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…

The Code Modern festival opens in Bavaria. Sunday sees the launch of Code Modern, a two-year pilot project to bring contemporary music to rural Bavaria, with concerts in churches and museums. The project is the brainchild of violinist Carolin Widmann and cultural manager Birgit Chlupacek, with musical direction by Spanish…

Donna McKevitt’s streaming opera. From tonight (early morning in Spain) until 10 October, the Canadian organisation Soundstreams – founded in 1982 by Lawrence Cherney to disseminate contemporary Canadian and international music – will inaugurate its 2021-22 season programme with the world premiere of Garden of Vanished Pleasures, a seventy-five minute…

Anna Webber streaming concert at the Roulette. Tonight, at 2 a.m. from Thursday to Friday (8 p.m. New York time), Canadian composer, saxophonist and flautist Anna Kristin Webber (Vancouver, 1984) will present her album Idiom live at the Roulette club in Brooklyn. Halfway between contemporary classical and jazz, the album…

IbonRG and Enrike Hurtado’s tour begins.   Ibon RG and Enrike Hurtado are two Basque musicians who usually work separately, but on this occasion they have joined forces to pay tribute to the poet, writer and txalapartari musician Joxean Artze, who died in 2018. The result of their collaboration is…

John Pickard, winner of the 2020 “Gramophone” Contemporary Classical Award. The British magazine Gramophone has already announced the winners of its annual awards for 2020. Created in 1977, they are considered the most important in the international classical music industry. In the contemporary classical category, the winning album was The…

Llorenç Barber premieres at CentroCentro. Vang, the annual festival that has been held at CentroCentro since 2017, has commissioned the Valencian composer and sound artist Llorenç Barber to create a piece that will be premiered this Thursday 23rd, at 20:00, in the central courtyard of CentroCentro, in the Palacio de…