May 2019

World Premiere: “Goetia. 72 – In umbra Lucis“ by Lera Auerbach at Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin
On 24 May 2019, the RIAS Chamber Choir will perform Lera Auerbach’s “Goetia. 72 - In umbra lucis” at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, conducted by Kaspars Putnins. The piece was ...

Xiaoyong Chens Imaginative Reflections will be performed at the Beijing Concert Hall
On May 22, 2019, Xiaoyong Chens composition Imaginative Reflections for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano will be performed at the Beijing Concert Hall on the occasion of a concert of the...

World premiere of a Theremin work by Lera Auerbach
For the rarely heard electronic instrument Theremin and piano, the composer Lera Auerbach has written 10 preludes, which will be premiered on 11 May 2019 at the Ravinia Festival by Thorwald ...

World premiere in Vienna of Gerald Reschs Con moto for ensemble
On 8th May 2019, the Ensemble Wiener Collage premieres the new ensemble piece "Con moto" for clarinet, alto saxophone, trombone, accordion, piano, violin and double bass by the Austrian...

Ustvolskaya Festival St. Petersburg (16.-19.5.2019)
From 16 to 19 May 2019, a festival will be held in St. Petersburg to commemorate the 100th birthday of composer Galina Ustvolskaya, which will take place on 17 June this year. As part of this...

Hierarchy for 2 ensembles by Moritz Eggert in Erfurt
New, imaginative pieces by the Heidelberg-born composer and pianist Moritz Eggert bring the music scene again and again in tense anticipation. Only at the beginning of May was his new opera ...

German premiere of Alfred Schnittkes 1st Symphony in Berlin
Half a century elapsed between the year of Alfred Schnittkes first work on his symphonic debut and its German premiere late this summer. Schnittkes Symphony No. 1 (in four movements) was ...

Jüri Reinvere composes opera Minona for Regensburg
The Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere has received a composition commission from the Regensburg Theatre for 2020, the 250th anniversary of Beethovens birthday. Jüri Reinvere will compose an ...

Samuel Penderbayne to receive Hamburgs 2019 Bach Scholarship Award
After announcing Korean composer Unsuk Chin as the winner of this year’s Bach Prize, the city of Hamburg also revealed the name of this year’s Bach Scholar. The 2019 edition of the Bach...

Music as a magical force - 100th Birthday of Galina Ustvolskaya
The Russian musicologist Olga Gladkova entitled her account of the oeuvre and personal life of Galina Ustvolskaya, who died in 2006 in St. Petersburg, “Music as a Magical Force“,...