For Associated Board Grade 8 (1999 and 2000) Piano Anthologies, apply to Peters Edition, London. Info on info@edition-peters.com .

and some information previously published here ...

Two new projects for complete editions of important composers of the past are announced. Barenreiter is to publish a complete Johann Strauss edition in 72 volumes. Breitkopf & Hartel has a complete Sibelius edition in hand.

United Music Publishers are now the sole UK distributor for the Australian catalogue Red House Editions which specialises in contemporary music.

The Kathryn Thomas Flute Competition 1999 has been won by Neil Crossland for his Reminiscenses for flute/alto flute and piano. Kathryn Thomas presents this work at the Purcell Room on 27 May.

As a flautist and founder member of the Galliard Ensemble, which is to record Paul Patterson's complete music for wind quintet for Meridian, Kathryn Thomas has been awarded a Young Musicians Trust Award and the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Maisie Lewis Young Artists' Award.

Stockport's Festival Chorus' Easter Singing Weekend will over three days rehearse and perform Britten's Cantata misericordium and Tippett's A Child of our Time. Details from www.stockport-festival-chorus.mcmail.com .