September

Grigori Frid‘s 100th Birthday
The instrumental music of Grigori Frid, who died in 2012, will remain at the centre of focus of the Hamburg International Chamber Music Festival until 4 October 2015. The musical world will ...

“grid / index [III]” by Marko Nikodijevic at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt
The Alte Oper (Old Opera) in Frankfurt has commissioned three compositions from composers of different countries, inviting them to write works related to and forming a contemporary counterpoint to ...

CD: Sofia Gubaidulina – “Complete Guitar Works”
The CD “Sofia Gubaidulina: Repentance” was released just last year by the Swedish label BIS, including the work “Repentance” for violoncello, three guitars and ...

World Premiere: “...momento...” by TONALi15 Winner Sebastian Bahr
The world premiere of Sebastian Bahr’s “...momento...” will be given at the opening concert of the TONALi Festival on 14 September 2015 at the Kulturkirche Altona in Hamburg. The ...

German Premiere: Yaron Gottfried‘s “Pictures at an Exhibition – Remake”
With “Pictures at an Exhibition – Remake” Yaron Gottfried scored a genuine hit in modern orchestral literature. For him, the well-known piano cycle by Mussorgsky represents a way of ...

Dutch Premiere of Kancheli’s “Dixi”
The “TivoliVredenburg” (formerly the Vredenburg Music Centre) in Utrecht, completed as recently as 2014, will be the venue of the Dutch premiere of Giya Kancheli’s work ...

German Premiere: Gubaidulina‘s “Two Paths” arranged by Johannes X. Schachtner
The German premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s concerto work “Two Paths” (original for two violas and orchestra) in an adaptation by the Munich composer Johannes X. Schachtner for two ...

“Esė apie vandenis” by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf Receives World Premiere in New York
At the final day of this year’s “Resonant Bodies Festival” (9 to 11 September 2015) a new vocal work by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf will receive its world premiere at the Roulette in ...