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…

Platinum Award for the OST of “Akelarre”. Basque composers Aránzazu Calleja (Bilbao, 1977) and Maite Arroitajauregi, the latter known by the nickname of Mursego (Eibar, 1977) have won in the category of Best Original Music at the VIII edition of the Platino Awards of the Ibero-American audiovisual industry, for the…

Steve Reich turns 85. Today, 3 October, Steve Reich turns 85, and to celebrate, in two weeks’ time, on Saturday 16 October, the world premiere of Traveler’s Prayer, the New York composer’s last composition to date, will take place at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He composed the work in Los…

Alejandro Pelayo’s concerts for children. For several years now, the Spanish pianist and composer Alejandro Pelayo (member, together with Leonor Watling, of Marlango), has been giving frequent piano concerts for children. This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, at 12:00 noon, one of these concerts “for children who like the piano”…

New edition of the Born Creative Festival. Japanese composer Dai Fujikura says that “all five-year-olds like new sounds, strange sounds, and for some reason that creativity is lost as they grow up”. That mentality is what prompted him to create the Born Creative Festival, an event dedicated to contemporary music,…

Philip Venables, star of the Festival d’Automne. The British composer Philip Venables will be the star of the current edition of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, with three different concerts. His first performance will take place from 7 to 16 October in the Church of St. Eustache and is entitled…

The tenth edition of the Mixtur Festival begins. The tenth edition of the Festival Mixtur (Festival de Nova Creació Sonora de Barcelona) begins today with the inauguration of the sound installation that has been installed in the Fabra i Coats space. In addition to lectures, master classes, round tables and…