May

“meta/morph VI: jumble” by Schachtner Given World Premiere in Munich
Johannes X. Schachtner’s work cycle “meta/morph” will be performed during the course of the festival “aDevantGarde.14” (23-28 May 2017) at the Bayerische Akademie der ...

SWR-Music CD: Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony under Andrey Boreyko
The Eighth Symphony, Op. 65 by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in 1943. Like the Seventh Symphony, Op. 60, it was composed under the immediate impression of the Second World War. Shostakovich ...

Polish Premiere: “Nu.Mu.Zu” by Kancheli in Warsaw
Andrey Boreyko is the conductor at the Polish premiere of Giya Kancheli’s “Nu.Mu.Zu” for orchestra with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra on 19 May 2017 at the Warsaw Filharmonia ...

Marko Nikodijevic’s “tiefenrausch” Receives First Premieres in Belgium and the Netherlands
Amsterdam and Brussels are the locations of the Dutch and Belgian premieres of Marko Nikodijevic’s string quartet “tiefenrausch” (Quartetto d’archi n° 1). The Armida ...

Weinberg’s “Congratulations!” in Heidelberg
Mieczysław Weinberg‘s chamber opera “Congratulations!” will be given its German premiere at the Heidelberg Theatre on 28 May 2017 in the original version in Russian under the ...

Mahnkopf: First Chamber Symphony and “Con Luigi Nono” in Geneva
The composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf has a very close relationship with the genre of the chamber symphony. Although his new Chamber Symphony No. 4 has not yet been performed, his first ...

ALLA KONTRAPUNKT: Festival with Music by Giya Kancheli and Dmitri Shostakovich
A Shostakovich-Kancheli Festival entitled “Alla Kontrapunkt” will take place in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi from 9 to 15 May 2017. The festival will be held in the presence of ...

70th Birthday of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh was born in Baku/Azerbaijan. She will celebrate her 70th birthday on 28 May 2017. Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s highly individual musical language vacillates between Orient ...

World Premiere: Gerald Resch dedicates himself to “Gullivers Reise”
The Austrian composer Gerald Resch has completed the family opera “Gullivers Reise” (Gulliver’s Travel), freely adapted from Jonathan Swift’s classic of world literature ...

“Garden Wind” by Osmo Tapio Räihälä
The Finnish violinist Maria Puusaari will be the soloist at the world premiere of Osmo Tapio Räihälä’s “Garden Wind” for violin solo on 13 May 2017 at the ...

Lera Auerbach’s Orchestral Work “Icarus” Receives Swedish Premiere
The French conductor Stéphane Denève will direct the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in the Swedish premiere of Lera Auerbach’s work “Icarus” for orchestra on ...

PETER RUZICKA: Two World Premieres in Bremen und Hamburg
The soprano Sarah Maria Sun will be the soloist at the world premiere of Peter Ruzicka’s “MNEMOSYNE” for soprano, string orchestra and percussion at the concert entitled ...

Geir Draugsvoll Brings Gubaidulina’s “Fachwerk” to Austria
The bayanist Geir Draugsvoll and the percussionist Martin Köhler will be the soloists at the 7th Symphony Concert of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck (Tyrol Symphony Orchestra ...

New Production of Alfred Schnittke’s First Opera at the Stadttheater Gießen
The world premiere of Alfred Schnittke’s first opera “Life with an Idiot” based on a subject by Victor Yerofeyev on 13 April 1992 at the Dutch Opera Amsterdam was an event that ...