February

20th Anniversary of the Death of Mieczyslaw Weinberg
The international success of the works of Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) is quite unstoppable. His operas are being produced on many major stages and existing productions are being taken ...

Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony under Andris Nelsons Receives the Grammy Award 2016
Andris Nelsons’s standard-setting live recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, Op. 93 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music CD 4795059) has ...

Portrait Concerto for Giya Kancheli at Tbilisi State Opera
The State Opera House in Tbilisi was closed for years due to renovation work, but recently celebrated its reopening on 23 January 2016. There will be a portrait concert for the Georgian composer ...

“Warzone” by Giya Kancheli in Canada
The Canadian premiere of Giya Kancheli’s orchestral work “Warzone” will be given on 21 February 2016 in Sherbrooke, a city in the Province of Québec. The ...

Moritz Eggert: “Pong” for Septet Given Belgian Premiere
During the course of the general meeting of the ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance), the Belgian premiere of Moritz Eggert’s septet “Pong” take place on ...

Krzysztof Meyer’s “Triptych” at the Zagreb Guitar Festival
On 12 February 2016 the Croatian premiere of Krzysztof Meyer’s Sonata No. 1 for guitar solo “Triptych” will take place at the Zagreb Academy of Music, performed by the Polish ...

World Premiere of the Horn Concerto by Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Osmo Tapio Räihälä’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra was composed in response to a commission from the solo hornist of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka Harju ...

New Work by Nikodijevic at the Festival “Eclat”
The Aleph Guitar Quartet will present the world premiere of the new work “endlos die nacht / senza ritorno” for guitar quartet and electronics by the Serbian composer Marko Nikodijevic on ...

World Premiere: “Raegs [Dance]” by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh in San Francisco
The world premiere of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s new String Quartet “Raegs (Dance)” will be given at the “Opening Night!” of this year’s Kronos Festival on 4 February 2016 ...

“The Orchestra Goes to the Concert” by Moritz Eggert Given Swiss Premiere
After 2015, a very eventful year for Moritz Eggert in which the composer celebrated his 50th birthday (25 November), the year 2016 will begin with the Swiss premiere of the Heidelberg-born ...

Sofia Gubaidulina Elected an Honorary Member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
The Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina has been elected an honorary member of the renowned Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, one of the world’s oldest music institutions, by the General ...