© 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…

World premiere by Anders Hillborg. The Swedish composer Anders Hillborg (Sollentuna, 1954) gives the world premiere today at the Liverpool Philharmonic of his Viola Concerto, which will be performed by the British violist Lawrence Power, who has been fully involved in this premiere, sponsored by his own Viola Commissioning Circle…

The 2021 edition of She Makes Noise begins. Since 2015 the festival She Makes Noise has been held in Madrid, at the Casa Encendida, with a clear premise: to erase the invisibility of women in the history of electronic music, sound art and audiovisual experimentation. The 2021 edition goes a…

Minimalist concert by the Labèque sisters. The Labèque sisters, Katia and Marielle, perform this Thursday, 21 October, at 19:30, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, together with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Renes, a programme consisting almost entirely of pieces by Philip Glass, with the addition of the…

World premiere of Sánchez Verdú’s “Purgatorio” The Spanish composer José María Sánchez Verdú (Algeciras, 1968) premieres Purgatorio (Der Läuterungsberg) today at the Schwetzingen Festpiele in Germany. This is the second part of the Comedia cycle, composed to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri and the conclusion…

Aracil estrena su «Elegía a Alberto Corazón». The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid today pays tribute to the Madrid designer and artist Alberto Corazón (1942-2021) with the world premiere of Elegía a Alberto Corazón, the musical composition created by the Spanish composer Alfredo Aracil (Madrid,…

John Adams conducts a minimalist programme. This weekend, Friday and Saturday, the American composer and conductor John Adams will conduct the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque in two concerts to be held in the Dutch port city (Friday 15, De Doelen hall) and in Utrecht…