Evan Ziporyn and ContaQt congratulate Terry Riley on his birthday
Evan Ziporyn and ContaQt congratulate Terry Riley on his 89th birthday, releasing “Poppy 88”, based on “Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band”. A year ago now, on 24 June 2023, on the occasion of Terry Riley’s eighty-eighth birthday, the CAST (Center for Arts, Sciences and Technology) at the prestigious MIT…
New release by pianist and composer Jeroen Elfferich
The Italian label Blue Spiral Records releases ‘Infinito’, the new album by Dutch minimalist pianist and composer Jeroen Elfferich. The Dutch composer Jeroen Elfferich (Delft, 1965) studied percussion at the Rotterdam Conservatory and played in his youth in several pop and jazz bands (most notably the Elfferich Four, a band…
Nominees for the 2024 Nordic Music Prize
The Nordic Council has announced the candidates for the 2024 Music Prize. The Nordic Council – the inter-parliamentary cooperation organisation formed by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the autonomous regions of Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands – has announced the names of the…
Frames Percussion ensemble gets the Siemens Prize
The Siemens Awards were presented last night to the composers Unsuk Chin, Bára Gísladóttir, Daniele Ghisi and Yiqing Zhu and the ensembles Frames Percussion and Broken Frames Syndicate. Yesterday evening, the award ceremony for the three categories of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2024 took place in the Herkulessaal…
Jonny Greenwood premieres “268 Years of Reverb”
Jonny Greenwood premieres tomorrow “268 Years of Reverb”, an eight-hour composition written for the pipe organ of the Octagon Chapel in Norwich. Tomorrow, Saturday, sees the world premiere of 268 Years of Reverb, a composition for church organ by Jonny Greenwood, the soundtrack composer and multi-instrumentalist who is a member…
Mark Fell’s ‘Intra’ opens a new edition of Vang
Mark Fell’s ‘Intra’, performed by Drumming Grupo De Percussão, opens the seventh edition of Vang at Madrid’s CentroCentro. This Saturday CentroCentro inaugurates the seventh edition of the cycle Vang. Músicas en vanguardia, under the direction of Sergio Luque and Víctor Barceló. This edition will offer programmes based on complexity: the…
World premiere by Julia Wolfe in Cincinatti
The Cincinatti May Festival opens to ‘guest artistic directors’ in its 151st edition, with Julia Wolfe, who will premiere her oratorio ‘All that breathes’. The Cincinnati May Festival, one of the most important choral music festivals in the United States, celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. To begin a new…
Feico Deutekom records Philip Glass’ “Études”
Dutch pianist Feico Deutekom publishes on Orange Mountain Music a personal selection of 14 of Philip Glass’s “Études for Piano”. The Dutch pianist Feico Deutekom has recently published on the Orange Mountain Music label, Philip Glass: Études for Piano, his own selection of the twenty pieces composed by the American…
Maya Beiser releases a solo cello version of “In C”
Cellist Maya Beiser releases on Islandia Music Records a version of Terry Riley’s “In C” for solo cello. In November 1964, at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, the world premiere (a pompous way of talking about what was, in reality, a concert given by a group of musician friends…
George Benjamin wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
English composer George Benjamin wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category. The BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category has gone to the English composer George Benjamin (London, 1960). The prize was awarded for “modernising the language of opera”…
Xing releases “FasFari”, by Alessandro Bosetti
The Xing label releases “FasFari”, a sound archive album of a cappella vocals by Italian sound artist Alessandro Bosetti. The Italian composer and jazz saxophonist Alessandro Bosetti (Milan, 1973) is a musician and sound artist who for almost thirty years has been researching the relationship between word and sound (the…
Premiere by Joan Magrané at the Easter edition of the Peralada Festival
Joan Magrané premieres “Tenebrae Responsoria (Feria sexta in Parasceve)” at the second Easter edition of the Peralada Festival. The Spanish composer Joan Magrané (Reus, 1988) is taking part this year in the second Easter edition of the Peralada Festival, which runs from 28 to 30 March. The festival’s artistic director,…