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“Lonesome George” ballet with Shostakovich’s 8th string quartet
In 2015, the ballet “Lonesome George” by choreographer Marco Goecke premiered at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf. The piece remained in the programme for many years and can now also be seen at the Stadttheater Bern on 5 February 2022.

Shostakovich audio book “Doppeltes Spiel” Double Play, published by BR Klassik
In the audiobook sector, biographies of well-known personalities, completely staged in radio play form or narrated in a setting, occupy a special place. This long tradition is being carried on by...

Passages - Arcades for chamber ensemble by Johannes X. Schachtner in Munich
The work was written almost eight years ago and waited a long time for its premiere. Now Johannes X. Schachtner's new piece “Arcades” for chamber ensemble (after Walter Benjamin) is to be...

75th birthday anniversary of Nikolai Korndorf
Nikolai Korndorf was born in Moscow on 23 January 1947.  Like many composers of his generation, such as Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina (both of whom had emigrated to...

Gautier Capuçon premieres Lera Auerbach’s cello concerto “Diary of a Madman” in Munich
On 27/28 January 2021, cellist Gautier Capuçon and the Munich Philharmonic under Giedre Šlekytė are to premiere Lera Auerbach’s new concerto for cello and orchestra “Diary of a Madman” in...

Jüri Reinvere is “Estonia's Musician of the Year 2021”
On January 13th, 2022 it was announced that the Estonian composer had been voted "Musician of the Year 2021" by the public broadcaster of his home country ERR (Eesti...

Prokofievs “Peter and the Wolf” is the front runner at GEMA
GEMAs “virtuos” magazine has published the 2020 GEMA bestseller list. Sergei Prokofievs “Peter and the Wolf” is number one in the charts of live performances of...

100th birthday anniversary of Antonio Bibalo
The Norwegian composer of Italian origin Antonio Bibalo, born in Trieste on 18 January 1922 who died on 20 June 2008, became known worldwide for his church and orchestral music, but especially for...

World premiere of Jan Müller-Wieland’s “The Star Talers” for girl’s choir and ensemble in Hanover
One of the most moving fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm’s “children’s and household tales “The Star Talers” tells of a poor girl who has nothing more than a piece of bread and her old clothes....

Canadian premiere of Giya Kancheli’s “Nu.Mu.Zu” at the Winnipeg New Music Festival 2022
Premiered in 2015 by the Belgian National Orchestra, Giya Kancheli's work bearing the special title “Nu.Mu.Zu” is to receive its Canadian premiere on 22 January 2022 in the opening...

The ballet “Kassandra” with music by Alfred Schnittke at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto grosso No. 1 is a modern classic. In this work, the first of a multi-part cycle, the composer used polystylistic techniques to create modern concertos modelled on...

Christmas Greetings from Sikorski Music Publishers
We wish all music enthusiasts who feel connected to our company a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Two years of the pandemic have changed our lives and our work.

A commemoration of Heinrich Riethmüller on the occasion of his 100th birthday
Heinrich Riethmüller was a household name to millions of viewers of German television in post-war Germany. As musical director of the unforgotten show “Dalli Dalli”, he accompanied the legendary...

Music full of joy, but also deep sadness: Elena Firsova’s “Ornaments of Joy”
As part of Elena Firsovas residency with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra), numerous orchestral and chamber music works by the composer will be presented...

100th birthday anniversary of Timofej Dokschizer
The Trumpet Concerto by Alexander Arutjunjan made Timofej Dokschizers name world-famous. In addition to Dmitri Shostakovichs Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra, Arutjunjans work...

Ballet “Maria” with Lera Auerbach’s work “Dialogues on Stabat Mater” premieres in Nuremberg
In the first part of a new ballet evening at the Nuremberg Theatre, choreographer Goyo Montero presents a ballet entitled “Maria” on 18 December 2021, in which he uses the dialogues on Stabat Mater...

New production of Shostakovich's brilliant operetta “Moscow Cheryomushki” in Augsburg
Dmitri Shostakovich’s entertaining operetta “Moscow Cheryomushki” is becoming increasingly popular and is undergoing many new productions. On 11 December 2021, the work will premiere at the...

Book by Osmo Tapio Räihälä is awarded the “Finlandia Prize for Non-Fiction”
The Finnish composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä published his first book "Miksi nykymusiikki auf niin vaikeaa" earlier this year. The book, which was published in Finnish and is also...

First International Weinberg Violin Competition in Katowice
From 4 to 12 December 2021, the International Weinberg Violin Competition will be held for the first time at the Katowice Academy of Music. The artistic director of this competition is Szymon...

German premiere of the joint composition March “Swan, Crab and Pike” in Berlin
This march was written on the initiative of Gennady Rozhdestvensky as an encore for a concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on 15 April 1982, at which Edison Denisov’s “Peinture”,...

“Pragma” by Osmo Tapio Räihälä is to be premiered at the “Nuova consonanza” festival
“Pragma” for seven players (flute, clarinets, piano, string quartet) was commissioned by the Italian festival “Nuova consonanza” and composed in 2020. The planned premiere was postponed by an...

Chamber music festival Sofia Gubaidulina in Bonn
From 2nd to 5th December 2021, the In Situ Art Society Bonn will organise a chamber music festival in the Dialograum Kreuzung at St. Helena in Bonn on the occasion of Sofia Gubaidulina’s 90th...

Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna premiere new work by Marko Nikodijevic
The extraordinary conductor and leader of the legendary orchestra musicAeterna and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, is an admirer of Marko Nikodijevic’s work and has performed his...

“Musically narrating and conveying our time”. Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere turns 50
Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere, who has also worked as a presenter on Finnish and Estonian radio and was inspired by film legend Ingmar Bergman, celebrates his 50th birthday on 2 December 2021. “I...

World premiere at the Philharmonie Berlin: Elena Firsova's “Night in Appen”
As part of Jelena Firsova’s residency with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, numerous orchestral and chamber music works by the composer will be presented at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the...

Edison Denisov - 25th anniversary of death 24 November 2021
Among Russian composers of the post-Shostakovich era such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Galina Ustvolskaya and Alfred Schnittke, Edison Denisov is considered the great poet of sound, a master of...

Portrait Concert for Sofia Gubaidulina in Moscow
On 13 November, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra is to hold a Gubaidulina portrait concert at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow to mark the composer’s 90th birthday. The State Academic...

Jüri Reinvere’s “Of the Dying of the Stars. Symphonic Notes” to be premiered at ‘musica viva’.
After the orchestral work “The Inner Sea” (premiered on 31 October 2021 in Saarbrücken) and “Two Bracelets for Klara” (premiered on 10 November 2021 in Tallinn), now the third work by Estonian...

Four-part cycle “sound ecologies” by Daniel Smutny to be premiered in Cologne
The E-MEX Ensemble will premiere a four-part cycle entitled “sound ecologies” by the composer Daniel Smutny, born in 1976, on 13 November 2011 in Cologne. The cycle consists of the pieces “our...

Special publication of Sergei Prokofiev‘s complete opera oeuvre
The traditional companies Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski Music Publishers have recently united under one roof to represent the complete works of Sergei Prokofiev. They are taking this as an...

Mandelring Quartet will perform all of Dmitri Shostakovich's string quartets
The Mandelring Quartet will perform all 15 string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich between November 4th and 7th, 2021 in the Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg and in the Kulturforum Franziskanerkloster ...

Jan Müller-Wieland and Johannes X. Schachtner at Kempfenhausen Castle on Lake Starnberg
The enchanted atmosphere of a concert at Kempfenhausen Castle on Lake Starnberg is evoked by “the crackle-like surface of Manuela Hartel's photo collage, reminiscent of the patina of an oil...

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra premieres Jüri Reinvere’s “Klara’s Two Bracelets”
Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere celebrates his 50th birthday on 2 December 2021. These days, many projects put on hold during the lockdown are now being resumed. Reinvere’s orchestral work “The...

The final version of Marko Nikodijevic’s “grid/index [I]” receives its world premiere in Zurich
On 4 November 2021, the final version of the work “grid/index [I]” by Serbian composer Marko Nikodijevic will be premiered in Zurich. The performers are the Hyper Duo and Marko Nikodijevic himself...

Concert with works by Johannes X. Schachtner in Munich
On November 1, 2021, there will be a concert in the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich-Sendling with works by Johannes X. Schachtner, played by members of the Concetto: x ensemble.

At the beginning of November 2021 Sofia Gubaidulina is Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3
For the week from 1st to 5th November 2021 Sofia Gubaidulina is to be Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3. A daily one-hour programme on the composer will be broadcast between 12 noon and 1pm,...

Rudolf Buchbinder travels around the world with Lera Auerbach’s “Diabellical Waltz”
The Spanish premiere of Lera Auerbach’s “Diabellical Waltz” for piano is scheduled for 2 November 2021 in Oviedo with soloist and commissioner Rudolf Buchbinder.

Spanish premiere in Palma de Mallorca: Ferran Cruixent’s “Solaria” for orchestra
The orchestral work “Solaria” by Catalan composer Ferran Cruixent is to have its Spanish premiere in Palma de Mallorca on 4 November 2021. The Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears will perform under...

Rodion Shchedrin’s brilliant “Carmen Suite” featuring new choreography by Ivan Alboresi at Theater Nordhausen
The love story and its tragic end (that first appeared in 1847 as a French novella by Prosper Mérimée) between Carmen a Spanish gypsy and the sergeant Don José inspired the composer Georges Bizet...

World premiere in Saarbrücken: Jüri Reinvere’s “The Inner Sea” for large orchestra
Estonian composer Jüri Reinvere is celebrating his 50th birthday on 2 December 2021. In the next few weeks, three of the composer’s orchestral works are to be premiered.

New Gubaidulina CD with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig on Deutsche Grammophon
“It never ceases to thrill me how Sofia Gubaidulina combines intellect, spirituality and sensuality in her works. Her music gets right under your skin,” says Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons...

Dejan Lazić's Schubert homage “The Trout Pond” receives its Danish premiere in Copenhagen
In 2017, pianist Silke Avenhaus studied the five contemporary composers Ferran Cruixent, Dejan Lazić, Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Gerald Resch and Johannes X. Schachtner, and was inspired to take on...

Kirill Serebrennikov stages Shostakovich’s “The Nose” in Munich
Only two years ago, the artistic director of the Hamburg Schauspielhaus Karin Beier restaged Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “The Nose” at the Hamburg State Opera. The play about collegiate assessor...

Sofia Gubaidulina, the Grande Dame of New Music, on her 90th birthday
“I hear the world sounding inside me and want to bring this into a musical form and fix it in tones - like an ancient man who wants to record what he has experienced and seen on the wall of his cave.”

Repertoire for small string orchestra
Instead of a giant orchestra, as required by works of Mahler, Strauss or Wagner , there is a boom of smaller orchestral works.

Works for Ensemble
The variety of instrumental timbres in the ensemble music of our composers from all over the world is unlimited.

Works for chamber orchestra
Almost all works for chamber orchestras from our catalogs have an extra-musical title.

Works for voice and chamber orchestra / strings / ensemble
Texts from all over the world, from William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Francesco Petrarca to Rainer Maria Rilke, Roger Willemsen or ancient Chinese poems, have inspired our composers.

Works for solo instruments and chamber orchestra / strings / ensemble
Here you will also find works for unusual solo instruments such as oud, zheng and sheng, electric guitar or jazz trio and small orchestras or ensembles.

Sofia Gubaidulina’s second season as Gewandhaus composer
It is Sofia Gubaidulina’s second season as Gewandhaus composer in Leipzig, which will open on 17/19 September 2021 with her Triple Concerto. In addition, the Gewandhaus Orchestra will celebrate the...