“LICHT: Stockhausen’s Legacy”, the documentary about the composer and his titanic operatic cycle, premieres at Barcelona’s In-Edit. This Monday, 31st October, and next Sunday, 6th November, the Aribau multiplex in Barcelona will be hosting screenings of the documentary LICHT: Stockhausen’s Legacy, which is being shown in the official international section…

After two years of cancellations, the 35th Wien Modern Festival of New Music begins this Saturday in Vienna. The Wien Modern is considered one of the world’s leading festivals for new music. After cancellations in 2020 and 2021, the 35th edition of the festival will be held in the Austrian…

“Aventura”, by Luis de Pablo, a commission from the BBVA Foundation composed in 2019, will be premiered posthumously tomorrow in Italy. The Spanish composer Luis De Pablo, who died on 10 October last year, will not be able to attend the world premiere of his Aventura, a work for large…

Japanese composer Ikue Mori is one of the 25 Fellows of the MacArthur Foundation 2022 grants worth $800,000. Japanese composer and percussionist Ikue Mori (Tokyo, 1953) is one of 25 individuals who have been awarded one of the MacArthur Foundation’s annual fellowships this year to those who “demonstrate exceptional merit…

The Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti, current director of the Venice Music Biennale, receives the Louis Spohr Prize in Brunswick. Lucia Ronchetti, director of the Venice Music Biennale, has been awarded the Louis Spohr Prize 2022. The Louis Spohr Prize is awarded by the Department of Literature and Music of the…

“Enjambres”, the work by Nuria Núñez Hierro, winner of the 39th Queen Sofía Prize, will be broadcast this evening on La 2 TVE. On 27 February, the jury of the XXXIX Queen Sofia Prize for Musical Composition – made up of Baldur Brönnimann, Carlos Fontcuberta, Octavi Rumbau, Jesús Rueda and…

The new film by Godfrey Reggio, with an original soundtrack by Philip Glass, opens next week in Santa Fe (New Mexico). Forty years after their first work together, Philip Glass has once again collaborated with American filmmaker Godfrey Reggio on a new soundtrack. Their relationship, which began in 1982 with…

The Italian pianist and composer Federico Albanese performs tonight in Barcelona, tomorrow in Madrid and on Saturday in San Sebastian. The Italian pianist and composer Federico Albanese (Milan, 1982) performs tonight at 21:00 at the Petit Palau in Barcelona and tomorrow he will open the 2022-23 season of the cycle…

The French collective Freddy Morezon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its founding with a performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”. The French musical collective Freddy Morezon celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its formation in 2022. On this occasion, the àlúnisson(s) / musiques à Garonne festival invited them to take part…

The BBVA Foundation announces the winners of its research and creation grants. In the 2022 edition, sixty projects have been selected from among the 884 submitted, from a wide range of areas of science and culture, including basic sciences, mathematics, biology and biomedicine, environmental and earth sciences, engineering and information…

Tomorrow at the Royal Opera House in London, Oliver Leith’s opera about Kurt Cobain’s death will have its premiere. Kurt Cobain, singer, guitarist and main songwriter of the American band Nirvana, was one of the last great myths of rock’n’roll. His suicide on 5 April 1994, at the age of…

The German ensemble zeitkratzer performs “Metal Machine Music”, Lou Reed’s cursed album, tonight with acoustic instruments. The German instrumental ensemble zeitkratzer performs tonight at 20:00 at the Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse, France, as part of the àlúnisson(s) / musiques à Garonne festival, playing their version of Lou Reed’s legendary album…