Today is also the eightieth birthday of the English composer Bryan Ferneyhough, the leading figure of the “new complexity”. In addition to Gavin Bryars’ birthday,…
English composer Gavin Bryars turns 80 today. The English composer Gavin Bryars (Goole, 1943) celebrates his eightieth birthday today. Although he took his first steps…
The French magazine Diapason awards the “Golden Diapason of the Year” for contemporary music to Eric Tanguy’s “In a Dream”. The French magazine Diapason has…
2023: the year in which the centenary of the birth of Hungarian composer György Ligeti is celebrated. 28 May 2023 will mark the 100th anniversary…
The Spanish composer José María Sánchez-Verdú enters the Royal Academy of San Fernando. Yesterday Monday 19 December, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San…
World premieres by Spanish composers Joan Valent and Alejandro Pelayo. The Spanish composers Joan Valent and Alejandro Pelayo will premiere their most recent compositions live…
A new version of “Relative Calm”, the 1981 show by Bob Wilson and Lucinda Childs, is coming to the Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse. This Wednesday,…
Ondřej Adámek, Thomas Adès and Heinz Holliger, finalists of the International Classical Music Awards in the contemporary category. The jury of the International Classical Music…
It is twenty five years since the death of Simon Jeffes, founder of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death…
British composer Julian Anderson is awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for 2023. British composer and composition teacher Julian Anderson (London, 1967) has been…