“Narrow Sea”, by Caroline Shaw. The American composer Caroline Shaw (Greenville, North Carolina, 1982) was in 2013, at the age of thirty, the youngest winner…
“That Which is Not”, by Wim Mertens. The Belgian composer, pianist and countertenor is now sixty-five years old and, at the end of 2019, he…
“All”, by Yann Tiersen. The French composer and pianist has been living for some time now in a place located precisely “out of time”: the…
“Urban Season”, by Timespine. The Portuguese trio Timespine was founded in 2013 by three musicians from different backgrounds: Adriana Sá (zither and electronics), John Klima…
“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…
“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…