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…
World premiere of “Alexina B.”, by Raquel García-Tomás
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,…
Dante Boon performs John Cage at Madrid’s CentroCentro
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…
“Fuego en el aire”, by José Miguel Moreno Sabio
Liquen Records releases “Fuego en el aire”, dedicated almost entirely to the chamber music of José Miguel Moreno Sabio. The record label Liquen Records, specialised in the diffusion of improvised and experimental music, released at the end of 2022 Fuego en el aire [Fire in the Air], an album dedicated…
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…
The Biennale di Venezia awards its Golden Lion to Brian Eno
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…
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….
Sqürl performs live at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
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…
Eduardo Polonio and Ana de Alvear premiere “Un día como hoy”
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…