October

German Premiere: Sofia Gubaidulina’s “On Love and Hatred” at the Semperoper Dresden
Sofia Gubaidulina has once again been named Capell-Compositrice of the Staatskapelle Dresden during the 2016/17 season. Her latest work, “On Love and Hatred”, will be performed on ...

Events and Concerts in Celebration of Sofia Gubaidulina’s 85th Birthday
The fact that she has meanwhile become a living legend in contemporary music causes great astonishment to the modest composer Sofia Gubaidulina, who lives near Hamburg. The most ...

New Work by Daniel Smutny Receives World Premiere at the University of Music Karlsruhe
During the course of the opening concert at the festival “ZeitGenuss - Festival for Music of our Time” the world premiere of Daniel Smutny‘s “Dann werde ich Dich Freund nennen” ...

Johannes X. Schachtner: “Eutopia” and “Whistling Johanna” Given World Premieres
Two new works by Johannes X. Schachtner will be given their world premieres on 22 October 2016 at different locations in Munich. The Klassik Chor München and the Arcis Saxophone Quartet ...

Alfred Schnittke’s “Pianissimo” Receives Portuguese Premiere in Porto
The Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto will perform the Portuguese premiere of Alfred Schnittke’s “Pianissimo” under the direction of Peter Rundel at the Casa da Música in ...

“tiefenrausch” - New String Quartet by Marko Nikodijevic
The new work “tiefenrausch” for string quartet by the Serbian composer Marko Nikodijevic was commissioned by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) for the series ...

World Premiere: “Symphonic Protocol” by Johannes X. Schachtner
The Munich Ensemble Zeitsprung has commissioned the composer Johannes X. Schachtner to write an ensemble work to celebrate the ensemble’s tenth anniversary. The Ensemble will now present ...

“music box / self portrait with ligeti and stravinsky [messiaen is also present]” by Nikodijevic for the First Time in South Korea
The work “music box / self portrait with ligeti and stravinsky [messiaen is also present]” by the Serbian composer Marko Nikodijevic composed in 2000/2001 will be given its South Korean ...

Music China 2016 in Shanghai
Sikorski Music Publishers will be participating again in 2016 at “Music China” (26-29 October 2016) in Shanghai, represented by a booth at the New International Expo Centre ...

“Gramophone Classical Music Award” for Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10
The live recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, Op. 93 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons (Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music CD 4795059) won a ...