The Boost Percussion Group, pianist Dubravka Vukalovic and flautist Anna Buczkowska will perform minimal music by Glass, Adams, Reich, Cage and Lansky at the International Institute tomorrow. The International Institute of Madrid (Miguel Ángel, 8) celebrates tomorrow Saturday, at 19:30, the last concert of the series on American minimalist music…

Tomorrow is the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Italian composer Luciano Berio. May 27th marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Italian composer Luciano Berio (Imperia, 1925-Rome, 2003). In memory of his most illustrious neighbour, the small Tuscan village of Radicondoli has created Dialoghi: Luciano Berio…

The famous Belgian composer and pianist Wim Mertens performs in Zaragoza and Madrid on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. The famous Belgian composer and pianist Wim Mertens will perform these coming Monday and Tuesday in Spain, at the Teatro Principal in Zaragoza (May 22) and the Teatro La Latina in Madrid…

Tomorrow, Saturday, David Mattingly’s minimalist-inspired opera “Stranger Love” opens at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The American composer Dylan Mattingly (Oakland, California, 1991) was never planning to break a record when almost twelve years ago he embarked, together with his friend (and former professor at the private…

Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka present their collaborative album “Languoria” at La Casa Encendida. Danish composer Sofie Birch and Polish experimental singer and sound artist Antonina Nowacka participated in August 2021 at the Polish experimental music festival Ephemera in Warsaw. The excellent results of the improvised joint work, in which…

Colin Currie performs this weekend in Valladolid the “Concerto for percussion and orchestra” by Joey Roukens. The Scottish percussionist Colin Currie (Edinburgh, 1976), best known for leading the Colin Currie Group and for his performances and recordings of the music of Steve Reich, will perform this coming weekend, Friday and…

The French composer and guitarist Julien Desprez stars this Thursday at CentroCentro in a new instalment of the Vang cycle. The French guitarist and composer Julien Desprez (Paris, 1984) is the protagonist of the new concert that will take place this Thursday in Madrid, at 19:30, in the auditorium of…

American composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels win the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music for their opera “Omar”. American composers Rhiannon Giddens (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1977) and Michael Abels (Phoenix, Arizona, 1962) have won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music for their opera Omar, premiered on 27 May last year…

Spanish composer Lucas Vidal premieres “Trato de favor”, his first light opera, at Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela. Tomorrow Saturday 29 April, Teatro de la Zarzuela premieres Trato de favor, a new contemporary light opera, commissioned by the Madrid institution with the aim of updating the genre, composed by the…

ENO premieres a musical theatre version of Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s “Symphony No. 3”. Symphony No. 3. Op. 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), the most popular work by the Polish composer Henryk Górecki (Czernica, 1933-Katowice, 2010), premieres tomorrow, Thursday 27 April, at the English National Opera’s (ENO) London Coliseum, in…

The Fundación SGAE organises three days of tribute to Spanish minimal music, with concerts by Pep Llopis and Llorenç Barber. The Fundación SGAE, in collaboration with the Teatro Real – and on the occasion of the Madrid premiere of John Adams’ minimalist opera Nixon in China – is organising a…

Tomás Marco, in El Mundo, and Jorge Fernández Guerra, in El País, praise the Madrid premiere of “Nixon en China”, the first opera by John Adams. Spanish music critics praise the Madrid premiere of Nixon in China, the first opera by American composer John Adams, which took place on Monday…