November

Marko Nikodijevic’s String Quartet “tiefenrausch” Given German Premiere
After the successful world premiere on 19 October 2016 in London and the Hungarian premiere on 19 November 2016 in Budapest, the Berlin-based Armida Quartet will now present the German premiere ...

World Premiere: Jan Müller-Wieland’s “Father Image” in Hamburg
During the course of a portrait concert celebrating the 50th birthday of the Munich composer Jan Müller-Wieland (*30.03.1966) at the Freie Akademie der Künste (Free Academy of the Arts) ...

Sergey Prokofiev’s “Semyon Kotko” – First Time in the Netherlands
The concertante Dutch premiere of the opera “Semyon Kotko” by Sergei Prokofiev on 26 November 2016 in Amsterdam will be one of the most exciting operatic events of late 2016. Soloists ...

Gerald Resch’s “Drift” Before Austrian Premiere
Kian Soltani, just 23 years old, has already himself at the highest level of the new generation of cellists, at the latest since winning first prize at the International Paulo Cello Competition in ...

“Roots” - New Chamber Music Work by Lera Auerbach at the Hanover Accordion Festival
Lera Auerbach has recently composed a new work for violin and bayan entitled “Roots”, commissioned by the Hanover Accordion Festival and by request of the bayanist Elsbeth Moser. This ...

Armida Quartet Brings Marko Nikodijevic’s “tiefenrausch” to Hungary
Following the celebrated world premiere on 19 October 2016 at the Barbican Centre in London, the young Armida Quartet of Berlin with Martin Funda (violin), Johanna Staemmler (violin) ...

Swiss Premiere: “The Infant Minstrel And His Peculiar Menagerie” by Lera Auerbach
The Swiss premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Symphony No. 3 for violin, choir and orchestra “The Infant Minstrel And His Peculiar Menagerie” will be presented at the Victoria Hall of ...

Focus on Shostakovich and Gubaidulina at Wien Modern 2016
Beginning this year, the artistic director of the festival Wien Modern is Bernhard Günther, who previously served as dramaturg for contemporary music with the Luxemburg Philharmonic ...

Lera Auerbach’s “72 Angels. In splendore lucis” Receives World Premiere in Amsterdam
The anxiously awaited world premiere of Lera Auerbach’s “72 Angels” for choir and saxophone quartet will be given at the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ in Amsterdam on ...

Elisaveta Blumina Has Recorded Ustvolskaya’s Piano Concerto
A work by the Russian composer Galina Ustvoskaya, who died in 2006, will be on the programme right at the beginning of the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival 2016 (1-14 November 2016), on 1 November in...

Gubaidulina Days in Katowice 2016
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra is organising the “Gubaidulina Days” in Katowice for Sofia Gubaidulina, to be held from 5 to 10 November 2016. A cross-section of ...