Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Rebecca Saunders
British composer Rebecca Saunders has been awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. The Berlin-based British composer Rebecca Saunders (London, 1967) has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice Biennale, the event’s organisers announced on Tuesday. The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La…
Christian Wolff turns 90 today
Christian Wolff turns ninety years old today and celebrates tomorrow with a concert and the world premiere of “What If”. Christian Wolff, the last living representative of the so-called New York School of composition, which included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor, among others, turns 90 today….
Nicholas Lens previews his fourth chamber opera
Belgian composer Nicholas Lens previews his fourth chamber opera, “Is this the Gate?”, with a libretto by Nobel Prize winner John Coetzee, at the Adelaide Festival. This Friday, 8 March, the Adelaide Festival in Australia will host the world premiere of a major concert version of Is this the Gate?,…
Refree presents “el espacio entre” live in Madrid
Raül Refree presents “el espacio entre” at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. Spanish musician and composer Raül Fernández Miró (Barcelona, 1976) founded and led groups such as Romodance, Sitcom and Élena at the end of the 20th century, until 2002, when he started working as a solo artist with…
New piano solo album by Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm releases «Day», an album of six solo piano pieces. German composer and producer Nils Frahm released a new solo piano album entitled Day last Friday. The album was recorded in the summer of 2022 outside the Funkhaus, the studio he use to work in Berlin, and is the…
Last volume of Crumb’s complete discography is released.
Today Bridge Records releases the last volume, number 21, of the complete works of George Crumb, who died in 2022. Today, Friday 1 March, the New York-based label Bridge Records has released the 21st volume of the complete works of American composer George Crumb, who died in 2022 at the…
Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians”, at Barcelona’s Auditori
Frames Percussion and Synergy Vocals perform “Music for 18 Musicians”, Steve Reich’s most popular work, this Friday at L’Auditori. As part of the programme with which the Auditori de Barcelona is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, this Friday a concert will take place in Hall 2 “Oriol Martorell” that promises to…
Brooke Wentz releases her interviews with musicians from the 1980s
American journalist and music and radio producer Brooke Wentz has published a book of her interviews with musicians and composers of the 1980s. Brooke Wentz’s extensive professional career spans several fronts, always in the field of music. In 2015, she founded Seven Seas Music, a music licensing company that represents…
Labèque sisters release Philip Glass’ entire “Cocteau Trilogy”
Deutsche Grammophon releases the entire “Cocteau Trilogy” by Philip Glass, in a version for two pianos by the Labèque sisters. French pianist-sister pair Katia and Marielle Labèque tomorrow release a double album dedicated to Philip Glass’s Cocteau Trilogy: the three operatic chamber compositions that the American composer composed between 1993…
A.L. Guillén releases on Liquen Records “Islas de cielo”.
Liquen Records has released “Islas de cielo”, by the Spanish avant-garde composer Antonio Luis Guillén. The Spanish poet, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Antonio Luis Guillén (Granada, 1975) -founder of bands such as Les Rauchen Verboten, Sefronia or Alondra Satori, among other projects- has an extensive discography to his name, A.L….
Philip Glass’s “Symphony for Eight”, at the Auditorio Nacional
The cellists of the ONE perform Philip Glass’s “Symphony for eight” cellos at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. Joaquín Fernández, Josep Trescolí, Javier Martínez, Mireya Peñarroja, Enrique Ferrández, Mariana Cores, Montserrat Egea and Ángel Luis Quintana, cellists of the Orquesta Nacional de España, offer tomorrow, at 19:30, in the chamber…
First recording of Philip Glass’s “Symphony No. 13”
Orange Mountain Music and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada release “Truth in Our Time”, the album featuring Philip Glass’ “Symphony No. 13”. On 30 March 2022, the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 13 took place in Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. It was commissioned by the National…