The Philip Glass Ensemble will perform at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid on 30 May. Following yesterday’s announcement of the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award to Philip Glass, today I am publishing in the Spanish edition of Forbes an extension of yesterday’s article on the most important American minimalist…

Philip Glass, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. This morning the BBVA Foundation announced the awarding of the fourteenth edition of its Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category to the American composer Philip Glass (Baltimore, 1937) “for his extraordinary contribution to musical creation…

Michel van der Aa’s film opera “Upload” gets its American premiere in NYC’s Park Ave. Armory. Dutch composer Michel van der Aa (Oss, Netherlands, 1970) is an absolutely multidisciplinary figure in the field of contemporary music: in his work he often mixes musical composition with film narrative, stage direction and…

American premiere of Tristan Perich’s “Infinity Gradient” in NYC’s Saint Thomas Church 5th Av. Music promoter (and amateur rock musician) Andrew Ousley has been organising the Death of Classical programme of concerts in unusual venues since 2015. Its first concert of 2022 takes place today at New York’s St. Thomas…

Chilean composer Sebastián Errázuriz premieres his opera “Patagonia” in Frutillar. Chilean composer Sebastián Errázuriz (Santiago de Chile, 1975) premieres his new chamber opera, Patagonia, today at the Teatro del Lago in the southern Chilean city of Frutillar. The opera will be performed again at the same venue tomorrow, Saturday, and…

The Fred Frith Trio performs at L’Auditori playing their 2018 album “Closer to the Ground”. Fred Frith, the improviser, the composer, the multi-instrumentalist, the teacher, the laughing outsider situated between rock and jazz, between improvisation and structured composition, returns to Spain after the improvisation concerts he gave in October in…

David Tudor’s “Rainforest IV” at the closing of Berlin’s Singuhr’s Modular Music festival. Singuhr, the Berlin gallery specialising in sound art, concludes its festival of “modular music” with a series of new interpretations of Rainforest IV, David Tudor’s piece composed in 1973, which will take place at St. Elisabeth’s Church…

Percussionist Carlota Cáceres stars in second “Vang” concert of the season. The second programme of concerts Vang. Músicas en vanguardia of the current season will tomorrow feature the Spanish percussionist and professor at the Conservatory of the Balearic Islands Ana Carlota Cáceres (Badajoz, 1989). The instrumentalist will offer at Madrid’s…

The Chineke! Chamber Ensemble premieres two pieces by Aboriginal Australian composers. The Adelaide Festival of Arts, also known as the Adelaide Festival, is an arts festival held in March in Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, since its founding in 1960, and is regarded as one of the world’s…

Raras Músicas #114. Raras Músicas presents two magnificent improvisers: Inés Pérez Wilke and Miquel Àngel Marín, as well as fifteen other improvising artists and musicians. Inés Pérez Wilke is a teacher and performer interested in the process of improvisation from her studies of interculturality and researcher associated with Centre d’Epistemologie…

“#blanc”, by Laura Andrés, best classical album, by popular vote, at the Enderrock Awards. During the 24th Enderrock Catalan Music Awards gala, held at the Girona Auditorium in the presence of the President of the Government of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, the President of the Parliament of Catalonia, Laura Borràs, and…

Morrison Project. VI Free Improv Encounter. Morrison Project presents COL.LECTIU FREE’T. On this occasion, the Col.lectiu Free’t collaborates with Morrison Project to perform an improvisation workshop and then a concert in which workshop attendees can participate. Registration VI Free Improv Meeting. Morrison Project.March 26th, 2022, from 16:00-21:00.La Hipoteca Space.C/ Belmonte…