World premiere by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Tonight sees the world premiere of Scenes from the Wild, a song cycle for tenor and chamber orchestra composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, with texts based on Dara McAnulty’s UK best-selling book Diary of a Young Naturalist, released last year and adapted into song by librettist…

Grammy for Best Choral Performance. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) yesterday announced the nominees for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Monday 31 January 2022. In the Best Choral Performance category, the award goes to the orchestral conductor, choral conductor and choir….

Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) yesterday announced the nominees for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Monday 31 January 2022. In the category of Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance, the award is for new…

Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) yesterday announced the nominees for the 64th annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Monday 31 January 2022. In the Best Orchestral Performance category, the award goes to the conductor (and the orchestra) and there…

Grammy Awards nominees for Opera. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) yesterday announced the nominees for the 64th annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Monday 31 January 2022. In the Best Opera Recording category, the award goes to the director, record producer and lead singers….

Grammy nominees for Contemporary Classical. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) yesterday announced the nominees for the 64th annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Monday 31 January 2022. In the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition, the award goes to the composer and pieces composed…

Joep Beving, live in Barcelona and Madrid. Legend has it that the Dutch pianist Joep Beving (Doetinchem, 1976) once had to travel to Cannes for work: he was the composer of short pieces for commercials, and he had to go to the Cannes Lions – considered the Oscars of the…

“eL/Aficionado”, by Robert Ashley, on Vimeo. At the end of October, a new production of eL/Aficionado”, an opera by the late American composer Robert Ashley, written in 1987 and last performed in 1995, premiered at Roulette Intermedium, a Brooklyn-based space dedicated to avant-garde music and performing arts. This new production…

Glass’s Symphony 13, will premiere in March. Philip Glass‘s Symphony No. 13 now has a date for its world premiere: originally scheduled for the 2020-2021 season at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa (Canada), the covid-19 pandemic made it impossible for it to be programmed at the venue that…

Lifetime achievement prize for Rachel Portman. English composer Rachel Portman (Haslemere, 1960) will be the first female composer to receive the Soundtrack Cologne Festival‘s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony will take place tomorrow, Saturday 20 November, at the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, at the closing ceremony of the 18th…

Roberto Sierra, Grammy for Best Classic Work. Last night in Las Vegas, the names of the winning artists and winning works of the  Latin Grammy Awards were revealed. The award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition/Work finally went to the album Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata for Guitar by…

Tribute to Andriessen at the Forward festival. The veteran Lucerne Festival, founded in 1938, has so far included the Summer Festival and the Mendelssohn Festival, and this weekend adds, for the first time, the three-day Forward Festival of contemporary music. Opening tomorrow Friday at 22:00 at the Lucerne Congress and…