Harmony-owned classical music publishing firm Boosey & Hawkes has introduced a management transition set for 2026.
Janis Susskind OBE will conclude her tenure as Managing Director in June 2026, following a 46-year profession with the corporate.
Senior Vice President Steven Lankenau, a veteran publishing government who has been with Boosey & Hawkes for 15 years, will develop into President on January 1, 2026 and assume full management of worldwide operations from July, 1, 2026.
House to over 5,000 composers and greater than 20,000 works, Harmony notes that Boosey & Hawkes “stands on the coronary heart of the classical world — representing each the timeless and the transformative”.
The corporate represents works by composers comparable to Béla Bartók, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, John Adams, Unsuk Chin, and Steve Reich.
Harmony added that Boosey & Hawkes’ “catalog continues to form music on stage and in standard tradition”.
Latest movie and promoting highlights embody Igor Stravinsky’s ballet scores “underpinning” Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme; John Adams’s music that includes in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt; and Karl Jenkins’s music in L’Oréal’s world advert marketing campaign.
Susskind joined Boosey & Hawkes in 1980, rising by means of the ranks to develop into Managing Director in 2012, and was “instrumental within the firm’s progress and transformation,” Harmony mentioned on Wednesday (November 5).
In 2003, she served on the chief workforce that guided Boosey & Hawkes by means of its transition from public to personal possession, “securing its independence and future success”.In line with Harmony, she “championed a daring worldwide technique for selling composers, driving a greater than threefold enhance in new-music revenues since 2004”.
The corporate added: “Underneath Susskind’s management, Boosey & Hawkes solidified its place because the world’s foremost classical writer whereas increasing globally inside the Harmony household”.
Harmony additionally cites current publishing agreements with Joe Hisaishi, Jeanine Tesori, and Joan Armatrading as “replicate[ing] the corporate’s forward-looking technique”.
Lankenau, in the meantime, joined Boosey & Hawkes in 2010 and have become Senior Vice President in 2021, overseeing all inventive and enterprise operations in North and South America.
He has led world campaigns, together with “Leonard Bernstein at 100,” producing over 5,700 performances worldwide; signed composers together with MacArthur “Genius” Courtney Bryan and multi-Grammy profitable Gabriela Ortiz; whereas overseeing main estates comparable to Aaron Copland and Alberto Ginastera.
He has additionally performed a key function in integrating Boosey & Hawkes into Harmony after its 2017 acquisition — “aligning catalog, operations, and technique inside Harmony’s world publishing enterprise”.
“I’m delighted that Steven Lankenau will likely be carrying the baton ahead and I sit up for reaching a easy switch over the following six months.”
Janis Susskind, Boosey & Hawkes
Janis Susskind, Managing Director, Boosey & Hawkes, mentioned: “After I fell down the rabbit gap into the wondrous world of music publishing all these years in the past, I found the best surroundings for my pursuits and talents.
“A fascination with music and the modern artistic arts, worldwide perspective, and a pure bent for making connections meant that I’d discovered my métier. And what a rare catalog awaited me at Boosey & Hawkes — a veritable roll name of the Twentieth-century greats, ripe for improvement with new signings.
“A number of issues I’m happy with? Hiring gifted individuals and enabling them to develop and do sterling work, opening new vistas for our extraordinary composers and incomes the belief of performers and music programmers; demonstrating again and again the expansion potential of latest classical music in at present’s world. I’m delighted that Steven Lankenau will likely be carrying the baton ahead and I sit up for reaching a easy switch over the following six months.”
“My love for this music has at all times come naturally, and I carry that zeal ahead as I assist shepherd this historic publishing home into its subsequent chapter.”
Steven Lankenau
Steven Lankenau, Senior Vice President, Boosey & Hawkes, mentioned: “My first massive undertaking upon becoming a member of Boosey & Hawkes in 2010 was the Benjamin Britten centenary. Encouraging performances of Peter Grimes? Sure, please!
“Within the subsequent 15 years, I’ve had the honour of working with American icons comparable to John Adams, Elliott Carter, Carlisle Floyd, Osvaldo Golijov, and Steve Reich, and to be a part of the journey of composers like Anna Clyne and Gabriela Ortiz as they grew to become main worldwide figures. My love for this music has at all times come naturally, and I carry that zeal ahead as I assist shepherd this historic publishing home into its subsequent chapter.
“It has been an immense privilege to work alongside Janis Susskind, whose management, mentorship, and friendship have been a spotlight of my profession. Her legacy will likely be deeply felt as we strategy Boosey & Hawkes’s centenary in 2030.”
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“As we glance to the longer term, Harmony stays dedicated to Boosey & Hawkes’s continued progress as a dynamic world drive, powered by distinctive groups in London, New York, and Berlin.”
Jim Selby, Chief Publishing Govt, Harmony, added: “Janis Susskind’s management has embodied the values that make Boosey & Hawkes distinctive — imaginative and prescient, integrity, and an unwavering dedication to composers and their music. Her steering has preserved the corporate’s exceptional heritage whereas making certain it continues to evolve as a vibrant chief in classical music publishing.
“As we glance to the longer term, Harmony stays dedicated to Boosey & Hawkes’s continued progress as a dynamic world drive, powered by distinctive groups in London, New York, and Berlin.
“The appointment of Steven Lankenau as President marks an thrilling second, honoring the traditions and cloth of what makes Boosey & Hawkes so storied whereas embracing the alternatives to form its subsequent nice period.”
