:2015 in classical music

• January 14 – Opening night gala concert at the Philharmonie de ParisTom Service, [https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2015/jan/15/la-philharmonie-de-paris-new-musical-social-future-paris "La Philharmonie de Paris: is this a new musical and social future for Paris?"] The Guardian (Tom Service on classical music blog), January 15, 2015.
• January 15 – The Alabama Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Carlos Izcaray as its next music director, as of September 2015.{{cite news | url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/alabama_symphony_orchestra_cho.html | title=Alabama Symphony Orchestra chooses Carlos Izcaray to succeed Justin Brown as music director | work=Birmingham News | author=Mary Colurso | date=January 15, 2015 | accessdate=February 28, 2015}}
• January 19 – The Basel Sinfonietta announces the appointment of Baldur Brönnimann as its first-ever principal conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.{{cite press release | url=http://www.baselsinfonietta.ch/site/assets/files/1350/mm_basel_sinfonietta_principal_conductor201415.pdf | title=Die Basel Sinfonietta ernennt gebürtigen Basler zum Principal Conductor und Schliesst erste Phase der Umstrukturierung AB | publisher=Basel Sinfonietta | date=January 19, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095847/http://www.baselsinfonietta.ch/site/assets/files/1350/mm_basel_sinfonietta_principal_conductor201415.pdf | url-status=dead }}
• January 23
• The Konzert Theater Bern announces the appointment of Kevin John Edusei as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2015–2016 season.{{cite press release | url=http://www.konzerttheaterbern.ch/fileadmin/content/pdf/MM_KTBern_Edusei_ab_15.16_Chefdirigent_der_Oper.pdf | title=Welcome Kevin John Edusei, Chefdirigent des Musiktheaters mit der Saison 15/16 am Konzert Theater Bern | publisher=Konzert Theater Bern | date=January 23, 2015 | accessdate=October 14, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100915/http://www.konzerttheaterbern.ch/fileadmin/content/pdf/MM_KTBern_Edusei_ab_15.16_Chefdirigent_der_Oper.pdf | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=https://www.stadt-brandenburg.de/presse/prof-peter-guelke-ab-01082015-neuer-chefdirigent-am-brandenburger-theater/ | title=Prof. Peter Gülke ab 01.08.2015 neuer Chefdirigent am Brandenburger Theater | publisher=Stadtverwaltung Brandenburg an der Havel | date=January 23, 2015 | accessdate=April 30, 2017}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.osr.ch/l-osr/actualites/welcome-to-jonathan-nott-new-music-and-artistic-director-of-the-osr | title=Welcome to Jonathan Nott, New Music and Artistic Director of the OSR | publisher=L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | date=January 28, 2015 | accessdate=January 31, 2015 | archive-url=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 | archive-date=March 12, 2015 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}
• 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.{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kennedy-center-names-mason-bates-as-composer-in-residence/2015/01/28/3b02e70a-a72f-11e4-a2b2-776095f393b2_story.html | title=Kennedy Center names Mason Bates as composer-in-residence | newspaper=Washington Post | author=Anne Midgette | date=January 28, 2015 | accessdate=January 31, 2015}}
• February 6:
• The Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra (Düsseldorfer Symphoniker) announces the appointment of Ádám Fischer as its next principal conductor.{{cite news | url=http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/kultur/die-heisse-phase-hat-begonnen-article1560313.html | title=Die heiße Phase hat begonnen | work=General Anzeiger Bonn | author=Bernhard Hartmann | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=October 28, 2015}}
• The New York Philharmonic announces that Alan Gilbert is to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director after the 2016–2017 season.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/arts/music/alan-gilbert-to-leave-new-york-philharmonic-in-2017.html|title=Alan Gilbert to Leave New York Philharmonic in 2017|author=Michael Cooper|work=The New York Times|date=February 6, 2015|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}
• February 8 – First US performance of the Felix Mendelssohn edition (1841, Leipzig) of the JS Bach St Matthew Passion{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150210_Review__A__St__Matthew_Passion__through_another_s_vision.html | title=Review: A 'St. Matthew Passion' through another's vision | author=David Patrick Stearns | work=Philadelphia Inquirer | date=February 10, 2015 | accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/12/english-national-opera-told-to-put-its-house-in-order | title=English National Opera told to put its house in order | author=Mark Brown | work=The Guardian | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.mso.org/news_press/press_releases/release?article=20150212 | title=Edo de Waart to become Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate in 2017 | publisher=Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=February 20, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032811/https://www.mso.org/news_press/press_releases/release?article=20150212 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://web.kennedy-center.org/~/media/Files/KC/Press%20Releases/February%202015%20Releases/ChristophEschenbachAnnouncement.pdf | title=Christoph Eschenbach to become NSO Conductor Laureate with 2017–2018 Season | publisher=National Symphony Orchestra | date=February 18, 2015 | accessdate=February 20, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220092548/http://web.kennedy-center.org/~/media/Files/KC/Press%20Releases/February%202015%20Releases/ChristophEschenbachAnnouncement.pdf | archive-date=February 20, 2015 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}
• February 22 – The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Linz Opera announce the appointment of Markus Poschner as their next chief conductor, effective in 2017.{{cite news | url=http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/kultur/Der-neue-Linzer-Opernchef-heisst-Markus-Poschner;art16,1657534 | title=Der neue Linzer Opernchef heißt Markus Poschner | author=Helmut Atteneder | work=Nachrichten | date=February 22, 2015 | accessdate=January 1, 2016}}
• February 26 – The BBC Philharmonic announces the appointment of Mark Simpson as its next Composer-in-Association, effective September 2015.{{cite press release | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/mark-simpson-bbc-phil | title=Mark Simpson named as BBC Philharmonic new composer | publisher=BBC Media Centre | date=February 26, 2015 | accessdate=February 28, 2015}}
• 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.[http://auckland.scoop.co.nz/2015/02/auckland-philharmonia-orchestra-announces-new-music-director/ "Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra announces new Music Director"], February 27, 2015.
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.memphissymphony.org/default.aspx?p=40728&naid=19528 | title=Memphis Symphony Announces 2015–2016 Season To Be Mei-Ann Chen's Final Season as Music Director | publisher=Memphis Symphony Orchestra | date=February 27, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.mayfestival.com/media/2511/022715conlonconcludestenureatmayfestival.pdf | title=James Conlon to conclude extraordinary era as Music Director of the Cincinnati May Festival | publisher=Cincinnati May Festival | date=February 27, 2015 | accessdate=January 2, 2016}}
• 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.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/03/simon-rattle-appointed-music-director-london-symphony-orchestra | title=Simon Rattle appointed music director of London Symphony Orchestra | work=The Guardian | author=Mark Brown | date=March 3, 2015 | accessdate=March 8, 2015}}
• 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.[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]
• March 6 – Palm Beach Opera announces the appointment of David Stern as its next music director, effective June 1, 2015.{{cite news | url=http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local/pb-opera-hires-chief-conductor/nkQGn/ | title=Palm Beach Opera hires chief conductor | work=Palm Beach Daily News | author=Jan Sjostrom | date=March 6, 2015 | accessdate=January 9, 2016}}
• March 9
• English National Opera announces the appointment of Cressida Pollock, a management consultant, as its interim CEO.{{cite press release | url=http://www.eno.org/press/cressida-pollock-appointed-as-eno-interim-chief-executive-officer | title=Cressida Pollock appointed as ENO Interim Chief Executive Officer | publisher=English National Opera | date=March 9, 2015 | accessdate=March 15, 2015}}
• 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.[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)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114724/http://www.lesarts.com/seccion%3D1237%26idioma%3Des_ES%26id%3D2015030918230001%26activo%3D7.do |date=March 4, 2016 }}, March 9, 2015.
• March 11
• The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Thomas Dausgaard as its 11th chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.{{cite press release | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/thomas-dausgaard-sso | title=BBC SSO new Chief Conductor announced at launch of orchestra's 2015/16 season | publisher=BBC Media Centre | date=March 11, 2015 | accessdate=March 15, 2015}}
• Simon Halsey is announced as the recipient of the Queen's Medal for Music 2014.{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/simon-halsey-awarded-the-queens-medal-for-music | title=Simon Halsey awarded the Queen's Medal for Music | work=Gramophone | date=March 11, 2015 | accessdate=March 15, 2015}}
• March 16 – Alan Buribayev becomes principal conductor of the Astana Opera House, Kazakhstan.{{Cite web |url=http://imgartists.com/news/alan_buribayev_named_principal_conductor_of_kazakhstans_astana_opera_house/ |title=IMG Artists agency, "Alan Buribayev Named Principal Conductor of Kazakhstan's Astana Opera House". 17 March 2015 |access-date=March 19, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141722/http://imgartists.com/news/alan_buribayev_named_principal_conductor_of_kazakhstans_astana_opera_house/ |url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/news/julian-lloyd-webber-appointed-as-new-principal-of-birmingham-conservatoire | title=Julian Lloyd Webber appointed as new Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire | publisher=Birmingham Conservatoire | date=March 18, 2015 | accessdate=April 3, 2015}}
• March 19 – The Montreal Symphony Orchestra announces a new five-year recording contract with Decca Records.{{cite press release | url=http://www.osm.ca/sites/default/files/salle-de-presse/cmq_osm_decca_fr.pdf | title=L'OSM heureux d'annoncer un partenariat de cinq ans avec Decca | publisher=Montreal Symphony Orchestra | date=March 19, 2015 | accessdate=April 3, 2015 | archive-date=April 8, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408181752/http://www.osm.ca/sites/default/files/salle-de-presse/cmq_osm_decca_fr.pdf | url-status=dead }}{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-montreal-symphony-return-to-decca | title=The Montreal Symphony return to Decca | work=Gramophone | date=March 25, 2015 | accessdate=April 4, 2015}}
• 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.[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] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612020440/http://www.kdschmid.de/newsdetail/items/Kazuki_Yamada_monte-carlo.html |date=June 12, 2015 }}
• The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces a new recording partnership with Deutsche Grammophon that focuses on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.{{cite press release | url=http://bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/uploads/press/DG-Shostakovich-release.pdf | title=Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons Announce a New Partnership with Deutsche Grammophon | publisher=Boston Symphony Orchestra | date=April 3, 2015 | accessdate=April 4, 2015}}
• April 9 – The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Nicholas Carter as its next chief conductor, with an initial contract of two years.{{cite news | url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/arts/adelaide-symphony-orchestras-new-principal-conductor-nicholas-carter-still-calls-australia-home/news-story/4c510901a3c34166a107a376d3d8da0b | title=Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's new principal conductor Nicholas Carter still calls Australia home | work=The Advertiser | author=Patrick McDonald | date=April 9, 2015 | accessdate=February 6, 2016}}
• April 14 – The Glenn Gould Foundation announces its selection of Philip Glass as the Eleventh Glenn Gould Prize Laureate.[http://www.glenngould.ca/eleventh-laureate-announced/ The Glenn Gould Foundation, "Eleventh Laureate Announced". 14 April 2015]
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://imgartists.com/news/pietari_inkinen_named_chief_conductor_of_japan_philharmonic_orchestra/ | title=Pietari Inkinen Named Chief Conductor of Japan Philharmonic Orchestra | publisher=IMG Artists | date=April 20, 2015 | accessdate=April 23, 2015 | archive-date=October 8, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008220522/http://imgartists.com/news/pietari_inkinen_named_chief_conductor_of_japan_philharmonic_orchestra/ | url-status=dead }}
• April 21 – Scottish Opera announces the appointment of Stuart Stratford as its next music director, effective June 1, 2015.{{cite press release | url=http://www.scottishopera.org.uk/news#3362 | title=Scottish Opera Welcomes Stuart Stratford as Music Director | publisher=Scottish Opera | date=April 21, 2015 | accessdate=May 2, 2015}}
• April 24 – The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic announces the appointment of Sir Andrew Davis as its new Conductor Emeritus.{{cite press release | url=http://www.liverpoolphil.com/16637/latest-press-releases/sir-andrew-davis-cbe-appointed-liverpool-philharmonic-conductor-emeritus.html | title=Sir Andrew Davis CBE appointed Liverpool Philharmonic Conductor Emeritus | publisher=Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | date= April 24, 2015 | accessdate=May 2, 2015}}
• April 28 – The Zurich Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Daniel Hope as its next music director, effective in 2016.{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/daniel-hope-to-replace-sir-roger-norrington-in-zurich | title=Daniel Hope to replace Sir Roger Norrington in Zurich | work=Gramophone | date=April 28, 2015 | accessdate=May 2, 2015}}
• May 1 – The 2015 Malko Competition for conductors announces Tung-Chieh Chuang as this year's winner.{{cite news | url=http://www.dr.dk/Temaer/Malko/English/Articles/2015/0501214029.htm | title=Tung-Chieh Chuang is the winner of the 2015 Malko Competition | work=Danish Radio | date=May 1, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• May 8 – Symphony Number One gives its debut concert at the Baltimore War Memorial.{{cite web |last=McCauley |first=Mary |title=Baltimore's War Memorial is home for a new concert series by mostly local artists |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=May 6, 2016 |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-war-memorial-concerts-20150506-story.html}}{{cite web |last=Souza |first=Gabriella |title=Baltimore's Newest Chamber Orchestra Makes Debut |work=Baltimore Magazine |date=May 8, 2015 |url=http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/2015/5/8/baltimores-newest-chamber-orchestra-makes-debut}}
• 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.[http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,11689.html Schott Music, "Huw Watkins announced as BBC National Orchestra of Wales' Composer-in-Association"], 12 May May 12, 2015.
• May 26 – The BBC announces the appointment of David Pickard as the next Director of the BBC Proms.{{cite press release | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/david-pickard | title=David Pickard named as Director, BBC Proms | publisher=BBC | date=May 26, 2015| accessdate=June 2, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release|url=http://www.musikkollegium.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Media/Medienmitteilung_MKW_Zehetmair_20150603.pdf |title=Thomas Zehetmair wird neuer Chefdirigent des Musikkollegiums Winterthur |publisher=Musikkollegium Winterthur |date=June 3, 2015 |accessdate=June 7, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106221335/http://www.musikkollegium.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Media/Medienmitteilung_MKW_Zehetmair_20150603.pdf |archive-date=November 6, 2015 }}
• June 9 – The RAI National Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of James Conlon as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/orchestra-in-turin-italy-names-james-conlon-as-principal-conductor/ Michael Cooper, 'Orchestra in Turin, Italy, Names James Conlon as Principal Conductor'. The New York Times, 'ArtsBeat' blog], 9 June June 9, 2015.
• June 10 – The Regina Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Gordon Gerrard as its next music director, effective with the 2016–2017 season.{{cite news | url=https://leaderpost.com/entertainment/gerrard-thrilled-to-join-forces-with-the-regina-symphony-orchestra-video | title=Gerrard thrilled to join forces with the Regina Symphony Orchestra | work=Regina Leader- Post | author=Jeff DeDekker | date=June 10, 2015 | accessdate=April 1, 2016}}
• June 11 – The Orchestre de Paris announces the appointment of Daniel Harding as its 9th principal conductor, effective September 2016.{{cite press release | url=http://api.orchestredeparis.soleilnoir.typhon.net/medias/pdfs/1.43401590803E+12.pdf | title=Daniel Harding nouveau directeur musical de l'Orchestre de Paris et Thomas Hengelbrock chef associé à partir de la saison 2016–2017 | publisher=Orchestre de Paris | date=June 11, 2015 | accessdate=June 14, 2015 | archive-date=June 13, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613172840/http://api.orchestredeparis.soleilnoir.typhon.net/medias/pdfs/1.43401590803E+12.pdf | url-status=dead }}
• June 12 – Queen's Birthday Honours 2015[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434869/Queens_birthday_honours_list_2015.pdf Cabinet Office, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street; Queen's Birthday Honours List 2015]
• 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.{{cite press release | title=Britse dirigent Nicholas Collon nieuwe vaste dirigent Residentie Orkest | url=http://www.residentieorkest.nl/index.php?pageID=116&messageID=398 | publisher=Residentie Orkest | date=June 17, 2015 | accessdate=August 8, 2015}}
• June 19 – Jongmin Park wins the Song Prize in the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.{{cite news | url=http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/BBC-Cardiff-Singer-World-2015-Jongmin-Park-South/story-26742727-detail/story.html | title=BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015: Jongmin Park from South Korea wins Song Prize | work=South Wales Evening Post | author=Mark Rees | date=June 20, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}
• June 21
• Nadine Koutcher wins the final, Main Prize of the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.{{cite news | url=http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/BBC-Cardiff-Singer-World-2015-Nadine-Koutcher/story-26742615-detail/story.html | title=BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015: Nadine Koutcher from Belarus wins final | work=South Wales Evening Post | author=Mark Rees | date=June 22, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}
• Amartuvshin Enkhbat is the winner of the Audience Prize of the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
• June 22 – The Berlin Philharmonic announces its election of Kirill Petrenko as its next chief conductor.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/kirill-petrenko-to-be-named-successor-to-rattle-at-berlin-philharmonic | title=Kirill Petrenko to succeed Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonic | work=The Guardian | author=Ben Knight | date=June 22, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}
• June 29
• The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Edo de Waart as its next music director, effective in 2016.{{cite press release | url=https://www.nzso.co.nz/news/post/2015/06/nzso-announces-new-music-director-edo-de-waart/ | title=NZSO announces new Music Director Edo de Waart | publisher=New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | date=June 29, 2015 | accessdate=June 29, 2015}}
• The Bayreuth Festival announces the appointment of Christian Thielemann as its music director.{{cite news | url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/bayreuther-festspiele-christian-thielemann-wird-musikdirektor-in-bayreuth/11984234.html | title=Christian Thielemann wird Musikdirektor in Bayreuth | work=Der Tagesspiegel | date=June 29, 2015 | accessdate=June 29, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.euyo.eu/discover/news/euyo-announces-new-conductors/ | title=EUYO announces new conductors | publisher=European Union Youth Orchestra | date=June 29, 2015 | accessdate=June 29, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite news | url=http://derstandard.at/2000018313940/Ivor-Bolton-wird-neuer-Chefdirigent-des-Sinfonieorchesters-Basel | title=Ivor Bolton wird Chefdirigent des Basler Sinfonieorchesters | work=Der Standard | date=June 30, 2015 | accessdate=July 7, 2015}}
• July 2 – The Beethoven Orchester Bonn announces the appointment of Christof Perick as its interim Generalmusikdirektor for the 2016–2017 season.{{cite news | author=Bernhard Hartmann | title=Christof Prick: Chefdirigent für eine Saison | url=http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/kultur/Christof-Prick-Chefdirigent-fuer-eine-Saison-article1669602.html | work=General-Anzeiger | date=July 2, 2015 | accessdate=September 9, 2015}}
• July 3 – The Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar announce the appointment of Kirill Karabits as its next Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) and chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of three years.{{cite news | url=http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Kirill-Karabits-wird-neuer-Generalmusikdirektor-und-Chefdirigent-in-Weimar-32688217 | title=Kirill Karabits neuer Generalmusikdirektor und Chefdirigent in Weimar | work=Thüringer Allegmeine | date=July 3, 2015 | accessdate=July 21, 2015}}
• July 10 – English National Opera announces the departure of John Berry as artistic director.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/10/john-berry-steps-down-from-english-national-opera | title=John Berry steps down from English National Opera | work=The Guardian | author=Imogen Tilden and Maev Kennedy | date=July 10, 2015 | accessdate=July 12, 2015}}
• August 6 – The Ames Stradivarius violin, stolen from Roman Totenberg in 1980, is returned to Totenberg's family in New York City.{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-stolen-stradivarius-recovered-after-35-years | title=A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years | work=National Public Radio | author=Nina Totenberg | date=August 6, 2015 | accessdate=August 8, 2015}}
• August 7 – The Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra announces that Sarah Ioannides is to conclude her tenure with the orchestra after the 2016–2017 season.{{cite press release | title=SPO Music Director and Conductor Sarah Ioannides Announces Departure in 2017 | url=http://www.spartanburgphilharmonic.org/files/files/SPO-SI-AnnouncementPressReleaseAug7.pdf | publisher=Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra | date=August 7, 2015 | accessdate=January 2, 2016}}
• 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.{{cite press release|url=http://www.lucernefestival.ch/documents/150813_MM_LucerneFestivalOrchestra_d.pdf |title=Riccardo Chailly zum Chefdirigenten des Lucerne Festival Orchestra ernannt |publisher=Lucerne Festival |date=August 13, 2015 |accessdate=August 25, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911232935/http://www.lucernefestival.ch/documents/150813_MM_LucerneFestivalOrchestra_d.pdf |archive-date=September 11, 2015 }}
• 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/metropolitan-opera-promote-mary-jo-heath-new-radio-host/ | title=Metropolitan Opera Promotes Mary Jo Heath to New Radio Host | work=WQXR (Operavore blog) | author=Brian Wise | date=September 13, 2015 | accessdate=September 1, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.sinfonialahti.fi/ajankohtaista/uutiset2015/en_GB/1439817634341/ | title=Dima Slobodeniouk has been appointed as Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, starting in autumn 2016 | publisher=Sinfonia Lahti | date=August 17, 2015 | accessdate=August 25, 2015 | archive-date=September 24, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102009/http://www.sinfonialahti.fi/ajankohtaista/uutiset2015/en_GB/1439817634341/ | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.theater-bonn.de/news/aktuell/aktuell/news/lacombe-wird-chefdirigent-an-der-oper-bonn/ | title=Lacombe wird Chefdirigent an der Oper Bonn | publisher=Theater Bonn | date=August 24, 2015| accessdate=September 1, 2015}}
• September 2 – La Monnaie announces the appointment of Alain Altinoglu as its next music director, effective January 2016.{{cite press release|url=http://dg0z1rj1uzap8.cloudfront.net/dbfiles/mfile/29200/29244/PERSDOSSIER_EN_09.01.pdf |title=Alain Altinoglu – Music Director of La Monnaie |publisher=Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie |date=September 2, 2015 |accessdate=September 4, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085342/http://dg0z1rj1uzap8.cloudfront.net/dbfiles/mfile/29200/29244/PERSDOSSIER_EN_09.01.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}
• 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/chailly-to-leave-the-leipzig-gewandhausorchester-four-years-earlier-than | title=Chailly to Leave the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester – Four Years Earlier Than Planned | work=Gramophone | author=Martin Cullingford | date=September 3, 2015 | accessdate=September 3, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/igor-stravinsky-lost-work-emerges-after-100-years | title=Key Igor Stravinsky work found after 100 years | work=The Observer | author=Stephen Walsh | date=September 5, 2015 | accessdate=September 9, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.lucernefestival.ch/documents/150904_MMLFA_und2016_e_web.pdf | title=Wolfgang Rihm Is the Lucerne Festival Academy's New Artistic Director; Matthias Pintscher Named Principal Conductor | publisher=Lucerne Festival | date=September 4, 2015 | accessdate=September 7, 2015 | archive-date=September 6, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906025335/http://www.lucernefestival.ch/documents/150904_MMLFA_und2016_e_web.pdf | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite news | title=Jakub Hrusa wird neuer Chef der Bamberger Symphoniker | url=http://www.svz.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/kultur/jakub-hrusa-wird-neuer-chef-der-bamberger-symphoniker-id10650031.html | work=Schweriner Volkszeitung | date=September 7, 2015 | accessdate=September 9, 2015 | archive-date=December 24, 2015 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20151224014714/http://www.svz.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/kultur/jakub-hrusa-wird-neuer-chef-der-bamberger-symphoniker-id10650031.html | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite news | author=Michael Cooper | title=Andris Nelsons Named Music Director of Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/arts/music/andris-nelsons-named-music-director-of-leipzig-gewandhaus-orchestra.html | work=The New York Times | date=September 9, 2015 | accessdate=September 14, 2015}}
• September 11:
• Arvo Pärt's 80th birthday is celebrated worldwide.[https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/sep/11/arvo-part-best-known-least-known-works-tom-service "Arvo Pärt at 80: listen to five of his least, and best, known works"], The Guardian, September 11, 2015]. Accessed September 28, 2015
• The Zuger Sinfonietta announces the appointment of Daniel Huppert as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.{{Cite web |url=http://zugersinfonietta.ch/orchester/designierter-chefdirigent/ |title=Zuger Sinfonietta page on Daniel Huppert |access-date=October 24, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080724/http://zugersinfonietta.ch/orchester/designierter-chefdirigent/ |url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite news | author=George Hall | title=Chineke! Orchestra/Marshall review – the beginning of something culturally inspiring | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/14/chineke-orchestra-marshall-review-chi-chi-nwanoku | work=The Guardian | date=September 14, 2015 | accessdate=September 14, 2015}}
• September 15
• The Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Stefan Sanderling as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season.{{cite news | title=Sanderling neuer SOL-Chefdirigent | url=http://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/kultur/Sanderling-neuer-SOL-Chefdirigent;art175,154523 | work=Liechtensteiner Vaterland | date=September 15, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=https://www.coloradosymphony.org/Press-Releases/ID/313/Andrew-Litton-Becomes-Colorado-Symphony-Artistic-Advisor-and-Principal-Guest-Conductor | title=Andrew Litton To Become Colorado Symphony Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor | publisher=Colorado Symphony Orchestra | date=September 15, 2015 | accessdate=January 2, 2016}}
• September 16 – The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music announces that Marin Alsop is to conclude her tenure as its director in August 2016.{{cite press release | url=http://cabrillomusic.org/marin-alsop-to-step-down-from-cabrillo-festival-post-following-2016-season/ | title=Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces that Music Director/Conductor Marin Alsop will step down after her 25th Season, August 2016 | publisher=Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music | date=September 16, 2015 | accessdate=January 2, 2016}}
• September 18 – The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Vladimir Jurowski as its next chief conductor.{{cite news | url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/rundfunksinfonieorchester-berlin-vladimir-jurowski-wird-rsb-chefdirigent,10809150,31848968.html | title=Vladimir Jurowski wird RSB-Chefdirigent | work=Berliner Zeitung | author=Peter Uehling | date=September 18, 2015 | accessdate=September 22, 2015 | archive-date=September 23, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923031726/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/rundfunksinfonieorchester-berlin-vladimir-jurowski-wird-rsb-chefdirigent,10809150,31848968.html | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite news | author=Imogen Tilden | title=Brünjes and Pollock continue to steer the ENO ship | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/21/brunjes-pollock-steer-english-national-opera | work=The Guardian | date=September 21, 2015 | accessdate=September 23, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.musik-heute.de/11363/clemens-schuldt-uebernimmt-muenchner-kammerorchester/ | title=Clemens Schuldt übernimmt Münchner Kammerorchester | work=Musik Heute | date=September 21, 2015 | accessdate=September 23, 2015}}
• The Dalasinfoniettan announces the appointment of Daniel Blendulf as its next chief conductor, with immediate effect, with an initial contract of three years.{{cite press release | url=http://www.musikidalarna.se/dalasinfoniettans-nye-chefdirigent-daniel-blendulf/ | title=Dalasinfoniettans nye chefdirigent Daniel Blendulf | publisher=Dalasinfoniettan | date=September 21, 2015 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}
• September 22 – San Francisco Opera announces the appointment of Matthew Shivlock as its 7th general director, effective July 2016.{{cite news | url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/9/News/Matthew_Shilvock_SFO_General_Director.html | title=Sleep Matthew Shilvock Named as San Francisco Opera's Next General Director, Succeeding David Gockley at Company's Helm | work=Opera News | date=September 22, 2015 | accessdate=October 10, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.wno.org.uk/news/wno-announces-new-music-director-and-new-conductor-laureate | title=WNO announces new Music Director and new Conductor Laureate | publisher=Welsh National Opera | date=September 23, 2015 | accessdate=April 1, 2016}}
• 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.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/sep/27/sleep-the-the-lullaby-for-our-frenetic-world | title=Sleep – the eight-hour live-broadcast lullaby for a frenetic world | work=The Guardian | author=Hannah Ellis-Petersen | date=September 27, 2015 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}
• October 1:
• Gotham Chamber Opera announces immediate cessation of operations, because of a fiscal deficit that the company judged itself unable to redeem.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/arts/music/gotham-chamber-opera-announces-that-it-will-close.html | title=Gotham Chamber Opera Announces That It Will Close | work=The New York Times | author=Michael Cooper | date=October 1, 2015 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.memphissymphony.org/default.aspx?p=40728&naid=20772/ | title=Memphis Symphony Orchestra Names Robert Moody Principal Conductor | publisher=Memphis Symphony Orchestra | date=October 1, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}
• PIAS officially takes full control of the music assets of harmonia mundi.{{Cite news| url=http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/pias-officially-acquires-classical-and-jazz-house-harmonia-mundi/ | title=[PIAS] officially acquires classical and jazz house harmonia mundi | work=Music Business Worldwide | author=Tim Ingham | date=September 28, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
• October 5 – Camerata Notturna announces the appointment of Gemma New as its next principal conductor.{{cite press release | url=http://camerata-notturna.org/news/gemma_new_music_director | title=Gemma New Appointed Principal Conductor of Camerata Notturna | publisher=Camerata Notturna | date=October 5, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.sinfonia.is/en/news/nr/3001/ | title=Yan Pascal Tortelier Named Chief Conductor | publisher=Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Sinfóníuhljómsveitar Íslands) | date=October 6, 2015 | accessdate=October 10, 2015 | archive-date=November 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122072426/http://www.sinfonia.is/en/news/nr/3001/ | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{Cite news| url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/robin-ticciati-named-music-director-of-the-deutsches-symphonie-orchester-berlin | title=Robin Ticciati named Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | work=Gramophone | date=October 8, 2014 | accessdate=October 10, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/news/detail/kirill-petrenko/ | title=Kirill Petrenko will take up office as chief conductor and artistic director of the Berliner Philharmoniker in the 2019/2020 season | publisher=Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | date=October 13, 2015 | accessdate=October 17, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192714/http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/news/detail/kirill-petrenko/ | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | url-status=dead }}
• October 14 – Opera Lyra Ottawa announces immediate cessation of operations, citing insufficient revenue and funding.{{Cite news | url=https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/opera-lyra-ceases-operations | title=Cash crisis causes Opera Lyra to cease operations | work=Ottawa Citizen | author=Peter Robb | date=October 14, 2015 | accessdate=October 17, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release|url=https://qso.com.au/sites/qso/files/attachments/media_release_-_qso_music_director_announcement.pdf/ |title=Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces acclaimed Conductor Alondra de la Parra as Music Director |publisher=Queensland Symphony Orchestra |date=October 23, 2015 |accessdate=October 25, 2015}}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• November 5 – The Royal Philharmonic Society announces Martha Argerich as the 101st recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal.{{cite press release | url=http://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/index.php/rps_today/news/argerich_awarded_rps_gold_medal | title=Argerich Awarded RPS Gold Medal | publisher=Royal Philharmonic Society | date=November 5, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=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/ | title=Famed Music Director Stephen Lord Will Take on New Role After 25 Seasons as Music Director at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | publisher=Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | date=November 9, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015 | archive-date=November 17, 2015 | archive-url=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/ | url-status=dead }}
• November 11 – Orchestras Live announces the appointment of Sarah Derbyshire as its next chief executive.{{cite press release | url=http://www.orchestraslive.org.uk/news-projects/sarah-derbyshire-ceo/ | title=Sarah Derbyshire appointed Chief Executive of Orchestras Live | publisher=Orchestras Live | date=November 11, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release|url=http://www.njsymphony.org/about-njso/next-music-director/press-release |title=New Jersey Symphony Orchestra announces Xian Zhang as its 14th music director |publisher=New Jersey Symphony Orchestra |date=November 16, 2015 |accessdate=November 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117013828/http://www.njsymphony.org/about-njso/next-music-director/press-release |archive-date=November 17, 2015 }}
• November 17 – Glyndebourne Festival Opera announces the appointment of Sebastian F. Schwarz as its next general director, effective in May 2016.{{cite press release | url=http://www.glyndebourne.com/discover/news-and-blogs/2015/november/glyndebourne-appoints-new-general-director/ | title=Glyndebourne Appoints New General Director | publisher=Glyndebourne Festival Opera | date=November 17, 2015 | accessdate=November 21, 2015}}
• November 18
• The Three Choirs Festival announces the appointment of Alexis Paterson as its new chief executive, effective in January 2016.{{cite press release | url=http://www.3choirs.org/article/alexis-paterson-appointed-ceo-of-three-choirs-festival | title=Alexis Paterson appointed ceo of Three Choirs Festival | publisher=Three Choirs Festival Association | date=November 18, 2015 | accessdate=November 21, 2015 | archive-date=November 21, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121053527/http://www.3choirs.org/article/alexis-paterson-appointed-ceo-of-three-choirs-festival | url-status=dead }}
• The Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie announces the appointment of Garry Walker as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2017–018 season.{{cite press release | url=http://www.ingpen.co.uk/_assets/Rheinische-Philharmonie-Chefdirigent-181115.pdf | title=Garry Walker wird neuer Chefdirigent des Staatsorchesters Rheinische Philharmonie – Schotte ist Nachfolger von Daniel Raiskin | publisher=Rheinland-Pfalz Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung und Kultur | date=November 18, 2015 | accessdate=January 9, 2016}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://grawemeyer.org/abrahamsen-wins-music-award-for-let-me-tell-you/ | title=Abrahamsen wins music award for let me tell you | publisher=Grawemeyer Foundation | date=November 24, 2015 | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/bbc-now-appoints-xian-zhang | title=BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales appoints Xian Zhang as Principal Guest Conductor | publisher=BBC Media Centre | date=December 1, 2015 | accessdate=December 1, 2015}}
• December 2 – Birmingham Contemporary Music Group announces the appointment of Christoph Trestler as its new chair.{{cite press release | url=http://bcmg.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/File/1502.pdf | title=Christoph Trestler appointed Chair of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group| publisher=Birmingham Contemporary Music Group | date=December 2, 2015 | accessdate=December 5, 2015}}
• 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.{{cite press release | url=http://www.dso.org/DSOnewsdetail.aspx?pid=4437 | title=Leonard Slatkin, DSO Forge New Deal | publisher=Detroit Symphony Orchestra | date=December 3, 2015 | accessdate=December 5, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208100842/http://www.dso.org/DSOnewsdetail.aspx?pid=4437 | archive-date=December 8, 2015 | url-status=dead }}
• 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.{{cite news | url=http://derstandard.at/2000027039538/Dirigent-Nikolaus-Harnoncourt-zieht-sich-vom-Pult-zurueck | title=Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Abschiedsbrief eines Unersetzlichen | work=Der Standard | author=Daniel Ender | date=December 6, 2015 |accessdate=December 12, 2015}}
• December 8 – The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra announces Bethan Morgan-Williams as the winner of its first annual Christopher Brooks Composition Prize.{{cite press release | url=http://www.liverpoolphil.com/18768/latest-press-releases/liverpool-philharmonic-announces-winner-of-inaugural-christopher-brooks-composition-prize-in-association-with-the-rushworth-foundation.html | title=Liverpool Philharmonic announces winner of inaugural Christopher Brooks Composition Prize in association with the Rushworth Foundation | publisher=Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | date=December 8, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}
• December 9 – The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden announces that Kasper Holten is to leave the post of Director of Music in March 2017.{{cite press release | url=http://www.roh.org.uk/news/director-of-opera-kasper-holten-to-leave-the-royal-opera-in-march-2017 | title=Director of Opera Kasper Holten to leave The Royal Opera in March 2017 | publisher=Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | date=December 9, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}
• December 16 – The Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Rossen Gergov as its next chief conductor, effective January 2016.{{cite press release | url=http://bnr.bg/aboutbnr/post/100638624/teodosii-spasov-e-noviat-direktor-na-muzikalna-kashta-bnr-rosen-gergov-e-glaven-dirigent-na-simfonichnia-orkestar?forceFullVersion=1 | title=Теодосий Спасов е новият директор на "Музикална къща БНР", Росен Гергов е главен диригент на Симфоничния оркестър | publisher=Bulgarian National Radio | date=December 16, 2015 | accessdate=December 19, 2015}}
• December 22 – Anonymous 4 gives their final live concert performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City before formally disbanding.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/arts/music/review-the-last-noel-anonymous-4s-farewell.html | title=Review: 'The Last Noel,' Anonymous 4's Farewell | work=The New York Times | author=Zachary Woolfe | author-link=Zachary Woolfe | date=December 23, 2015 |accessdate=December 30, 2015}}
• December 29 – Myung-whun Chung submits his resignation as music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.{{cite news | url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151229001070 | title=Maestro Chung Myung-whun announces departure from SPO | work=Korea Herald | date=December 29, 2015 |accessdate=January 2, 2016}}
• December 30 – Angela Hewitt is appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.{{cite press release | url=https://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=16283&lan=eng | title=Order of Canada Appointments, December 30, 2015: Governor General Announces 69 New Appointments to the Order of Canada | publisher=The Governor General of Canada | date=December 30, 2015 | accessdate=January 9, 2016}}
• December 31
• New Year's Honours 2016[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]
• 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.courier.co.uk/Pair-s-musical-museum-set-close-doors/story-28205410-detail/story.html | title=Finchcocks Musical Museum in Goudhurst set to close its doors | work=Kent and Sussex Courier | author=Amy-Clare Martin | date=November 21, 2015 | accessdate=January 13, 2016 | archive-date=November 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122172736/http://www.courier.co.uk/Pair-s-musical-museum-set-close-doors/story-28205410-detail/story.html | url-status=dead }}

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The following composers' works were composed, premiered, or published this year, as noted in the citation.

• John Adams
• Second Quartet[https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/january-2015/st-lawrence-string-quartet StanfordLive calendar, 18 January 2015]
• Scheherazade.2 (symphony for violin and orchestra){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/arts/music/review-john-adams-unveils-scheherazade2-an-answer-to-male-brutality.html|title=Review: John Adams Unveils Scheherazade.2, an Answer to Male Brutality|work=The New York Times|author=Anthony Tommasini| date=March 28, 2015|accessdate=March 28, 2015}}

• John Luther Adams – Across the Distance[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]

• Eleanor Alberga – Arise, Athena!{{cite news |author=Erica Jeal |title=Last Night of the Proms review – Alsop controls the crowd with ease |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/13/prom-76-bbcso-alsop-kaufmann-grosvenor-alberga |work=The Guardian |date=September 13, 2015 |accessdate=September 14, 2015}}

• Julian Anderson
• In lieblicher Bläue (Violin Concerto){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/11471532/London-Philharmonic-Orchestra-and-Carolin-Widmann-Royal-Festival-Hall-review-divine.html |title=London Philharmonic Orchestra and Carolin Widmann, Royal Festival, Hall, review: 'divine' |work=Telegraph |author=Ivan Hewett |date=March 15, 2015 |accessdate=March 15, 2015}}
• Van Gogh Blue{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/08/arditti-quartet-nash-ensemble-wigmore-hall-london-review-julian-anderson | title=[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}}

• B Tommy Andersson – Pan{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/04/prom-64-bbc-now-sondergard-review-andersson-pan-nielsen-mahler |title=BBCNOW/Søndergård review – the Albert Hall's great beast is unleashed |work=The Guardian |author=Erica Jeal |date=September 4, 2015 |accessdate=September 7, 2015}}

• Timo Andres – Strong Language (for string quartet)[http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/19/0730/PM/Takacs-Quartet/ Takács Quartet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115101539/http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/19/0730/PM/Takacs-Quartet/ |date=November 15, 2015 }}, November 19, 2015 Carnegie Hall programme.

• Cathy Applegate – Piano Concertantrum (composed 2012–2013; premiered March 2015)[http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/applegate-cathy-piano-concertantrum Australian Music Centre, entry on Piano Concertantrum]

• Richard Ayres – No 48 (In the Night Studio){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/09/bbcso-volkov-review-barbican-london-richard-ayres |title=BBCSO/Volkov review: charming, witty and disconcerting | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=October 9, 2015 | accessdate=October 10, 2015}}

• David Balasanyan
• Six Microludes, for piano{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}
• Monument, for piano and tape{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}

• Guy Barker – The Lanterne of Light[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/efnrzc#b068s64k Prom 69, BBC Proms/BBC Radio 3, 6 September 2015]

• Gerald Barry – The One-Armed Pianist{{Cite web|title='Objects at an Exhibition', Science Museum, London|date=December 2, 2014 |url=https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-at-an-exhibition-experience-the-science-museum-as-never-before/|access-date=May 26, 2020}}

• Sally Beamish – "Be still" (Introit)[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05406wk BBC Radio 3, Choral Evensong, 4 March 2015]

• Luke Bedford
• Instability{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/03/bbc-philharmonic-mena-prom20-review |title=BBC Philharmonic/Mena review – a palpable sense of commitment |work=The Guardian |author=George Hall |date=August 3, 2015 |accessdate=August 3, 2015}}
• Saxophone Quartet[http://www.ldsm.org.uk/international-festival/2015-08-04-apollo-saxophone-quartet Lake District Summer Music programme, 4 August 2015]

• Fiona Bennett – The New Lady Radnor's Suite{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}

• Judith Bingham
• Ghostly Grace[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"]. Gramophone blog entry, March 18, 2015.
• Zodiack{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}

• Harrison Birtwistle
• The Cure{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/14/the-corridorthe-cure-review-birtwistle-unveils-lyrical-sequel-to-orpheus-story |title=The Corridor/The Cure review – Birtwistle unveils lyrical sequel to Orpheus story |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=June 14, 2015 |accessdate=June 14, 2015}}
• The Silk House Sequences

• Victoria Borisova-Ollas – ... and time is running past midnight ...[http://sverigesradio.se/diverse/appdata/isidor/files/3991/15193.pdf Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra programme, 22/23 October 2015]

• Mark Bowden and Owen Sheers – A Violence of Gifts{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/19/bbcnow-brabbins-bowden-sheers-a-violence-of-gifts-review |title=BBCNOW/Brabbins/A Violence of Gifts review – particle physics complexity |work=The Guardian |author=Rian Evans |date=April 19, 2015 |accessdate=May 23, 2015}}

• Luc Brewaeys – Sonnets to Sundry Notes[http://www.collegiumvocale.com/fr/saisons/738-sonnets-to-sundry-notes Collegium Vocale Gent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085940/http://www.collegiumvocale.com/fr/saisons/738-sonnets-to-sundry-notes |date=March 4, 2016 }}, October 8, 2015, programme note.

• Gary Carpenter – Dadaville{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/17/proms-first-night-review-off-to-a-flying-start |title=Proms First Night review: off to a flying start |work=The Guardian |author=Tim Ashley |date=July 17, 2015 |accessdate=July 22, 2015}}

• Elliott Carter – The American Sublime{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/music/review-elliott-carter-premiere-and-levine-withdrawal-with-met-chamber-ensemble.html|title=Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble|work=The New York Times|author=David Allen|date=March 9, 2015|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}

• Friedrich Cerha – Piccola Commèdia{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/12/friedrich-cerha-day-wigmore-hall-london-review | title=Friedrich Cerha Day review – a fuller picture of the man who finished Lulu | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=October 12, 2015 | accessdate=October 17, 2015}}

• Unsuk Chin – Mannequin – Tableaux vivants for orchestra{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/10/national-youth-orchestra-great-britain-ilan-volkov-pery-grainger-bela-bartok |title=National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Volkov review – a musical bomb showering its listeners with shrapnel |work=The Guardian |author=Alfred Hickling |date=April 10, 2015 |accessdate=April 12, 2015}}

• Pete Churchill – Echoes: A Song of Poland{{cite news |url=http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/threechoirsfestival/13423975.display/ |title=Three Choirs Festival presents the following events for today |work=Hereford Times |date=August 1, 2015 |accessdate=August 3, 2015}}

• James Clapperton – Northern Sky{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/26/red-notegriffyn-ensemble-review-kings-college-chapel-aberdeen | title=Red Note/Griffyn Ensemble review – two premieres and performances worlds apart | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=October 26, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}

• Anna Clyne – The Seamstress[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]

• Edward Cowie – Three Spitfire Motets[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9v5v2 'BBC Singers at RAF Museum' programme, 18 September 2015]

• Paul Crabtree – O Icarus

• Laurence Crane – Chamber Symphony No 2 ("The Australian"){{Cite web |url=http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/feldman-for-samuel-beckett |title=London Sinfonietta programme, 10 October 2015 |access-date=October 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911221059/http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/feldman-for-samuel-beckett |archive-date=September 11, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

• Richard Danielpour – Of Love and Longing{{Cite web |url=http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/12/0730/PM/Isabel-Leonard-Sharon-Isbin/ |title=Carnegie Hall programme, 12 November 2015 |access-date=November 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117051719/http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/12/0730/PM/Isabel-Leonard-Sharon-Isbin/ |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

• Tansy Davies – Re-greening{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/07/national-youth-orchestra-mark-elder-maltings-concert-hall-snape |title=NYO/Elder review – remarkable, electrifying Mahler and enchanting Tansy Davies |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=August 7, 2015 |accessdate=August 8, 2015}}

• Luis de Pablo - Pensieri (Rhapsody for Flute and Orchestra){{cite press release | url=http://www.euskadikoorkestra.es/en/actualidad_detalle.asp?id_noticia=581#detalle | title=Basque National Orchestra to requiere [sic] "Pensieri, rhapsody for flute and orchestra" by Luis de Pablo | publisher=Basque National Orchestr a| date=October 28, 2015 | accessdate=January 13, 2016}}

• Bryce Dessner – Quilting{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-la-phil-premieres-review-20150530-column.html |title=L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall |work=Los Angeles Times |author=Mark Swed |date=May 29, 2015 |accessdate=June 22, 2015}}

• Zosha Di Castri – Dear Life{{cite news |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/shelleys-naco-debut-haunting-vaguely-menacing-and-powerful |title=Shelley's NACO debut haunting, vaguely menacing and powerful |work=Ottawa Citizen |author=Natasha Gautier |date=September 17, 2015 |accessdate=September 23, 2015}}

• Hugues Dufourt – Ombre portée

• Frédéric Durieux – Entscheiden

• Richard Dünser – Entreacte[http://neueoperwien.at/node/111/programm/theaterzettel/deutsch Neue Oper Wien programme, 21 April 2015]

• Benjamin Dwyer - Nocturnal, after Benjamin Britten{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}

• Jason Eckardt - Practical Alchemy{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/arts/music/review-jay-campbell-the-cellist-displays-strengths-at-weill-recital-hall.html | title=Review: Jay Campbell, the Cellist, Displays Strengths at Weill Recital Hall |work=The New York Times|author=Anthony Tommasini| date=December 7, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}

• Benjamin Ellin – Miyabi – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra[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]

• Thierry Escaich – Concerto for Orchestra

• Mohammed Fairouz – Locales (composed 2014;{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}} premiered February 14, 2015)[http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/2/14/0800/PM/Ian-Shafer-Oboe-Voxare-String-Quartet/ Ian Shafer, oboe; Voxare String Quartet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215205302/http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/2/14/0800/PM/Ian-Shafer-Oboe-Voxare-String-Quartet/ |date=February 15, 2015 }}. Carnegie Hall programme, February 14, 2015.

• Ivan Fedele – Hommagesquisse

• David Fennessy – Hirta Rounds{{cite news |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/vorbericht-musiker-jetzt-uebernehmt-ihr-1.2544203 |title=Musiker, jetzt übernehmt ihr! |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |author=Rita Argauer |date=June 30, 2015 |accessdate=August 3, 2015}}

• Lorenzo Ferrero
• Country Life, for saxophone and piano{{cite web|url=http://catsearch.umpgclassical.com/en/operas/country-life|title=Casa Ricordi catalogue}}
• A Night in Nashville, for saxophone and piano{{cite web|url=http://catsearch.umpgclassical.com/en/operas/a-night-in-nashville|title=Casa Ricordi catalogue}}

• Michael Finnissy – Janne{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/17/bbcsso-volkov-rachlin-prom-42-sibelius-review |title=BBCSSO/Volkov review – Sibelius that didn't shake the soul as it should |work=The Guardian |author=Martin Kettle |date=August 17, 2015 |accessdate=August 31, 2015}}

• Alan Fletcher
• Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra{{cite news |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music-reviews/2015/06/13/Concert-review-Pittsburgh-Symphony-ends-season-on-a-bang/stories/201506130134 |title=Concert review: Pittsburgh Symphony ends season on a bang |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |author=Elizabeth Bloom |date=June 13, 2015 |accessdate=September 18, 2015}}
• On a winter's night a traveler{{cite news |url=http://www.aspentimes.com/news/17158306-113/alan-fletcher-and-bill-morrison-collaboration-to-premiere |title=Alan Fletcher and Bill Morrison collaboration to premiere in Aspen |work=The Aspen Times |author=Andrew Travers |date=July 10, 2015 |accessdate=August 31, 2015}}

• Cheryl Frances-Hoad – From the Beginning of the World[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/embfxj#b062jlwm BBC Proms 2015, 20 July 2015 programme, Cadogan Hall]

• Peter Fribbins – Violin Concerto[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]

• Vivian Fung – Violin Concerto No 2 ('Of Snow and Ice'){{Cite web |url=http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/Discover-the-music/Programme-Notes/Violin-Concerto-No-2-Of-Snow-and-Ice.aspx?eventID=15546 |title=Toronto Symphony Orchestra programme note, 28 February 2015 |access-date=March 8, 2015 |archive-url=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 |archive-date=March 9, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

• Michael Gandolfi – Ascending Light[http://bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/program_notes/20150326.pdf Boston Symphony Orchestra programme note, 26–31 March 2015]

• Philip Glass – Concerto for Two Pianos

• Alexander Goehr
• Variations (Homage to Haydn), for solo piano{{cite news |url=http://www.abqjournal.com/611256/entertainment/a-huge-undertaking.html |title=Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival features the largest ensemble the event ever organized |work=Albuquerque Journal |author=David Steinberg |date=July 12, 2015 |accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• Seven Impromptus, Op. 96, for two pianos[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]

• Iain Grandage – Dances with Devils (percussion concerto){{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/percussionist-claire-edwardes-hits-the-right-notes-on-anything/story-fniwj43s-1227431173051 |title=Percussionist Claire Edwardes hits the right notes, on anything |work=The Australian|author=Leta Keens |date=June 29, 2015 |accessdate=September 18, 2015}}

• Helen Grime – Concerto for clarinet and trumpet{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/08/halle-orchestra-markus-stenz-review-helen-grime-double-concerto |title=Halle/Stenz review – Grime's double concerto is ambitious and formally satisfying |work=The Guardian |author=Alfred Hickling |date=May 8, 2015 |accessdate=May 23, 2015}}

• HK Gruber – into the open...{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/21/prom-5-bbc-phil-currie-storgards-review |title=Prom 5: BBC Phil/Currie/Storgårds review – compelling percussion playing |work=The Guardian |author=Erica Jeal |date=July 21, 2015 |accessdate=July 22, 2015}}

• Barry Guy – Mr Babbage is Coming to Dinner

• Georg Friedrich Haas
• "I can't breathe" (In memoriam Eric Garner)[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"]
• Saxophone Quartet[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]

• Chris Paul Harman – Lieder und Arien[http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/Discover-the-music/Programme-Notes/Lieder-und-Arien.aspx?eventID=15554 Toronto Symphony Orchestra programme note] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20150309202531/http://www.tso.ca/en-ca/Discover-the-music/Programme-Notes/Lieder-und-Arien.aspx?eventID=15554 |date=March 9, 2015 }}, March 4, 2015.

• Jennifer Higdon
• Civil Words[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]
• Viola Concerto{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/jennifer-higdons-viola-concerto-premieres-at-curtis-chamber-program/2015/03/08/5d1f040c-c5a4-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html |title=Jennifer Higdon's Viola Concerto premieres at Curtis Chamber program |newspaper=Washington Post |author=Joan Reinthaler |date=March 8, 2015 |accessdate=March 19, 2015}}

• Robin Holloway
• Soldered Schumann{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}
• Silvered Schubert{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/16/soldered-schumann-silvered-schubert-robin-holloway-review |title=Soldered Schumann/Silvered Schubert review – idiomatic and radical reworkings |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=February 16, 2015 |accessdate=February 28, 2015}}
• Europa and the Bull (tuba concerto){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/09/royal-liverpool-philharmonic-manze-review-holloway-premiere | title=Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Manze review – Holloway premiere lets tuba sing | work=The Guardian | author=Alfred Hickling | date=October 9, 2015 |accessdate=October 17, 2015}}

• James Horner – Collage: A Concerto for Four Horns and Orchestra{{cite web |title=Evocative Russian classics |work=London Philharmonic Orchestra |date=March 27, 2015 |url=http://www.lpo.org.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/258-evocative-russian-classics.html |accessdate=April 3, 2015}}

• Emily Howard – Afference[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qppzn BBC Radio 3, Performing Miracles, 5 May 2015]

• James Newton Howard – Violin Concerto{{cite news |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/clair-654130-howard-work.html |title=Carl St.Clair, James Ehnes and the Pacific Symphony give premiere of violin concerto by James Newton Howard |work=Orange Country Register |author=Timothy Mangan |date=March 13, 2015 |accessdate=March 28, 2015}}

• Philippe Hurel – Inserts

• Márton Illés – Re-akvarell (concerto for clarinet and orchestra){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/lucerne-summer-festival-2015-review-swr-symphony-orchestra-israel-philharmonic |title=Lucerne summer festival 2015 review – reasons to be cheerful, and tearful |work=The Observer |author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks |date=September 6, 2015 |accessdate=September 18, 2015}}

• Marisol Jiménez - XLIII – MEMORIAM VIVIRE

• Betsy Jolas – Ravery Pour Pierre en ce jour

• Darryl Kubian – O for a Muse of Fire{{cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/the_njso_plays_rachmaninoff_tchaikovsky_and_kubian.html| title=The NJSO plays Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Kubian |work=The Star-Ledger |author=Ronni Reich |date=March 24, 2015 |accessdate=March 28, 2015}}

• György Kurtág – Petite musique solennelle en hommage à Pierre Boulez 90[Lucerne Festival Academy programme, August 23, 2015]

• Libby Larsen – The Birth Song Cycle[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], 12 June June 12, 2015.

• James Ledger and Paul Kelly – War Music{{cite news |url=http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/screaming-shore |title=Screaming from the shore |work=Limelight Magazine |author=Maxim Boon |date=April 21, 2015 |accessdate=September 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915104348/http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/screaming-shore |archive-date=September 15, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

• Joanna Lee - Hammer of Solitude{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/27/birmingham-contemporary-music-group-franck-ollu-ulrich-heinen-boulez-usui-lee-jolas |title=BCMG/Ollu review – consummate expertise with teeming, tangled Boulez |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=July 27, 2015 |accessdate=July 29, 2015}}

• Georges Lentz – Jerusalem (after Blake) (composed 2011–2014;{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}} premiered January 16, 2015)[https://www.philharmonie.lu/en/programm/luxembourg-opl-pascal-schumacher/496 Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra programme, 16 January 2015]

• Mica Levi – Greezy{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/01/london-sinfonietta-de-ridder-review-mica-levi |title=London Sinfonietta/De Ridder review – one of their best performances in years |work=The Guardian |author=Guy Dammann |date=March 1, 2015 |accessdate=March 8, 2015}}

• Magnus Lindberg – Accused{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/lpo-jurowski-review-magnus-lindberg |title=LPO/Jurowski review – all on the cool side |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=January 29, 2015 |accessdate=February 20, 2015}}

• Tod Machover – Symphony in D{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/music/detroit-symphony-tackles-an-adventurous-premiere.html | title=Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere |work=The New York Times| author=Zachary Woolfe | author-link=Zachary Woolfe | date=November 11, 2015 | accessdate=November 21, 2015}}

• Steven Mackey – Mnemosyne's Pool

• James MacMillan
• A Little Mass{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/30/rlpo-james-macmillan-review-liverpool |title=RLPO/MacMillan review – an uncompromising tapestry of orchestral colour |work=The Guardian |author=Alfred Hickling |date=March 30, 2015 |accessdate=April 4, 2015}}
• Symphony No 4{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/04/bbcsso-runnicles-review-prom-24-macmillan-mahler |title=BBCSSO/Runnicles review – MacMillan premiere and the raw power of Mahler |work=The Guardian |author=Tim Ashley |date=August 4, 2015 |accessdate=August 8, 2015}}

• Philippe Manoury – Chaconne

• Bruno Mantovani – B

• Colin Matthews and Michael Morpurgo – The Pied Piper of Hamelin{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/09/pied-piper-of-hamelin-colin-matthews-lpo-jurowski-review |title=The Pied Piper of Hamelin review – Matthews's tale is beautifully judged |work=The Guardian |author=Erica Jeal |date=February 9, 2015 |accessdate=February 10, 2015}}

• David Matthews – Symphony No 8[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]

• Melinda Maxwell – Fractures: Monk Unpacked{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/birmingham-contemporary-music-group-review/ | title=Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, CBSO Centre, review: 'a lucky-dip programme' | work=Telegraph | author=John Allison | date=November 16, 2015 | accessdate=December 5, 2015}}

• Christopher Mayo – Supermarine

• Anna Meredith – Smatter Hauler{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/03/aurora-orchestra-collon-prom-22-review |title=Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – memorable for all the right reasons |work=The Guardian |author=George Hall |date=August 3, 2015 |accessdate=August 3, 2015}}

• Claudia Molitor – 2TwoLO

• Marc Monnet – {{lang|fr|bourdonnement, bruissement, bruit, chuchotage, chuchoterie, chuchotis, frémissement, gazouillement, gazouillis, murmure, susurrement...}}

• Samy Moussa - Crimson

• Nico Muhly
• Viola Concerto[http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/news/3124 News – Premiere of Nico Muhly's Viola Concerto]
• Mixed Messages{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20150514_Nzet-Sguin__Orchestra_deliver_smart_takes_on_Muhly__Rachmaninoff__Shostakovich.html |title=Nézet-Séguin, Orchestra deliver smart takes on Muhly, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |author=David Patrick Stearns |date=May 14, 2015 |accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• Sentences{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/07/britten-sinfonia-davies-muhly-review-alan-turing |title=Britten Sinfonia/Davies/Muhly review – Turing tribute celebratory yet sorrowful |work=The Guardian |author=Tim Ashley |date=June 7, 2015 |accessdate=June 14, 2015}}

• Dominic Muldowney – Smooth between Sea and Land{{Cite web |url=http://www.bcmg.org.uk/whats-on/bcmg-on-tour-2015-16/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/ |title=Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, 5 December 2015 programme |access-date=December 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809205856/http://www.bcmg.org.uk/whats-on/bcmg-on-tour-2015-16/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/ |archive-date=August 9, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

• Thea Musgrave – Power Play

• Marc Neikrug:
• Acequias for Guitar and String Quartet[http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/54375 Music Sales Classical page on Acequias]
• Canta-Concerto{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/arts/music/review-canta-concerto-by-marc-neikrug-by-the-new-york-philharmonic.html |title=Review: 'Canta-Concerto' by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic |work=The New York Times|author=Anthony Tommasini|date=October 2, 2015 |accessdate=October 3, 2015}}

• Andrew Norman
• Frank's House{{Cite news | url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-gehry-music-20150201-story.html | title=Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' | work=Los Angeles Times | author=Mike Boehm | date=January 31, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}
• Switch (percussion concerto){{Cite news | url=http://www.sltrib.com/home/3147385-155/review-utah-symphony-percussionist-colin-currie | title=Review: Utah Symphony, percussionist Colin Currie flip the 'Switch' on an electrifying world premiere | work=Salt Lake Tribune | author=Catherine Reese Newton | date=November 6, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}
• Split (piano concerto)[http://nyphil.org/~/media/pdfs/program-notes/1516/Norman-Split.pdf New York Philharmonic programme note on Andrew Norman's Split, December 2015]

• Enno Poppe – Zwölf

• André Previn – Nonet[http://www.eif.co.uk/2015/fourseasons#.VgMtfPVdGUk Edinburgh International Festival programme listing, 26 August 2015]

• Torsten Rasch – A Welsh Night

• Wolfgang Rihm
• Violin Concerto No. 6 (Gedicht des Malers; composed in 2014,{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}} premiered in 2015){{Cite web |url=http://www.wienersymphoniker.at/concert/pid/000000e9h5850001b9d7 |title=Vienna Symphony Fridays@7 programme, 9 January 2015 |access-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215205733/http://www.wienersymphoniker.at/concert/pid/000000e9h5850001b9d7 |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |url-status=dead }}
• Über die Linie VIII[http://www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/programm/info/1891/ Staatstheater Karlsruhe page on 8/9 March 2015 programme]
• Con Piano? Certo![http://www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/programm/info/1904/ Badische Staatskapelle programme, 23 June 2015]
• Funde im Verscharrten[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]
• Geste zu Vedova[https://web.archive.org/web/20151207155624/http://www.fondazionevedova.org/en/node/387 'Vedova and the musical avant-garde' programme]
• Gruss-Moment

• David Sawer – Coachman Chronos

• Albert Schnelzer – Tales from Suburbia[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edb38g#p02ltrmf BBC Symphony Orchestra, 13 March 2015]

• Pascal Schumacher – Windfall Concerto (for vibraphone and orchestra)

• Elliott Sharp – Wannsee Noir[http://www.juilliard.edu/sites/juilliard.edu/files/wysiwyg-files/2015_11_17_nje_program_fin.pdf New Juilliard Ensemble, 17 November 2015 programme]

• Sean Shepherd:
• Concerto for Ensemble[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"], June 2015.
• String Quartet No. 2{{cite news |url=http://www.abqjournal.com/621815/entertainment/concise-movements.html |title=FLUX Quartet premieres composer's second string quartet |work=Albuquerque Journal |author=David Steinberg |date=August 2, 2015 |accessdate=August 31, 2015}}

• Mark Simpson
• Israfel{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/03/bbc-scottish-symphony-orchestra-andrew-litton-glasgow-city-halls-review |title=BBCSSO/Litton review – exhilarating, until it became exhausting |work=The Guardian |author=Kate Molleson |date=April 3, 2015 |accessdate=April 4, 2015}}
• The Immortal (text by Melanie Challenger){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/05/the-immortalsimpson-review-blazingly-original-oratorio |title=The Immortal/Mark Simpson review – a blazingly original oratorio |work=The Guardian |author=Alfred Hickling |date=July 5, 2015 |accessdate=July 7, 2015}}

• Howard Skempton – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• Derrick Spiva – Prisms, Cycles, Leaps{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-laco-season-opener-review-20150920-story.html |title=Rhythmically complex world premiere leads off LACO's new season |work=Los Angeles Times |author=Richard S Ginell |date=September 20, 2015 |accessdate=September 23, 2015}}

• Johannes Maria Staud
• Moment, Leute, Moment![http://www.universaledition.com/Johannes-Maria-Staud/composers-and-works/composer/2231/work/14687 Universal Edition page on Moment, Leute, Moment!]
• Segue II für Pierre Boulez[http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/musique-de-chambre/14107-messages-et-esquisses-hommage-pierre-boulez?date=1427032800 Philharmonie de Paris, 22 March 2015 programme]
• Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide (Specter I-III)[Musica2015 Ensemble Modern programme, September 19, 2015]
• Wasserzeichen (Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide II)[Kölner Philharmonie programme, September 20, 2015]

• Tan Dun – The Wolf (concerto for double bass and orchestra; composed in 2014,{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}} premiered in 2015){{cite news |url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/muziek/tan-dun-en-spanjaard-overrompelen-opnieuw~a3842724/ |title=Tan Dun en Spanjaard overrompelen opnieuw |author=Guido van Oorschot |work=De Volksrant |date=February 2, 2015 |accessdate=February 6, 2015}}

• Conrad Tao – An Adjustment{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150922_Review__A__screen_test__for_Chamber_Orchestra.html |title=Review: A 'screen test' for Chamber Orchestra |author=Peter Dobrin |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=September 22, 2015 |accessdate=September 23, 2015}}

• Augusta Read Thomas – Of Being Is a Bird{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/09/aurora-orchestracollon-booth-review |title=Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Booth review – Julian Anderson curates an illuminating and unexpected programme |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=July 9, 2015 |accessdate=July 12, 2015}}

• Shiori Usui: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.

• Errollyn Wallen – Rebuttal Blues No 1{{Citation needed|reason=Provide date and indicate whether it marks composition, publication, or performance|date=March 2025}}

• Bertram Wee – Dithyrambs[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/en48gw#b064wwz3 BBC Proms, Proms Chamber Music 4, 10 August 2015, Cadogan Hall]

• Judith Weir – Good Morning, Midnight{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/08/aurora-orchestra-collon-connolly-good-morning-midnight-wigmore-hall-review |title=Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Connolly review – Weir's song cycle is sweet but never saccharine |work=The Guardian |author=Erica Jeal |date=June 8, 2015 |accessdate=June 14, 2015}}

• Lotta Wennäkoski – Päärme, for piano trio{{Cite web |url=http://www.kimitomusicfestival.fi/kantaesitykset.html |title=Kimito Island Music Festival, 7.7.2015 programme, Kimito Church |access-date=January 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105153345/http://www.kimitomusicfestival.fi/kantaesitykset.html |archive-date=January 5, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

• Michael F. Williams – Letters from the Front{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzso.co.nz/enotesmichaelw/ |title=New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, 'Letters from the Front' |access-date=September 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006133659/https://www.nzso.co.nz/enotesmichaelw/ |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

• Michael Wolters – Requiem to Let[http://www.birminghamweekender.com/whats-on/all-shows/requiem-to-let Birmingham Weekender, Requiem to Let]

• Hugh Wood – Epithalamion{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/23/prom-7-bbc-symphony-orchestra-davis-simpson-review |title=Prom 7: BBCSO/Davis/Simpson review – Hugh Wood draws inspiration from Donne |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=July 23, 2015 |accessdate=August 3, 2015}}

• Raymond Yiu – Symphony{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/26/prom-54-bbcsogardner-review-poetic-rendering-of-loss-and-remembering |title=BBCSO/Gardner review – poetic rendering of loss and remembering |work=The Guardian |author=Andrew Clements |date=August 26, 2015 |accessdate=September 4, 2015}}

• Nina C. Young – Agnosco Veteris[https://web.archive.org/web/20150219202212/http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-philharmonic-orchestra-july15/#.Ve98Tn1H7cg Aspen Music Festival], concert of July 15, 2015, listing.

Listed by composer surname.

• Mark Adamo – Becoming Santa Claus{{Cite news | url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/12/Reviews/DALLAS__Becoming_Santa_Claus.html | title=Becoming Santa Claus | work=Opera News | author=Scott Cantrell | date=December 4, 2015 | accessdate=December 19, 2015}}

• Matthew Aucoin – Crossing{{cite news | url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/6/Reviews/BOSTON__Crossing.html | title=Crossing (BOSTON, American Repertory Theater) | work=Opera News | author=Fred Cohn | date=May 27, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}

• Jeremy Howard Beck and Stephanie Fleischmann – The Long Walk[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]

• Per Bloland and Paul Schick – Pedr Solis{{cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/05/17/guerilla-premieres-pedr-solis-opera/yBr5U1wASrfn77T81TxxuK/story.html | title=Guerilla's 'Pedr Solis' full of energy and drama | work=Boston Globe | author=Matthew Guerrieri | date=May 17, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}

• Charlotte Bray and Amy Rosenthal – Entanglement{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/07/entanglement-that-man-stephen-ward-review | title=Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold | work=The Guardian | author=Rian Evans | date=July 7, 2015 | accessdate=July 7, 2015}}

• Tansy Davies and Nick Drake – Between Worlds{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/12/english-national-opera-barbican-between-worlds-tansy-davies-review | title=Between Worlds review – nothing like as affecting as it ought to be | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=April 12, 2015 | accessdate=April 12, 2015}}

• Johanna Doderer – Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern[http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/spielplan/Spielplandetail.en.php?eventid=963509887 Vienna State Opera page] on Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern.

• Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh – The Last Hotel{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/11/the-last-hotel-review-edinburgh-festival-walsh-dennehy-searingly-powerful | title=The Last Hotel review – a searingly powerful new chamber opera | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=August 11, 2015 | accessdate=September 1, 2015}}

• Hans Gefors and Kerstin Perski – Notorious{{cite news | url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ab10381e-6047-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html | title=Notorious, Gothenburg Opera, Sweden – review | work=Financial Times | author=Guy Dammann | date=September 21, 2015 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}

• Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton – Appomattox (revised version){{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/arts/music/review-appomattox-at-the-kennedy-center.html | title=Review: 'Appomattox' at the Kennedy Center |work=The New York Times | author=Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim | date=November 15, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}

• Ricky Ian Gordon and William M. Hoffman – Morning Star{{cite news | url=http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/06/28/morning-star-opera/29423571/ | title=Composer connects with his life in 'Morning Star' opera | work=Cincinnati Enquirer | author=Janelle Gelfand | date=June 28, 2015 | accessdate=June 29, 2015}}

• Georg Friedrich Haas and Jon Fosse – Morgen und Abend{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/15/morgen-und-abend-georg-friedrich-haas-royal-opera-house-london-review | title=Morgen und Abend review – birth, death and the longueurs in between | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=November 15, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}

• Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally – Great Scott{{Cite news | url=http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Heggie-s-Great-Scott-an-unsatisfying-6602726.php | title=Heggie's Great Scott fumbles effort to team up opera, football | work=San Francisco Chronicle | author=Joshua Kosman | date=October 31, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}

• Jennifer Higdon and Gene Scheer – Cold Mountain{{cite news | url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/cold-mountain-opera-review-long-lost-love-among-the-ruins/article_0a701696-2671-5d57-bb71-121d8e05864b.html | title='Cold Mountain' opera review: Long-lost love among the ruins | work=Santa Fe New Mexican | author=James M Keller | date=August 2, 2015 | accessdate=August 3, 2015}}

• Jimmy López and Nilo Cruz – Bel Canto{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/arts/music/lyric-opera-seeks-to-reassure-patrons-over-a-work-that-mirrors-the-terror-out-there.html | title=Lyric Opera Seeks to Reassure Patrons Over a Work that Mirrors the Terror Out There | work=The New York Times | author=Michael Cooper | date=December 4, 2015 | accessdate=December 6, 2015}}

• Gilda Lyons and Tammy Ryan – A New Kind of Fallout{{cite news | url=http://triblive.com/aande/music/8737351-74/alice-opera-act#axzz3gfRVzD7S | title=Review: Compelling new opera, 'Fallout,' revisits 1960s, dangers of pesticides | work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | author=Mark Kanny | date=July 19, 2015 | accessdate=July 22, 2015}}

• Ben Moore and Nahma Sandrow – Enemies, a Love Story{{cite news | url=http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/entertainment/palm-beach-operas-enemies-debut-a-compelling-theat/nkGLx/ | title=Palm Beach Opera's 'Enemies, a Love Story' debut a compelling theatrical experience | work=Palm Beach Daily News | author=Robert Croan | date=February 21, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}

• Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell – The Manchurian Candidate{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/music/review-the-manchurian-candidate-eagerly-awaited-has-premiere-in-st-paul.html|title=The Manchurian Candidate, Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul|work=The New York Times|author=Anthony Tommasini|author-link=Anthony Tommasini|date=March 9, 2015|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}

• Matt Rogers and Sally O'Reilly – The Virtues of Things{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/03/the-virtues-of-things-review | title=The Virtues of Things review – clear-sighted tale of a family facing the future | work=The Guardian | author=George Hall | date=May 3, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}

• Daniel Schnyder and Bridgette A. Wimberly – Charlie Parker's Yardbird{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/Review_Charlie_Parkers_Yardbird_soars_.html | title=Review: 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird' soars | work=Philadelphia Inquirer | author=Peter Dobrin | date=June 6, 2015 | accessdate=June 20, 2015}}

• Mauricio Soleto and Andrés Ibáñez – El Público[http://www.teatro-real.com/en/espectaculos/1838 Teatro Real page on El Público] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226193052/http://www.teatro-real.com/en/espectaculos/1838 |date=February 26, 2015 }}

• Gregory Spears and Royce Vavrek – O Columbia{{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/o-columbia-and-sweeney-todd-reviews-1443477827| title='O Columbia' and 'Sweeney Todd' Reviews | work=Wall Street Journal | author=Heidi Waleson | date=September 28, 2015 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}

• Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer – Everest{{cite news | url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/scott-cantrell/20150131-opera-trouble-on-the-operatic-mountains.ece | title=Opera: Trouble on the operatic mountains | work=Dallas Morning News | author=Scott Cantrell | date=January 31, 2015 | accessdate=February 10, 2015}}

• Marco Tutino and Fabio Ceresa – La Ciociara (Two Women){{cite news | url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/6/Reviews/SAN_FRANCISCO__Two_Women.html | title=Two Women (La Ciociara) | work=Opera News | author=Georgia Rowe | date=June 13, 2015 | accessdate=June 20, 2015}}

• Derrick Wang – Scalia/Ginsburg{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/comic-supreme-court-opera-an-affectionate-look-at-justices/2015/07/12/b2cc9c9a-28ad-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html | title='Scalia/Ginsburg': An affectionate comic opera look at the high court | newspaper=Washington Post | author=Philip Kennicott | date=July 12, 2015 | accessdate=August 8, 2015}}

• Havergal Brian – The Tigers (first commercially issued recording, from 1983 BBC performance){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/14/havergal-brian-the-tigers-review-bbcso-lionel-friend | title=Havergal Brian: The Tigers CD review – 1983 recording is vivid rather than refined | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=January 14, 2015 | accessdate=January 21, 2015}}
• Kaija Saariaho – Émilie Suite; Quatre Instants; Terra Memoria{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/15/kaija-saariaho-emilie-suite-quatre-instants-terra-memoria-cd-review | title=Kaija Saariaho: Émilie Suite; Quatre Instants; Terra Memoria CD review – in a pastel mood | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=January 15, 2015 | accessdate=January 21, 2015}}
• Ēriks Ešenvalds – "Northern Lights" (Hyperion){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/25/eriks-esenvalds-northern-lights-review-relentless-rapture | title=Eriks Esenvalds: Northern Lights CD review – relentless rapture | work=The Observer | author=Stephen Pritchard | date=January 25, 2015 | accessdate=February 10, 2015}}
• 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){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/arditty-quartet-rebecca-saunders-benedict-mason-luke-bedford-john-zorn-cd-review | title=Saunders: Fletch; Mason: String Quartet No 2 etc CD review – naggingly memorable | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=January 29, 2015 | accessdate=January 31, 2015}}
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Siroe (first complete recording){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/johan-adolf-hasse-siroe-re-di-persia-cd-review | title=Hasse: Siroe, re di Persia CD review – more bravura than refinement | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=January 29, 2015 | accessdate=February 6, 2015}}
• Liza Lim – The Compass; Pearl, Ochre, Hair String; The Guest{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/05/lim-compass-pearl-ochre-hair-string-guest-review | title=Lim: The Compass; Pearl, Ochre, Hair String; The Guest CD review – ambitious, eruptive orchestral works | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=January 29, 2015 | accessdate=February 6, 2015}}
• Kevin Volans – Trio Concerto; Piano Concerto; Symphony "Daar kom die Alibama"{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/05/volans-trio-concerto-daar-kom-die-alibama-review | title=Volans: Trio Concerto; Symphony: Daar kom die Alibama etc CD review – exhilarating and dramatic | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=February 5, 2015 | accessdate=February 6, 2015}}
• Mario Capuana, Bonaventura Rubino – Requiem Masses (Namur Chamber Choir){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/08/capuano-rubino-requiem-cd-review-sicilian-requiems | title=Capuano, Rubino: Requiem CD review – a tale of two Sicilian requiems | work=The Observer | author=Stephen Pritchard | date=February 8, 2015 | accessdate=February 10, 2015}}
• Agostino Steffani – Niobe, regina di Tebe{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/12/steffani-niobe-regina-di-tebe-cd-review | title=Steffani: Niobe, Regina di Tebe CD review – awkwardness and elegance in an early music curio | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Violin Concerto No 2 (I Profeti), Concerto Italiano{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/12/castelnuovo-tedesco-violin-concerto-tianwa-yang-cd-review | title=Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No 2 I Profeti; Concerto Italiano CD review – Tianwa Yang shows prowess | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• Nikolai Medtner – Piano Sonatas, 'Ein Idyll'{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/12/medtner-piano-sonatas-ein-idyll-alessandro-taverna-review | title=Medtner: Piano Sonatas; Ein Idyll CD review – Alessandro Taverna goes from strength to strength | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Thomas Hoppe (piano) – Romance oubliée (Myrios Classics){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/15/romance-oubliee-cd-review-tabea-zimmermann-thomas-hoppe | title=Romance oubliée CD review – miniatures as rich as stories | work=The Guardian | author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks | date=February 12, 2015 | accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• Donnacha Dennehy – Crane; O; The Vandal; Hive{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/19/dennehy-crane-o-the-vandal-hive-cd-review | title=Dennehy: Crane; O; The Vandal; Hive CD review – impressive range from the Irish composer | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=February 19, 2015 | accessdate=February 20, 2015}}
• Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek – 27[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]
• Marc Andre – ...auf...{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/26/andre-auf-review-swr-symphony-orchestra-cambreling | title=Andre: ...auf... CD review – alienated textures | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=February 26, 2015 | accessdate=February 28, 2015}}
• Félicien David – Le Désert{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/26/david-le-desert-review-dubois-equilbey-chambre-de-paris | title=David: Le Desert CD review – coherent and compact | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=February 26, 2015 | accessdate=February 28, 2015}}
• Michael Gordon – Dystopia; Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/04/michael-gordon-dystopia-rewriting-beethovens-seventh-review | title=Gordon: Dystopia; Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony CD review – moments of striking beauty | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=March 4, 2015 | accessdate=March 8, 2015}}
• Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 (world premiere recording of 1879 version) / Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 (Myrios Classics){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/15/tchaikovsky-piano-concerto-no-1-1879-version-kirill-gerstein-cd-review-world-premiere-observer | title=Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 (1879 version) CD review – refinement, strength and commitment | work=The Observer | author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks | date=March 15, 2015 | accessdate=March 15, 2015}}
• Hans Abrahamsen – Zählen und Erzählen{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/18/hans-abrahamsen-zahlen-und-erzahlen-cd-review-four-pieces-tamara-stefanovich | title=Abrahamsen: Four Pieces for Orchestra; Piano Concerto etc CD review – surprising and satisfying reworkings | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=March 18, 2015 | accessdate=March 19, 2015}}
• Missy Mazzoli – Vespers for a New Dark Age{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/arts/music/review-missy-mazzolis-unsettling-vespers-for-a-new-dark-age.html|title=Review: Missy Mazzoli's Unsettling 'Vespers for a New Dark Age'|work=The New York Times|author=Nate Chinen|date=March 30, 2015|accessdate=April 4, 2015}}
• Théodore Dubois – Musique Sacrée et Symphonique{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/09/theodore-dubois-musique-sacree-symphonique-musique-de-chamber-cd-review | title=Dubois: Musique Sacrée et Symphonique CD review – top-class performances but the music is only occasionally striking | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=April 9, 2015 | accessdate=April 18, 2015}}
• Wolfgang Rihm – Et Lux{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/09/wolfgang-rihm-et-lux-cd-review-single-movement-requiem | title=Wolfgang Rihm: Et Lux CD review – broad, generous textures | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=April 9, 2015 | accessdate=April 12, 2015}}
• Judith Weir – Storm{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/30/storm-judith-weir-cd-review-bbc-singers | title=Storm: Judith Weir CD review – the BBC singers are invigorating and vibrant | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=April 30, 2015 | accessdate=May 2, 2015}}
• Krzysztof Penderecki – Magnificat, Kadisz{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/07/penderecki-magnificat-warsaw-philharmonic-cd-review | title=Penderecki: Magnificat CD review – a peculiar and gripping mix played at full throttle | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=May 7, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• Harrison Birtwistle – Angel Fighter, In Broken Images, Virelais{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/14/birtwistle-angel-fighter-in-broken-images-review | title=Birtwistle: Angel Fighter; In Broken Images; Virelais CD review – spare and strikingly original | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=May 14, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• Lotta Wennäkoski – Soie, Hava, Amor Omnia Suite{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/11/lotta-wennakowski-soie-kersten-mccall-dima-slobodeniouk-frso-cd-review | title=Wennäkoski: Soie CD review – a major addition to the flute concerto repertoire | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=June 11, 2015 | accessdate=June 14, 2015}}
• Wartime Consolations : Shostakovich – Sonata for Violin and Piano (unfinished) / Mieczysław Weinberg – Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes (orchestral version) / Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Concerto funebre{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/28/wartime-consolations-cd-review-fascinating-finds-gloomy-meditations | title=Various: Wartime Consolations CD review – gloomy meditations and fascinating finds | work=The Observer | author=Nicholas Kenyon | date=June 28, 2015 | accessdate=June 29, 2015}}
• Roger Sacheverell Coke – Preludes and Variations{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/05/coke-preludes-variations-fevered-chromaticism-review-simon-callaghan-piano | title=Coke: Preludes and Variations review – fevered chromaticism | work=The Observer | author=Stephen Pritchard | date=July 5, 2015 | accessdate=July 7, 2015}}
• Václav Tomášek – Songs{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/09/renata-pokupic-songs-by-tomasek-cd-review-the-eloquent-mezzo-shines-a-light-on-an-eclipsed-composer | title=Renata Pokupić: Songs by Tomášek CD review – the eloquent mezzo shines a light on an eclipsed composer | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=July 9, 2015 | accessdate=July 12, 2015}}
• Bob Chilcott – The Angry Planet{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/12/bob-chilcott-the-angry-planet-david-hill-bbc-singers-review | title=Bob Chilcott: The Angry Planet review – touching innocence of young choirs | work=The Observer | author=Stephen Pritchard | date=July 12, 2015 | accessdate=July 12, 2015}}
• Jörg Widmann – String Quartets{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/16/jorg-widmann-string-quartets-cd-review-minguet-quartet-claron-mcfadden | title=Widmann: String Quartets CD review – jaw-dropping beauty, haunting textures | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=July 16, 2015 | accessdate=July 22, 2015}}
• John Adams – Absolute Jest, Grand Pianola Music{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/29/adams-absolute-jest-grand-pianola-music-cd-review-musically-serious-but-still-enormous-fun | title=Adams: Absolute Jest; Grand Pianola Music CD review – musically serious but still enormous fun | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=July 29, 2015 | accessdate=July 29, 2015}}
• Grażyna Bacewicz – String Quartets, Vol 1{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/06/bacewicz-string-quartets-vol-1-cd-review-joyful-sonorities-and-dance-rhythms | title=Bacewicz: String Quartets Vol 1 CD review – joyful sonorities and dance rhythms | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=August 6, 2015 | accessdate=August 8, 2015}}
• Christopher Simpson – Ayres{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/06/chelys-consort-of-viols-ayres-by-christopher-simpson-cd-review | title=Chelys: Ayres by Christopher Simpson CD review – bringing the 17th-century viol to wonderfully supple life | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=August 6, 2015 | accessdate=August 8, 2015}}
• Sadie Harrison – 'Solos and Duos for Piano and Strings'{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/23/sadie-harrison-solos-and-duos-for-piano-and-strings-cd-review-glittering-intensity | title=Sadie Harrison: Solos and Duos for Piano and Strings CD review – glittering intensity | work=The Observer | author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks | date=August 23, 2015 | accessdate=August 25, 2015}}
• Boris Tischenko – Piano Sonatas Nos 7 and 8{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/27/tishchenko-piano-sonatas-7-8-cd-review-nicolas-stavy-jean-claude-gengembre | title=Tishchenko: Piano Sonatas 7 & 8 CD review – fearless and penetrating playing | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=August 27, 2015 | accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• Brett Dean – String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Five Epitaphs{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/30/brett-dean-epitaphs-eclipse-cd-review-doric-string-quartet-allison-bell | title=Brett Dean: Epitaphs, Eclipse (String Quartet No 1) etc CD review – tense, tender and original | work=The Observer | author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks | date=August 30, 2015 | accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• David Lang, Luciano Berio, Betty Olivero – Song of Songs{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/30/lang-berio-olivero-song-of-songs-cd-review-trio-mediaeval-full-of-surprises | title=Lang, Berio, Olivero: Song of Songs CD review – full of surprises | work=The Observer | author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks | date=August 30, 2015 | accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• Paul Hindemith – The Long Christmas Dinner{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/02/hindemith-the-long-christmas-dinner-cd-review-preserves-the-subtlety-of-his-last-opera | title=Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner CD review – preserves the subtlety of his last opera | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=September 2, 2015 | accessdate=September 4, 2015}}
• Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Gordon Crosse, Piers Hellawell – Bach 2 the Future (Fenella Humphreys, violin){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/03/fenella-humphreys-bach-2-the-future-cd-review-companion-commissions-rise-to-the-challenge | title=Fenella Humphreys: Bach 2 the Future CD review – companion commissions rise to the challenge | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=September 3, 2015 | accessdate=September 4, 2015}}
• Wim Henderickx – Triptych{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/01/henderickx-triptych-cd-review-beguiling-eastern-soundscapes | title=Henderickx: Triptych CD review – beguiling Eastern soundscapes | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=October 1, 2015 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}
• Morton Feldman – For Bunita Marcus{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/08/feldman-for-bunita-marcus-review | title=Feldman: For Bunita Marcus review – fluidity and impatience from pianist Ivan Ilić | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=October 8, 2015 | accessdate=October 17, 2015}}
• Jonathan Rathbone – Under the Shadow of His Wing{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/18/jonathan-rathbone-under-the-shadow-of-his-wing-vasari-singers-cd-review | title=Jonathan Rathbone: Under the Shadow of His Wing CD review – seductively lush | work=The Observer | author=Stephen Pritchard | date=October 18, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}
• Heinz Holliger – Machaut Transcriptions{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/12/holliger-machaut-transcriptions-review-two-worlds-collide | title=Holliger: Machaut Transcriptions review – two worlds collide | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=November 12, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
• John Luther Adams – Ilimaq{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/18/john-luther-adams-ilimaq-glenn-kotche-review | title=Adams: Ilimaq review – work of great power and surprising stark beauty | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=November 18, 2015 | accessdate=November 21, 2015}}
• Charles Gounod – La Colombe{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/25/gounod-la-colombe-opera-rara-mark-elder-cd-review-a-charming-rarity | title=Gounod: La Colombe CD review: a charming rarity well served by Elder | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=November 25, 2015 | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
• Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) – Take Two (including music by Jorge Sanchez-Chiong et al){{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/26/patricia-kopatchinskaja-take-two-cd-review-beautifully-played | title=Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Take Two CD review – beautifully played | work=The Guardian | author=Erica Jeal | date=November 26, 2015 | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
• Toshio Hosokawa – Voyage VIII et al.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/03/hosokawa-voyage-viii-stunden-blumen-voyage-x-etc-review-airy-and-alert | title=Hosokawa: Voyage VIII; Stunden-Blumen; Voyage X etc review – airy and alert | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=December 3, 2015 | accessdate=December 17, 2015}}
• Michael Nyman – War Work{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/09/nyman-war-work-review-an-elegy-to-a-lost-generation | title=Nyman: War Work review – an elegy to a lost generation | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=December 9, 2015 | accessdate=December 17, 2015}}
• Robin de Raaff – Waiting for Miss Monroe{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/16/de-raaff-waiting-for-miss-monroe-cd-review-songs-haunted-by-the-ghost-of-norma-jean | title=De Raaff: Waiting for Miss Monroe CD review – songs haunted by the ghost of Norma Jean | work=The Guardian | author=Andrew Clements | date=December 16, 2015 | accessdate=December 17, 2015}}
• Jürg Frey – Third String Quartet{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/17/jurg-frey-third-string-quartet-bozzini-quartet-cd-review-jurg-frey | title=Jürg Frey: Third String Quartet CD review – an audaciously fragile performance | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=December 17, 2015 | accessdate=December 19, 2015}}
• Joseph Kuridka – Beauty and Industry{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/17/kudirka-beauty-and-industry-cd-review-kudirka-apartment-house | title=Kudirka: Beauty and Industry CD review – slow and starkly beautiful | work=The Guardian | author=Kate Molleson | date=December 17, 2015 | accessdate=December 19, 2015}}

• January 2 – Bob Gilmore, British musicologist, 53[http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2015/01/bob-gilmore-1961-2015.html Bob Gilmore (1961–2015)]
• January 6 – Lawrence Gushee, American musicologist, 83[http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2015-01-08/lawrence-gushee.html Lawrence Gushee]
• January 9 – Colin Sauer, British violinist, 90{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11574211/Colin-Sauer-violinist-obituary.html | title=Colin Sauer, violinist – obituary | work=Telegraph | date=April 30, 2015 | accessdate=May 2, 2015}}
• January 10 – Countess Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Japanese-born Italian aristocrat and patroness of classical music, 82{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/arts/music/yoko-nagae-ceschina-countess-and-fairy-godmother-to-the-arts-dies-at-82.html|title=Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Countess and Fairy Godmother to the Arts, Dies at 82|work=The New York Times|author=Margalit Fox|author-link=Margalit Fox|date=January 18, 2015|accessdate=January 21, 2015}}
• January 12 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian operatic mezzo-soprano, 75{{cite web | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/mezzo-elena-obraztsova-has-died | title=Mezzo Elena Obraztsova has died | work=Gramophone | date=January 12, 2015 | accessdate=January 15, 2015}}
• January 13 – Frank Glazer, American pianist, 99{{cite web | author=Bob Keyes | url=http://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/13/maine-pianist-frank-glazer-dies-at-99/ | title=Maine pianist, Bates artist-in-residence Frank Glazer dies at 99 | work=Portland Press-Herald | date=January 13, 2015 | accessdate=January 15, 2015}}
• January 19
• Vera Gornostayeva, Russian pianist and piano teacher, 85{{Cite web |url=http://www.bachauer.com/bachauer-news/tribute-to-vera-gornostayeva.html |title=Tribute to Vera Gornostayeva |access-date=January 31, 2015 |archive-date=February 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201062836/http://www.bachauer.com/bachauer-news/tribute-to-vera-gornostayeva.html |url-status=dead }}
• Ward Swingle, American singer, 87{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/ward-swingle-musician-who-made-bach-swing-dies-at-87/2015/01/20/9bd5e780-a0bd-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html | title=Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 | newspaper=Washington Post | author=Adam Bernstein | date=January 20, 2015 | accessdate=January 21, 2015}}
• January 29 – Israel Yinon, Israeli conductor, 59{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/conductor-israel-yinon-has-died | title=Conductor Israel Yinon has died | work=Gramophone | date=January 30, 2015 | accessdate=January 31, 2015}}
• February 1 – Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist, 89[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] {{in lang|it}}
• February 3 – Andrew Patner, American music critic, 55{{cite news | url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/7/71/340586/music-critic-andrew-patner-dead-age-55 | title=Arts critic Andrew Patner dies at 55; versatile Chicago writer, radio host | work=Chicago Sun-Times | author=Maureen O'Donnell and Miriam Di Nunzio | date=February 3, 2015 | accessdate=February 6, 2015}}
• February 9 – Marvin David Levy, American composer, 82{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/arts/music/marvin-david-levy-opera-composer-who-became-a-felon-is-dead-at-82.html|title=Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82|work=The New York Times|author=Margalit Fox|author-link=Margalit Fox|date=February 15, 2015|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}
• February 13 – John McCabe, British composer and pianist, 75{{cite web |title=Composer and pianist John McCabe dies aged 75 |website=BBC News |date=February 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516211153/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31457464 |archive-date=May 16, 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31457464}}
• February 28 – Ezra Laderman, American composer, 90[http://music.yale.edu/2015/03/01/memoriam-composer-ezra-laderman-90/ In memoriam: composer Ezra Laderman, 90]
• March 1 – Jennifer Ward Clarke, British cellist, 79{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11473331/Jennifer-Ward-Clarke-cellist-obituary.html | title=Jennifer Ward Clarke, cellist – obituary | work=Telegraph | author=David Allen | date=March 15, 2015 | accessdate=March 19, 2015}}
• March 19 – Peter Katin, British pianist, 84[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11488381/Peter-Katin-pianist-obituary.html Peter Katin, pianist – obituary]
• March 22 – Norman Scribner, American choral conductor, 79[http://www.georgetowner.com/articles/2015/mar/23/choral-arts-norman-scribner-1936-2015/ Choral Arts' Norman Scribner: 1936–2015]
• March 24 (killed in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525):{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/25/germanwings-crash-opera-world-tribute-maria-radner-and-oleg-bryjak | title=Opera world pays tribute to Germanwings crash victims Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak | work=The Guardian | author=Tim Ashley | date=March 25, 2015 | accessdate=March 28, 2015}}
• Oleg Bryjak, Kazakh-born German opera singer, 54
• Maria Radner, German opera singer, 33
• March 28 – Ronald Stevenson, British composer and pianist, 87{{cite news | url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-ronald-stevenson-composer-and-pianist-1-3733549 | title=Obituary: Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist | work=The Scotsman | author=Alasdair Steven | date=March 31, 2015 | accessdate=April 4, 2015}}
• March 29 – Ronald Knudsen, American orchestral violinist and conductor, 83{{cite news | url=http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/long-serving-boston-symphony-violinist-ronald-knudsen-dies-aged-83/ | title=Long-serving Boston Symphony violinist Ronald Knudsen dies aged 83 | work=The Strad | date=April 2, 2015 | accessdate=April 4, 2015 | archive-date=April 6, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406162323/http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/long-serving-boston-symphony-violinist-ronald-knudsen-dies-aged-83/ | url-status=dead }}
• April 2 – Dennis Marks, British radio & television producer and opera administrator, 66{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/09/dennis-marks | title=Dennis Marks obituary | work=The Guardian | author=John Abulafia and Humphrey Burton | date=April 9, 2015 | accessdate=April 12, 2015}}
• April 3 – Andrew Porter, British music critic, librettist, scholar and editor, 86{{cite news | url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/4/News/Andrew_Porter.html | title=Andrew Porter, 86, Longtime New Yorker Critic Whose Prose and Musical Discoveries Changed Opera, Has Died | work=Opera News | author=William R Braun | date=April 3, 2015 | accessdate=April 12, 2015}}
• April 5 – Claudio Prieto, Spanish composer, 80[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] {{in lang|es}}
• April 17 – Brian Couzens, British record producer and founder of Chandos Records, 82{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/brian-couzens-founder-of-chandos-has-died | title=Brian Couzens, founder of Chandos, has died | work=Gramophone | author=Martin Cullingford | date=April 17, 2015 | accessdate=April 18, 2015}}
• April 27 – Rolf Smedvig, American trumpeter, 62{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/arts/music/rolf-smedvig-trumpeter-in-the-empire-brass-dies-at-62.html|title=Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62|work=The New York Times|author=Margalit Fox|author-link=Margalit Fox|date=May 1, 2015|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}
• April 29
• Ronald Senator, British-born composer resident in the USA, 89[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]
• Miriam Brickman, American pianist, 81
• May 2 – Clarice Carson, Canadian soprano, 85{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/clarice-carson-canadian-soprano-and-opera-great-dead-at-85-1.3059590| title=Clarice Carson, Canadian soprano and opera great, dead at 85 | work=CBC | date=May 3, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• May 3 – Margaret Garwood, American composer, 88{{cite news | url=http://articles.philly.com/2015-05-07/news/61869212_1_donald-chittum-now-defunct-pennsylvania-opera-theater-composer-margaret-garwood | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516023931/http://articles.philly.com/2015-05-07/news/61869212_1_donald-chittum-now-defunct-pennsylvania-opera-theater-composer-margaret-garwood | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 16, 2015 | title=Composer Margaret Garwood dies at 88 | work=Philadelphia Inquirer | author=David Patrick Stearns | date=May 7, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• May 10
• Jack Body, New Zealand composer, 70[http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/68426767/arts-icon-jack-body-has-died "Arts icon" Jack Body has died']
• Victor Salvi, American-born harpist and harp manufacturer, 95{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/arts/music/victor-salvi-who-played-harps-and-made-them-too-dies-at-95.html | title=Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=May 23, 2015 | accessdate=May 23, 2015}}
• May 28 – Steven Gerber, American composer, 66[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=174969767 Steven Gerber Obituary]
• May 29 – Peter Cropper, British violinist and leader of the Lindsay Quartet, 69{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/jun/04/peter-cropper | title=Peter Cropper obituary | author=Tully Potter and John Caskem | date=June 4, 2015 | accessdate=June 7, 2015}}
• May 31 – Nico Castel, American tenor, comprimario and vocal coach, 83{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/music/nico-castel-tenor-and-diction-coach-at-the-met-dies-at-83.html | title=Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=June 3, 2015 | accessdate=June 7, 2015}}
• June 2 – Günther Schneider-Siemssen, German opera stage designer, 88{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/music/gunther-schneider-siemssen-opera-stage-designer-dies-at-88.html | title=Günther Schneider-Siemssen Dies at 88; Envisioned Elaborate Opera Stage Sets | work=The New York Times | author=Michael Cooper | date=June 3, 2015 | accessdate=June 7, 2015}}
• June 3 – Margaret Juntwait, American radio broadcaster and host of the Metropolitan Opera radio transmissions, 58{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/arts/music/margaret-juntwait-the-voice-of-the-met-on-radio-dies-at-58.html | title=Margaret Juntwait, the Voice of the Met on Radio, Dies at 58 | work=The New York Times | author=James Barron | date=June 4, 2015 | accessdate=June 7, 2015}}
• June 12 – Ernest Tomlinson, British composer, 90{{cite news|url=http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/06/ernest-tomlinson-1924-2015-has-died-at-90/ |title=Ernest Tomlinson (1924–2015) has died at 90 |work=Classical Music Magazine |author=Katy Wright |date=June 12, 2015 |accessdate=June 14, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614071857/http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/06/ernest-tomlinson-1924-2015-has-died-at-90/ |archive-date=June 14, 2015 }}
• June 13 – Ronald Wilford, American artist agency manager and executive, 87{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/arts/music/ronald-wilford-manager-of-legendary-maestros-dies-at-87.html | title=Ronald Wilford, Manager of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 | work=The New York Times | author=Michael Cooper | date=June 13, 2015 | accessdate=June 14, 2015}}
• June 14 – Walter Weller, Austrian conductor and violinist, 75{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/walter-weller.129121936 | title=Walter Weller | work=The Herald | author=Conrad Wilson | date=June 17, 2015 | accessdate=June 20, 2015}}
• June 17 – Neil Courtney, American orchestral double bass player, 82{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150619_Neil_Courtney__prominent_bassist__dead_at_82.html | title=Neil Courtney, prominent bassist, dead at 82 | work=Philadelphia Inquirer | author=Peter Dobrin | date=June 19, 2015 | accessdate=June 20, 2015}}
• June 21 – Gunther Schuller, American composer, conductor, teacher and author, 89{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/arts/music/gunther-schuller-composer-who-synthesized-classical-and-jazz-dies-at-89.html | title=Gunther Schuller Dies at 89; Composer Synthesized Classical and Jazz | work=The New York Times |author=Allan Kozinn| date=June 21, 2015 | accessdate=June 22, 2015}}
• June 22
• Joseph de Pasquale, American orchestral violist, 95{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150623_Noted_violist_Joseph_de_Pasquale_dies_at_95.html | title=Noted violist Joseph de Pasquale dies at 95 | work=Philadelphia Inquirer | author=Peter Dobrin | date=June 23, 2015 | accessdate=June 29, 2015}}
• John (Jack) McCaw, New Zealand-born British orchestral clarinetist, 96Jessica Duchen, [http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/2015/07/farewell-to-wonderful-clarinettist.html 'Farewell to a wonderful clarinettist'] (blog entry), 23 July 2015
• July 1 – Edward Greenfield, British music critic, 86{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/02/edward-greenfield | title=Edward Greenfield obituary | work=The Guardian | author=David McKie and Meirion Bowen | date=July 2, 2015 | accessdate=July 7, 2015}}
• July 7 – Friedemann Weigle, German violist and member of the Artemis Quartet, 52[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]
• July 10 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor, 88{{cite news | url=http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/7/News/Jon_Vickers_Tenor_Obituary.html | title=Jon Vickers, 88, Heroic Canadian Tenor, Has Died | work=Opera News | author=William R Braun | date=July 11, 2015 | accessdate=July 12, 2015 | archive-date=July 12, 2015 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150712025158/http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/7/News/Jon_Vickers_Tenor_Obituary.html | url-status=dead }}
• July 15 – Alan Curtis, American harpsichordist, conductor and scholar, 80[http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/alan-curtis-scholar-harpsichordist-and-conductor-has-died Alan Curtis, scholar, harpsichordist and conductor, has died]
• July 19 – David Roth, American opera administrator, 56{{cite news | url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/07/20/kentucky-operas-david-roth-found-dead-car/30412965/ | title=Ky Opera's Roth recalled as artistic risk-taker | work=Louisville Courier Journal | author=Elizabeth Kramer | date=July 20, 2015 | accessdate=September 1, 2015}}
• July 21
• Paul Freeman, American conductor and founder of Chicago Sinfonietta, 79[http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/chicago-sinfonietta-founder-maestro-paul-freeman-dies/873448/ Chicago Sinfonietta founder Maestro Paul Freeman dies]
• Vera Stern, American arts administrator and arts ambassador, 88{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/nyregion/vera-stern-whose-efforts-helped-to-save-carnegie-hall-dies-at-88.html | title=Vera Stern, Arts Advocate Who Helped Save Carnegie Hall, Dies at 88 |work=The New York Times| author=William Grimes| date=July 22, 2015 |accessdate=December 30, 2015}}
• July 26 – Vic Firth, American orchestral timpanist and percussionist, 85{{cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/07/28/vic-firth-noted-bso-timpanist-drumstick-maker-dies/Jm84RGELKSIIlDpeKIMIlO/story.html | title=Vic Firth, 85; was celebrated BSO timpanist and drumstick maker | work=Boston Globe | author=Jeremy Eichler | date=July 29, 2015 | accessdate=July 29, 2015}}
• July 27 – Ivan Moravec, Czech pianist, 84{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/pianist-ivan-moravec-has-died | title=Pianist Ivan Moravec has died | work=Gramophone | author=James Jolly | date=July 27, 2015 | accessdate=July 29, 2015}}
• August 2 – J. Durward Morsch, American composer, 94{{Cite web |url=http://gazette.com/deaths-for-august-5-2015/article/1556820 |title=J. Durward Morsch |access-date=August 8, 2015 |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905075119/http://gazette.com/deaths-for-august-5-2015/article/1556820 |url-status=dead }}
• August 12 – John Scott, British-born organist and choirmaster resident in the USA, 59{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/19/john-scott | title=John Scott obituary | work=The Guardian | author=Malcolm Archer | date=August 19, 2015 | accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• August 18 – Roger Smalley, British-born composer resident in Australia, 72{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/01/roger-smalley | title=Roger Smalley obituary | work=The Guardian | author=Meirion Bowen | date=September 1, 2015 | accessdate=September 1, 2015}}
• August 22:
• Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Austrian opera director, 76{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11831314/Nikolaus-Lehnhoff-stage-director-obituary.html | title=Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director – obituary | work=Telegraph | date=August 28, 2015 | accessdate=September 1, 2015}}
• Francis Dillnutt, British classical recording engineer, 91{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/a-tribute-to-francis-dillnutt-emi-recording-engineer | title=A tribute to Francis Dillnutt, EMI recording engineer | work=Gramophone | author=Ken Townsend | date=October 20, 2015 | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}
• August 27 – George Cleve, Austrian-born American conductor, 79{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/arts/music/george-cleve-conductor-who-interpreted-mozart-dies-at-79.html | title=George Cleve, Conductor Who Interpreted Mozart, Dies at 79 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=August 29, 2015 | accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• August 30 – Natalia Strelchenko (Strelle), Russian-born pianist, 38{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/31/concert-pianist-natalia-strelchenko-killed-in-her-manchester-home | title=Concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko killed in her Manchester home | work=The Guardian | author=Jamie Grierson | date=August 31, 2015 | accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
• August 31 – Bruce Lawrence, American orchestral double bassist, 88{{cite news | url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/bruce-lawrence-first-black-member-of-seattle-symphony-dies/ | title=Bruce Lawrence, former Seattle Symphony bassist, dies at 88 | work=Seattle Times | author=Tricia Romano | date=September 11, 2015 | accessdate=September 14, 2015}}
• September 5 – Jacques Israelievitch, French-born Canadian orchestral violinist, 67[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]
• September 7
• Susan Allen, American harpist, 64 (brain cancer)[http://www.deadfamous.info/susan-allen-harpist-died-at-64 Susan Allen, harpist, died at 64]
• Cor Edskes, Dutch organ builder and restorer, 90[http://www.orgelenkerkmuziek.nl/orgelenkerkmuziek/orgelnieuws/761-cor-edskes-overleden Cor Edskes overleden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003004926/http://www.orgelenkerkmuziek.nl/orgelenkerkmuziek/orgelnieuws/761-cor-edskes-overleden |date=October 3, 2015 }} {{in lang|nl}}
• September 17 – Sir David Willcocks, British choirmaster, 95{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/17/david-willcocks | title=Sir David Willcocks obituary | work=The Guardian | author=Robert Tear | date=September 17, 2015 | accessdate=September 18, 2015}}
• September 28 – Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor, 94[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11899315/Alexander-Faris-composer-obituary.html Alexander Faris, composer – obituary]
• October 1 – Dieter Kober, German conductor, 95{{cite news | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/vonrhein/ct-dieter-kober-obit-ent-1008-20151007-column.html | title=Dieter Kober, longtime conductor of Chicago Chamber Orchestra, dies at 95 | work=Chicago Tribune | author=John von Rhein | date=October 7, 2015 | accessdate=October 10, 2015}}
• October 5 – Reinhardt Elster, American opera orchestra harpist, 101[https://www.metopera.org/News-Flash1/Met-News-Flash/Reinhardt-Elster/ Metropolitan Opera, 'Reinhardt Elster, 1914–2015'. October 2015]
• October 13 – Duncan Druce, British musicologist, 76{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11936649/Duncan-Druce-composer-obituary.html | title=Duncan Druce, composer – obituary | work=Telegraph | date=October 16, 2015 | accessdate=October 17, 2015}}
• November 2 – Richard Horowitz, American opera orchestra timpanist and crafter of conductor batons, 91{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/arts/music/richard-horowitz-renowned-timpanist-and-craftsman-of-conductors-batons-dies-at-91.html | title=Richard Horowitz, Timpanist and Craftsman of Conductors' Batons, Dies at 91 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=November 11, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
• November 10 – Robert Craft, American classical music writer, conductor, and amanuensis to Igor Stravinsky, 92{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/music/robert-craft-stravinsky-adviser-and-steward-dies-at-92.html | title=Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=November 15, 2015 | accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
• November 16 – Seymour Lipkin, American pianist and conductor, 88{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/arts/music/seymour-lipkin-pianist-and-conductor-dies-at-88.html | title=Seymour Lipkin, Understated Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 88 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=November 19, 2015 | accessdate=November 21, 2015}}
• November 21 – Joseph Silverstein, American orchestra leader (concertmaster) and conductor, 83{{Cite news | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2015/11/24/joseph-silverstein-renowned-violinist-and-bso-concertmaster-for-years-dies/akvXsKrere1lokotflC1GL/story.html | title=Joseph Silverstein, 83; renowned violinist, BSO concertmaster | work=Boston Globe | author=Jeremy Eichler | date=November 24, 2015 | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
• November 23 – Jouni Kaipainen, Finnish composer, 58{{Cite news | url=http://www.hs.fi/muistot/a1306004884819 | title=Jouni Kaipainen | work=Helsingin Sanomat | author=Vesa Sirén | date=November 24, 2015 | accessdate=November 26, 2015}}
• November 28 – Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera stage director, 67{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/arts/music/luc-bondy-swiss-born-theater-and-opera-director-dies-at-67.html | title=Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 | work=The New York Times | author=Bruce Weber | date=December 1, 2015 | accessdate=December 5, 2015}}
• December 2 – John Eaton, US composer, 80[http://www.moogmusic.com/news/memoriam-john-eaton-1935-2015 Moog Music, 'In Memoriam: John Eaton (1935–2015)']
• December 4 – Rodney Milnes, British opera critic and translator, 79{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12037641/Rodney-Milnes-opera-critic-obituary.html | title=Rodney Milnes, opera critic – obituary | work=Telegraph | date=December 7, 2015 |accessdate=December 17, 2015}}
• December 8 – Mattiwilda Dobbs, American opera singer and recitalist, 90{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/arts/music/mattiwilda-dobbs-black-soprano-and-principal-at-met-dies-at-90.html | title=Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 | work=The New York Times | author=Margalit Fox | date=December 10, 2015 | accessdate=December 12, 2015}}
• December 15 – Stella Doufexis, German mezzo-soprano of Greek ancestry, 47{{Cite web |url=http://klassiker.welt.de/2015/12/16/stella-doufexis-ist-tot-eine-meisterlich-vielseite-mezzosopranistin/ |title=Manuel Brug, 'Stella Doufexis ist tot: eine meisterlich vielseite Mezzosopranistin'. Die Welt (Brugs Klassiker blog), 16 December 2015 |access-date=December 17, 2015 |archive-date=December 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219164833/http://klassiker.welt.de/2015/12/16/stella-doufexis-ist-tot-eine-meisterlich-vielseite-mezzosopranistin/ |url-status=dead }}
• December 16 – Aafje Heynis, Dutch soprano, 91{{Cite news | url=http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/24893816/__Aafje_Heynis__91__overleden__.html | title=Zangeres Aafje Heynis overleden | work=De Telegraaf | author=Thiemo Wind | date=December 18, 2015 | accessdate=December 30, 2015}}
• December 18 – Luc Brewaeys, Belgian composer, 56{{Cite news|url=http://www.flanderstoday.eu/arts/flemish-composer-luc-brewaeys-dies-aged-56 |title=Flemish composer Luc Brewaeys dies aged 56 |work=Flanders Today |author=Alan Hope |date=December 21, 2015 |accessdate=December 30, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505115204/http://www.flanderstoday.eu/arts/flemish-composer-luc-brewaeys-dies-aged-56 |archive-date=May 5, 2016 }}
• December 19 – Kurt Masur, German conductor, 88{{cite news | author=Margalit Fox | title=Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/arts/music/kurt-masur-new-york-philharmonic-conductor-dies.html | work=The New York Times | date=December 19, 2015 | accessdate=December 19, 2015}}
• December 22 – John Duffy, American composer and music administrator, 89{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/arts/music/john-duffy-composer-who-aided-his-contemporaries-dies-at-89.html | title=John Duffy, a Composer Who Gave His Peers a Platform, Dies at 89 |work=The New York Times|author=William Grimes| date=December 28, 2015 | accessdate=December 30, 2015}}

• 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music: Julia Wolfe – Anthracite Fields[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Music The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners – Music]
• 2015 Grawemeyer Award Winner in Music: Wolfgang Rihm – IN-SCHRIFT 2{{Cite web |url=http://grawemeyer.org/rihm-wins-music-prize-for-piece-evoking-dark-colors/ |title=The Grawemeyer Awards, 'Rihm wins music prize for piece evoking "dark colors"', 1 December 2014 |access-date=November 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208073720/http://grawemeyer.org/rihm-wins-music-prize-for-piece-evoking-dark-colors/ |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

• 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)

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)

• 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

• 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

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