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”….

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

Premiere of “Síndrome”, by Israel Estelche. The Spanish composer Israel López Estelche (Santoña, 1983) premieres tonight at the Espacio Ronda (Ronda de Segovia, 50) in Madrid Síndrome, a piece for three percussionists, electronics and audiovisual media that deals with a journey through the psychological states and consequences of the so-called…

Candidates for the Goya for Best Original Score. The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this morning the nominations for the best Spanish films of 2021. The thirty-sixth edition of the Goya Awards will take place on 12 February 2022 at an awards ceremony to be held…

Premiere of “Sleepless”, a new opera by Eötvös. Sleepless, the new opera by Peter Eötvos, premieres today at the Berlin State Opera. Recently awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge Prize by the BBVA Foundation, the Hungarian composer has made opera and musical theatre his star genre. On this occasion, Sleepless is…

Gerhard, Magrané and García Tomás, in London. On 1 December, the London Sinfonietta will give a concert entitled A Catalan Celebration at the Queen Elizabeth Auditorium of London’s Southbank Centre. The show will open and close with two pieces by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970), Libra and Leo, of which the London…

Gustavo Gimeno conducts Bryce Dessner. The Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno (Valencia, 1976) conducts tonight in the city of Cleveland the Concerto for two pianos by the American composer Bryce Dessner. The concert will take place at the Mandel Concert Hall in the city on the shores of Lake Erie, and will…

The music programme of the Bang! kicks off. Leuven is the city where the Belgian priest, mathematician, astronomer and physics professor Georges Lemaître launched his theory of the Big Bang, the “primeval atom” and the expanding universe in 1931 in his class at the University of Leuven. This is what…

Andueza & Neopercusión, in Música en Segura. Música en Segura is one of the most amazing music festivals held annually in Spain. It is held in Segura de la Sierra, a small town of just 140 inhabitants located in the heart of the Natural Park of Cazorla, Segura and Las…