World premiere at L’Auditori de Barcelona of the “Cinc pregàries” by Bernat Vivancos. This Saturday, 19 February, the Auditori de Barcelona is offering an out-of-season concert featuring two works by Jean Sibelius, The Oceanides, op. 73 (from 1913) and his Symphony No. 7 in C, op. 105 (from 1924), but…

Hara Alonso and Alba G. Corral open today the fifth edition of «Vang. Músicas en vanguardia». A new cycle of the concert programme Vang. Músicas en vanguardia begins today at Madrid’s CentroCentro. The 2022 edition will pay tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the Encuentros de Pamplona, the most important…

Posthumous premiere of “El abrecartas”, the last opera by Luis de Pablo and Molina Foix. Tonight the Teatro Real in Madrid will host the posthumous premiere of El abrecartas [the letter opener], the sixth and last opera by Luis de Pablo, who died on 10 October at the age of…

The Zahir Ensemble offers a concert with six contemporary pieces at the Juan March. The Spanish Zahir Ensemble will perform this evening at 18:30 in the auditorium of the Madrid headquarters of the Fundación Juan March. The concert programme consists of six works by six Spanish composers born between 1962…

Composer John Adams turns 75 today. Today is John Adams‘ 75th birthday (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1947) and just a few days before the event, last Friday, it was announced that the American composer will be one of the key figures in the programme with which the San Francisco Opera, the second largest company…

Fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of the opera that brought Thomas Pasatieri to fame. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of The Trial of Mary Lincoln, the opera with which the American composer Thomas Pasatieri (New York, 1945) rose to fame. The Trial of Mary Lincoln is a…

Sánchez-Verdú premieres his symphonic poem “Hacia la luz” at the Auditorio Nacional. The Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España and the Coros de la Comunidad de Madrid, de RTVE and de Cámara Pamplona will premiere this evening at 19:30 in the Auditorio Nacional the symphonic poem Hacia la luz (……

Alberto Iglesias, nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Score for the fourth time. The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Original Score have been announced today. The Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias (San Sebastián, 1955) is once again a finalist for the Oscar for Best Original Score, for his score for…

The 32nd edition of Présences is dedicated to Tristan Murail, the founder of spectralism. Every year in February since 1991, Radio France has dedicated the Présences Festival to contemporary music, usually focusing on a monographic figure, who is usually commissioned to give a world premiere. In this 32nd edition of…

Retrospective on Harry Bertoia, with a sound installation and a week of concerts on his work. On 29 January, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas opened the exhibition Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life, the first US museum retrospective of the artist’s career in nearly 50 years and the first…

A concert by Alvin Curran opens the exhibition “File Under Freedom” in Bergen. From yesterday, Friday 4 February, until Sunday 27 March, the Bergen Kunsthall (the state art museum located in the Norwegian city of Bergen) is presenting File Under Freedom, an extensive thematic exhibition on improvisation in art and…

Marc Migó, recipient of the Dominick Argento Fellowship for Composition. The American composer Dominick Argento passed away on 20 February 2019. The author of fourteen operas and numerous choral works, he was married to soprano Carolyn Bailey, who frequently performed his works, and who had died years earlier, on February…