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Solo piano concert by Clara Peya

The Spanish pianist and composer performs tonight at the Sala Clamores in Madrid with a solo piano concert. Two years have already passed since the release of Periferia and the new album of songs by the Spanish pianist and composer Clara Peya (Palafrugell, 1986) is not long away. But before…

Cycle of conferences in Madrid on musical minimalism

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…

Hauschka wins the Oscar for best OST

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…

40 years since the death of Cathy Berberian

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…

María de Alvear publishes her “Magna Mater”

María de Alvear has published, through her label World Edition, her work “Magna Mater”, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere. On 27 March 2013, as part of the programme of the fifty-second edition of the Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, the Spanish-German composer María de Alvear (Madrid, 1960)…

Javier Quislant, winner of the Queen Sofía Award

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….