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…
Marc Grey
Marc Grey’s “Birds in the Moon” comes to L. A. After the world premiere in New York last May of the chamber opera Birds in the Moon – composed by the American Mark Grey (Evanston, Illinois, 1967), with a libretto by his regular collaborator in his latest productions, the Catalan Júlia…
George E. Lewis
George Lewis’s “Minds in Flux” on the BBC. The world premiere of Minds in Flux by the American composer George E. Lewis took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the end of last August as part of the BBC Proms programme. That concert, in which Ilan Volkov conducted…
“Sweet Land”
“Sweet Land”, Best New Opera for MCANA. The Music Critics Association of North America has announced, via its online journal Classical Voice North America, the title of the winner of its annual award for Best New Opera, which this year went to Sweet Land. Composed by Chinese-American composer Du Yun…
Elena Mendoza
Elena Mendoza, “composer-in-residence” at the Palau de la Música in Valencia. The Spanish composer Elena Mendoza, who lives in Berlin, will be “composer-in-residence” at the Palau de la Música de Valencia. This appointment entails the creation of a symphonic work to be premiered by the Orquesta de Valencia in 2023,…
Sergey Filatov
Sergey Filatov, “Artist of the Year” in Russia. Russian artist and musician Sergey Filatov has been named “Artist of the Year” in the 2021 edition of the Innovation prize awarded by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts since 2005. Filatov was the winner for his art project The Garden of…
George Benjamin
World premiere of George Benjamin in London. George Benjamin gives the world premiere on 30 August at the BBC Proms of his Concerto for Orchestra, a work created especially for the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The composer himself will conduct his concerto and the rest of that evening’s programme, which will…