Two European premieres of the Chinese Du Yun. From this year onwards, the Lucerne Theatre will perform a female composer each season. On this first occasion, the chosen one has been the Chinese composer, multi-instrumentalist and performer Du Yun (Shanghai, 1977), whose two most famous chamber works, the orchestral piece…

María Parra performs today at Sala Clamores. The Spanish pianist Maria Parra Peñafiel performs today, Wednesday, at the Sala Clamores in Madrid. Classically trained, she has worked as a repertoire pianist, with two albums published – Rêverie and Mouvement in which she performs composers such as Schumann, Debussy, Albéniz, Granados…

Neopercusión opens the CIMCO in Oviedo. Today, Tuesday, CIMCO, the Interdisciplinary Chamber Music Cycle of Oviedo, which aims to attract new audiences to classical music, kicks off. Organised by the Oviedo violist and cultural manager Cristina Gestido, it is a cycle of ten chamber music concerts, spaced between 26 October…

Anna Urpina premieres Josep Maria Guix. The Spanish violinist Anna Urpina (Vic, 1989) performs this Monday at 20:00 at the Petit Palau with a chamber programme (in which she will be accompanied by the pianist Alberto Rosado) entitled “Musical Contrasts: from Biber to Pärt”, in which she performs a repertoire…

SEMINCI premieres a documentary on Halffter. Tonight, at 22:15, the premiere of the documentary Halffter: 90 compases, directed by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Vicente Chuliá, will take place at the Broadway cinemas in Valladolid, as part of the 66th Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci). In 78 minutes, the film traces…

© Photograph downloaded from Joan Valent’s website. Soundtrack by Joan Valent at the SEMINCI. This Sunday the 66th Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci) opens and it will do so with a double program consisting of the world premieres of “Lemon bread with poppy seeds”, by Benito Zambrano, and “Journey to…

© Photograph by Jiyang Chen, downloaded from Jessie Montgomery’s website. New world premiere by Jessie Montgomery. The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in Florida today offers the world premiere of the Viola Concerto by the young American composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery, composed especially for the violist Masumi Per Rostad. Montgomery (New…

© Photograph by Japan Art Association, The Sankei Shimbun, downloaded from the website of the composer’s music publisher, Wise Music. Sofia Gubaidulina turns 90 tomorrow. The Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina turns 90 this Sunday. The anniversary is being celebrated with several international tributes. Yesterday, Friday, for example, Deutsche Grammophon released…

Borja Niso performs Ludovico Einaudi. The Spanish pianist Borja Niso (Madrid, 1980) will offer this coming Sunday, at 19:00, one of his already well-known concerts “by candlelight”, in which he performs pieces from the extensive repertoire of the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi (Turin, 1955). The next recital will take place…

Ensemble Lux: NM premieres Spanish authors. The thirteenth edition of the Ciclo de Música Actual de Badajoz, co-produced by the Sociedad Filarmónica de Badajoz and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM), begins today in Badajoz. The Berlin ensemble LUX:NM will be in charge of opening the event with a…

60th anniversary of “Atmosphères”. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the world premiere of Atmosphères, one of the masterpieces of Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006). The short piece was included by Stanley Kubrick in the soundtrack of his film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), without the composer’s permission, but it served…

Dudamel premieres Steven Mackey. Gustavo Dudamel is undoubtedly one of the greatest and most mediatic conductors of the moment. His popularity has broken records for precocity but also for risk-taking and audacity. Tonight – at 20:00 California time – and on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th, for example, he conducts…