“A Different Forest”, by Hauschka. Until the mid-1990s, Volker Bertelmann (Kreuztal, 1966) played keyboards in a German hip-hop group called God’s Favourite Dog. The new…
“À Quia • Aufgang…”, de Pascal Dusapin. One of the great French composers between the 20th and 21st centuries, Dusapin (Nancy, 1955) belongs to that…
“Arche”, by Jörg Widmann. The Elbe Philharmonic, Hamburg’s spectacular concert hall designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, was inaugurated in January…
“Erinnerungsspuren”, by Alberto Posadas. The composer Alberto Posadas (Valladolid, 1967), winner of the 2011 National Music Prize for composition, is one of the few Spanish…
Tribute to György Ligeti in Zurich. In 1971, Pierre Boulez declared that the future of opera lay in the destruction of all the opera houses…
Raquel G. Tomás premieres at the Teatro Real. A year ago now, the composer Raquel García Tomás was awarded the 2017 El Ojo Crítico en…
“Fallen Trees”, by Lubomyr Melnyk. The Canadian pianist and composer (although of Ukrainian origin and born in Munich in 1948) Lubomyr Melnyk is known for…
“Pillars”, by Tyshawn Sorey. Black American composer Tyshawn Sorey (Newark, 1980) has outdone himself. Known as a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, his classical and jazz training also…
«Songs and Structures», de Harold Meltzer. Short-listed for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music (won by Steve Reich with Double Sextet), the American Harold Meltzer…
New performances of “An American Dream”. Premiered in August 2015 at Seattle Opera, An American Dream is American composer Jack Perla‘s twelfth (and penultimate so…