Composer Anna Clyne Celebrates a New Season of World Premieres, Partnerships and Album Releases

London-born, New York-based Anna Clyne is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists around the world. The GRAMMY-nominated and Ivor Novello Award-winning composer was named as the most performed living woman composer in the world this year by Bachtrack, and her cello concerto DANCE has been streamed over 13 million times on Spotify to a global audience. ‍ ‍

Anna Clyne’s upcoming season includes: ‍ ‍

• Composer in Residence for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 2026-27 Season

• World premiere of a new horn concerto - Sirens - with Ben Goldscheider and the London Mozart Players

• World premiere of Looking Glass for solo string quartet and Augmented Orchestra, at the new Schwarzman Centre in Oxford

• World premiere of an orchestral reimagining of Steve Reich’s Proverb by the Hallé, before the US premiere by the LA Phil

• German premiere of Quarter Days with the Elaia Quartet

CBSO Residency

As part of its ongoing commitment to championing living composers, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has appointed Clyne as Composer in Residence for the 2026–27 Season. Clyne’s music will feature across the orchestra’s programming, including major symphonic performances, a world‑premiere commission, and a new recording project. Highlights of the season include Restless Oceans conducted by CBSO Music Director Kazuki Yamada in September 2026, and Glasslands, performed by CBSO Collaborative Artist Jess Gillam under Alpesh Chauhan, with a Decca recording to follow. In March 2027, the orchestra will give the world premiere of a new Viola Concerto by Clyne - Resonant Forms - written for Lawrence Power. The residency also encompasses a range of partnerships and learning activity, including a performance of Clyne’s concerto for Augmented Orchestra - PALETTE – from the CBSO’s Orchestral Residency Scheme musicians in July 2027.

Anna also continues her roles as Cultural Fellow at the Schwarzman Centre in Oxford and as Visiting Fellow in Composition at Trinity Laban. ‍ ‍

Forthcoming premieres and performance highlights ‍ ‍

Sirens: world premiere - Ben Goldscheider / London Mozart Players ‍ ‍

Friday 8 May, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London‍ ‍

Written for Ben Goldscheider, Clyne’s new horn concerto Sirens takes inspiration from the mythical figures whose voices enticed sailors toward their fate. The work will receive its Australian premiere from the Omega Ensemble in Melbourne (22 September) and Sydney (25 September).‍ ‍

Sound and Fury: James Gaffigan / Chicago Symphony Orchestra ‍ ‍

Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 May, Symphony Center, Chicago‍ ‍

“The dissonant conclusion reflects the bleakness of the lines from Macbeth that provide its title,” noted The Times. Clyne’s Sound and Fury – for chamber orchestra with speaker or tape - draws from both musical and literary sources: Haydn’s Symphony No. 60 (“Il Distratto”) and Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In the fifth section, the last soliloquy delivered by Macbeth upon learning of his wife’s death is heard. ‍ ‍

Quarter Days: German premiere - Elaia Quartet‍ ‍

Friday 12 June, Stadt Göttingen‍ ‍

Clyne’s work for string quartet and chamber orchestra reflects on the passing of time. The title - Quarter Days - reflects the cycle of solstices and equinoxes that divide the year into four distinct seasonal turning points: Autumn Equinox, Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. These seasonal markers form the four movements of the piece. ‍ ‍

Looking Glass: world premiere - Ensemble Isis / Adler Quartet / Alpesh Chauhan ‍ ‍

Wednesday 24 June, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford‍ ‍

Clyne’s Looking Glass for solo string quartet and Augmented Orchestra presents an imaginary musical landscape that references Lewis Carroll and the play of light as it reflects and refracts across surfaces. The world premiere will take place at the recently opened Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford, where Clyne is a Cultural Fellow. Described by The Times as “an intellectual powerhouse with heart,” the building itself echoes the work’s themes with its expansive windows and stained glass.‍ ‍

Masquerade: Los Angeles Philharmonic / Marin Alsop‍ ‍

Tuesday 28 July,Hollywood Bowl, LA‍ ‍

Clyne’s sparkling orchestral work Masquerade – originally composed for the Last Night of the Proms – opens the famous Hollywood Bowl in July, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Marin Alsop.

Woman of the Mountain: German premiere – Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Kazuki Yamada ‍ ‍

Sunday 4 October, Philharmonie, Berlin‍ ‍

Following the world premiere of Clyne’s five-part tone poem Woman of the Mountain by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in April, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester present the Berlin German premiere, conducted by Kazuki Yamada. ‍ ‍

The Seven Ravens: world premiere - Calidore String Quartet ‍ ‍

Saturday 10 October, Konserthuset Stockholm‍ ‍

Inspired by a classic fairytale collected by the Brothers Grimm, Clyne’s new string quartet, The Seven Ravens, follows the story of a young girl who saves her seven brothers after their father, in a moment of anger, curses them to become ravens. ‍ ‍

Proverb: world premiere - Hallé ‍ ‍

Thursday 5 November, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester‍ ‍

Sunday 7 March 2026, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA‍ ‍

Clyne creates an orchestral version of Steve Reich’s Proverb, the composer’s 1995 work for three sopranos, two tenors, two vibraphones and two electric organs. First premiered in New York in 1996, the piece is built around a short text by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Clyne’s orchestral arrangement receives its world premiere with the Hallé, before being given its US premiere by the LA Philharmonic. ‍ ‍

Further highlights include; the Belgian premiere of Sound and Fury by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra led by Stephanie Childress (31 October), a performance of Masquerade by the Dresdner Philharmonie conducted by Marin Alsop (7 February), the Dutch premiere of Restless Oceans by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert (21 April), and the French premiere of Clyne’s clarinet concerto, Weathered, by the Orchestre de Paris with Martin Fröst (19 May). ‍ ‍

Album releases ‍ ‍

Clyne’s music is featured on a number of recent album releases; ‍ ‍

• Clyne received an Ivor Novello Award for her new choral composition, Orbits - commissioned, premiered, and recorded by The Sixteen for their Choral Pilgrimage album on CORO.

• A new recording of Clyne’s cello concerto, DANCE, is out now on Challenge Records– featuring cellist Maja Bogdanović and the Phion Symphony Orchestra led by Xandi van Dijk.

• And Abstractions, a portrait album recorded by Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Naxos, was named as one of the Top Ten Classical Tracks of 2025 by NPR and the Top Ten Classical Recordings of 2025 by Presto Music.‍ ‍

Recent Highlights ‍ ‍

Recent standout performances include the world premiere of Women of the Mountain with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (23 March), a work Clyne describes as “evoking the journey of an extraordinary woman navigating the forces of the natural world in a quest for love, as she ascends to a mountain’s summit.” The work will also be performed at the Sun Valley Music Festival on 3 August. ‍

On 10 December 2025, Clyne’s Restless Oceans was performed at the Nobel Prize award ceremony. ‍ ‍

This Moment, inspired by the writing of Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, received its French premiere at the Philharmonie de Paris (17 January); the German premiere of Clyne’s first piano concerto ATLAS was given by the Göttinger Symphonieorchester conducted by Nicholas Milton (20 March); and The Years - written during the COVID‑19 pandemic as a reflection on the shared experience of enforced isolation - received its US premiere with the Charlotte Symphony and Charlotte Master Chorale under Stephanie Rhodes Russell (9 April).

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Upcoming performances of Anna’s works can be found here: https://www.annaclyne.com/events‍ ‍

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