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…
5th WOS Festival
The 5th Work on Sunday festival kicks off. The day after tomorrow, Friday 10 September, the fifth edition of the WOS Festival begins in Santiago de Compostela, which will last until Sunday with an interesting range of ambient and minimalist projects. One of the big names present at the event is…
13th Ambient Festival
13th Cologne’s Ambient Festival . The thirteenth edition of Cologne’s Ambient festival kicks off on Thursday 9 September. Founded in 2005, the four-day festival of ambient and contemporary music takes place in the Romanesque basilica of the Holy Apostles, which this year celebrates the thousandth anniversary of the laying of…
John Cage
“Organ²/ASLSP”, twenty years of performance. The world’s longest piece of music celebrated its first twenty years of performance last Sunday, 5 September. It is John Cage’s Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible), a work for the organ of the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany, which was specially built to…
Juan Hidalgo
Exhibition in homage to Juan Hidalgo. The Spanish artist Juan Hidalgo (1927-2018), co-founder of the artistic group Zaj and winner of the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2016, could also have received the National Prize for Music, which, however, was not awarded to him. He described himself as “son…
“Death of Classical”
“Death of Classical” concerts resume. The catacombs of Historic Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn is one of the unusual venues that music promoter (and rock musician) Andrew Ousley uses for the small-capacity Death of Classical concerts he has been programming since 2015. On Tuesday 7 September this chamber concert series…
Matteo Fargion
Premiere of a quartet by Matteo Fargion. Tomorrow, Saturday, the world premiere of the string quartet No. 5, The Nobby Saddy Quartet, by Italian composer Matteo Fargion, will take place at St. Mary-at-Hill Church, Lovat Lane, in the City of London. The sixty-minute work will be performed by the British…