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…

Niño de Elche premieres live “La exclusión”. Still fresh from the release of his previous album, Memorial de cante en mis bodas de plata con el flamenco (released in April), Niño de Elche has just released a new long-playing concept album (one hour and seventeen minutes) entitled La exclusión. The…

Gabriel Erkoreka, National Music Prize. The Spanish composer Gabriel Erkoreka (Bilbao, 1969) has won the National Music Prize 2021, in the composition category, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, with a prize of 30,000 euros. The jury highlighted the international projection of his music and the “brilliance”…

New programme of the “Dissidences” cycle. The Caja de Música auditorium of the CentroCentro space of the Madrid City Council will host tomorrow Wednesday, at 19:30, the sixth programme of the 2021 edition of Disidencias, the “cycle of hybrid concerts, music, text, ideas, paradoxes…” organised by the composer, essayist, critic…

Three world premieres by Thomas Adès. Thomas Adès‘ Alchymia, for basset horn or tenor clarinet and string quartet, composed for clarinetist Mark Simpson and Quatuor Diotima, premiered at London’s Kings Place on 30 September. It is Adès’ first major chamber work since his string quartet The Four Quarters (2010) and…

Premiere at L’Auditori by Toshio Hosokawa. The Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona and Nacional de Cataluña will perform this weekend (Saturday and Sunday, at 19:00 and 11:00 respectively) at the Barcelona L’Auditori the Concerto for horn and orchestra “Moment of Blossoming” by Toshio Hosokawa (Hiroshima, 1955). This is the Spanish premiere…

Mariano Marín, Max Award for Best Score. The Spanish composer Mariano Marin (Pradoluengo, 1959) has won the Max Award for Best Musical Composition for a Stage Show for his score for the play Con lo bien que estábamos (Ferretería Esteban), unveiled last night at the XXIV edition of the Max…