Arxis Ensemble pays tribute to Iannis Xenakis with a concert at the 5th Resis festival. Arxis Ensemble, a contemporary music ensemble founded in Galicia this year, will perform tomorrow, 14 May, at 21:00, at the Castillo de San Antón in La Coruña, as part of the programme of the fifth…

Raquel García-Tomás will sing at the world premiere of her “Suite of Myself” in L’Auditori. The Spanish composer Raquel García-Tomás (Barcelona, 1984) premieres tomorrow at L’Auditori de Barcelona her choral symphonic work Suite of Myself, which will be performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña (OBC) and the choir…

The Nordic Council announces the candidates for the 2022 edition of its Music Prize. The Nordic Council – the inter-parliamentary cooperation organisation formed by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the autonomous regions of Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland – has announced the twelve…

Diné American composer Raven Chacon wins Pulitzer Prize for music for “Voiceless Mass”. The winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize were announced yesterday. In the music category, awarded fifteen thousand dollars, the winner was Diné American composer Raven Chacon (Fort Deviance, Arizona, 1977), for a “distinguished musical composition by an…

Brooklyn’s Roulette presents the world premieres of three works by John Zorn. The avant-garde concert and performing arts venue Roulette, located in the New York borough of Brooklyn, is hosting this Wednesday at 8 p.m. the concert John Zorn: Three Premieres, which, as the name suggests, will consist of three…

The Spanish Sigma Project Quartet premieres a piece by Francesca Verunelli in Luxembourg. The Spanish saxophone Sigma Project Quartet performs tomorrow, Friday, at the chamber music hall of the Luxembourg Philharmonic with a completely contemporary programme, including the world premiere of In my beginning is my end (ma fin est…

The Los Angeles Opera revives “On Gold Mountain”, the opera by Nathan Wang. The Chinese Garden of The Huntington – the educational institution created by Henry E. and Arabella Huntington in the San Marino neighbourhood of Los Angeles – will host outdoors the second production of On Gold Mountain, the opera…

Free Improvisation Group MoDo Kollectiv. On Saturday May 7th MoDo Kollective will be presented at ABM Confecciones in Madrid, its innovative project of multidisciplinary free improvisation (music, image, dance, performance). MoDo Kollectiv is a space for collective experimentation where the aim is to develop a common language halfway between happening…

Next concert of Raras Músicas # 115. The collective Raras Músicas presents in Madrid the one hundred and ninth session of free improvisation. Raras Músicas is a space of interaction for musicians and artists interested in live sound improvisation. With nearly a decade of activity, it is an unavoidable reference…

Alberto Iglesias receives his fifth Platino Award, this time for “Parallel Mothers” OST. Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias (San Sebastián, 1955) won his fifth Platino Award for Best Original Score last night, this time for his composition for Pedro Almodóvar’s film Parallel Mothers. The Platino Ibero-American Film Awards were created by…

The first edition of Long Play Festival, organised by Bang on a Can, starts today in New York. Two years ago, the New York-based non-profit cultural organisation Bang on a Can was organising a new multi-day Long Play Festival. In 2020 it would be thirty-three years since the institution founded…

«Akhnaten», de Glass, y «Plaisirs illuminés», de Francisco Coll, premios «BBC Music Magazine». The winners of the 16th BBC Music Magazine Awards – the only classical music recording awards where the main categories are voted for by the public – were announced last night at a live ceremony at London’s…