February 2019

Second production of Peter Ruzicka's BENJAMIN at the Theater Heidelberg
The opera "BENJAMIN" by Peter Ruzicka, which premiered in Hamburg on 3 June 2018, will be premiered at Theater Heidelberg on 9 February 2019 in a production by Ingo Kerkhof. The Heidelberg ...

Estonian premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's 3rd Violin Concerto
The violinist Vadim Repin and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andres Mustonen will release the Estonian first performance of Sofia Gubaidulina's "Dialogue: Me ...

Lera Auerbach is artist in residence of the city of New Orleans (April 5-11, 2014)
From 5 February to 11 April 2019, Lera Auerbach is an artist in residence in the city of New Orleans. To make this possible, five cultural institutions of the metropolis on the Mississippi River...

Ulenspiegel Dances to be accompanied by Prokofievs 7th Symphony
The legendary choreographer Martin Schläpfer has created a new ballet entitled, “Ulenspiegel Dances”. The piece’s premiere is scheduled for 9 February 2019 at the b.38 ballet ...

Russian composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov is dead
On February 4, 2019, Russian composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, born on May 29, 1936, died at the age of 82. Ovchinnikov was best known for his 1956 completed Symphony No. 1 and various film scores ...

Sikorski to exhibit at the didacta education trade fair in Cologne
The Sikorski music publishing company is once again an exhibitor at Germany’s biggest trade fair for the educational sector, the didacta show in Cologne. From 19 to 23 February 2019 (daily from...

The Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere is new in our catalogues
Born in Tallinn in 1971, Estonian composer and essayist Jüri Reinvere is the new author in our house. He was educated at the Tallinna Muusikakeskkool in the 1980s. The internationally known ...

Premiere of Johannes X. Schachtners “ConcettoZaide” with Matthias Höfs in Augsburg
The Bavarian composer Johannes X. Schachtner is keenly interested in the musical literature of past epochs, as evidenced by his popular pieces derived from the works of Mendelssohn Bartholdy. But...

World premiere of Werner Heiders Stations for oboe and orchestra in Erlangen
The pianist, conductor and composer Werner Heider (born 1930) has already written twelve instrumental concertos. However, the new work "Stations" for oboe and orchestra, which will be ...

Two Grammy's 2019 for the recording of symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich
For the release of Symphonies No. 4 and No. 11 by Dmitri Shostakovich with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of music director Andris Nelsons, the label Deutsche Grammophon won ...