The Ivors Composer Awards
The Ivors Composer Awards 2021 announced. The Ivors Academy has revealed the winners of 10 Ivor Novello Awards, celebrating music by composers writing for classical, jazz and sound art. The winners were announced during a ceremony hosted by BBC Radio 3‘s Tom Service and Sara Mohr–Pietsch at the British Museum. Recognised as a pinnacle of achievement since…
Ikue Mori
3 different concerts by Ikue Mori at The Stone. The Stone, the space created in 2005 by John Zorn in New York’s Greenwich Village – and which since 2018 has been located in Arnhold Hall at The New School University – to showcase the most advanced musical experimentation, will have…
Lyra Pramuk
Lyra Pramuk performs at MoMA’s PS1. Lyra Pramuk‘s Fountain was one of the great albums of 2020. Recorded with her own voice as the only instrument, the electronic treatments applied to it in the studio ended up creating a sophisticated piece that could be defined as “an orchestra of herself”. This…
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
World premiere of the orchestral version of Agerfeldt Olesen’s “Weihnachtsortorium”. Weihnachtsortorium [Christmas Oratorio] is one of Danish composer and cellist Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen‘s most celebrated works. Premiered in 2017, it was nominated the following year in the music nomination of the prestigious awards given by the Nordic Council. This Thursday…
Olga Neuwirth
Olga Neuwirth wins the Grawemeyer Award. Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 2022, awarded by the University of Louisville, for her opera Orlando, premiered on 8 December 2019 at the Vienna State Opera. The opera spans a wide range of musical styles, from…
Harry Bertoia
Bertoia’s sound sculptures, for auction. This coming Tuesday, at 17:00 EST, the well-known Sotheby’s auction house will bring out a selection of sound sculptures from Harry Bertoia’s legendary Sonambient Barn collection. These are the most iconic pieces, the ones that the artist kept for himself for their exceptional tonal and…
Diapason d’or de l’Anne
The “Diapason d’or de l’Anne”, announced. The French magazine Diapason has announced the winners of its Diapasons d’Or de l’Année, one of the most prestigious awards in the international classical music world. Among the fifteen albums released this year that have deserved its highest award two recordings of 20th century…
Leonardo Balada
Leonardo Balada, wins the XVIII SGAE Award. The Spanish composer Leonardo Balada (Barcelona, 1933) has won the eighteenth edition of the Premio SGAE de la Música Iberoamericana Tomás Luis de Victoria for “having contributed substantially to the enrichment of the musical heritage of the Ibero-American peoples through his creative work”….
ANU Festival
2nd ANU Festival of Improvised Music. British sound artists Sam Andreae, David Birchall and Vicky Clarke are Noise Orchestra, the founders of the ANU (Autonomous Noise Unit) Festival of improvised music, which this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) reaches its second edition. The meetings will take place offline, via Internet, from…
Boost Percussion Group
Concert by Boost Percussion at the Juan March. Tomorrow Saturday, at 12:00, the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid offers in its Saturday Concerts the performance of the Boost Percussion Group, with a programme entitled Noise, Pulse, Rhythm: the World of Percussion. This didactic concert explores rhythm, according to the programme,…
Laurence Crane
The Laurence Crane Festival comes to an end. London’s festival Music We’d Like to Hear concludes its 2021 programme on Friday with a concert featuring two world premieres of works that pay tribute to the American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964). The pieces were commissioned by soprano Juliet…
Joan Tower
NYC premiere of Joan Tower’s “1920/2019”. 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees women the right to vote. To commemorate the event, Deborah Borda, executive president of the New York Philharmonic created Project 19, which commissioned nineteen women composers – Joan Tower,…