The Fundación SGAE organises three days of tribute to Spanish minimal music, with concerts by Pep Llopis and Llorenç Barber. The Fundación SGAE, in collaboration with the Teatro Real – and on the occasion of the Madrid premiere of John Adams’ minimalist opera Nixon in China – is organising a…

Tomás Marco, in El Mundo, and Jorge Fernández Guerra, in El País, praise the Madrid premiere of “Nixon en China”, the first opera by John Adams. Spanish music critics praise the Madrid premiere of Nixon in China, the first opera by American composer John Adams, which took place on Monday…

Pianists Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicolas Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia perform music by Julius Eastman at CentroCentro, in Madrid. Tomorrow Thursday, within the programme of the Vang festival held at CentroCentro, in Madrid, there will be a concert entitled Guerrilla Gay with Julius Eastman, in which four outstanding pianists from…

German percussionist Vanessa Porter performs tomorrow at Madrid’s CentroCentro presenting her album “Folie à deux”. German percussionist Vanessa Porter (Laupheim, 1992) performs tomorrow in Madrid at CentroCentro (19:30), as part of the Ausencias cycle curated by Desclasificados. In her performance she will present Folie à deux, the last of the…

American electronic composer Morton Subotnick turns 90 today. Today marks the ninetieth birthday of American composer Morton Subotnick (Los Angeles, 1933). Although he began as a clarinettist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, he has gone down in history as a pioneer in the development of electronic music and as…

intersecciones·madrid is a multidisciplinary free improvisation collective driven by Paloma Carrasco López (Escucha en movimiento), Javier Entonado (Arín Dodó) and Benjamín Slavutzky that, in the words of Paloma Carrasco, “is grouped with the desire to generate an international network and nurture the community of improvisers in Madrid. We also want…

British composer and conductor Thomas Adès wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. The BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category went to British composer Thomas Adès (London, 1971) in its fifteenth edition. The award was given “for his original reinterpretation of the Western musical…

The Swiss composer, oboist and conductor Heinz Holliger performs in Madrid at the Marqués de Salamanca Palace. The veteran Swiss composer, oboist and conductor Heinz Holliger (Langenthal, 1939), will perform tomorrow Tuesday in Madrid as soloist and conductor of a musical programme entitled Holliger conducts Holliger, which will consist exclusively…

Yesterday saw the world premiere of John Luther Adams’ “Vespers of the Blessed Earth” in Philadelphia. The world premiere of Vespers of the Blessed Earth, the latest composition to date by American John Luther Adams (Meridian, Mississippi, 1953), one of the composers most concerned with ecology and the way in…

The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been awarded the Polar Music Prize 2023 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The Royal Swedish Academy of Music has announced that the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been awarded the Polar Music Prize 2023. The Polar was established in 1989 by the…

The International Institute in Madrid organises a lecture on “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip Glass, given by Gabriel Menéndez. This evening, from 19:00 to 21:00, the second of the lectures on American musical minimalism organised by the International Institute of Madrid (Miguel Ángel St. 8) on the occasion of…

Five different versions of John Adams’ opera “Nixon in China” are coming to the stages of Europe this spring. It is not very often that an event in contemporary history becomes the subject of an opera barely fifteen years apart. But John Adams’ three-act opera Nixon in China is a…