The pianist and composer Sira Hernández was awarded at the Global Music Awards for her album “Tre impressioni sulla Divina Commedia”. Spanish pianist and composer Sira Hernández has won Best of Show at the US Global Music Awards for her recent album Tre impressioni sulla Divina Commedia, released this summer…

Alicia Díaz de la Fuente is chosen as the winner of the 2022 National Music Prize in the category of composition. The Spanish composer Alicia Díaz de la Fuente (Madrid, 1967) has won the National Music Prize 2022, in the composition category, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and…

Spanish composer Jorge Grundman stars in New York in a monographic concert of his work, with three world premieres. Tomorrow, Wednesday 28 September, the Madrid composer Jorge Grundman will be the star of a monographic concert to be held in the Weill Recital Hall of New York’s Carnegie Hall. The…

Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno premieres a short piece by Chinese-Canadian composer Kevin Lau in Toronto. Gustavo Gimeno (Valencia, 1976), chief conductor of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015 and of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since the 2020/21 season (and recently appointed music director of the Teatro Real de Madrid, to…

Dutch composer Michel van der Aa premieres his chamber music theater project “The Book of Water” at Venice Biennale. This evening at 20:00, the world premiere of The Book of Water, the latest musical theatre work by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa (Oss, 1970), will take place at the…

The 40th edition of the Musica de Strasbourg festival runs until 2 October. The Musica Festival, the great Alsatian event for the creation of avant-garde music in Strasbourg, the capital of Bas-Rhin, is celebrating its 40th edition this year, from Thursday 15 September to 2 October. The first dates of…

The 66th Biennial of Music has begun, focusing this year on new forms of experimental music theatre. The 66th edition of the Venice International Festival of Contemporary Music, popularly known as the Venice Biennale, began on 14 September and runs until 25 September. The 2022 edition, directed by composer Lucia…

The Spanish opera season begins with the premiere of “Zelle” by Chinese composer Jamie Man at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. The Spanish opera season 2022-2023 begins tomorrow with the premiere at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, in a single performance, of Zelle, by the young…

The Nashville Symphony premieres Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story”, a piece written for the ten women’s voices of the Lorelei Ensemble. The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nicaraguan Giancarlo Guerrero, will give the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Her Story tomorrow Thursday at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, capital of…

The first of Philip Glass’ Cocteau Trilogy, the chamber opera “Orphée”, opens next Monday at the Teatros del Canal. In the year that marks the 85th birthday of Phillip Glass, the Teatro Real has decided to programme the Spanish premiere of Orphée, the Baltimore composer’s two-act chamber opera, which will…

Tomorrow is Tomás Marco’s eightieth birthday and on Tuesday a tribute concert will be held at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid. The Spanish composer Tomás Marco (Madrid, 1942) will be 80 years old tomorrow, Monday 12 September. To commemorate the event, two of the…

“H-100 seconds to midnight”, the new play by Bob Wilson, with music by Philip Glass and Dickie Landry, opens next Friday in Hamburg. Although the world premiere will not take place until Friday 9 September at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, “previews” of H—100 seconds to midnight, the new theatrical…