Code Modern Festival
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Richard H. Kirk
Richard H. Kirk, of Cabaret Voltaire, dies. Richard Harold Kirk, founding member of the British electronic music band Cabaret Voltaire, died today at the age of 65, according to Mute Records, for whom he recorded some of his work, both in Cabaret Voltaire and as a solo artist. Kirk founded…
BBVA Foundation award ceremony
In the absence of Arvo Pärt, the BBVA Foundation awards will be delivered on Tuesday. The awards ceremony for the XII and XIII editions of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards will be held on 21 September at the Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, after the health alert caused by the…
Birgit Ulher
Birgit Ulher performs at the Vostell Museum Tonight, at 21:00, as part of the twenty-third cycle of contemporary music at the Vostell Museum in Malpartida de Cáceres and co-produced by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM), the German composer and trumpeter Birgit Ulher (Nuremberg, 1961), will offer her concert…
Samy Moussa
Samy Moussa premieres “Elysium” in Barcelona. Tonight, at 20:25, La2 TVE will broadcast live the concert that the Wien Philarmonic will perform from inside the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The highlight of the concert will be a performance of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 in E flat…
Oscar Bianchi
World premiere of Oscar Bianchi’s “6 dB”. The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra returns to the stage today with a major concert at the extraordinary Seine-side venue of the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique. The concert has the peculiarity of having three different conductors for each of the…
Marina Herlop
Marina Herlop brings “Pairidaeza” to L’Auditori. Initially planned for June, the covid-19 forced the postponement of the premiere at Barcelona’s L’Auditori of the show Pairidaeza by the singer and composer Marina Herlop, which finally opens today and tomorrow at the same venue. In this interdisciplinary show, Herlop has developed an artistic…