment of Jonathan Nott as its 10th music director and artistic director, effective January 2017.^[6]
  • The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces the appointment of Mason Bates as its first-ever composer-in-residence, effective with the 2015–2016 season, for a term of three years.^[7]
• February 6:
  • The Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra (Düsseldorfer Symphoniker) announces the appointment of Ádám Fischer as its next principal conductor.^[8]
  • The New York Philharmonic announces that Alan Gilbert is to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director after the 2016–2017 season.^[9]
• February 8 – First US performance of the Felix Mendelssohn edition (1841, Leipzig) of the JS Bach St Matthew Passion^[10]
• February 12
  • Arts Council England announces its intention to remove English National Opera from its national portfolio of regularly funded UK arts organisations, and to change its funding arrangement from a three-year plan to a two-year plan, with stipulations that ENO reform its current business model.^[11]
  • The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra announces that Edo de Waart is to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director after the 2016–2017 season.^[12]
• February 18 – The National Symphony Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announce that Christoph Eschenbach is to conclude his music directorship of both organisations after the 2016–2017 season.^[13]
• February 22 – The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Linz Opera announce the appointment of Markus Poschner as their next chief conductor, effective in 2017.^[14]
• February 26 – The BBC Philharmonic announces the appointment of Mark Simpson as its next Composer-in-Association, effective September 2015.^[15]
• February 27:
  • The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra announces the appointment of Giordano Bellincampi as its next music director, effective in 2016, with an initial contract of three years.^[16]
  • The Memphis Symphony Orchestra announces the scheduled conclusion of the tenure of Mei-Ann Chen as its music director, after the end of the 2015–2016 season.^[17]
  • The Cincinnati May Festival announces that James Conlon is to stand down as its music director after the 2016 Festival, and subsequently to take the title of music director laureate.^[18]
• March 3 – The London Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Sir Simon Rattle as its next music director, effective September 2017, with an initial contract of five years.^[19]
• March 4 – The New York Philharmonic announces that David Geffen is to donate $100M USD to the orchestra for the renovation of Avery Fisher Hall, with the proviso that the hall be renamed "David Geffen Hall" and bear the new name in perpetuity.^[20]
• March 6 – Palm Beach Opera announces the appointment of David Stern as its next music director, effective June 1, 2015.^[21]
• March 9
  • English National Opera announces the appointment of Cressida Pollock, a management consultant, as its interim CEO.^[22]
  • The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia announces the appointments of Roberto Abbado and Fabio Biondi as its next joint music directors, and of Ramón Tebar as its next principal guest conductor.^[23]
• March 11
  • The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Thomas Dausgaard as its 11th chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[24]
  • Simon Halsey is announced as the recipient of the Queen's Medal for Music 2014.^[25]
• March 16 – Alan Buribayev becomes principal conductor of the Astana Opera House, Kazakhstan.^[26]
• March 18 – The Birmingham Conservatoire announces the appointment of Julian Lloyd Webber as its next Principal, after the scheduled retirement of David Saint, the current Principal, in June 2015.^[27]
• March 19 – The Montreal Symphony Orchestra announces a new five-year recording contract with Decca Records.^{[28] [29]}
• April 3
  • The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Kazuki Yamada as its next principal conductor and artistic director, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of three years.^[30]
  • The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces a new recording partnership with Deutsche Grammophon that focuses on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.^[31]
• April 9 – The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Nicholas Carter as its next chief conductor, with an initial contract of two years.^[32]
• April 14 – The Glenn Gould Foundation announces its selection of Philip Glass as the Eleventh Glenn Gould Prize Laureate.^[33]
• April 20 – The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Pietari Inkinen as its next chief conductor, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of three seasons.^[34]
• April 21 – Scottish Opera announces the appointment of Stuart Stratford as its next music director, effective June 1, 2015.^[35]
• April 24 – The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic announces the appointment of Sir Andrew Davis as its new Conductor Emeritus.^[36]
• April 28 – The Zurich Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Daniel Hope as its next music director, effective in 2016.^[37]
• May 1 – The 2015 Malko Competition for conductors announces Tung-Chieh Chuang as this year's winner.^[38]
• May 8 – Symphony Number One gives its debut concert at the Baltimore War Memorial.^{[39] [40]}
• May 12 – The BBC National Orchestra of Wales announces the appointment of Huw Watkins as its next Composer-in-Association, for the period 2015–2018.^[41]
• May 26 – The BBC announces the appointment of David Pickard as the next Director of the BBC Proms.^[42]
• June 3 – The Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur announces the appointment of Thomas Zehetmair as its next principal conductor, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of three seasons.^[43]
• June 9 – The RAI National Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of James Conlon as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[44]
• June 10 – The Regina Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Gordon Gerrard as its next music director, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[45]
• June 11 – The Orchestre de Paris announces the appointment of Daniel Harding as its 9th principal conductor, effective September 2016.^[46]
• June 12 – Queen's Birthday Honours 2015^[47]
  • James MacMillan and Karl Jenkins are each made Knight Bachelor.
  • Sir Neville Marriner is made a Companion of Honour.
  • Simon Halsey and Mark-Anthony Turnage are each made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
• June 17 – The Residentie Orchestra announces the appointment of Nicholas Collon as its co-principal conductor, effective August 1, 2016, for a minimum term of three years.^[48]
• June 19 – Jongmin Park wins the Song Prize in the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.^[49]
• June 21
  • Nadine Koutcher wins the final, Main Prize of the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.^[50]
  • Amartuvshin Enkhbat is the winner of the Audience Prize of the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.^[50]
• June 22 – The Berlin Philharmonic announces its election of Kirill Petrenko as its next chief conductor.^[51]
• June 29
  • The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Edo de Waart as its next music director, effective in 2016.^[52]
  • The Bayreuth Festival announces the appointment of Christian Thielemann as its music director.^[53]
  • The European Union Youth Orchestra announces the appointments of Vasily Petrenko as its next chief conductor effective September 2015, and of Bernard Haitink as its conductor laureate with immediate effect.^[54]
• June 30 – The Sinfonieorchester Basel announces the appointment of Ivor Bolton as its next chief conductor, as of the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of four years.^[55]
• July 2 – The Beethoven Orchester Bonn announces the appointment of Christof Perick as its interim Generalmusikdirektor for the 2016–2017 season.^[56]
• July 3 – The Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar announce the appointment of Kirill Karabits as its next Generalmusikdirector (GMD) and chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of three years.^[57]
• July 10 – English National Opera announces the departure of John Berry as artistic director.^[58]
• August 6 – The Ames Stradivarius violin, stolen from Roman Totenberg in 1980, is returned to Totenberg's family in New York City.^[59]
• August 7 – The Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra announces that Sarah Ioannides is to conclude her tenure with the orchestra after the 2016–2017 season.^[60]
• August 13
  • The Lucerne Festival announces the appointment of Riccardo Chailly as the next music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, effective with the 2016 Lucerne Festival, with an initial contract of five years.^[61]
  • The Metropolitan Opera announces that Mary Jo Heath is to be the new radio host for the Metropolitan Opera Saturday radio broadcasts, effective in September 2015.^[62]
• August 17 – The Lahti Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Dima Slobodeniouk as its next principal conductor, effective in the autumn of 2016, with an initial contract of three seasons.^[63]
• August 24 – The Theater Bonn announces the appointment of Jacques Lacombe as the new chief conductor of Bonn Opera, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of two years.^[64]
• September 2 – La Monnaie announces the appointment of Alain Altinoglu as its next music director, effective January 2016.^[65]
• September 3 – The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra announces that Riccardo Chailly is to conclude his tenure as Gewandhauskapellmeister in June 2016, four years ahead of their most recent contract agreement.^[66]
• September 4
  • At a conference of the International Musicological Society in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Natalya Braginskaya announced the re-discovery of an early orchestral work of Igor Stravinsky, Pogrebal'naya Pesnya (Funeral Song), which had gone missing since its only performance in January 1909.^[67]
  • The Lucerne Festival announces the appointments of Wolfgang Rihm as the new director of the Lucerne Festival Academy, and of Matthias Pintscher as principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy.^[68]
• September 7 – The Bamberg Symphony announces the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as its next chief conductor, as of the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of five seasons.^[69]
• September 9 – The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra announces the appointment of Andris Nelsons as its 21st Gewandhauskapellmeister, effective with the 2017–2018 season, with an initial contract of five seasons.^[70]
• September 11:
  • Arvo Pärt's 80th birthday is celebrated worldwide.^[71]
  • The Zuger Sinfonietta announces the appointment of Daniel Huppert as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[72]
• September 13 – The Chineke! Orchestra, the first black and minority ethnic orchestra in Europe, gives its ensemble debut concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.^[73]
• September 15
  • The Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Stefan Sanderling as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[74]
  • The Colorado Symphony Orchestra announces that Andrew Litton is to stand down from his post as the orchestra's music director after the 2015–2016 season, and to become the orchestra's artistic advisor and principal guest conductor through the 2017–2018 season.^[75]
• September 16 – The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music announces that Marin Alsop is to conclude her tenure as its director in August 2016.^[76]
• September 18 – The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Vladimir Jurowski as its next chief conductor.^[77]
• September 21:
  • English National Opera formalises the full appointments of Harry Brünjes as chairman, with immediate effect, and of Cressida Pollock as chief executive officer, for an additional three years.^[78]
  • The Munich Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Clemens Schuldt as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of three years.^[79]
  • The Dalasinfoniettan announces the appointment of Daniel Blendulf as its next chief conductor, with immediate effect, with an initial contract of three years.^[80]
• September 22 – San Francisco Opera announces the appointment of Matthew Shivlock as its 7th general director, effective July 2016.^[81]
• September 23 – Welsh National Opera announces the appointments of Tomáš Hanus as its next music director as of the 2016–2017 season, and of Carlo Rizzi as its conductor laureate with immediate effect.^[82]
• September 27 – The world premiere of the eight-hour version of Sleep, composed by Max Richter in collaboration with David Eagleman, occurred at the Wellcome Collection and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, the single longest musical composition ever broadcast live in the history of the BBC.^[83]
• October 1:
  • Gotham Chamber Opera announces immediate cessation of operations, because of a fiscal deficit that the company judged itself unable to redeem.^[84]
  • The Memphis Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Robert Moody as its new principal conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of two years.^[85]
  • PIAS officially takes full control of the music assets of harmonia mundi.^[86]
• October 5 – Camerata Notturna announces the appointment of Gemma New as its next principal conductor.^[87]
• October 6 – The Iceland Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Yan Pascal Tortelier as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of three years.^[88]
• October 8 – The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin announces the appointment of Robin Ticciati as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2017–2018 season, with an initial contract of five years.^[89]
• October 13 – The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra announces that Kirill Petrenko is formally to begin his tenure as its new chief conductor with the 2019–2020 season.^[90]
• October 14 – Opera Lyra Ottawa announces immediate cessation of operations, citing insufficient revenue and funding.^[91]
• October 23 – The Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Alondra de la Parra as its first-ever music director, effective in 2017, the first conductor ever to have the title of music director with an Australian orchestra, and the orchestra's first female conductor in a leadership post.^[92]
• November 5 – The Royal Philharmonic Society announces Martha Argerich as the 101st recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal.^[93]
• November 9 – Opera Theatre of Saint Louis announces that music director Stephen Lord is to stand down from the post after the 2017 season, and to take the title of music director emeritus.^[94]
• November 11 – Orchestras Live announces the appointment of Sarah Derbyshire as its next chief executive.^[95]
• November 16 – The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Xian Zhang as its 14th music director, as of the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of four years.^[96]
• November 17 – Glyndebourne Festival Opera announces the appointment of Sebastian F. Schwarz as its next general director, effective in May 2016.^[97]
• November 18
  • The Three Choirs Festival announces the appointment of Alexis Paterson as its new chief executive, effective in January 2016.^[98]
  • The Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie announces the appointment of Garry Walker as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2017–018 season.^[99]
• November 24 – The Grawemeyer Foundation announces Hans Abrahamsen as the winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, for his song cycle let me tell you.^[100]
• December 1 – The BBC National Orchestra of Wales announces the appointment of Xian Zhang as its next principal guest conductor, the first female conductor ever named to a titled post with any BBC orchestra.^[101]
• December 2 – Birmingham Contemporary Music Group announces the appointment of Christoph Trestler as its new chair.^[102]
• December 3 – The Detroit Symphony Orchestra announces that Leonard Slatkin is to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director after the 2017–018 season, and subsequently to take the title of music director emeritus.^[103]
• December 5 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt announces via his website that he is retiring from conducting, the day before his 86th birthday, wi–h a handwritten note scanned to his website. This note is reproduced in the concert programme of the Concentus Musicus Wien the next day at the Musikverein, Vienna, on the actual day of his 86th birthday.^[104]
• December 8 – The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra announces Bethan Morgan-Williams as the winner of its first annual Christopher Brooks Composition Prize.^[105]
• December 9 – The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden announces that Kasper Holten is to leave the post of Director of Music in March 2017.^[106]
• December 16 – The Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Rossen Gergov as its next chief conductor, effective January 2016.^[107]
• December 22 – Anonymous 4 gives their final live concert performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City before formally disbanding.^[108]
• December 29 – Myung-whun Chung submits his resignation as music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.^[109]
• December 30 – Angela Hewitt is appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.^[110]
• December 31
  • New Year's Honours 2016^[111]
    • Radu Lupu is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
    • Steuart Bedford, Leslie East, Malcolm Martineau and Helen Odell-Miller are each made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
    • Catherine Arlidge, Alina Ibragimova, Michael McCarthy, and Michael Rafferty are each made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
  • Finchcocks Musical Museum in Goudhurst closes permanently.^[112]

New works

• John Adams
  • Second Quartet^[113]
  • Scheherazade.2 (symphony for violin and orchestra)^[114]
• John Luther Adams – Across the Distance^[115]
• Eleanor Alberga – Arise, Athena!^[116]
• Julian Anderson
  • In lieblicher Bläue (Violin Concerto)^[117]
  • Van Gogh Blue^[118]
• B Tommy Andersson – Pan^[119]
• Timo Andres – Strong Language (for string quartet)^[120]
• Cathy Applegate – Piano Concertantrum (composed 2012–2013; premiered March 2015)^[121]
• Richard Ayres – No 48 (In the Night Studio)^[122]
• David Balasanyan
  • Six Microludes, for piano
  • Monument, for piano and tape
• Guy Barker – The Lanterne of Light^[123]
• Gerald Barry – The One-Armed Pianist^[124]
• Sally Beamish – "Be still" (Introit)^[125]
• Luke Bedford
  • Instability^[126]
  • Saxophone Quartet^[127]
• Fiona Bennett – The New Lady Radnor's Suite
• Judith Bingham
  • Ghostly Grace^[128]
  • Zodiack
• Harrison Birtwistle
  • The Cure^[129]
  • The Silk House Sequences^[118]
• Victoria Borisova-Ollas – ... and time is running past midnight ...^[130]
• Mark Bowden and Owen Sheers – A Violence of Gifts^[131]
• Luc Brewaeys – Sonnets to Sundry Notes^[132]
• Gary Carpenter – Dadaville^[133]
• Elliott Carter – The American Sublime^[134]
• Friedrich Cerha – Piccola Commèdia^[135]
• Unsuk Chin – Mannequin – Tableaux vivants for orchestra^[136]
• Pete Churchill – Echoes: A Song of Poland^[137]
• James Clapperton – Northern Sky^[138]
• Anna Clyne – The Seamstress^[139]
• Edward Cowie – Three Spitfire Motets^[140]
• Paul Crabtree – O Icarus^[140]
• Laurence Crane – Chamber Symphony No 2 ("The Australian")^[141]
• Richard Danielpour – Of Love and Longing^[142]
• Tansy Davies – Re-greening^[143]
• Luis de Pablo: Pensieri (Rhapsody for Flute and Orchestra)^[144]
• Bryce Dessner – Quilting^[145]
• Zosha Di Castri – Dear Life^[146]
• Richard Dünser – Entreacte^[147]
• Hugues Dufourt – Ombre portée
• Frédéric Durieux – Entscheiden
• Benjamin Dwyer: Nocturnal, after Benjamin Britten
• Jason Eckardt: Practical Alchemy^[148]
• Benjamin Ellin – Miyabi – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra^[149]
• Thierry Escaich – Concerto for Orchestra^[1]
• Mohammed Fairouz – Locales (composed 2014; premiered February 14, 2015)^[150]
• Ivan Fedele – Hommagesquisse
• David Fennessy – Hirta Rounds^[151]
• Lorenzo Ferrero
  • Country Life, for saxophone and piano^[152]
  • A Night in Nashville, for saxophone and piano^[153]
• Michael Finnissy – Janne^[154]
• Alan Fletcher
  • Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra^[155]
  • On a winter's night a traveler^[156]
• Cheryl Frances-Hoad – From the Beginning of the World^[157]
• Peter Fribbins – Violin Concerto^[158]
• Vivian Fung – Violin Concerto No 2 ('Of Snow and Ice')^[159]
• Michael Gandolfi – Ascending Light^[160]
• Philip Glass – Concerto for Two Pianos^[145]
• Alexander Goehr
  • Variations (Homage to Haydn), for solo piano^[161]
  • Seven Impromptus, Op. 96, for two pianos^[162]
• Iain Grandage – Dances with Devils (percussion concerto)^[163]
• Helen Grime – Concerto for clarinet and trumpet^[164]
• HK Gruber – into the open...^[165]
• Barry Guy – Mr Babbage is Coming to Dinner^[124]
• Georg Friedrich Haas
  • "I can't breathe" (In memoriam Eric Garner)^[166]
  • Saxophone Quartet^[167]
• Chris Paul Harman – Lieder und Arien^[168]
• Jennifer Higdon
  • Civil Words^[169]
  • Viola Concerto^[170]
• Robin Holloway
  • Soldered Schumann
  • Silvered Schubert^[171]
  • Europa and the Bull (tuba concerto)^[172]
• James Horner – Collage: A Concerto for Four Horns and Orchestra^[173]
• Emily Howard – Afference^[174]
• James Newton Howard – Violin Concerto^[175]
• Philippe Hurel – Inserts
• Márton Illés – Re-akvarell (concerto for clarinet and orchestra)^[176]
• Marisol Jiménez: XLIII – MEMORIAM VIVIRE^[141]
• Betsy Jolas – Ravery Pour Pierre en ce jour
• Darryl Kubian – O for a Muse of Fire^[177]
• György Kurtág – Petite musique solennelle en hommage à Pierre Boulez 90^[178]
• Libby Larsen – The Birth Song Cycle^[179]
• James Ledger and Paul Kelly – War Music^[180]
• Joanna Lee: Hammer of Solitude^[181]
• Georges Lentz – Jerusalem (after Blake) (composed 2011–2014; premiered January 16, 2015)^[182]
• Mica Levi – Greezy^[183]
• Magnus Lindberg – Accused^[184]
• Tod Machover – Symphony in D^[185]
• Steven Mackey – Mnemosyne's Pool^[145]
• James MacMillan
  • A Little Mass^[186]
  • Symphony No 4^[187]
• Philippe Manoury – Chaconne
• Bruno Mantovani – B
• Colin Matthews and Michael Morpurgo – The Pied Piper of Hamelin^[188]
• David Matthews – Symphony No 8^[189]
• Melinda Maxwell – Fractures: Monk Unpacked^[190]
• Christopher Mayo – Supermarine^[124]
• Anna Meredith – Smatter Hauler^[191]
• Claudia Molitor – 2TwoLO^[124]
• Marc Monnet – French: bourdonnement, bruissement, bruit, chuchotage, chuchoterie, chuchotis, frémissement, gazouillement, gazouillis, murmure, susurrement...
• Nico Muhly
  • Viola Concerto^[192]
  • Mixed Messages^[193]
  • Sentences^[194]
• Samy Moussa: Crimson^[178]
• Dominic Muldowney – Smooth between Sea and Land^[195]
• Thea Musgrave – Power Play^[124]
• Marc Neikrug:
  • Acequias for Guitar and String Quartet^[196]
  • Canta-Concerto^[197]
• Andrew Norman
  • Frank's House^[198]
  • Switch (percussion concerto)^[199]
  • Split (piano concerto)^[200]
• Enno Poppe – Zwölf
• André Previn – Nonet^[201]
• Torsten Rasch – A Welsh Night^[137]
• Wolfgang Rihm
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 (Gedicht des Malers; composed in 2014, premiered in 2015)^[202]
  • Über die Linie VIII^[203]
  • Con Piano? Certo!^[204]
  • Funde im Verscharrten^[205]
  • Geste zu Vedova^[206]
  • Gruss-Moment^[178]
• David Sawer – Coachman Chronos^[124]
• Albert Schnelzer – Tales from Suburbia^[207]
• Pascal Schumacher – Windfall Concerto (for vibraphone and orchestra)^[182]
• Elliott Sharp – Wannsee Noir^[208]
• Sean Shepherd:
  • Concerto for Ensemble^[209]
  • String Quartet No. 2^[210]
• Mark Simpson
  • Israfel^[211]
  • The Immortal (text by Melanie Challenger)^[212]
• Howard Skempton – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner^[195]
• Derrick Spiva – Prisms, Cycles, Leaps^[213]
• Johannes Maria Staud
  • Moment, Leute, Moment!^[214]
  • Segue II für Pierre Boulez^[215]
  • Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide (Specter I-III)^[216]
  • Wasserzeichen (Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide II)^[217]
• Tan Dun – The Wolf (concerto for double bass and orchestra; composed in 2014, premiered in 2015)^[218]
• Conrad Tao – An Adjustment^[219]
• Augusta Read Thomas – Of Being Is a Bird^[220]
• Shiori Usui: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.^[181]
• Errollyn Wallen – Rebuttal Blues No 1
• Bertram Wee – Dithyrambs^[221]
• Judith Weir – Good Morning, Midnight^[222]
• Lotta Wennäkoski – Päärme, for piano trio^[223]
• Michael F. Williams – Letters from the Front^[224]
• Michael Wolters – Requiem to Let^[225]
• Hugh Wood – Epithalamion^[226]
• Raymond Yiu – Symphony^[227]
• Nina C. Young – Agnosco Veteris^[228]

Opera

• Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer – Everest^[229]
• Mauricio Soleto and Andrés Ibáñez – El Público^[230]
• Ben Moore and Nahma Sandrow – Enemies, a Love Story^[231]
• Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell – The Manchurian Candidate^[232]
• Tansy Davies and Nick Drake – Between Worlds^[233]
• Matt Rogers and Sally O'Reilly – The Virtues of Things^[234]
• Per Bloland and Paul Schick – Pedr Solis^[235]
• Matthew Aucoin – Crossing^[236]
• Daniel Schnyder and Bridgette A. Wimberly – Charlie Parker's Yardbird^[237]
• Marco Tutino and Fabio Ceresa – La Ciociara (Two Women)^[238]
• Ricky Ian Gordon and William M. Hoffman – Morning Star^[239]
• Charlotte Bray and Amy Rosenthal – Entanglement^[240]
• Jeremy Howard Beck and Stephanie Fleischmann – The Long Walk^[241]
• Derrick Wang – Scalia/Ginsburg^[242]
• Gilda Lyons and Tammy Ryan – A New Kind of Fallout^[243]
• Jennifer Higdon and Gene Scheer – Cold Mountain^[244]
• Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh – The Last Hotel^[245]
• Hans Gefors and Kerstin Perski – Notorious^[246]
• Gregory Spears and Royce Vavrek – O Columbia^[247]
• Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton – Appomattox (revised version)^[248]
• Georg Friedrich Haas and Jon Fosse – Morgen und Abend^[249]
• Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally – Great Scott^[250]
• Mark Adamo – Becoming Santa Claus^[251]
• Jimmy López and Nilo Cruz – Bel Canto^[252]
• Johanna Doderer – Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern^[253]

Albums

• Havergal Brian – The Tigers (first commercially issued recording, from 1983 BBC performance)^[254]
• Kaija Saariaho – Émilie Suite; Quatre Instants; Terra Memoria^[255]
• Ēriks Ešenvalds – "Northern Lights" (Hyperion)^[256]
• Rebecca Saunders, Fletch; Benedict Mason, Second String Quartet; Luke Bedford, Wonderful Four-Headed Nightingale; John Zorn, Pandora's Box – Arditti Quartet, Sarah Maria Sun (Col Legno)^[257]
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Siroe (first complete recording)^[258]
• Liza Lim – The Compass; Pearl, Ochre, Hair String; The Guest^[259]
• Kevin Volans – Trio Concerto; Piano Concerto; Symphony "Daar kom die Alibama"^[260]
• Mario Capuana, Bonaventura Rubino – Requiem Masses (Namur Chamber Choir)^[261]
• Agostino Steffani – Niobe, regina di Tebe^[262]
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Violin Concerto No 2 (I Profeti), Concerto Italiano^[263]
• Nikolai Medtner – Piano Sonatas, 'Ein Idyll'^[264]
• Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Thomas Hoppe (piano) – Romance oubliée (Myrios Classics)^[265]
• Donnacha Dennehy – Crane; O; The Vandal; Hive^[266]
• Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek – 27^[267]
• Marc Andre – ...auf...^[268]
• Félicien David – Le Désert^[269]
• Michael Gordon – Dystopia; Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony^[270]
• Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 (world premiere recording of 1879 version) / Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 (Myrios Classics)^[271]
• Hans Abrahamsen – Zählen und Erzählen^[272]
• Missy Mazzoli – Vespers for a New Dark Age^[273]
• Théodore Dubois – Musique Sacrée et Symphonique^[274]
• Wolfgang Rihm – Et Lux^[275]
• Judith Weir – Storm^[276]
• Krzysztof Penderecki – Magnificat, Kadisz^[277]
• Harrison Birtwistle – Angel Fighter, In Broken Images, Virelais^[278]
• Lotta Wennäkoski – Soie, Hava, Amor Omnia Suite^[279]
• Wartime Consolations : Shostakovich – Sonata for Violin and Piano (unfinished) / Mieczysław Weinberg – Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes (orchestral version) / Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Concerto funebre^[280]
• Roger Sacheverell Coke – Preludes and Variations^[281]
• Václav Tomášek – Songs^[282]
• Bob Chilcott – The Angry Planet^[283]
• Jörg Widmann – String Quartets^[284]
• John Adams – Absolute Jest, Grand Pianola Music^[285]
• Grażyna Bacewicz – String Quartets, Vol 1^[286]
• Christopher Simpson – Ayres^[287]
• Sadie Harrison – 'Solos and Duos for Piano and Strings'^[288]
• Boris Tischenko – Piano Sonatas Nos 7 and 8^[289]
• Brett Dean – String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Five Epitaphs^[290]
• David Lang, Luciano Berio, Betty Olivero – Song of Songs^[291]
• Paul Hindemith – The Long Christmas Dinner^[292]
• Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Gordon Crosse, Piers Hellawell – Bach 2 the Future (Fenella Humphreys, violin)^[293]
• Wim Henderickx – Triptych^[294]
• Morton Feldman – For Bunita Marcus^[295]
• Jonathan Rathbone – Under the Shadow of His Wing^[296]
• Heinz Holliger – Machaut Transcriptions^[297]
• John Luther Adams – Ilimaq^[298]
• Charles Gounod – La Colombe^[299]
• Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) – Take Two (including music by Jorge Sanchez-Chiong et al)^[300]
• Toshio Hosokawa – Voyage VIII et al.^[301]
• Michael Nyman – War Work^[302]
• Robin de Raaff – Waiting for Miss Monroe^[303]
• Jürg Frey – Third String Quartet^[304]
• Joseph Kuridka – Beauty and Industry^[305]

Deaths

• January 2 – Bob Gilmore, British musicologist, 53^[306]
• January 6 – Lawrence Gushee, American musicologist, 83^[307]
• January 9 – Colin Sauer, British violinist, 90^[308]
• January 10 – Countess Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Japanese-born Italian aristocrat and patroness of classical music, 82^[309]
• January 12 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian operatic mezzo-soprano, 75^[310]
• January 13 – Frank Glazer, American pianist, 99^[311]
• January 19
  • Vera Gornostayeva, Russian pianist and piano teacher, 85^[312]
  • Ward Swingle, American singer, 87^[313]
• January 29 – Israel Yinon, Israeli conductor, 59^[314]
• February 1 – Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist, 89^[315]
• February 3 – Andrew Patner, American music critic, 55^[316]
• February 9 – Marvin David Levy, American composer, 82^[317]
• February 13 – John McCabe, British composer and pianist, 75^[318]
• February 28 – Ezra Laderman, American composer, 90^[319]
• March 1 – Jennifer Ward Clarke, British cellist, 79^[320]
• March 19 – Peter Katin, British pianist, 84^[321]
• March 22 – Norman Scribner, American choral conductor, 79^[322]
• March 24 (killed in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525):^[323]
  • Oleg Bryjak, Kazakh-born German opera singer, 54
  • Maria Radner, German opera singer, 33
• March 28 – Ronald Stevenson, British composer and pianist, 87^[324]
• March 29 – Ronald Knudsen, American orchestral violinist and conductor, 83^[325]
• April 2 – Dennis Marks, British radio & television producer and opera administrator, 66^[326]
• April 3 – Andrew Porter, British music critic, librettist, scholar and editor, 86^[327]
• April 5 – Claudio Prieto, Spanish composer, 80^[328]
• April 17 – Brian Couzens, British record producer and founder of Chandos Records, 82^[329]
• April 27 – Rolf Smedvig, American trumpeter, 62^[330]
• April 29
  • Ronald Senator, British-born composer resident in the USA, 89^[331]
  • Miriam Brickman, American pianist, 81^[331]
• May 2 – Clarice Carson, Canadian soprano, 85^[332]
• May 3 – Margaret Garwood, American composer, 88^[333]
• May 10
  • Jack Body, New Zealand composer, 70^[334]
  • Victor Salvi, American-born harpist and harp manufacturer, 95^[335]
• May 28 – Steven Gerber, American composer, 66^[336]
• May 29 – Peter Cropper, British violinist and leader of the Lindsay Quartet, 69^[337]
• May 31 – Nico Castel, American tenor, comprimario and vocal coach, 83^[338]
• June 2 – Günther Schneider-Siemssen, German opera stage designer, 88^[339]
• June 3 – Margaret Juntwait, American radio broadcaster and host of the Metropolitan Opera radio transmissions, 58^[340]
• June 12 – Ernest Tomlinson, British composer, 90^[341]
• June 13 – Ronald Wilford, American artist agency manager and executive, 87^[342]
• June 14 – Walter Weller, Austrian conductor and violinist, 75^[343]
• June 17 – Neil Courtney, American orchestral double bass player, 82^[344]
• June 21 – Gunther Schuller, American composer, conductor, teacher and author, 89^[345]
• June 22
  • Joseph de Pasquale, American orchestral violist, 95^[346]
  • John (Jack) McCaw, New Zealand-born British orchestral clarinetist, 96^[347]
• July 1 – Edward Greenfield, British music critic, 86^[348]
• July 7 – Friedemann Weigle, German violist and member of the Artemis Quartet, 52^[349]
• July 10 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor, 88^[350]
• July 15 – Alan Curtis, American harpsichordist, conductor and scholar, 80^[351]
• July 19 – David Roth, American opera administrator, 56^[352]
• July 21
  • Paul Freeman, American conductor and founder of Chicago Sinfonietta, 79^[353]
  • Vera Stern, American arts administrator and arts ambassador, 88^[354]
• July 26 – Vic Firth, American orchestral timpanist and percussionist, 85^[355]
• July 27 – Ivan Moravec, Czech pianist, 84^[356]
• August 2 – J. Durward Morsch, American composer, 94^[357]
• August 12 – John Scott, British-born organist and choirmaster resident in the USA, 59^[358]
• August 18 – Roger Smalley, British-born composer resident in Australia, 72^[359]
• August 22:
  • Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Austrian opera director, 76^[360]
  • Francis Dillnutt, British classical recording engineer, 91^[361]
• August 27 – George Cleve, Austrian-born American conductor, 79^[362]
• August 30 – Natalia Strelchenko (Strelle), Russian-born pianist, 38^[363]
• August 31 – Bruce Lawrence, American orchestral double bassist, 88^[364]
• September 5 – Jacques Israelievitch, French-born Canadian orchestral violinist, 67^[365]
• September 7
  • Susan Allen, American harpist, 64 (brain cancer)^[366]
  • Cor Edskes, Dutch organ builder and restorer, 90^[367]
• September 17 – Sir David Willcocks, British choirmaster, 95^[368]
• September 28 – Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor, 94^[369]
• October 1 – Dieter Kober, German conductor, 95^[370]
• October 5 – Reinhardt Elster, American opera orchestra harpist, 101^[371]
• October 13 – Duncan Druce, British musicologist, 76^[372]
• November 2 – Richard Horowitz, American opera orchestra timpanist and crafter of conductor batons, 91^[373]
• November 10 – Robert Craft, American classical music writer, conductor, and amanuensis to Igor Stravinsky, 92^[374]
• November 16 – Seymour Lipkin, American pianist and conductor, 88^[375]
• November 21 – Joseph Silverstein, American orchestra leader (concertmaster) and conductor, 83^[376]
• November 23 – Jouni Kaipainen, Finnish composer, 58^[377]
• November 28 – Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera stage director, 67^[378]
• December 2 – John Eaton, US composer, 80^[379]
• December 4 – Rodney Milnes, British opera critic and translator, 79^[380]
• December 8 – Mattiwilda Dobbs, American opera singer and recitalist, 90^[381]
• December 15 – Stella Doufexis, German mezzo-soprano of Greek ancestry, 47^[382]
• December 16 – Aafje Heynis, Dutch soprano, 91^[383]
• December 18 – Luc Brewaeys, Belgian composer, 56^[384]
• December 19 – Kurt Masur, German conductor, 88^[385]
• December 22 – John Duffy, American composer and music administrator, 89^[386]

Major awards

• 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music: Julia Wolfe – Anthracite Fields^[387]
• 2015 Grawemeyer Award Winner in Music: Wolfgang Rihm – IN-SCHRIFT 2^[388]

Grammy Awards

• Best Orchestral Performance: John Adams – City Noir, Saxophone Concerto – St. Louis Symphony; David Robertson, conductor (Nonesuch)
• Best Opera Recording: Marc-Antoine Charpentier – La descente d'Orphée aux enfers; Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble and Vocal Ensemble; Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, conductors (CPO)
• Best Choral Performance: The Sacred Spirit of Russia – Conspirare; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (harmonia mundi)
• Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores – Hilary Hahn and Cory Smythe (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Play – Jason Vieaux (Azica Records)
• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Douce France – Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg et al. (Naïve)
• Best Classical Compendium: Harry Partch – Plectra and Percussion Dances (Bridge Records)
• Best Contemporary Classical Composition: John Luther Adams – Become Ocean – Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Cantaloupe Music)

Juno Awards

Classical Albums of the Year:

• Solo or Chamber Ensemble: Béla Bartók – Chamber Works for Violin, Volume 3; James Ehnes et al. (Chandos)
• Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 24; Angela Hewitt, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (Hyperion)
• Vocal or Choral Performance: Franz Schubert – Winterreise; Gerald Finley, Julius Drake (Hyperion)

Classical Composition of the Year: Brian Current – Airline Icarus (Naxos)

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2015

• Baroque Instrumental: JS Bach – Cello Suites; David Watkin, violoncello (Resonus)
• Baroque Vocal: Monteverdi – Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco; Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve)
• Chamber: Smetana – String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon)
• Choral: Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius/Sea Pictures; Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis (Chandos)
• Concerto: Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4; Maria João Pires, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (Onyx)
• Contemporary: Per Nørgård – Symphonies Nos 1 & 8; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (Dacapo)
• Early Music: 'The Spy's Choirbook'; Alamire, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, David Skinner (Obsidian)
• Instrumental: JS Bach – English Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5; Piotr Anderszewski (Warner Classics)
• Opera: Richard Strauss – Elektra; Evelyn Herlitzius, Waltraud Meier, Adrianne Pieczonka, Mikhail Petrenko, Tom Randle, Orchestre de Paris, Esa-Pekka Salonen; Stage director – Patrice Chéreau; Video director – Stéphane Metge (Bel Air Classique)
• Orchestral: Bruckner – Symphony No 9; Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Recital: 'A French Baroque Diva'; Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (Hyperion)
• Solo Vocal: Schubert – 'Nachtviolen'; Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber (Sony Classical)
• Recording of the Year: Bruckner – Symphony No 9; Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Young Artist of the Year: Joseph Moog
• Label of the Year: Channel Classics
• Artist of the Year: Paavo Järvi
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Bernard Haitink

British Composer Awards

• Amateur or Young Performers: Kate Whitley – Alive
• Choral: James Dillon – Stabat Mater dolorosa
• Community or Educational Project: Stuart Hancock – Snapshot Songs
• Contemporary Jazz Composition: Trish Clowes – The Fox, The Parakeet & The Chestnut
• Large Chamber: Sinan Savaskan – Many stares (through semi-nocturnal Zeiss-Blink) – Module 30
• Liturgical: Michael Finnissy – John the Baptist
• Orchestral: Harrison Birtwistle – Responses: Sweet disorder and the carefully careless
• Small Chamber: Julian Anderson – String Quartet No. 2
• Solo or Duo: Michael Finnissy – Beat Generation Ballads
• Sonic Art: Yann Seznec – Currents
• Stage Works: Julian Anderson – Thebans
• Wind Band or Brass Band: Rory Boyle – Muckle Flugga

Notes and References

1. [Tom Service]
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3. Die Basel Sinfonietta ernennt gebürtigen Basler zum Principal Conductor und Schliesst erste Phase der Umstrukturierung AB . Basel Sinfonietta . January 19, 2015 . October 24, 2015 . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095847/http://www.baselsinfonietta.ch/site/assets/files/1350/mm_basel_sinfonietta_principal_conductor201415.pdf . dead .
4. Welcome Kevin John Edusei, Chefdirigent des Musiktheaters mit der Saison 15/16 am Konzert Theater Bern . Konzert Theater Bern . January 23, 2015 . October 14, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100915/http://www.konzerttheaterbern.ch/fileadmin/content/pdf/MM_KTBern_Edusei_ab_15.16_Chefdirigent_der_Oper.pdf . March 4, 2016 . dead . mdy-all .
5. Prof. Peter Gülke ab 01.08.2015 neuer Chefdirigent am Brandenburger Theater . Stadtverwaltung Brandenburg an der Havel . January 23, 2015 . April 30, 2017.
6. Welcome to Jonathan Nott, New Music and Artistic Director of the OSR . L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande . January 28, 2015 . January 31, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150312092240/http://www.osr.ch/l-osr/actualites/welcome-to-jonathan-nott-new-music-and-artistic-director-of-the-osr . March 12, 2015 . dead . mdy-all .
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9. News: Alan Gilbert to Leave New York Philharmonic in 2017. Michael Cooper. The New York Times. February 6, 2015. February 6, 2015.
10. News: Review: A 'St. Matthew Passion' through another's vision . David Patrick Stearns . Philadelphia Inquirer . February 10, 2015 . February 15, 2015.
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17. Memphis Symphony Announces 2015–2016 Season To Be Mei-Ann Chen's Final Season as Music Director . Memphis Symphony Orchestra . February 27, 2015 . October 24, 2015 .
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19. News: Simon Rattle appointed music director of London Symphony Orchestra . The Guardian . Mark Brown . March 3, 2015 . March 8, 2015.
20. http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/avery-fisher-hall-be-renamed-david-geffen-hall/ Brian Wise, "Avery Fisher Hall to Be Renamed David Geffen Hall". WQXR blog, 4 March 2015
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22. Cressida Pollock appointed as ENO Interim Chief Executive Officer . English National Opera . March 9, 2015 . March 15, 2015.
23. http://www.lesarts.com/seccion=1237&idioma=es_ES&id=2015030918230001&activo=7.do Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia, "Roberto Abbado y Fabio Biondi asumen la dirección musical del Palau de les Arts" (Spanish-language announcement)
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27. Julian Lloyd Webber appointed as new Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire . Birmingham Conservatoire . March 18, 2015 . April 3, 2015.
28. L'OSM heureux d'annoncer un partenariat de cinq ans avec Decca . Montreal Symphony Orchestra . March 19, 2015 . April 3, 2015 . April 8, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150408181752/http://www.osm.ca/sites/default/files/salle-de-presse/cmq_osm_decca_fr.pdf . dead .
29. News: The Montreal Symphony return to Decca . Gramophone . March 25, 2015 . April 4, 2015.
30. http://www.kdschmid.de/newsdetail/items/Kazuki_Yamada_monte-carlo.html Konzertdirektion Schmid agency notice on Kazuki Yamada appointment with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, 3 April 2015
31. Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons Announce a New Partnership with Deutsche Grammophon . Boston Symphony Orchestra . April 3, 2015 . April 4, 2015.
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33. http://www.glenngould.ca/eleventh-laureate-announced/ The Glenn Gould Foundation, "Eleventh Laureate Announced". 14 April 2015
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35. Scottish Opera Welcomes Stuart Stratford as Music Director . Scottish Opera . April 21, 2015 . May 2, 2015.
36. Sir Andrew Davis CBE appointed Liverpool Philharmonic Conductor Emeritus . Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . April 24, 2015 . May 2, 2015.
37. News: Daniel Hope to replace Sir Roger Norrington in Zurich . Gramophone . April 28, 2015 . May 2, 2015.
38. News: Tung-Chieh Chuang is the winner of the 2015 Malko Competition . Danish Radio . May 1, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
39. Web site: McCauley . Mary . Baltimore's War Memorial is home for a new concert series by mostly local artists . . May 6, 2016 .
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49. News: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015: Jongmin Park from South Korea wins Song Prize . South Wales Evening Post . Mark Rees . June 20, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
50. News: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015: Nadine Koutcher from Belarus wins final . South Wales Evening Post . Mark Rees . June 22, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
51. News: Kirill Petrenko to succeed Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonic . The Guardian . Ben Knight . June 22, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
52. NZSO announces new Music Director Edo de Waart . New Zealand Symphony Orchestra . June 29, 2015 . June 29, 2015.
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54. EUYO announces new conductors . European Union Youth Orchestra . June 29, 2015 . June 29, 2015.
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56. News: Bernhard Hartmann . Christof Prick: Chefdirigent für eine Saison . General-Anzeiger . July 2, 2015 . September 9, 2015.
57. News: Kirill Karabits neuer Generalmusikdirektor und Chefdirigent in Weimar . Thüringer Allegmeine . July 3, 2015 . July 21, 2015.
58. News: John Berry steps down from English National Opera . The Guardian . Imogen Tilden and Maev Kennedy . July 10, 2015 . July 12, 2015.
59. News: A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years . National Public Radio . Nina Totenberg . August 6, 2015 . August 8, 2015.
60. SPO Music Director and Conductor Sarah Ioannides Announces Departure in 2017 . Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra . August 7, 2015 . January 2, 2016.
61. Riccardo Chailly zum Chefdirigenten des Lucerne Festival Orchestra ernannt . Lucerne Festival . August 13, 2015 . August 25, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150911232935/http://www.lucernefestival.ch/documents/150813_MM_LucerneFestivalOrchestra_d.pdf . September 11, 2015 .
62. News: Metropolitan Opera Promotes Mary Jo Heath to New Radio Host . WQXR (Operavore blog) . Brian Wise . September 13, 2015 . September 1, 2015.
63. Dima Slobodeniouk has been appointed as Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, starting in autumn 2016 . Sinfonia Lahti . August 17, 2015 . August 25, 2015 . September 24, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102009/http://www.sinfonialahti.fi/ajankohtaista/uutiset2015/en_GB/1439817634341/ . dead .
64. Lacombe wird Chefdirigent an der Oper Bonn . Theater Bonn . August 24, 2015. September 1, 2015.
65. Alain Altinoglu – Music Director of La Monnaie . Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie . September 2, 2015 . September 4, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085342/http://dg0z1rj1uzap8.cloudfront.net/dbfiles/mfile/29200/29244/PERSDOSSIER_EN_09.01.pdf . March 4, 2016 .
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67. News: Key Igor Stravinsky work found after 100 years . The Observer . Stephen Walsh . September 5, 2015 . September 9, 2015.
68. Wolfgang Rihm Is the Lucerne Festival Academy's New Artistic Director; Matthias Pintscher Named Principal Conductor . Lucerne Festival . September 4, 2015 . September 7, 2015 . September 6, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906025335/http://www.lucernefestival.ch/documents/150904_MMLFA_und2016_e_web.pdf . dead .
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75. Andrew Litton To Become Colorado Symphony Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor . Colorado Symphony Orchestra . September 15, 2015 . January 2, 2016.
76. Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces that Music Director/Conductor Marin Alsop will step down after her 25th Season, August 2016 . Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music . September 16, 2015 . January 2, 2016.
77. News: Vladimir Jurowski wird RSB-Chefdirigent . Berliner Zeitung . Peter Uehling . September 18, 2015 . September 22, 2015 . September 23, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923031726/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/rundfunksinfonieorchester-berlin-vladimir-jurowski-wird-rsb-chefdirigent,10809150,31848968.html . dead .
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80. Dalasinfoniettans nye chefdirigent Daniel Blendulf . Dalasinfoniettan . September 21, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
81. News: Sleep Matthew Shilvock Named as San Francisco Opera's Next General Director, Succeeding David Gockley at Company's Helm . Opera News . September 22, 2015 . October 10, 2015.
82. WNO announces new Music Director and new Conductor Laureate . Welsh National Opera . September 23, 2015 . April 1, 2016.
83. News: Sleep – the eight-hour live-broadcast lullaby for a frenetic world . The Guardian . Hannah Ellis-Petersen . September 27, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
84. News: Gotham Chamber Opera Announces That It Will Close . The New York Times . Michael Cooper . October 1, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
85. Memphis Symphony Orchestra Names Robert Moody Principal Conductor . Memphis Symphony Orchestra . October 1, 2015 . October 24, 2015.
86. News: [PIAS] officially acquires classical and jazz house harmonia mundi ]. Music Business Worldwide . Tim Ingham . September 28, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
87. Gemma New Appointed Principal Conductor of Camerata Notturna . Camerata Notturna . October 5, 2015 . October 24, 2015.
88. Yan Pascal Tortelier Named Chief Conductor . Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Sinfóníuhljómsveitar Íslands) . October 6, 2015 . October 10, 2015 . November 22, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151122072426/http://www.sinfonia.is/en/news/nr/3001/ . dead .
89. News: Robin Ticciati named Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin . Gramophone . October 8, 2014 . October 10, 2015.
90. Kirill Petrenko will take up office as chief conductor and artistic director of the Berliner Philharmoniker in the 2019/2020 season . Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . October 13, 2015 . October 17, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192714/http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/news/detail/kirill-petrenko/ . March 4, 2016 . dead .
91. News: Cash crisis causes Opera Lyra to cease operations . Ottawa Citizen . Peter Robb . October 14, 2015 . October 17, 2015.
92. Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces acclaimed Conductor Alondra de la Parra as Music Director . Queensland Symphony Orchestra . October 23, 2015 . October 25, 2015.
93. Argerich Awarded RPS Gold Medal . Royal Philharmonic Society . November 5, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
94. Famed Music Director Stephen Lord Will Take on New Role After 25 Seasons as Music Director at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis . Opera Theatre of Saint Louis . November 9, 2015 . November 16, 2015 . November 17, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117031031/http://www.opera-stl.org/about/news-press/2015/11/09/famed-music-director-stephen-lord-will-take-on-new-role-after-25-seasons-as-music-director-at-opera-theatre-of-saint-louis/ . dead .
95. Sarah Derbyshire appointed Chief Executive of Orchestras Live . Orchestras Live . November 11, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
96. New Jersey Symphony Orchestra announces Xian Zhang as its 14th music director . New Jersey Symphony Orchestra . November 16, 2015 . November 21, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117013828/http://www.njsymphony.org/about-njso/next-music-director/press-release . November 17, 2015 .
97. Glyndebourne Appoints New General Director . Glyndebourne Festival Opera . November 17, 2015 . November 21, 2015.
98. Alexis Paterson appointed ceo of Three Choirs Festival . Three Choirs Festival Association . November 18, 2015 . November 21, 2015 . November 21, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151121053527/http://www.3choirs.org/article/alexis-paterson-appointed-ceo-of-three-choirs-festival . dead .
99. Garry Walker wird neuer Chefdirigent des Staatsorchesters Rheinische Philharmonie – Schotte ist Nachfolger von Daniel Raiskin . Rheinland-Pfalz Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung und Kultur . November 18, 2015 . January 9, 2016.
100. Abrahamsen wins music award for let me tell you . Grawemeyer Foundation . November 24, 2015 . November 26, 2015.
101. BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales appoints Xian Zhang as Principal Guest Conductor . BBC Media Centre . December 1, 2015 . December 1, 2015.
102. Christoph Trestler appointed Chair of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group . December 2, 2015 . December 5, 2015.
103. Leonard Slatkin, DSO Forge New Deal . Detroit Symphony Orchestra . December 3, 2015 . December 5, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208100842/http://www.dso.org/DSOnewsdetail.aspx?pid=4437 . December 8, 2015 . dead .
104. News: Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Abschiedsbrief eines Unersetzlichen . Der Standard . Daniel Ender . December 6, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
105. Liverpool Philharmonic announces winner of inaugural Christopher Brooks Composition Prize in association with the Rushworth Foundation . Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . December 8, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
106. Director of Opera Kasper Holten to leave The Royal Opera in March 2017 . Royal Opera House, Covent Garden . December 9, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
107. Теодосий Спасов е новият директор на "Музикална къща БНР", Росен Гергов е главен диригент на Симфоничния оркестър . Bulgarian National Radio . December 16, 2015 . December 19, 2015.
108. News: Review: 'The Last Noel,' Anonymous 4's Farewell . The New York Times . Zachary Woolfe . Zachary Woolfe . December 23, 2015 . December 30, 2015.
109. News: Maestro Chung Myung-whun announces departure from SPO . Korea Herald . December 29, 2015 . January 2, 2016.
110. Order of Canada Appointments, December 30, 2015: Governor General Announces 69 New Appointments to the Order of Canada . The Governor General of Canada . December 30, 2015 . January 9, 2016.
111. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/489049/NY2016HonoursFullList.pdf Cabinet Office, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street; New Year's Honours list 2016
112. News: Finchcocks Musical Museum in Goudhurst set to close its doors . Kent and Sussex Courier . Amy-Clare Martin . November 21, 2015 . January 13, 2016 . November 22, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151122172736/http://www.courier.co.uk/Pair-s-musical-museum-set-close-doors/story-28205410-detail/story.html . dead .
113. https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/january-2015/st-lawrence-string-quartet StanfordLive calendar, 18 January 2015
114. News: Review: John Adams Unveils Scheherazade.2, an Answer to Male Brutality. The New York Times. Anthony Tommasini. March 28, 2015. March 28, 2015.
115. https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jul/02/john-luther-adams-music-across-the-distance-southbank Tom Service, 'John Luther Adams: a force of nature'. The Guardian (music blog), 2 July 2015
116. News: Erica Jeal . Last Night of the Proms review – Alsop controls the crowd with ease . The Guardian . September 13, 2015 . September 14, 2015.
117. News: London Philharmonic Orchestra and Carolin Widmann, Royal Festival, Hall, review: 'divine' . Telegraph . Ivan Hewett . March 15, 2015 . March 15, 2015.
118. News: [Arditti Quartet; Nash Ensemble reviews – New music from Jarrell, Birtwistle, Woolrich and Anderson | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=November 8, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015].
119. News: BBCNOW/Søndergård review – the Albert Hall's great beast is unleashed . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . September 4, 2015 . September 7, 2015.
120. http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/19/0730/PM/Takacs-Quartet/ Takács Quartet
121. http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/applegate-cathy-piano-concertantrum Australian Music Centre, entry on Piano Concertantrum
122. News: BBCSO/Volkov review: charming, witty and disconcerting . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . October 9, 2015 . October 10, 2015.
123. https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/efnrzc#b068s64k Prom 69, BBC Proms/BBC Radio 3, 6 September 2015
124. Web site: 'Objects at an Exhibition', Science Museum, London. May 26, 2020.
125. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05406wk BBC Radio 3, Choral Evensong, 4 March 2015
126. News: BBC Philharmonic/Mena review – a palpable sense of commitment . The Guardian . George Hall . August 3, 2015 . August 3, 2015.
127. http://www.ldsm.org.uk/international-festival/2015-08-04-apollo-saxophone-quartet Lake District Summer Music programme, 4 August 2015
128. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/gramophone-guest-blog/how-i-wrote-the-music-for-the-reinterment-of-king-richard-iii Judith Bingham, "How I wrote the music for the reinterment of King Richard III"
129. News: The Corridor/The Cure review – Birtwistle unveils lyrical sequel to Orpheus story . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . June 14, 2015 . June 14, 2015.
130. http://sverigesradio.se/diverse/appdata/isidor/files/3991/15193.pdf Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra programme, 22/23 October 2015
131. News: BBCNOW/Brabbins/A Violence of Gifts review – particle physics complexity . The Guardian . Rian Evans . April 19, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
132. http://www.collegiumvocale.com/fr/saisons/738-sonnets-to-sundry-notes Collegium Vocale Gent
133. News: Proms First Night review: off to a flying start . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . July 17, 2015 . July 22, 2015.
134. News: Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble. The New York Times. David Allen. March 9, 2015. March 19, 2015.
135. News: Friedrich Cerha Day review – a fuller picture of the man who finished Lulu . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . October 12, 2015 . October 17, 2015.
136. News: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Volkov review – a musical bomb showering its listeners with shrapnel . The Guardian . Alfred Hickling . April 10, 2015 . April 12, 2015.
137. News: Three Choirs Festival presents the following events for today . Hereford Times . August 1, 2015 . August 3, 2015.
138. News: Red Note/Griffyn Ensemble review – two premieres and performances worlds apart . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . October 26, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
139. http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2015/05/clynes-introspective-seamstress-could-use-more-stitchwork-in-mixed-cso-premiere/ Lawrence A Johnson, 'Clyne's Seamstress could use more stitchwork in mixed CSO premiere'. Chicago Classical Review, 29 May 2015
140. https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9v5v2 'BBC Singers at RAF Museum' programme, 18 September 2015
141. Web site: London Sinfonietta programme, 10 October 2015 . October 17, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150911221059/http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/feldman-for-samuel-beckett . September 11, 2015 . dead .
142. Web site: Carnegie Hall programme, 12 November 2015 . November 26, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117051719/http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/12/0730/PM/Isabel-Leonard-Sharon-Isbin/ . November 17, 2015 . dead .
143. News: NYO/Elder review – remarkable, electrifying Mahler and enchanting Tansy Davies . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . August 7, 2015 . August 8, 2015.
144. Basque National Orchestra to requiere [sic] "Pensieri, rhapsody for flute and orchestra" by Luis de Pablo ]. Basque National Orchestr a. October 28, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
145. News: L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall . Los Angeles Times . Mark Swed . May 29, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
146. News: Shelley's NACO debut haunting, vaguely menacing and powerful . Ottawa Citizen . Natasha Gautier . September 17, 2015 . September 23, 2015.
147. http://neueoperwien.at/node/111/programm/theaterzettel/deutsch Neue Oper Wien programme, 21 April 2015
148. News: Review: Jay Campbell, the Cellist, Displays Strengths at Weill Recital Hall . The New York Times. Anthony Tommasini. December 7, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
149. http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/1122/london/cadogan_hall/3_september_2015/ellin_conducts_dvorak Philharmonia Orchestra, programme for 3 September 2015, Cadogan Hall
150. http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/2/14/0800/PM/Ian-Shafer-Oboe-Voxare-String-Quartet/ Ian Shafer, oboe; Voxare String Quartet
151. News: Musiker, jetzt übernehmt ihr! . Süddeutsche Zeitung . Rita Argauer . June 30, 2015 . August 3, 2015.
152. Web site: Casa Ricordi catalogue.
153. Web site: Casa Ricordi catalogue.
154. News: BBCSSO/Volkov review – Sibelius that didn't shake the soul as it should . The Guardian . Martin Kettle . August 17, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
155. News: Concert review: Pittsburgh Symphony ends season on a bang . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Elizabeth Bloom . June 13, 2015 . September 18, 2015.
156. News: Alan Fletcher and Bill Morrison collaboration to premiere in Aspen . The Aspen Times . Andrew Travers . July 10, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
157. https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/embfxj#b062jlwm BBC Proms 2015, 20 July 2015 programme, Cadogan Hall
158. http://seenandheard-international.com/2015/02/an-excellent-new-violin-concerto-unveiled-in-london/ Seen and Heard International Blog, "An Excellent New Violin Concerto Unveiled in London". 19 February 2015
159. Web site: Toronto Symphony Orchestra programme note, 28 February 2015 . March 8, 2015 . https://archive.today/20150309202444/http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/Discover-the-music/Programme-Notes/Violin-Concerto-No-2-Of-Snow-and-Ice.aspx?eventID=15546 . March 9, 2015 . dead .
160. http://bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/program_notes/20150326.pdf Boston Symphony Orchestra programme note, 26–31 March 2015
161. News: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival features the largest ensemble the event ever organized . Albuquerque Journal . David Steinberg . July 12, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
162. https://www.eamdc.com/news/santa-fe-chamber-music-festival-premieres-two-works-by-alexander-goehr/ 'Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Premieres Two New Works by Alexander Goehr'. Schott EAM page, 1 July 2015
163. News: Percussionist Claire Edwardes hits the right notes, on anything . The Australian. Leta Keens . June 29, 2015 . September 18, 2015.
164. News: Halle/Stenz review – Grime's double concerto is ambitious and formally satisfying . The Guardian . Alfred Hickling . May 8, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
165. News: Prom 5: BBC Phil/Currie/Storgårds review – compelling percussion playing . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . July 21, 2015 . July 22, 2015.
166. http://www.universaledition.com/bdquo-I-t-breathe-ldquo-for-solo-trumpet-Georg-Friedrich-Haas/composers-and-works/composer/278/work/13965 Universal Edition page on "I can't breathe"
167. http://www.universaledition.com/Saxophone-Quartet-Georg-Friedrich-Haas/composers-and-works/composer/278/work/14497 Universal Edition page on Georg Friedrich Haas' Saxophone Quartet
168. http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/Discover-the-music/Programme-Notes/Lieder-und-Arien.aspx?eventID=15554 Toronto Symphony Orchestra programme note
169. http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/thomas-hampson-jennifer-higdons-civil-words/ WQXR, New York City, "Thomas Hampson Premieres Jennifer Higdon's Civil Words", 9 February 2015
170. News: Jennifer Higdon's Viola Concerto premieres at Curtis Chamber program . Washington Post . Joan Reinthaler . March 8, 2015 . March 19, 2015.
171. News: Soldered Schumann/Silvered Schubert review – idiomatic and radical reworkings . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . February 16, 2015 . February 28, 2015.
172. News: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Manze review – Holloway premiere lets tuba sing . The Guardian . Alfred Hickling . October 9, 2015 . October 17, 2015.
173. Web site: Evocative Russian classics . . March 27, 2015 . April 3, 2015.
174. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qppzn BBC Radio 3, Performing Miracles, 5 May 2015
175. News: Carl St.Clair, James Ehnes and the Pacific Symphony give premiere of violin concerto by James Newton Howard . Orange Country Register . Timothy Mangan . March 13, 2015 . March 28, 2015.
176. News: Lucerne summer festival 2015 review – reasons to be cheerful, and tearful . The Observer . Fiona Maddocks. Fiona Maddocks . September 6, 2015 . September 18, 2015.
177. News: The NJSO plays Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Kubian . The Star-Ledger . Ronni Reich . March 24, 2015 . March 28, 2015.
178. Lucerne Festival Academy programme, August 23, 2015
179. http://www.songfest.us/calendar/2015/6/12/recital-the-songs-of-libby-larsen-featuring-a-world-premiere-of-the-birth-song-cycle Songfest programme note
180. News: Screaming from the shore . Limelight Magazine . Maxim Boon . April 21, 2015 . September 18, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150915104348/http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/screaming-shore . September 15, 2015 . dead .
181. News: BCMG/Ollu review – consummate expertise with teeming, tangled Boulez . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . July 27, 2015 . July 29, 2015.
182. https://www.philharmonie.lu/en/programm/luxembourg-opl-pascal-schumacher/496 Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra programme, 16 January 2015
183. News: London Sinfonietta/De Ridder review – one of their best performances in years . The Guardian . Guy Dammann . March 1, 2015 . March 8, 2015.
184. News: LPO/Jurowski review – all on the cool side . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . January 29, 2015 . February 20, 2015.
185. News: Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere . The New York Times. Zachary Woolfe . Zachary Woolfe . November 11, 2015 . November 21, 2015.
186. News: RLPO/MacMillan review – an uncompromising tapestry of orchestral colour . The Guardian . Alfred Hickling . March 30, 2015 . April 4, 2015.
187. News: BBCSSO/Runnicles review – MacMillan premiere and the raw power of Mahler . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . August 4, 2015 . August 8, 2015.
188. News: The Pied Piper of Hamelin review – Matthews's tale is beautifully judged . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . February 9, 2015 . February 10, 2015.
189. http://www.fabermusic.com/news/effortless-yet-highly-accomplished-invention-david-matthews-symphony-no-820042015 Faber Music page on David Matthews' Symphony No 8, 20 April 2015
190. News: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, CBSO Centre, review: 'a lucky-dip programme' . Telegraph . John Allison . November 16, 2015 . December 5, 2015.
191. News: Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – memorable for all the right reasons . The Guardian . George Hall . August 3, 2015 . August 3, 2015.
192. http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/news/3124 News – Premiere of Nico Muhly's Viola Concerto
193. News: Nézet-Séguin, Orchestra deliver smart takes on Muhly, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich . Philadelphia Inquirer . David Patrick Stearns . May 14, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
194. News: Britten Sinfonia/Davies/Muhly review – Turing tribute celebratory yet sorrowful . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . June 7, 2015 . June 14, 2015.
195. Web site: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, 5 December 2015 programme . December 5, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160809205856/http://www.bcmg.org.uk/whats-on/bcmg-on-tour-2015-16/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/ . August 9, 2016 . dead .
196. http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/54375 Music Sales Classical page on Acequias
197. News: Review: 'Canta-Concerto' by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic . The New York Times. Anthony Tommasini. October 2, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
198. News: Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' . Los Angeles Times . Mike Boehm . January 31, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
199. News: Review: Utah Symphony, percussionist Colin Currie flip the 'Switch' on an electrifying world premiere . Salt Lake Tribune . Catherine Reese Newton . November 6, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
200. http://nyphil.org/~/media/pdfs/program-notes/1516/Norman-Split.pdf New York Philharmonic programme note on Andrew Norman's Split, December 2015
201. http://www.eif.co.uk/2015/fourseasons#.VgMtfPVdGUk Edinburgh International Festival programme listing, 26 August 2015
202. Web site: Vienna Symphony Fridays@7 programme, 9 January 2015 . February 15, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150215205733/http://www.wienersymphoniker.at/concert/pid/000000e9h5850001b9d7 . February 15, 2015 . dead .
203. http://www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/programm/info/1891/ Staatstheater Karlsruhe page on 8/9 March 2015 programme
204. http://www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/programm/info/1904/ Badische Staatskapelle programme, 23 June 2015
205. http://www.nmz.de/online/die-liederwerkstatt-des-kissinger-sommers-ist-immer-fuer-ueberraschungen-gut 'Die "LiederWerkstatt" des Kissinger Sommers ist immer für Überraschungen gut'. NMZ Online, 8 July 2015
206. https://web.archive.org/web/20151207155624/http://www.fondazionevedova.org/en/node/387 'Vedova and the musical avant-garde' programme
207. https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edb38g#p02ltrmf BBC Symphony Orchestra, 13 March 2015
208. http://www.juilliard.edu/sites/juilliard.edu/files/wysiwyg-files/2015_11_17_nje_program_fin.pdf New Juilliard Ensemble, 17 November 2015 programme
209. http://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Sean-Shepherd-Concerto-for-Ensemble-premiere-in-Paris/100663 Boosey & Hawkes, "Sean Shepherd: Concerto for Ensemble premiere in Paris"
210. News: FLUX Quartet premieres composer's second string quartet . Albuquerque Journal . David Steinberg . August 2, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
211. News: BBCSSO/Litton review – exhilarating, until it became exhausting . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . April 3, 2015 . April 4, 2015.
212. News: The Immortal/Mark Simpson review – a blazingly original oratorio . The Guardian . Alfred Hickling . July 5, 2015 . July 7, 2015.
213. News: Rhythmically complex world premiere leads off LACO's new season . Los Angeles Times . Richard S Ginell . September 20, 2015 . September 23, 2015.
214. http://www.universaledition.com/Johannes-Maria-Staud/composers-and-works/composer/2231/work/14687 Universal Edition page on Moment, Leute, Moment!
215. http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/musique-de-chambre/14107-messages-et-esquisses-hommage-pierre-boulez?date=1427032800 Philharmonie de Paris, 22 March 2015 programme
216. Musica2015 Ensemble Modern programme, September 19, 2015
217. Kölner Philharmonie programme, September 20, 2015
218. News: Tan Dun en Spanjaard overrompelen opnieuw . Guido van Oorschot . De Volksrant . February 2, 2015 . February 6, 2015.
219. News: Review: A 'screen test' for Chamber Orchestra . Peter Dobrin . Philadelphia Inquirer . September 22, 2015 . September 23, 2015.
220. News: Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Booth review – Julian Anderson curates an illuminating and unexpected programme . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . July 9, 2015 . July 12, 2015.
221. https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/en48gw#b064wwz3 BBC Proms, Proms Chamber Music 4, 10 August 2015, Cadogan Hall
222. News: Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Connolly review – Weir's song cycle is sweet but never saccharine . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . June 8, 2015 . June 14, 2015.
223. Web site: Kimito Island Music Festival, 7.7.2015 programme, Kimito Church . January 2, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160105153345/http://www.kimitomusicfestival.fi/kantaesitykset.html . January 5, 2016 . dead .
224. Web site: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, 'Letters from the Front' . September 18, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151006133659/https://www.nzso.co.nz/enotesmichaelw/ . October 6, 2015 . dead .
225. http://www.birminghamweekender.com/whats-on/all-shows/requiem-to-let Birmingham Weekender, Requiem to Let
226. News: Prom 7: BBCSO/Davis/Simpson review – Hugh Wood draws inspiration from Donne . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . July 23, 2015 . August 3, 2015.
227. News: BBCSO/Gardner review – poetic rendering of loss and remembering . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . August 26, 2015 . September 4, 2015.
228. https://web.archive.org/web/20150219202212/http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-philharmonic-orchestra-july15/#.Ve98Tn1H7cg Aspen Music Festival
229. News: Opera: Trouble on the operatic mountains . Dallas Morning News . Scott Cantrell . January 31, 2015 . February 10, 2015.
230. http://www.teatro-real.com/en/espectaculos/1838 Teatro Real page on El Público
231. News: Palm Beach Opera's 'Enemies, a Love Story' debut a compelling theatrical experience . Palm Beach Daily News . Robert Croan . February 21, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
232. News: The Manchurian Candidate, Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul. The New York Times. Anthony Tommasini. Anthony Tommasini. March 9, 2015. March 15, 2015.
233. News: Between Worlds review – nothing like as affecting as it ought to be . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . April 12, 2015 . April 12, 2015.
234. News: The Virtues of Things review – clear-sighted tale of a family facing the future . The Guardian . George Hall . May 3, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
235. News: Guerilla's 'Pedr Solis' full of energy and drama . Boston Globe . Matthew Guerrieri . May 17, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
236. News: Crossing (BOSTON, American Repertory Theater) . Opera News . Fred Cohn . May 27, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
237. News: Review: 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird' soars . Philadelphia Inquirer . Peter Dobrin . June 6, 2015 . June 20, 2015.
238. News: Two Women (La Ciociara) . Opera News . Georgia Rowe . June 13, 2015 . June 20, 2015.
239. News: Composer connects with his life in 'Morning Star' opera . Cincinnati Enquirer . Janelle Gelfand . June 28, 2015 . June 29, 2015.
240. News: Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold . The Guardian . Rian Evans . July 7, 2015 . July 7, 2015.
241. http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/review-the-long-walk-opera-saratoga-71015/38454/ Joseph Dalton, "Review: “The Long Walk” @ Opera Saratoga 7/10/15". Albany Times-Union (blog post), 11 July 2015
242. News: 'Scalia/Ginsburg': An affectionate comic opera look at the high court . Washington Post . Philip Kennicott . July 12, 2015 . August 8, 2015.
243. News: Review: Compelling new opera, 'Fallout,' revisits 1960s, dangers of pesticides . Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Mark Kanny . July 19, 2015 . July 22, 2015.
244. News: 'Cold Mountain' opera review: Long-lost love among the ruins . Santa Fe New Mexican . James M Keller . August 2, 2015 . August 3, 2015.
245. News: The Last Hotel review – a searingly powerful new chamber opera . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . August 11, 2015 . September 1, 2015.
246. News: Notorious, Gothenburg Opera, Sweden – review . Financial Times . Guy Dammann . September 21, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
247. News: 'O Columbia' and 'Sweeney Todd' Reviews . Wall Street Journal . Heidi Waleson . September 28, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
248. News: Review: 'Appomattox' at the Kennedy Center . The New York Times . Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim . November 15, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
249. News: Morgen und Abend review – birth, death and the longueurs in between . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . November 15, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
250. News: Heggie's Great Scott fumbles effort to team up opera, football . San Francisco Chronicle . Joshua Kosman . October 31, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
251. News: Becoming Santa Claus . Opera News . Scott Cantrell . December 4, 2015 . December 19, 2015.
252. News: Lyric Opera Seeks to Reassure Patrons Over a Work that Mirrors the Terror Out There . The New York Times . Michael Cooper . December 4, 2015 . December 6, 2015.
253. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/spielplan/Spielplandetail.en.php?eventid=963509887 Vienna State Opera page
254. News: Havergal Brian: The Tigers CD review – 1983 recording is vivid rather than refined . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . January 14, 2015 . January 21, 2015.
255. News: Kaija Saariaho: Émilie Suite; Quatre Instants; Terra Memoria CD review – in a pastel mood . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . January 15, 2015 . January 21, 2015.
256. News: Eriks Esenvalds: Northern Lights CD review – relentless rapture . The Observer . Stephen Pritchard . January 25, 2015 . February 10, 2015.
257. News: Saunders: Fletch; Mason: String Quartet No 2 etc CD review – naggingly memorable . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . January 29, 2015 . January 31, 2015.
258. News: Hasse: Siroe, re di Persia CD review – more bravura than refinement . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . January 29, 2015 . February 6, 2015.
259. News: Lim: The Compass; Pearl, Ochre, Hair String; The Guest CD review – ambitious, eruptive orchestral works . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . January 29, 2015 . February 6, 2015.
260. News: Volans: Trio Concerto; Symphony: Daar kom die Alibama etc CD review – exhilarating and dramatic . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . February 5, 2015 . February 6, 2015.
261. News: Capuano, Rubino: Requiem CD review – a tale of two Sicilian requiems . The Observer . Stephen Pritchard . February 8, 2015 . February 10, 2015.
262. News: Steffani: Niobe, Regina di Tebe CD review – awkwardness and elegance in an early music curio . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . February 12, 2015 . February 15, 2015.
263. News: Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No 2 I Profeti; Concerto Italiano CD review – Tianwa Yang shows prowess . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . February 12, 2015 . February 15, 2015.
264. News: Medtner: Piano Sonatas; Ein Idyll CD review – Alessandro Taverna goes from strength to strength . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . February 12, 2015 . February 15, 2015.
265. News: Romance oubliée CD review – miniatures as rich as stories . The Guardian . Fiona Maddocks. Fiona Maddocks . February 12, 2015 . February 15, 2015.
266. News: Dennehy: Crane; O; The Vandal; Hive CD review – impressive range from the Irish composer . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . February 19, 2015 . February 20, 2015.
267. http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/culture-club/opera-theatre-of-st-louis-has-a-release-party-for/article_d9d3e92d-675f-5ecb-a284-2bf5e6d9fba1.html Sarah Bryan Miller, "Opera Theatre of St. Louis has a release party for '27' CD". Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, "Culture Club" blog, 19 February 2015
268. News: Andre: ...auf... CD review – alienated textures . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . February 26, 2015 . February 28, 2015.
269. News: David: Le Desert CD review – coherent and compact . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . February 26, 2015 . February 28, 2015.
270. News: Gordon: Dystopia; Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony CD review – moments of striking beauty . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . March 4, 2015 . March 8, 2015.
271. News: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 (1879 version) CD review – refinement, strength and commitment . The Observer . Fiona Maddocks. Fiona Maddocks . March 15, 2015 . March 15, 2015.
272. News: Abrahamsen: Four Pieces for Orchestra; Piano Concerto etc CD review – surprising and satisfying reworkings . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . March 18, 2015 . March 19, 2015.
273. News: Review: Missy Mazzoli's Unsettling 'Vespers for a New Dark Age'. The New York Times. Nate Chinen. March 30, 2015. April 4, 2015.
274. News: Dubois: Musique Sacrée et Symphonique CD review – top-class performances but the music is only occasionally striking . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . April 9, 2015 . April 18, 2015.
275. News: Wolfgang Rihm: Et Lux CD review – broad, generous textures . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . April 9, 2015 . April 12, 2015.
276. News: Storm: Judith Weir CD review – the BBC singers are invigorating and vibrant . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . April 30, 2015 . May 2, 2015.
277. News: Penderecki: Magnificat CD review – a peculiar and gripping mix played at full throttle . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . May 7, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
278. News: Birtwistle: Angel Fighter; In Broken Images; Virelais CD review – spare and strikingly original . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . May 14, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
279. News: Wennäkoski: Soie CD review – a major addition to the flute concerto repertoire . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . June 11, 2015 . June 14, 2015.
280. News: Various: Wartime Consolations CD review – gloomy meditations and fascinating finds . The Observer . Nicholas Kenyon . June 28, 2015 . June 29, 2015.
281. News: Coke: Preludes and Variations review – fevered chromaticism . The Observer . Stephen Pritchard . July 5, 2015 . July 7, 2015.
282. News: Renata Pokupić: Songs by Tomášek CD review – the eloquent mezzo shines a light on an eclipsed composer . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . July 9, 2015 . July 12, 2015.
283. News: Bob Chilcott: The Angry Planet review – touching innocence of young choirs . The Observer . Stephen Pritchard . July 12, 2015 . July 12, 2015.
284. News: Widmann: String Quartets CD review – jaw-dropping beauty, haunting textures . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . July 16, 2015 . July 22, 2015.
285. News: Adams: Absolute Jest; Grand Pianola Music CD review – musically serious but still enormous fun . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . July 29, 2015 . July 29, 2015.
286. News: Bacewicz: String Quartets Vol 1 CD review – joyful sonorities and dance rhythms . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . August 6, 2015 . August 8, 2015.
287. News: Chelys: Ayres by Christopher Simpson CD review – bringing the 17th-century viol to wonderfully supple life . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . August 6, 2015 . August 8, 2015.
288. News: Sadie Harrison: Solos and Duos for Piano and Strings CD review – glittering intensity . The Observer . Fiona Maddocks. Fiona Maddocks . August 23, 2015 . August 25, 2015.
289. News: Tishchenko: Piano Sonatas 7 & 8 CD review – fearless and penetrating playing . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . August 27, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
290. News: Brett Dean: Epitaphs, Eclipse (String Quartet No 1) etc CD review – tense, tender and original . The Observer . Fiona Maddocks. Fiona Maddocks . August 30, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
291. News: Lang, Berio, Olivero: Song of Songs CD review – full of surprises . The Observer . Fiona Maddocks. Fiona Maddocks . August 30, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
292. News: Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner CD review – preserves the subtlety of his last opera . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . September 2, 2015 . September 4, 2015.
293. News: Fenella Humphreys: Bach 2 the Future CD review – companion commissions rise to the challenge . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . September 3, 2015 . September 4, 2015.
294. News: Henderickx: Triptych CD review – beguiling Eastern soundscapes . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . October 1, 2015 . October 3, 2015.
295. News: Feldman: For Bunita Marcus review – fluidity and impatience from pianist Ivan Ilić . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . October 8, 2015 . October 17, 2015.
296. News: Jonathan Rathbone: Under the Shadow of His Wing CD review – seductively lush . The Observer . Stephen Pritchard . October 18, 2015 . October 24, 2015.
297. News: Holliger: Machaut Transcriptions review – two worlds collide . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . November 12, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
298. News: Adams: Ilimaq review – work of great power and surprising stark beauty . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . November 18, 2015 . November 21, 2015.
299. News: Gounod: La Colombe CD review: a charming rarity well served by Elder . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . November 25, 2015 . November 26, 2015.
300. News: Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Take Two CD review – beautifully played . The Guardian . Erica Jeal . November 26, 2015 . November 26, 2015.
301. News: Hosokawa: Voyage VIII; Stunden-Blumen; Voyage X etc review – airy and alert . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . December 3, 2015 . December 17, 2015.
302. News: Nyman: War Work review – an elegy to a lost generation . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . December 9, 2015 . December 17, 2015.
303. News: De Raaff: Waiting for Miss Monroe CD review – songs haunted by the ghost of Norma Jean . The Guardian . Andrew Clements . December 16, 2015 . December 17, 2015.
304. News: Jürg Frey: Third String Quartet CD review – an audaciously fragile performance . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . December 17, 2015 . December 19, 2015.
305. News: Kudirka: Beauty and Industry CD review – slow and starkly beautiful . The Guardian . Kate Molleson . December 17, 2015 . December 19, 2015.
306. http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2015/01/bob-gilmore-1961-2015.html Bob Gilmore (1961–2015)
307. http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2015-01-08/lawrence-gushee.html Lawrence Gushee
308. News: Colin Sauer, violinist – obituary . Telegraph . April 30, 2015 . May 2, 2015.
309. News: Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Countess and Fairy Godmother to the Arts, Dies at 82. The New York Times. Margalit Fox. Margalit Fox. January 18, 2015. January 21, 2015.
310. Web site: Mezzo Elena Obraztsova has died . Gramophone . January 12, 2015 . January 15, 2015.
311. Web site: Bob Keyes . Maine pianist, Bates artist-in-residence Frank Glazer dies at 99 . Portland Press-Herald . January 13, 2015 . January 15, 2015.
312. Web site: Tribute to Vera Gornostayeva . January 31, 2015 . February 1, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150201062836/http://www.bachauer.com/bachauer-news/tribute-to-vera-gornostayeva.html . dead .
313. News: Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 . Washington Post . Adam Bernstein . January 20, 2015 . January 21, 2015.
314. News: Conductor Israel Yinon has died . Gramophone . January 30, 2015 . January 31, 2015.
315. http://www.firenzepost.it/2015/02/01/morto-aldo-ciccolini-il-grande-pianista-che-amava-firenze-aveva-90-anni/ Morto Aldo Ciccolini, Il Grande Pianista Che Amava Firenze. Aveva 90 Anni
316. News: Arts critic Andrew Patner dies at 55; versatile Chicago writer, radio host . Chicago Sun-Times . Maureen O'Donnell and Miriam Di Nunzio . February 3, 2015 . February 6, 2015.
317. News: Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82. The New York Times. Margalit Fox. Margalit Fox. February 15, 2015. February 15, 2015.
318. Web site: Composer and pianist John McCabe dies aged 75 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230516211153/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31457464 . May 16, 2023 . live .
319. http://music.yale.edu/2015/03/01/memoriam-composer-ezra-laderman-90/ In memoriam: composer Ezra Laderman, 90
320. News: Jennifer Ward Clarke, cellist – obituary . Telegraph . David Allen . March 15, 2015 . March 19, 2015.
321. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11488381/Peter-Katin-pianist-obituary.html Peter Katin, pianist – obituary
322. http://www.georgetowner.com/articles/2015/mar/23/choral-arts-norman-scribner-1936-2015/ Choral Arts' Norman Scribner: 1936–2015
323. News: Opera world pays tribute to Germanwings crash victims Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . March 25, 2015 . March 28, 2015.
324. News: Obituary: Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist . The Scotsman . Alasdair Steven . March 31, 2015 . April 4, 2015.
325. News: Long-serving Boston Symphony violinist Ronald Knudsen dies aged 83 . The Strad . April 2, 2015 . April 4, 2015 . April 6, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150406162323/http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/long-serving-boston-symphony-violinist-ronald-knudsen-dies-aged-83/ . dead .
326. News: Dennis Marks obituary . The Guardian . John Abulafia and Humphrey Burton . April 9, 2015 . April 12, 2015.
327. News: Andrew Porter, 86, Longtime New Yorker Critic Whose Prose and Musical Discoveries Changed Opera, Has Died . Opera News . William R Braun . April 3, 2015 . April 12, 2015.
328. http://www.farodevigo.es/sociedad-cultura/2015/04/06/fallece-80-anos-compositor-palentino/1215087.html Fallece a los 80 años el compositor palentino Claudio Prieto
329. News: Brian Couzens, founder of Chandos, has died . Gramophone . Martin Cullingford . April 17, 2015 . April 18, 2015.
330. News: Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62. The New York Times. Margalit Fox. Margalit Fox. May 1, 2015. April 12, 2015.
331. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/fatal-yonkers-fire-ronald-senator-miriam-brickman/ "Famed Composer, Wife Killed In Yonkers House Fire". CBS TV, Channel 2 (New York City, NY, USA), 30 April 2015
332. News: Clarice Carson, Canadian soprano and opera great, dead at 85 . CBC . May 3, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
333. News: Composer Margaret Garwood dies at 88 . Philadelphia Inquirer . David Patrick Stearns . May 7, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
334. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/68426767/arts-icon-jack-body-has-died "Arts icon" Jack Body has died'
335. News: Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . May 23, 2015 . May 23, 2015.
336. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=174969767 Steven Gerber Obituary
337. News: Peter Cropper obituary . Tully Potter and John Caskem . June 4, 2015 . June 7, 2015.
338. News: Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . June 3, 2015 . June 7, 2015.
339. News: Günther Schneider-Siemssen Dies at 88; Envisioned Elaborate Opera Stage Sets . The New York Times . Michael Cooper . June 3, 2015 . June 7, 2015.
340. News: Margaret Juntwait, the Voice of the Met on Radio, Dies at 58 . The New York Times . James Barron . June 4, 2015 . June 7, 2015.
341. News: Ernest Tomlinson (1924–2015) has died at 90 . Classical Music Magazine . Katy Wright . June 12, 2015 . June 14, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150614071857/http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/06/ernest-tomlinson-1924-2015-has-died-at-90/ . June 14, 2015 .
342. News: Ronald Wilford, Manager of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 . The New York Times . Michael Cooper . June 13, 2015 . June 14, 2015.
343. News: Walter Weller . The Herald . Conrad Wilson . June 17, 2015 . June 20, 2015.
344. News: Neil Courtney, prominent bassist, dead at 82 . Philadelphia Inquirer . Peter Dobrin . June 19, 2015 . June 20, 2015.
345. News: Gunther Schuller Dies at 89; Composer Synthesized Classical and Jazz . The New York Times . Allan Kozinn. June 21, 2015 . June 22, 2015.
346. News: Noted violist Joseph de Pasquale dies at 95 . Philadelphia Inquirer . Peter Dobrin . June 23, 2015 . June 29, 2015.
347. http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/2015/07/farewell-to-wonderful-clarinettist.html Jessica Duchen, 'Farewell to a wonderful clarinettist' (blog entry), 23 July 2015
348. News: Edward Greenfield obituary . The Guardian . David McKie and Meirion Bowen . July 2, 2015 . July 7, 2015.
349. http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/plaisirs-du-quatuor/2015-2016/hommage-l-altiste-du-quatuor-artemis-09-13-2015-15-30 'Hommage à l'altiste du Quatuor Artemis', France Musique, 13 September 2015
350. News: Jon Vickers, 88, Heroic Canadian Tenor, Has Died . Opera News . William R Braun . July 11, 2015 . July 12, 2015 . July 12, 2015 . https://archive.today/20150712025158/http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/7/News/Jon_Vickers_Tenor_Obituary.html . dead .
351. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/alan-curtis-scholar-harpsichordist-and-conductor-has-died Alan Curtis, scholar, harpsichordist and conductor, has died
352. News: Ky Opera's Roth recalled as artistic risk-taker . Louisville Courier Journal . Elizabeth Kramer . July 20, 2015 . September 1, 2015.
353. http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/chicago-sinfonietta-founder-maestro-paul-freeman-dies/873448/ Chicago Sinfonietta founder Maestro Paul Freeman dies
354. News: Vera Stern, Arts Advocate Who Helped Save Carnegie Hall, Dies at 88 . The New York Times. William Grimes. July 22, 2015 . December 30, 2015.
355. News: Vic Firth, 85; was celebrated BSO timpanist and drumstick maker . Boston Globe . Jeremy Eichler . July 29, 2015 . July 29, 2015.
356. News: Pianist Ivan Moravec has died . Gramophone . James Jolly . July 27, 2015 . July 29, 2015.
357. Web site: J. Durward Morsch . August 8, 2015 . September 5, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905075119/http://gazette.com/deaths-for-august-5-2015/article/1556820 . dead .
358. News: John Scott obituary . The Guardian . Malcolm Archer . August 19, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
359. News: Roger Smalley obituary . The Guardian . Meirion Bowen . September 1, 2015 . September 1, 2015.
360. News: Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director – obituary . Telegraph . August 28, 2015 . September 1, 2015.
361. News: A tribute to Francis Dillnutt, EMI recording engineer . Gramophone . Ken Townsend . October 20, 2015 . October 24, 2015.
362. News: George Cleve, Conductor Who Interpreted Mozart, Dies at 79 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . August 29, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
363. News: Concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko killed in her Manchester home . The Guardian . Jamie Grierson . August 31, 2015 . August 31, 2015.
364. News: Bruce Lawrence, former Seattle Symphony bassist, dies at 88 . Seattle Times . Tricia Romano . September 11, 2015 . September 14, 2015.
365. http://blog.scena.org/2015/09/in-memoriam-violinist-jacques.html 'In Memoriam: Violinist Jacques Israelievitch (May 6 1948 – Sept. 5 2015)'. La Scena Musicale blog, 6 September 2015
366. http://www.deadfamous.info/susan-allen-harpist-died-at-64 Susan Allen, harpist, died at 64
367. http://www.orgelenkerkmuziek.nl/orgelenkerkmuziek/orgelnieuws/761-cor-edskes-overleden Cor Edskes overleden
368. News: Sir David Willcocks obituary . The Guardian . Robert Tear . September 17, 2015 . September 18, 2015.
369. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11899315/Alexander-Faris-composer-obituary.html Alexander Faris, composer – obituary
370. News: Dieter Kober, longtime conductor of Chicago Chamber Orchestra, dies at 95 . Chicago Tribune . John von Rhein . October 7, 2015 . October 10, 2015.
371. https://www.metopera.org/News-Flash1/Met-News-Flash/Reinhardt-Elster/ Metropolitan Opera, 'Reinhardt Elster, 1914–2015'. October 2015
372. News: Duncan Druce, composer – obituary . Telegraph . October 16, 2015 . October 17, 2015.
373. News: Richard Horowitz, Timpanist and Craftsman of Conductors' Batons, Dies at 91 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . November 11, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
374. News: Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . November 15, 2015 . November 16, 2015.
375. News: Seymour Lipkin, Understated Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 88 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . November 19, 2015 . November 21, 2015.
376. News: Joseph Silverstein, 83; renowned violinist, BSO concertmaster . Boston Globe . Jeremy Eichler . November 24, 2015 . November 26, 2015.
377. News: Jouni Kaipainen . Helsingin Sanomat . Vesa Sirén . November 24, 2015 . November 26, 2015.
378. News: Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 . The New York Times . Bruce Weber . December 1, 2015 . December 5, 2015.
379. http://www.moogmusic.com/news/memoriam-john-eaton-1935-2015 Moog Music, 'In Memoriam: John Eaton (1935–2015)'
380. News: Rodney Milnes, opera critic – obituary . Telegraph . December 7, 2015 . December 17, 2015.
381. News: Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 . The New York Times . Margalit Fox . December 10, 2015 . December 12, 2015.
382. Web site: Manuel Brug, 'Stella Doufexis ist tot: eine meisterlich vielseite Mezzosopranistin'. Die Welt (Brugs Klassiker blog), 16 December 2015 . December 17, 2015 . December 19, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151219164833/http://klassiker.welt.de/2015/12/16/stella-doufexis-ist-tot-eine-meisterlich-vielseite-mezzosopranistin/ . dead .
383. News: Zangeres Aafje Heynis overleden . De Telegraaf . Thiemo Wind . December 18, 2015 . December 30, 2015.
384. News: Flemish composer Luc Brewaeys dies aged 56 . Flanders Today . Alan Hope . December 21, 2015 . December 30, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160505115204/http://www.flanderstoday.eu/arts/flemish-composer-luc-brewaeys-dies-aged-56 . May 5, 2016 .
385. News: Margalit Fox . Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic . The New York Times . December 19, 2015 . December 19, 2015.
386. News: John Duffy, a Composer Who Gave His Peers a Platform, Dies at 89 . The New York Times. William Grimes. December 28, 2015 . December 30, 2015.
387. http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Music The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners – Music
388. Web site: The Grawemeyer Awards, 'Rihm wins music prize for piece evoking "dark colors"', 1 December 2014 . November 26, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208073720/http://grawemeyer.org/rihm-wins-music-prize-for-piece-evoking-dark-colors/ . December 8, 2015 . dead .