“Lessons in Love and Violence”, by George Benjamin, receives the Opera XXI award. The Association of Theatres, Festivals and Stable Opera Seasons in Spain announced yesterday the winners of the fourth edition of the Premios Ópera XXI. Lessons in Love and Violence, the opera by English composer George Benjamin premiered…

ISSUE Project Room schedules an online concert by Puce Mary and Drew McDowall. The ISSUE Project Room is one of New York’s leading concert venues for experimental music. Founded in 2003 by cultural activist Suzanne Fiol (1960-2009) in Manhattan’s East Village, the space is currently located in Brooklyn and since…

World premiere of Mauricio Sotelo in Badajoz. The Klangforum Wien, one of the best contemporary music chamber orchestras in the world, will give a concert tonight at 20:30 in the Palacio de Congresos de Badajoz under the baton of the Spanish conductor and composer Mauricio Sotelo (Madrid, 1961).  The programme,…

Philip Glass’ “Symphony No. 12 “Lodger”” published today on digital platforms. Philip Glass, one of the greatest living composers, celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday on Monday, 31 January, and the Brno Filharmonie will be among those joining in the celebrations. Its artistic director and chief conductor is Dennis Russell Davies, a…

Ludovico Einaudi adds Madrid to the Spanish cities where he will present “Underwater”. After having already sold all the tickets for the two concerts that Ludovico Einaudi will give at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on 27 and 28 April and with tickets already on sale, through Syntorama, for…

The Auditori premieres “Offstage”: interviews with composers on its digital channel. The Auditori de Barcelona has today premiered Offstage, a series of interviews with the main composers who are performing at the venue this season, which can be seen free of charge on the L’Auditori Digital channel. The interviews are…

The New National Theatre in Tokyo broadcasts Dai Fujikura’s latest opera free online. Today, Friday 28 January, the el New National Theatre of Tokyo (NTNT) begins to offer on its website the online broadcast of the opera A Dream of Armageddon, by Japanese composer Dai Fujikura (Osaka, 1977), which can be…

Lee Gamble performs at Caixa Forum. The British producer and musician Lee Gamble presents tomorrow Friday, at 21:00 GMT, at the Caixa Forum in Barcelona, the audiovisual show Flush Real Pharynx, made in collaboration with the visual artist Clifford Sage. Flush Real Pharynx is a trilogy of Ep’s which began…

Premiere of the latest opera by Mats L. Gothe. On 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world premiere of Löftet [The Promise], the opera by Swedish composer Mats Larsson Gothe, which was to have been performed on the same day a year ago but had to be cancelled because…

World premiere in Badajoz of Francisco Coll’s “Trio for Piano”, performed by the Trio Isimsiz. As part of the programme of the XIII Ciclo de Música Actual de Badajoz, tomorrow Tuesday at 20:30 in the auditorium of the Diputación de Badajoz, the Trio Isimsiz will give the world premiere of…

Ludovico Einaudi concert on YouTube. As a complement to the release last Friday of Underwater, the first solo piano album in twenty years published by Ludovico Einaudi, the Italian pianist and composer will offer this evening at 18:00 (GMT) a short concert through his YouTube channel in which he will…

London’s Iklectik dedicates the weekend to the composer Éliane Radigue, on her 90th birthday. The London-based cultural organisation Iklectik is very active in organising contemporary cultural activities. This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, it proposes a programme of events dedicated to the French electronic music pioneer Éliane Radigue entitled A l’écoute d’Éliane…