South African sound art and electronic music composer Mira Calix dies of unknown causes. Electronic music composer and producer Mira Calix, one of the most…
Deutsche Grammophon releases Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Drone Mass”. Most people probably hadn’t heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before he won the Golden Globe in January 2015 for…
El pianista Ralph van Raat publica su segundo disco con música de Joep Franssens. Joep Franssens (Groningen, Netherlands, 1955) is one of today’s leading Dutch…
The five best Philip Glass albums. Echoing the BBVA Foundation’s awarding of its Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in the category of Music and Opera to the American…
French pianist Vanessa Wagner releases a new album of her post-minimalist repertoire. Until recently, Europe was the stronghold of contemporary classical orthodoxy, the one of…
Belgian composer and pianist Wim Mertens releases his 66th album, “Heroides”, today. Belgian pianist and composer Wim Mertens has today released his new album, Heroides, the sixty-sixth of…
Bang on a Can publishes a new version of Terry Riley’s “Autodreamographical Tales”. Terry Riley, one of the most influential musicians on the planet and…
Composer Freya Waley-Cohen premieres her opera “WITCH” at the Royal Academy of Music. Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music in London as part of…
The Philip Glass Ensemble will perform at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid on 30 May. Following yesterday’s announcement of the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge…
Philip Glass, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. This morning the BBVA Foundation announced the awarding of the fourteenth edition of its…