The International Institute of Madrid is organising a series of three lectures and a concert on American musical minimalism. The International Institute of Madrid, the American cultural centre founded in Madrid in 1903, has organised a series of three lectures on American minimalist music, preceding the Madrid premiere in April…

World premiere at the Liceu de Barcelona of “Alexina B.”, the seventh opera by the Spanish composer Raquel García-Tomás. Tomorrow, Saturday 18 March, the world premiere of Alexina B., the seventh chamber opera by the Spanish composer Raquel García-Tomás, winner of the 2020 National Music Prize in the composition category,…

The Dutch pianist Dante Boon performs his own works and those of John Cage at the Vang festival held in Madrid at CentroCentro. The Dutch pianist Dante Boon (Haarlem, 1973) is a champion for experimental music in his country, both as a performer and as a cultural manager and organiser…

Volker Bertelmann wins the Oscar for Best Original Music for his score to “All Quiet on the Western Front”. German composer Volker Bertelmann has won the Oscar for Best Original Score for his score for the film All Quiet on the Western Front. Bertelmann, also known by his stage name…

The Venice Biennale has awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to British composer Brian Eno. The Venice Biennale has awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to British composer Brian Eno “for his research into the quality, beauty and diffusion of digital sound and for his conception of acoustic…

The American singer, a leading figure of avant-garde music in the second half of the 20th century, died on 6 March 1983 in Rome. Forty years ago today, Cathy Berberian (Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1925-Rome, 1983), the American composer and mezzo-soprano known for her fascinating and unorthodox interpretations of contemporary music, passed…

The Spanish composer Javier Quislant wins the 40th Queen Sofia Prize for Musical Composition awarded by the Ferrer-Salat Music Foundation. The Spanish composer Javier Quislant García has won the fortieth edition of the Queen Sofia Prize for Musical Composition awarded by the Ferrer-Salat Music Foundation for his work Unda maris….

Sqürl, the group created by Jim Jarmusch to create the soundtracks for his films, performs at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, scoring silent films by Man Ray. In 2009, drummer Carter Logan, keyboardist and sound engineer Shane Stoneback and film director Jim Jarmusch as guitarist – who had previously been…

The visual artist Ana de Alvear and the composer Eduardo Polonio premiere at the Reina Sofía museum their audiovisual show “Un día como hoy”. The veteran composer Eduardo Polonio (Madrid, 1941) and the artist Ana de Alvear (Madrid, 1962), sister of the composer María de Alvear, premiere this evening at…

French composer Olivier Arson wins his second Goya award with the original soundtrack for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “As bestas”. French composer Olivier Arson (Paris, 1979) has won the Goya Award for Best Original Music for his score for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s film As bestas. This is Arson’s second Goya award: the first,…

American composer Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” wins the Grammy for Best Opera Recording. Fire Shut Up in My Bones, American Terence Blanchard‘s opera premiered at the St. Louis Opera in 2019 – and the first by a black composer to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera…

The English composer George Benjamin receives the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. The British composer and conductor Sir George Benjamin has won the Ernst von Siemens International Music Prize. According to the jury of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (EvS) in explaining its selection, “the composer is one of…