© Photograph by Rob Bogaerts, downloaded from Wikipedia. Morton Feldman’s “Neither”, in Salzburg. Neither, the only opera composed by the American composer Morton Feldman, is to have one of its very few performances this Friday, 13 August. The event will take place in the Collegiate Church in Salzburg, as part…

© Photo downloaded from the 12 Ensemble website. The 12 Ensemble, at the Cubitt Sessions. The 12 Ensemble is one of the European string chamber ensembles that is rapidly gaining prestige in the field of contemporary (and classical) music. It was founded in 2012 by its artistic leaders Eloisa-Fleur Thom and…

© Photo downloaded from the website of Toshio Hosokawa’s artistic management agency, Karsten Witt Musik Management. Toshio Hosokawa opens the Grafenegg Festival. The Grafenegg Festival is one of the most important summer classical music festivals. It has been held annually since 2007 in the gardens of Grafenegg Castle near Vienna…

© Photograph by Arne Hyckenberg downloaded from Britta Byström’s website. Britta Byström debuta en los Proms de la BBC. Tomorrow, 10 August, Swedish composer Britta Byström (Sundsvall, 1977) will make her debut at the famous BBC Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It will be the world…

Max Richter launches “Exiles”. Today is the day: although not an album of new compositions, the release of Max Richter‘s Exiles on Deutsche Grammophon is an event, with two unreleased but previously unrecorded tracks, while all the other compositions on the album have been re-recorded with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic…

© Photograph by Bartek Barzyk downloaded from the composer’s website. Alexsander Nowak, premiado por la ZPAV. The Polish composer Aleksander Nowak (Gliwice, 1979) received yesterday, 5 August, the Fryderyk Prize in the category of “Best Album of Opera and Oratorio Music”, awarded annually by the Polish Society of the Phonographic…

© Photo courtesy of Live Nation.  Hania Rani, “composer of the year” for the ZPAV. Polish composer, pianist and singer Hanna Raniszewskam (Danzig, 1990), stage name Hania Rani, was awarded the annual Fryderykfestiwal Prize by the Polish Phonographic Academy (ZPAV for its acronym in Polish) on 5 August in the “Composer of…

© Photograph by Marco Borggreve, downloaded from the website of his artistic representative, Askonas Holt. Thomas Adès premieres his new symphony. British pianist, conductor and Composer Thomas Adès premiered Symphony of the Exterminating Angel – an orchestral version in four movements of the music from his opera of the same…

Bang On A Can organizó el “Loud Weekend”. Después de quince meses en los que las actuaciones de la legendaria formación estadounidense de música contemporánea Bang On A Can Allstars se han venido realizando exclusivamente a través de Internet, este pasado fin de semana Bang On A Can, la asociación…

“Tubular Bells”, live in concert at Southbank. From 7 to 15 August, the Royal Festival Hall at London’s Southbank Centre will be hosting a multimedia show based on one of the greatest symphonic rock hits of the 1970s, Tubular Bells by the English composer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, a work which…

Francesco Tristano performs in Luxemburgo. Francesco Tristano, the pianist and composer from Luxembourg, but based in Barcelona, performs tonight in Echternach, in his native country, his p:anorig electronic music show, in which he will perform tracks from his albums Surface Tension and Tokyo Stories. On 23 August he will premiere…

Minimalist music at La Roque d’Anthéron. The 41st International Piano Festival in the town of La Roque d’Anthéron, in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, has devoted one of its days to an entire programme dedicated to American composers of the second half of the 20th century. On Saturday 31…