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…

Helena Cánovas receives the “Carmen Mateu”. The jury’s decision for the second edition of the Carmen Mateu European Prize for Young Artists in Opera and Dance was announced in May, and went to the Catalan composer Helena Cánovas Parés (Tona, 1994). The prize will be presented today to the German-based…

Performance by Fátima Miranda in Marseille. As part of the La Friche programme of the International Festival Les Instants Vidéo (Numériques et Poétiques) in Marseille, the Spanish composer, singer and performer Fátima Miranda (Salamanca, 1952) will perform her concert-performance Living Room Room tomorrow Wednesday at 21:15 at Salle de la…

“Las horas vacías” premieres in Madrid. Las horas vacías, an opera by Alicante-born Ricardo Llorca (1958), was premiered in concert version on 31 March 2007, during the XII Setmana de Musica Sacra de Benidorm, and was subsequently performed at the Berlin Cathedral on 7 September 2007; at the Dag Hammarskjold…

Tribute to the late Antón García Abril. The Spanish violinist Manuel Guillén will pay tribute tomorrow, Sunday, to the recently deceased Antón García Abril (Teruel, 1933-Madrid, 1921), performing in the auditorium of CentroCentro Seis partitas para violín solo –Heart, Inmensity, Love, Art, Reflective and You– composed by García Abril, who…

Three premieres by Agustín Castilla Ávila. The Spanish guitarist and composer Agustín Castilla Ávila (Jerez de la Frontera, 1974) will perform an instrumental programme dedicated exclusively to his work this coming Monday, 8 November, in the Große Aula of the University of Salzburg. Entitled Exchange of Instrumental Techniques, the programme…

The Dessoff Choirs perform Craig Johnson. The Dessoff Choirs are one of New York City’s premier choirs. Founded in 1924, they have a solid reputation for their accomplished performances of choral works from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Tomorrow, Saturday, they premiere in New York the oratorio Considering Matthew…