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Choir & Organ is the leading independent magazine for all professionals and amateurs in the choral and organ worlds – whether you are an organist, choral director or singer, organ builder, keen listener, or work in publishing or the record industry, Choir & Organ is a must-read wherever you live and work.

Every two months our expert contributors bring you beautifully illustrated features on newly built and restored organs, insights into the lives and views of leading organists, choral directors and composers, profiles of pioneering and well-established choirs, and topical coverage of new research, festivals and exhibitions. In keeping with our commitment to music at the cutting edge, we commission a new work from a young composer in every issue, making the score freely available for download and performance.

Our international news and previews, with breaking stories, key awards and forthcoming premieres, combine with reviews of the latest CDs, DVDs and sheet music, and listings of recitals, festivals and courses, to keep you up to date with events and developments around the world.

New Music

New Music is a series of specially commissioned pieces for choir or organ written by some of the most talented young composers around.

In every issue of Choir & Organ magazine, you'll find a profile of the composer providing an insight into the new work. Here on the New Music web page you'll find the score in PDF format ready to download to your printer.

Scores are licensed for six months' free use – you can print as many copies as you want – before the copyright reverts to the composer. After that date, copies must be ordered from the composer.

New Music brings cutting-edge yet approachable scores direct to your desktop. We hope that you'll be inspired to perform them as widely as possible. Why not download the latest score now?

In 2013, our choral works arise from our partnership with the BBC Singers. New Music features chosen items from a series of workshops held by the BBC Singers, together with interviews with the composers and feedback from the Singers. And here online you can download notes for conductors on preparing the pieces, and listen to the BBC Singers performing the work featured.

Maggie Hamilton
Editor - Choir & Organ

The BBC Singers

As a vital resource in the BBC's music output, the BBC Singers hold a unique position in British musical life. Performing everything from Byrd to Birtwistle, Tallis to Takemitsu, the versatility of this 24-voice ensemble is second to none.

The choir's unrivalled expertise in performing the latest contemporary scores has brought about creative relationships with some of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries - including Poulenc, Britten and Boulez.
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www.bbc.co.uk/singers

Paul Brough

Paul Brough has conducted many of the UK's leading ensembles, including a seven-season partnership with the Hanover Band, of which he was Principal Conductor, 2007-10. In 2007, he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for "distinction in the music profession" and was appointed joint Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers in January 2011.
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www.paulbrough.co.uk