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…
Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho receives the Venice Golden Lion. The 65th edition of the International Festival of Contemporary Music of La Biennale di Venezia opens today with the presentation of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, which the festival has decided to award, on the recommendation of the festival’s director, Lucia Ronchetti,…
Lucia Ronchetti
Lucia Ronchetti dirige la 65ª Bienal de Venecia. Titulada Coros: dramaturgias vocales, la 65ª edición del Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de La Bienal de Venecia comenzará sus actividades mañana viernes y se prolongarán hasta el domingo 26 de septiembre. Dirigida por la compositora italiana Lucia Ronchetti, esta ha puesto…
Luis Delgado
Double concert by Luis Delgado at the SGAE. Luis Delgado, the Spanish musician and composer (Madrid, 1956), will be the absolute protagonist of the first day of the concert series El viaje infinito, organised by the Fundacion SGAE in the Sala Berlanga (Andrés Mellado, 53). Tomorrow’s programme consists of two…
Clara Peya
Clara Peya restarts the tour of “Perifèria”. The Catalan composer and pianist Clara Peya (Palafrugell, 1986) restarts on September 18, at the Festival Vincles in San Cugat del Vallés, the presentation tour of her album Perifèria, published this past winter by Vida Records. In the following weeks, Peya will perform it…
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma, recipient of the Praemium Imperiale. The French-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma (Paris, 1955) has been named as the recipient of the Praemium Imperiale award —a world cultural prize awarded by the Japanese Imperial family on behalf of the Japan Art Association, in memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu—…
Philip Glass
World premiere of Glass’ “Symphony No. 14”. Originally scheduled for its world premiere in the 2020-2021 season of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa (Canada), the covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible for Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 13 to premiere yet at the venue that commissioned the composition. With a…