John Rutter is awarded the Academy Fellowship, the most important of the Ivor Classical Awards. The winners of the 2023 Ivor Classical Music Awards, commonly known as the Ivors and named after Ivor Novello (Cardiff, 1893-London, 1951), one of the most popular British singers and composers of the first half…

Robert Black, Andy Akiho, Yuja Wang, Curtis Stewart and Seth Parker Woods, Grammy nominees for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) has announced the nominees for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at the Staples…

Thomas Adès, Ankdy Akiho, William Brittelle, Missy Mazzoli and Jessie Montgomery are nominated for the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) has announced the nominees for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at…

Alexander Raskatov’s “Animal Farm” has won in the World Premiere category at the International Opera Awards in Warsaw last night. Animal Farm, George Orwell’s celebrated novel, turned into an opera by the Dutch National Opera, has won in the World Premiere category at the International Opera Awards gala held last…

Tomorrow, Saturday, the exhibition “Meredith Monk: Calling” opens in Amsterdam with a concert at the Oude Kerk. The Oude Kerk – the “old church”, the oldest building in Amsterdam, consecrated in 1306 – and the Hartwig Art Foundation will open tomorrow, Saturday, Meredith Monk: Calling, the first retrospective exhibition in…

Dustin O’Halloran presents his first album for Deutsche Grammophon, “Silfur”, at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and the Sala Apolo in Barcelona. Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional and Barcelona’s Sala Apolo will host Dustin O’Halloran today and tomorrow, respectively. The American musician, 50% of the duo A Winged Victory For The Sullen,…

The New York Philharmonic and Synergy Vocals premiere at Lincoln Center a new work by Steve Reich, “Jacob’s Ladder”, for large ensemble and voices. Tomorrow, Thursday, the world premiere of a new work by composer Steve Reich for ensemble and voices will take place in New York. Entitled Jacob’s Ladder,…

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first live performance of Erik Satie’s “Vexations”, organised by John Cage. On 9 September 1963, Vexations was performed live for the first time as its author, Erik Satie, had conceived it. This means 840 times… That is, at least, what Satie wrote in…

British composer Lewis Coenen-Rowe premieres in Glasgow his fourth chamber opera, “Stumped”. Stumped means “baffled”, “at a loss”, “bewildered”, “mystified”, “floored”, etc. but “stump” is also the lower end of a tree trunk left standing after the upper part falls or is cut off. With this pun, the young British…

Eduardo Soutullo García is awarded the National Music Prize 2023 in the composition category. The composer Eduardo Soutullo García (Vigo, 1968) has won the National Music Prize 2023, in the composition category, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, with a cash prize of 30,000 euros. The jury highlighted…

The English composer Laura Cannell participates in the Raveningham Sculpture Trail with two different pieces. The Raveningham Sculpture Trail is an exhibition of contemporary sculpture that takes place annually in the summer in the grounds of Castell Farm, a Tudor-style farmhouse at the Raveningham Centre in Norfolk, on the border…