ICMA 2023 finalists announced
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 Awards (ICMA) has announced the names of the finalists in the sixteen categories of the 2023 edition. The winners will be announced on 18 January,…
Twenty five years ago died Simon Jeffes
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 of Simon Jeffes (Crawley, Sussex, England, February 19, 1949-Taunton, Somerset, England, December 11, 1997), English guitarist and composer and founder in 1972 of The Penguin…
Julian Anderson awarded the Grawemeyer Award
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 awarded the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his cello concerto Litanies. The prize is endowed with $100,000 in recognition of outstanding achievement by…
50th anniversary of “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” premiere
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” by minimalist British composer Gavin Bryars. On 1 December 1972, fifty years ago, the Queen Elizabeth Hall of London’s Southbank Centre hosted the live premiere of Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, one of British…
International Opera Awards, presented at the Teatro Real in Madrid
“The Time of Our Singing”, by the Belgian Kris Defoort, and “Upload”, by the Dutch Michel van der Aa, award-winning contemporary operas. The ninth annual International Opera Awards ceremony took place last night for the first time at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Founded in 2013 by John Allison, editor…
“Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina”, by Joan Magrané, comes to Madrid
“Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina”, the chamber opera by Joan Magrané, comes to Madrid three years after its world premiere. This evening, at 19:45, the Madrid premiere of the chamber opera Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina, by Joan Magrané, which forms part of the 2022-2023 opera season of the Teatro…
Suzanne Vega, narrator of “Einstein on the Beach”
Today the concert version of “Einstein on the Beach”, with Suzanne Vega as narrator, comes to the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid. This evening, at 19:30, Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional will offer the concert version of Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach. It is the same version that has already been presented…
50 years of Hans Werner Henze’s “Heliogabalus imperator”
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the world premiere of “Heliogabalus imperator”, the major work by Hans Werner Henze. On 16 November 1972 – fifty years ago today – the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti gave the world premiere of Heliogabalus imperator, allegoria per musica, one of the…
First concert in Madrid by Edu Comelles and Rafa Ramos
Edu Comelles and Rafa Ramos Sania present their two joint albums in Madrid, as part of the 40th Autumn Festival programme. Tomorrow, Sunday 13 November, the Spanish duo formed by the double bass player (actually a multi-instrumentalist) and composer Rafael Ramos Sania and the sound artist and cultural manager Eduardo…
World premiere of Michael Daugherty’s “Blue Electra”
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers plays the world premiere of Michael Daugherty’s concerto for violin and orchestra “Blue Electra”. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers will perform the world premiere of Blue Electra, the new work by American composer and composer Michael Kevin Daugherty (Cedar Rapids, 1954), today, 10 November, at the Kennedy…
Premieres by Joan Valent at Auditorio Nacional
The Spanish composer Joan Valent premieres his “Circle Symphony” and his “Singular Songs” at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid. The Spanish composer Joan Valent is the star of this Saturday’s programme at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, with the world premiere of his show Viva, which consists of…
Karin Rehnqvist wins the Music Prize 2022 awarded by the Nordic Council
The Nordic Council Music Prize 2022, awarded to Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist. Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist has won the annual Music Prize awarded by the Nordic Council – the interparliamentary cooperation organisation formed by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the autonomous regions of Åland,…