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…

Fred Frith’s upcoming performances in Spain. The legendary British guitarist Fred Frith – a legendary figure of the Canterbury Scene of the late sixties and early seventies, where he led the band Henry Cow – will begin a tour of Europe in October, starting on Saturday the 2nd in the…

Tribute concerts to Julius Eastman in Paris. The Bourse de Commerce, the home of the Pinault Art Collection, is hosting two concerts tomorrow, Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October, in tribute to the late American minimalist composer Julius Eastman (Ithaca, New York 1940-Buffalo, New York 1990), whose work went…

The Madrid Actual Festival kicks off. Tomorrow Tuesday sees the start of a new edition of Madrid Actual, the contemporary music programme organised by the Neopercusión ensemble, which brings together two independent festivals: Konectarte (which has been held for ten years) and Ritmo Vital (which for twenty-two years has featured…

First opera by a black composer at the MET. This Monday, 27 September, the New York MET Opera will reopen its season after being closed for more than a year and a half due to the covid-19 pandemic. And the opening of the 2021-22 season is set to be a…

The largest-ever exhibition on Laurie Anderson. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents the largest exhibition ever of works by the groundbreaking American multimedia artist, performer, musician, composer and writer Laurie Anderson. Since the 1970s, Anderson has investigated questions of American identity and the effects of technology on human relationships,…

Clara de Asís at the CentroCentro in Madrid. Now that the summer break is over, CentroCentro resumes the concert programme Winter Journey (Winterreise) based on the song cycle of the same name by Franz Schubert, offering a contemporary vision of these famous pieces by the Austrian composer. The first of…