Philip Glass attends the concert in his honour organised in Bilbao by the BBVA Foundation. Last Wednesday the Euskalduna in Bilbao hosted a concert in tribute to the winners of the fourteenth edition of the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Awards. The concert repertoire consisted of An Alpine Symphony by…

The German pianist Dirk Maassen presents in Madrid “Time”, his new album for Sony. The German pianist and composer Dirk Maassen (Herzogenrath, 1970) performs tomorrow, Tuesday 14 June, in Madrid, at the Teatro San Pol, presenting live his new album, Time, released by Sony Classical at the beginning of June….

Max Richter performs at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid on Sunday 19 June. Max Richter, the postminimalist German composer who became a British citizen, performs this Sunday 19 June at 19:30 in the main hall, Sala Roja, of the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, with a programme that includes…

Tobias Picker premieres “Awakenings”, his opera based on the book by Oliver Sacks. The couple of composer Tobias Picker (New York, 1954) and physician and writer Aryeh Lev Stollman (Detroit, 1954) have adapted Awakenings, the story by British neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, into an opera that will premiere tomorrow,…

“Violet”, Tom Coult’s first opera, opens the 73rd Aldeburgh Festival on Friday. The long-awaited seventy-third edition of the Aldeburgh Festival, cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the covid pandemic, kicks off on 3 June. The festival, which was founded in 1948 by composer Benjamin Britten, singer Peter Pears and…

London’s Southbank Centre welcomes the Dream House Quartet with two world premieres. The sisters Katia (Bayonne, 1950) and Marielle (Bayonne, 1952) Labèque are one of the most prestigious piano duos in the field of classical music. The multiplicity of styles they play, from baroque to contemporary, and their fearlessness of…

“Diatope”, by Iannis Xenakis, closes the 1985 edition of Madrid Autumn Festival. As a tribute and remembrance to Iannis Xenakis on the centenary of his birth, I include here the article I published on 30 October 1985, in the newspaper Ya, on the occasion of the premiere in the Plaza…

Folk singer Rhiannon Giddens makes her debut as an opera composer at the Spoleto Festival. The American singer Rhiannon Giddens (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1977) – winner in 2011 of the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for Genuine Negro Jig, released with her group Carolina Chocolate Drops, and in 2022,…

The German radio station HR-2 Kultur broadcasts a special on María de Alvear. Tomorrow, Thursday 26 May at 10 p.m., Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting), the official German radio and television station of the federal state of Hesse, will broadcast on HR-2 Kultur, its cultural radio station, an extensive programme dedicated…

The Spanish composer Joan Gómez Alemany premieres a chamber opera in Graz. Since 2007, Graz Opera and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz have been cooperating to give their composition students the opportunity to write a chamber opera under the guidance of their professors, stage director Christoph Zauner…

On Monday, the pianist Adrián Blanco performs Joan Magrané’s complete works for piano. This coming Monday 23 May, at 20:00, the Spanish pianist Adrián Blanco (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, 1991) will offer at the Petit Palau the complete piano works of the Spanish composer Joan Magrané, chosen as the Palau’s…