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 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”, 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, “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, “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…

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…

Premiere of Heiner Goebbels at Musik Fest. The German composer and conductor Heiner Goebbels has written the four-movement, ninety-minute orchestral cycle A House of Call. My Imaginary Notebook for the opening concert of Berlinerfestpiele, which will be performed on Monday 30 August at the Berlin Philarmonie by the Ensemble Modern…

20th edition of Les Solistes à Bagatelle. The three weekends between now, Saturday 28 August and 12 September, will see the 20th edition of the Les Solistes à Bagatelle piano festival, which takes place in the Parc de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. This edition, which would…

A new edition of the Berlin Musik Fest. A new edition of Berlin’s Musikfest begins tomorrow, Saturday, and runs until 20 September. Although it will remember Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death, the festival is characterised by the premieres of new works by contemporary composers, such as the…

Joseph Beuys centenary concerts. Since the beginning of this year, Germany has been immersed in the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of probably the most important German artist of the 20th century, Joseph Beuys. He was one of the great names who took part in the activities of…

A documentary on Yann Tiersen is broadcast. Yann Tiersen: Kerber – The Film, in which the Breton musician offers a sixty-minute visual and musical journey through the island of Ushant (Eusa, in Breton), where Yann Tiersen has lived for years, premieres today, 26 August, at 8 p.m. on the Live…

Matthew Aucoin premieres “The No One’s Rose”. Today, Wednesday 25th, the world premiere of The No One’s Rose, a combination of music, poetry, theatre and dance composed and conducted by the American Matthew Aucoin commissioned by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will take place at Stanford University’s Bing Auditorium. Based on…