Enderrock magazine chooses “Llum / Light”, by Ramon Humet, best classical album of 2021. Light / Llum, by Ramon Humet (Barcelona, 1968) has been chosen best Catalan classical music album of the year by the jury of the Catalan magazine Enderrock. Published in June 2021 by the Finnish label Ondine,…

Premiere in Innsbruck of an orchestral and extended version of María de Alvear’s “Ahnen”. This evening, at 20:00, the House of Music in Innsbruck will host the premiere of the orchestral version of Ahnen [ancestors, in German], a new and extended version o the work entitled Solo für Zwei –…

Kaija Saariaho wins the 29th Victoires de la musique classique for her opera “Innocence”. Kaija Saariaho has won the Composition Prize at the 29th Victoires de la musique classique, the prestigious annual French classical music awards founded in 1986. Unlike the Diapason d’Or, which is awarded to recordings, most of…

The Spanish Mikel Urquiza, among the winners of the Siemens award for young composers. In addition to the Ernst von Siemens Grand Prix for Music, which in 2022 has been awarded to Olga Neuwirth, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation also awards its annual Young Composer Prize of 35,000 euros,…

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has been awarded with the Siemens Music Prize. Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has been awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2022. The announcement was made by the Swiss-based Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, which has been awarding the prize annually since 1973. The most prestigious…

Julia Wolfe, one of the founders of Bang On A Can, kicks off her Carnegie Hall Residency. Julia Wolfe (Philadelphia, 1958), one of the founders of the American cultural collective Bang On A Can and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2015 for the oratorio for choir and…

Fifty years ago, Pasatieri’s opera “Black Widow”, based on a novel by Unamuno, was premiered. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Black Widow, the three-act opera by American composer Thomas Pasatieri, who also wrote the libretto, based on Miguel de Unamuno’s short novel Two Mothers. The opera…

John Zorn curates and stars in March at the Elbe Philharmonic’s Reflektor Festival. Each season, the Elbe Philharmonic chooses one or two artists to curate its own four-day festival. This festival is known as Reflektor and its next edition will take place between 17 and 20 March, with an exceptional…

Premiere by Mauricio Sotelo in the Auditorio 400 of the MNCARS, in Madrid. Mauricio Sotelo (Madrid, 1961) is composer-in-residence in the current season of the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM), and has had several world premieres programmed since last November. Today, Monday, at 19:30, one of these premieres, Entra…

The “Philip Glass: Three Cities” short films cycle begins online today on Mandolin platform. The video production company Four/Ten Media has produced a cycle of three short films in homage to the American composer Philip Glass on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday. Philip Glass: Three Cities  consists on three…

The Sala Berlanga screens a documentary and three films with soundtrack by Luis de Pablo. The Fundación SGAE joins the Teatro Real in its tribute to Luis de Pablo with the screening, at the Sala Berlanga, of three films with a soundtrack composed by the Spanish musician and a documentary…

Tyshawn Sorey premieres “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)” at the Rothko Chapel. In 1971, the Rothko Chapel opened in Houston, Texas. It is a spiritual sanctuary with no particular religious affiliation, founded by the French-American philanthropist couple John and Dominique de Menil in 1971. It was named after Mark Rothko, who was…