Giorgio Battistelli, Golden Lion of La Biennale. The Board of Directors of the Venice La Biennale, at the proposal of Lucia Ronchetti, Director of the Music Biennale, has decided to award its highest musical prize, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, to Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli (Albano Laziale, 1953), one…

Latin Grammy nominees for modern classical. The 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (LARAS) will take place this Thursday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In the category of Best Contemporary Classical Work/Composition, the five nominees are as…

Ocaña wins the Jóvenes Compositores Award. The young Spanish composer Tomás Jesús Ocaña (Málaga, 1999) has won the 32nd edition of the Premio Jóvenes Compositores Fundación SGAE-CNDM 2021 jointly organised by the Fundación SGAE and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM), the final of which took place yesterday in…

Stockhausen, at the Festival d’Automne in Paris. Tomorrow night, the Festival d’Automne in Paris offers a single performance of two of the acts of Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday, of Light), the second in the cycle of seven operas Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche (Light: the seven days of the…

Wayne Shorter premieres his opera “Iphigenia”. Two American jazz figures from very different generations, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter (Newark, New Jersey, 1933) and the singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding (Portland, Oregon, 1984), embarked eight years ago on a project that pushed the limits of everything they had ever done before:…

The ninth edition of Morada Sónica begins. The Andalusian city of Almería hosts from today, Friday, the ninth edition of the Morada Sónica International Festival, which will be held over the next two weekends, on 12 and 13 and 19 and 20 November. The festival begins today, Friday, at 20:00,…

35th session of tAtUcErA Online lA tAtUcErA Online is a shared listening event organized by Chema Pastor and J.G. Entonado to promote experimental music recordings and free improvisation. It has been taking place since April 2020 and is repeated every two Mondays, presenting a large number of albums of different…

Premiere by Xavier Pagès at the Petit Palau. The Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música de Barcelona premieres two works on Friday at the Petit Palau, conducted by its artistic director, Simon Halsey. The first is the world premiere of Invocation to the Earth, by the Catalan Xavier…

Meredith Monk premieres “Indra’s Net”. After On Behalf of Nature (2013), a request for ecological awareness, and Cellular Songs (2018), an inner exploration of the fundamental processes of nature, the American minimalist composer Meredith Monk (New York, 1942) embarked on the creation of the conclusion of this trilogy on the…

Bent Sørensen premieres “La sera estatica”. Danish composer Bent Sørensen (1958), one of the leading figures in contemporary Scandinavian music (in 1996 he won the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, at that time the fourth Danish composer to do so, out of the seven who have won it so far)….

Pilar Rius and Neopercusión, with Castilla Ávila. The guitarist Pilar Rius Fortea and the group Neopercusión took part on Monday in the concert “Exchange of Instrumental Techniques”, which was held in the Aula Magna of the University of Salzburg and whose main protagonist was the composer Agustín Castilla Ávila, an…

The Jornadas de Música de Segovia begin. The twenty-ninth edition of the Jornadas de Música Contemporánea de Segovia, organised by the Fundación Don Juan de Borbón, will begin this Friday, 12th November. As is traditional, the central nucleus is concentrated on this November weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) with three…