The Tom Johson exhibition ends in Granada this Sunday
This Sunday sees the end of the exhibition “Tom Johson. Illustrated music” at the José Guerrero Art Centre in Granada. This Sunday, 28 January, the exhibition Tom Johnson. Illustrated Music, curated by Eduard Escoffet. Illustrated Music has been open since 26 October, exploring the relationship between image and music in…
Neopercusión concert at La Cárcel, in Segovia
Neopercusión repeats in La Cárcel, in Segovia, the concert with nine world premieres that they gave on Monday at the MNCARS. The Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) and the Festival de Música Española de Cádiz Manuel de Falla commissioned the contemporary percussion Spanish group Neopercusión to create a specific…
Electric contemporary guitar concert by Álex Tentor at L’Auditori
The Spanish guitarist Álex Tentor offers this Thursday a concert of contemporary guitar at the Auditori de Barcelona. The Spanish guitarist Álex Tentor (Madrid, 1993) is currently a guitar teacher at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña in Barcelona. This Thursday he will give a concert at the Museu…
Philip Venables’ third opera arrives to London
London’s Southbank Centre welcomes “The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions”, Philip Venables’ third opera this week. Premiered at the Manchester International Festival on 29 June 2023, The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions is the third opera by the tandem of English composer Philip Venables (Chester, 1979) and American…
Héctor Parra premieres in Geneva his 8th opera, “Justice”
This Monday sees the premiere at the Grand Théâtre de Genève of “Justice”, the eighth opera by the Spanish composer Héctor Parra. Spanish composer Héctor Parra (Barcelona, 1976) premieres his eighth opera, Justice, this Monday in Geneva. Commissioned by the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Tangente Festival in Sankt…
Concert by Boost Percussion at Madrid’s MAN
The Boost Percussion Group performs works by Paul Lansky, Andys Skordis and John Cage at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional of Madrid. Tomorrow Saturday at 12:30, the Museo Arquelógico Nacional offers, as part of the MusaE project of the Ministry of Culture and Sport and Acción Cultural Española -which offers a…
Tania León, 19th SGAE’s Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize
Cuban-American composer Tania León receives the 19th Tomás Luis de Victoria de Música Iberoamericana Prize awarded by the SGAE. The Cuban-American composer Tania León (1943, Havana) has won the 19th edition of the Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize for Ibero-American Music, awarded by the SGAE Foundation. With numerous international awards…
“Contemporánea”, a podcast on avant-garde music
The Juan March Foundation launches “Contemporánea”, a podcast of music from the last 75 years, promoted and presented by Bruno Galindo. The music journalist Bruno Galindo is the promoter, scriptwriter and presenter of Contemporánea, a podcast offered by the Fundación Juan March that brings together the names, stories and places…
Concert by Attacca Quartet at Madrid’s CentroCentro
The American string Attacca Quartet performs pieces by Glass, Adams and Caroline Shaw at Madrid’s CentroCentro. The 2023 season of the Ausencias concert series held monthly in Madrid, in the CentroCentro municipal auditorium, ends this evening at 19:30, with a true golden finale: a concert by the American string Attacca…
New tour of Spain by Federico Albanese
Malaga, Madrid and Santiago de Compostela, stops in Spain on the tour to present “Days of Passage”, the new album by Federico Albanese. The Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist Federico Albanese (Milan, 1982) was in Spain a year ago to present live his fifth album, Before and Now Seems Infinite. Thirteen…
The bagpiper Erwan Keravec, at Madrid’s CentroCentro
The sixth edition of Vang concludes this evening at Madrid’s CentroCentro, with the concert “Goebbels, Glass, Radigue”, by the bagpiper Erwan Keravec. The last concert of the sixth season of the programme Vang. Músicas en vanguardia – which has been curated by Sergio Luque and Victor Barceló – will feature…
The Ivor Classical Awards were presented last night
John Rutter is awarded the Academy Fellowship, the most important of the Ivor Classical Awards. The winners of the 2023 Ivor Classical Music Awards, commonly known as the Ivors and named after Ivor Novello (Cardiff, 1893-London, 1951), one of the most popular British singers and composers of the first half…