Iceland’s Hildur Guðnadóttir premieres “The Fact of the Matter” at the BBC Proms. Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir presents The Fact of the Matter, the fifteen-minute composition commissioned by the BBC as part of the 2022 BBC Proms programme, tomorrow, 20 July, at 19:30 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The piece…

Quartet Neuma performs this week in Menorca and Panticosa. The Spanish flute quartet Neuma is giving two live performances this week to present their album Origen. Today, 18th July, they are performing at the Teatre des Born, in the Spanish town of Ciudadela, on the island of Menorca, as part…

Danish composer Per Nørgård turns 90 today. The Danish composer Per Nørgård (Gentofte, 1932) turns ninety today, 13 July. He is considered one of the most outstanding living composers, with a prolific orchestral oeuvre of over three hundred works, including eight symphonies and several operas, such as Labyrinten (1963), Gilgamesh…

It is fifty years since the premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera “Taverner”. On 12 July 1972, Taverner, the most popular of the operas (along with The Lighthouse) by the enfant terrible of British culture Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Salford, England, 1934-Hoy, Scotland, 2016), premiered at London’s Covent Garden….

Pascal Dusapin premieres his tenth opera, “Il Viaggio, Dante” at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. The Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art is one of the great European lyric festivals. Its 2022 edition began on Monday 4th and will run until Saturday 23rd July. But tomorrow, Friday 8th, will be one of…

This weekend sees the premiere of the four micro-operas of the Liceu’s project “(Oh!)pera”. This weekend the Gran Teatre del Liceu is launching its (Òh!)pera project, in which four Catalan composers will premiere small-scale operas, each lasting half an hour. There are four performances, on Saturday the 9th at 17:00…

Francisco López opens the summer concerts season at La Terraza Magnética in Madrid. La Terraza Magnética, the avant-garde music and cinema cycle presented every summer at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, kicks off this Saturday 2 July at 22:00 with the screening of the adult animated film Cryptozoo, by Dash…

The Norwegian vocal sextet Nordic Voices performs at the CentroCentro in Madrid. Nordic Voices, the Norwegian six-voice a cappella group, performs this Wednesday, 29 June, in Madrid at the CentroCentro space. The group is taking part in the cycle Abre tus oídos [Open your ears], curated by Desclasificados (Lucia Arnaud…

This coming Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the famous Encuentros de Pamplona. This coming Sunday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the famous Encuentros de Pamplona (Pamplona Encounters). From 26 June to 3 July 1972, the capital of Navarre became the most unexpected corner in which to…

“The Passion of Ramakrishna”, by Philip Glass, opens the 65th Festival dei Due Mondi. The Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto opens its sixty-fifth edition this Friday at 19:30, offering in Piazza del Duomo the Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV 1069 by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well…

Present Music offers the world premiere of “26 Little Deaths” by violinist Carla Kihlstedt. As part of the events with which the non-profit organization Present Music celebrates its fortieth anniversary, the duo will offer the world premiere of 26 Little Deaths, by the American violinist and composer Carla Kihlstedt (Lancaster,…

Spanish composer Hèctor Parra receives the Alicia Award for his work “Constellations”. Last night, coinciding with the celebrations of the European Day of Music, the Catalan Academy of Music announced the winners of the third edition of the Alicia Awards, at a ceremony held in the Oriol Martorell Hall of…