Steve Reich’s artistic residency at the Palau de la Música Catalana kicks off. The American minimalist composer Steve Reich is one of the two guest composers-in-residence at the Palau de la Música Catalana for the 2024-2025 season, which will consist of a total of three concerts. The first of the…

The Nordic Council has announced the candidates for the 2024 Music Prize. The Nordic Council – the inter-parliamentary cooperation organisation formed by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the autonomous regions of Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands – has announced the names of the…

The Siemens Awards were presented last night to the composers Unsuk Chin, Bára Gísladóttir, Daniele Ghisi and Yiqing Zhu and the ensembles Frames Percussion and Broken Frames Syndicate. Yesterday evening, the award ceremony for the three categories of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2024 took place in the Herkulessaal…

Jonny Greenwood premieres tomorrow “268 Years of Reverb”, an eight-hour composition written for the pipe organ of the Octagon Chapel in Norwich. Tomorrow, Saturday, sees the world premiere of 268 Years of Reverb, a composition for church organ by Jonny Greenwood, the soundtrack composer and multi-instrumentalist who is a member…

Mark Fell’s ‘Intra’, performed by Drumming Grupo De Percussão, opens the seventh edition of Vang at Madrid’s CentroCentro. This Saturday CentroCentro inaugurates the seventh edition of the cycle Vang. Músicas en vanguardia, under the direction of Sergio Luque and Víctor Barceló. This edition will offer programmes based on complexity: the…

The Cincinatti May Festival opens to ‘guest artistic directors’ in its 151st edition, with Julia Wolfe, who will premiere her oratorio ‘All that breathes’. The Cincinnati May Festival, one of the most important choral music festivals in the United States, celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. To begin a new…

English composer George Benjamin wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category. The BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category has gone to the English composer George Benjamin (London, 1960). The prize was awarded for “modernising the language of opera”…

Joan Magrané premieres “Tenebrae Responsoria (Feria sexta in Parasceve)” at the second Easter edition of the Peralada Festival. The Spanish composer Joan Magrané (Reus, 1988) is taking part this year in the second Easter edition of the Peralada Festival, which runs from 28 to 30 March. The festival’s artistic director,…

Last session of “Feedback” at Fabra i Coats, with a concert by percussionist Luis Tabuenca and videos by Úrsula San Cristóbal. This Wednesday, 27 March, at 19:00, the last of the seven sessions of the exhibition of avant-garde artistic projects Feedback will take place at Barcelona’s Fabra i Coats: Fábrica…

British composer Rebecca Saunders has been awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. The Berlin-based British composer Rebecca Saunders (London, 1967) has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice Biennale, the event’s organisers announced on Tuesday. The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La…

Christian Wolff turns ninety years old today and celebrates tomorrow with a concert and the world premiere of “What If”. Christian Wolff, the last living representative of the so-called New York School of composition, which included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor, among others, turns 90 today….

Belgian composer Nicholas Lens previews his fourth chamber opera, “Is this the Gate?”, with a libretto by Nobel Prize winner John Coetzee, at the Adelaide Festival. This Friday, 8 March, the Adelaide Festival in Australia will host the world premiere of a major concert version of Is this the Gate?,…