Premiere by Joan Magrané at the Easter edition of the Peralada Festival
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,…
Luis Tabuenca and Úrsula San Cristóbal, at Fabra i Coats
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…
Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Rebecca Saunders
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 90 today
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….
Nicholas Lens previews his fourth chamber opera
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?,…
Refree presents “el espacio entre” live in Madrid
Raül Refree presents “el espacio entre” at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. Spanish musician and composer Raül Fernández Miró (Barcelona, 1976) founded and led groups such as Romodance, Sitcom and Élena at the end of the 20th century, until 2002, when he started working as a solo artist with…
Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians”, at Barcelona’s Auditori
Frames Percussion and Synergy Vocals perform “Music for 18 Musicians”, Steve Reich’s most popular work, this Friday at L’Auditori. As part of the programme with which the Auditori de Barcelona is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, this Friday a concert will take place in Hall 2 “Oriol Martorell” that promises to…
Philip Glass’s “Symphony for Eight”, at the Auditorio Nacional
The cellists of the ONE perform Philip Glass’s “Symphony for eight” cellos at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. Joaquín Fernández, Josep Trescolí, Javier Martínez, Mireya Peñarroja, Enrique Ferrández, Mariana Cores, Montserrat Egea and Ángel Luis Quintana, cellists of the Orquesta Nacional de España, offer tomorrow, at 19:30, in the chamber…
Timeless video clips by Umsindo Omgcolile and Arín Dodó
Umsindo Omgcolile, the noise project of Aitor Montes Odriozola and Javier G. Entonado, a.k.a. Arín Dodó, uploads on its vimeo channel two full-length video clips made by Luis Lamadrid Umsindo Omgcolile 1 https://vimeo.com/896184046Umsindo Omgcolile 2 https://vimeo.com/843118718 Also, Luis Lamadrid has made a 9-hour video that includes the complete discography of…
The 66th Annual Grammy Awards were held last night
Thomas Adès, Terence Blanchard, Kaiha Sahariaho, Roomful of Teeth, Yuja Wang, Julia Bullock and Jessie Montgomery, among the Grammy winners in the classical music categories. Last night at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the trophy ceremony for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, which recognises the best recordings, compositions and artists of…
Audiovisual concert by Murcof in the Teatros del Canal
Murcof inaugurates a short cycle of six electronic music concerts at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. Murcof, the stage name of the Mexican composer Fernando Corona, is in charge of inaugurating a short cycle of six concerts of electronic music that will be offered until June in the Teatros…
Presentation in Madrid of the composer Jaime del Adarve
Spanish composer Jaime del Adarve presents in Madrid his first two EPs and a preview of “Montañas y antenas”, his first LP. The Spanish composer Jaime del Adarve (Córdoba, 1988) performs this Saturday at 21:00 at the Centro de Creación e Investigación Cultural La Tortuga (Espada, 6), located in the…