March 2020

Belgian premiere of Marko Nikodijevic’s “From Within …” at Bozar Brussels
At the Brussels Cultural Center Palais des Beaux-Arts “Bozar”, the ensemble intercontemporain under the direction of Matthias Pintscher will bring the piece “From ...

The Vienna premiere of Gerald Resch’s String Quartet No. 3 “attacca”
In the Beethoven anniversary year, Austrian composer Gerald Resch has once again turned his attention to the string quartet genre. Like many other composers of our time, in his String Quartet No. 3...

The Sikorski music publishers are at the Leipzig Book Fair (March 12-15, 2020)
The SIKORSKI music publishers present themselves at the Leipzig Book Fair (March 12 to 15, 2020) with sheet music from the field of classical music, song books, CDs and DVDs by Rolf Zuckowski as...

World premiere 2021: Jüri Reinvere’s fourth opera “The Shadow” for Osnabrück
The Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere, who has just received enthusiastic response at the Regensburg Theatre for the premiere of his opera “Minona”, which focuses on Ludwig van...

United Nations Chamber Music Society initiates Shostakovich stream during the coronavirus pandemic
The UN Chamber Music Society of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council has scheduled a streaming on March 20, 2020, "a special performance to provide solace during the coronavirus...

Tatyana Smirnova's 80th birthday on March 30, 2020
Russian composer Tatyana Smirnova was born in St. Petersburg on March 30, 1940 and died in Moscow on June 6th, 2018 ...

German premiere of the Adagio cantabile from Beethoven‘s “Pathétique“ orchestrated by Shostakovich
The Adagio cantabile for orchestra based on Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 op. 13, the famous “Pathétique“, is an early work by Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich was only...

Canceled because of the crisis: RIAS Chamber Choir and Ensemble Resonanz: world premiere of Jüri Reinveres ”The Expulsion of Ismael“
Because of the coronavirus crisis, this performance was canceled:
The Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere chose a biblical theme for his latest work. On March 20, 2020, the RIAS Chamber Choir and the...

String Quartet No. 10 “Frozen Dreams” by Lera Auerbach was premiered in Tucson (Arizona)
The renowned Jasper String Quartet premiered Lera Auerbach's string quartet No. 10 “Frozen Dreams” on March 6, 2020 in Tucson, Arizoni, USA ...

Norwegian premiere of Lera Auerbach’s “Arctica” in Oslo
The work "Arctica" for orchestra, choir and piano by Lera Auerbach, which premiered in Washington on March 30, 2019, was performed under the patronage of the National Geographic Society in...

World premiere in Bonn: “Beethoven-Skizzen” by Jan Müller-Wieland
Jan Müller-Wieland wrote the piano trio “Beethoven-Skizzen” on the initiative of the violinist Daniel Hope. It is a continuation of Beethovens notes for a piano trio, which are ...

A Beethoven and Diabelli homage of a special kind: Lera Auerbach’s “Diabellical Waltz”
Ludwig van Beethoven dominates this year's concert programmes, and there is a remarkable series of world premieres of new pieces by contemporary composers, which deal with his music but also with ...