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6th Roche Commission for Sofia Gubaidulina
On Saturday, 28 August 2010, Sofia Gubaidulina was awarded the 6th Roche Commission during the course of a ceremony of the Swiss pharmaceutical concern Roche in ...

Christina Brabetz Wins the TONALi10 Playing “The Poet Speaks” by Robert Krampe
The 17-year-old violinist Christina Brabetz won the instrumentalists’ prize at the final round of the first TONALi10 Grand Prix in Hamburg on 29 August 2010 in Hamburg. The prize is ...

Elena Firsova World Premiere in Toulouse and at the “Fürstensaal Classix” in Kempten
The Russian composer Elena Firsova, today living in Great Britain, turned 60 on 21 March 2010. Many events this year were and still are being dedicated to her and this occasion. In mid-September...

Beethovenfest 2010: Peter Ruzicka’s “... ÜBER DIE GRENZE” premiered in Bonn
The motto of the Beethovenfest 2010 (10.09 - 09.10.) is taken from Hölderlin’s elegy “Der Gang aufs Land”. In it, he is called upon to depart to a place in the future, where ...

Moritz Eggert’s “De Avaritia” to Celebrate Its World Premiere at the Kulturwald Music Festival
On 2 September 2010, the world premiere of Moritz Eggert’s new ensemble piece “De Avaritia” will take place at the opening of the Music Festival “Kulturwald” in the ...

Romeo & Juliet: Swiss Premiere of the Adaptation for Brass Ensemble at the Lucerne Festival
On 17 August 2010, the Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will perform the world premiere of excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet “Romeo and ...

Bregenz Festival / Focus on Weinberg: Positive Interim Balance
Despite the difficult weather conditions, the organisers of the 65th Bregenz Festival have registered a positive balance at halftime on their internet site. The reasons for this are well-attended ...

Amsterdam Sinfonietta with a Concert Series for Alfred Schnittke
This coming season`s programme of the renowned Amsterdam Sinfonietta will include a series of works by Alfred Schnittke, who died in 1998. The individual ...

Berlin: “Young Euro Classic“ Festival in August 2010
The “Young Euro Classic” will take place in Berlin from 6 to 22 August 2010. Here is an overview of the concert programme at the Berlin Konzerthaus ...

Elena Firsova is Composer in Residence at the Fürstensaal Classix in Kempten
Elena Firsova, the Russian composer living in Great Britain, turned sixty during March of this year. Many events this year were and are been dedicated to her and this ...

Bregenz Festival 2010
At the focal point of the 2010 Bregenz Festival are the life and the musical production of the Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Many of his works will be ...

Beethovenfest Bonn 2010 – “Ins Offene”
The motto of the Beethovenfest 2010 (10.09 - 09.10.) is taken from Hölderlin’s elegy “Der Gang aufs Land” (The Walk into the Country). In it, he is called upon to depart to a ...

Giya Kancheli turns 75 on 10 August
Giya Kancheli has become a symbolic figure of the New Music during the post-Soviet years, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote many years ago. He has created music that ...