Joby Burgess
Minimalist percussion concert by Joby Burgess. The quartet led by British percussionist Joby Burgess performs tomorrow Saturday at Worcester Baptist Church, as part of the Three Choirs Choral Music Festival, with a programme of four pieces by American composer Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque, October, A Boy and A Girl…
Briand and Roger Eno
The Eno brothers’ first concert together. Brothers Brian and Roger Eno will perform live together for the first time on Wednesday 4 August. The event will take place as part of the 2021 edition of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greece’s largest music and performing arts festival. The Eno brothers…
50 years of Darmstadt
50th Darmstadt Summer Courses. The Darmstadt Summer Courses, founded in 1946, were born to accommodate the new forms of musical expression born after the Second World War. Held annually until 1970 and biannually thereafter, in its early years it became the main megaphone for the avant-garde, led initially by Stockhausen,…
Lubomyr Melnyk
World premiere of Lubomyr Melnyk in Nextones. On 31 July, the Italian festival Nextones will host the world premiere of The End Of The World, featuring the Italian transmedia research art collective Spime.Im, the Canadian cellist Julia Kent and the Canadian-born Ukrainian-born pianist-composer Lubomyr Melnyk. The End of the World…
Caterina Barbieri
Cat Barbieri launches the Light Year label. Italian composer Caterina Barbieri (Bologna, 1990) has launched her own record label, Light Years, which aims to become a multidisciplinary platform where, in addition to records, she launches audiovisual material and projects related to art and fashion, as well as promoting live shows…
Hanna Hartman
H. Hartman will receive the Karl Sczuka Award. Swedish sound artist Hanna Hartman has received the Karl Sczuka Radio Art Prize 2021 for her radio work Fog Factory. The production was commissioned by SEAMS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden) and premiered at the Echoes Around Me Festival in Vienna…
Joan Tower
World premiere of Joan Tower’s “A New Day”. Today, Sunday 25 July, the world premiere of A New Day, the cello concerto written by the American composer Joan Tower (New Rochelle, New York, 1938) for Alisa Weilerstein (Rochester, New York, 1982) and conducted by the Canadian Peter Oundjian (Toronto, 1955),…
Joan Magrané
© Photograph by Daniel Campbell, downloaded from the Joan Magrané website. Joan Magrané premieres his “Mass for 6 voices” The Spanish composer Joan Magrané (Reus, 1988) premiered the complete version of his Mass for six voices on 18 July in Girona Cathedral, a commission from the Festival Noches de Clásica de…
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier turns 90. On Friday 14 May the American composer Alvin Lucier (Nashua, New Hampshire) turns ninety. To mark the occasion, The ISSUE Project Room – the alternative cultural space in Brooklyn known as “little Carnegie” – has organised a commemorative programme that will begin at 2 a.m. Spanish…
György Ligeti
Tribute to György Ligeti in Zurich. In 1971, Pierre Boulez declared that the future of opera lay in the destruction of all the opera houses in the world. In the same year, the Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel began the process of destruction on his own with his work Staatstheater, considered…
Raquel García Tomás
Raquel G. Tomás premieres at the Teatro Real. A year ago now, the composer Raquel García Tomás was awarded the 2017 El Ojo Crítico en Música Clásica Prize by Radio Nacional de España. A prize that is not awarded for a specific work, but for a career and for “the…
Jack Perla
New performances of “An American Dream”. Premiered in August 2015 at Seattle Opera, An American Dream is American composer Jack Perla‘s twelfth (and penultimate so far) chamber opera, a dramatic work set in World War II that posed, as its starting point, a question: “If you had to leave your…