American Premiere: Giya Kancheli’s “Dixi” in Boston
Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the American premiere of Giya Kancheli’s “Dixi” for choir and orchestra on 24 March 2016 in Boston. The Tanglewood Festival ...
Jan Müller-Wieland Turns 50
Jan Müller-Wieland, born on 30th March 1966 in Hamburg, at first studies composition with Friedhelm Döhl as well double bass at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. In 1988 he began ...
New Work “Fidei speique Sinfonia” by Krzysztof Meyer
“Fidei speique Sinfonia” was commissioned by the Polish Broadcasting Company, which will record the world premiere on 18 March 2016 in Poznań and later release it on a Polish CD ...
Grigori Frid: Complete Music for Viola and Piano [CD]
The worldwide success of the mono-opera “The Diary of Anne Frank” is perhaps one of the reasons why the rich instrumental oeuvre of Grigori Frid, a Shostakovich contemporary who died in Moscow ...
Canadian Premiere of Krzysztof Meyer’s “Triptych”
Recently the Polish guitarist Łukasz Kuropaczewski was guest at the Academy of Music of Zagreb with Krzysztof Meyer’s guitar piece “Triptych” and presented the Croatian ...
10 March 2016 - Prof. Dr. Hans W. Sikorski Is 90
Prof. Dr. Hans W. Sikorski, former Managing Director of Sikorski Music Publishers, honorary member and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of GEMA (German Association for the Protection of ...
Schachtner‘s “sehn-sucht” Given German Premiere
The Munich composer Johannes X. Schachtner composed in 2015 his piano piece “sehn-sucht” (longing) for the 650th birthday of the University of Vienna. The world premiere was given on ...