It is with great pleasure that Music Sales can announce the signing of Paul Mealor. His choral music was featured at the recent Royal Wedding in Westminster Abbey, and a new CD 'A Tender Light' is released in November.

Bent Sørensen is composer-in-residence at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November with performances of his new accordion concerto, It is pain flowing down slowly on a white wall, and other works.

On July 27 2012 at 8:00 BST, a new work by Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed will be performed throughout the UK to celebrate the first day of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Dark Sisters, Nico Muhly's suspenseful and lyrical opera, about a woman's struggle with life and faith amongst a repressive religious sect, opens in New York on November 9.

The Boston SO will present the first performance of John Harbison's newest orchestral work, featuring a cimbalom and mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy.

There are a host of new exciting choral publications of old and new to check out, as well as a new BBC 2 TV series of The Choir with Gareth Malone featuring Music Sales composers.