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Nico Muhly releases his music for David Hockney

The Bedroom Community label releases the music Nico Muhly has composed for the immersive audiovisual exhibition on David Hockney, on view in London until December. Last January, The Lightroom, a new gallery designed especially for immersive art exhibitions, opened its doors in London, in the King’s Cross district, with an…

Lewis Coenen-Rowe premieres his 4th chamber opera

British composer Lewis Coenen-Rowe premieres in Glasgow his fourth chamber opera, “Stumped”. Stumped means “baffled”, “at a loss”, “bewildered”, “mystified”, “floored”, etc. but “stump” is also the lower end of a tree trunk left standing after the upper part falls or is cut off. With this pun, the young British…

Eduardo Soutullo, National Music Prize 2023

Eduardo Soutullo García is awarded the National Music Prize 2023 in the composition category. The composer Eduardo Soutullo García (Vigo, 1968) has won the National Music Prize 2023, in the composition category, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, with a cash prize of 30,000 euros. The jury highlighted…

Laura Cannell, in the Raveningham Sculpture Trail

The English composer Laura Cannell participates in the Raveningham Sculpture Trail with two different pieces. The Raveningham Sculpture Trail is an exhibition of contemporary sculpture that takes place annually in the summer in the grounds of Castell Farm, a Tudor-style farmhouse at the Raveningham Centre in Norfolk, on the border…

Philip Glass’ 20 “Études”, in London’s Peckham

Pianists Maki Namekawa and James McVinnie perform Philip Glass’s 20 “Études for Solo Piano” at the Bold Tendencies in London. Since 2007, Bold Tendencies, a non-profit arts organisation, has been offering different artistic activities in a disused car park in the London borough of Peckham (7th-10th Floors Multi-Storey Car Park,…

Stuart MacRae releases “Earth, thy cold is keen”

Scottish composer Stuart MacRae releases a mostly vocal album for Australian mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean. Scottish composer Stuart MacRae (Inverness, 1976) is one of the most difficult composers of his generation to pigeonhole. His orchestral oeuvre includes symphonies and operas in many different styles, but his interest in choral music has…

The Manchester Collective at the BBC Proms

The Manchester Collective stars in Saturday’s 46th BBC Proms programme with works by Steve Reich, David Lang, Hannah Peel, Ben Nobuto and Oliver Leith. This Saturday’s 46th BBC Proms programme at 22:15 at the Royal Albert Hall is one of the most interesting, in terms of current music, of the…