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Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” with Lera Auerbach’s “Lonely Suite”
Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel “Orlando” is a blazing postulate for the acceptance of same-sex love and transsexuality. The main character, Orlando, decides to undergo a sex change from male to female...

Three world premieres by Johannes X. Schachtner at the Munich Novelities Concert
As part of the Novelties Concert at the Studio for Neue Musik in Munich on 2 August 2021, performances of various chamber music by Bavarian-born composer Johannes X. Schachtner are to be performed.

World premiere of Gerald Resch's “Grid” for saxophone quartet at the Gmundner Festspiele
The AUREUM Saxophone Quartet (Martina Stückler, Johannes Weichinger, Viola Jank and Lukas Seifried) will premiere Gerald Resch's saxophone quartet “Grid” at the Gmundner Festspiele on 5 August 2021.

Jan Müller-Wieland’s “Traumbilder leichenstill” is to receive its Italian premiere in Brixen on 6 August 2021
Jan Müller-Wieland’s “Traumbilder leichenstill” (Dream Images in Corpse-like Silence) for string quartet or string orchestra was premiered in Dortmund in 2010. On 6 August 2021, we are to...

100th birthday anniversary of jazz legend Günter Fuhlisch on 1 August 2021
Over the course of his lengthy career, the bandleader, jazz trombonist and composer Günter Fuhlisch has produced a large number of compositions and arrangements for Sikorski Music Publishers. Many...

Bulgarian cellist Liliana Kehayova releases Cello Sonatas by Nikolai Myaskovsky on CD
The Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky, born in 1881 and died in 1950, was a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov. He himself taught a generation of up-and-coming composers,...

On the 75th birthday of David Geringas
The Lithuanian cellist and conductor David Geringas was born on 29 July 1946 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 29th of July this year will mark his 75th birthday. From 1963 to 1973 he studied with...

10th anniversary of the death of Karen Khachaturian
Born in Moscow in 1920, the Armenian composer Karen Khachaturian is related to the great and in international terms far more famous Aram Khachaturian; he is his nephew.

Many works by Sikorski Music Publishers at the Verbier Festival 2021
Sikorski Music Publishers are represented prominently in this year’s Verbier Festival programme with a total of 21 works (including orchestral works by Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin as well...

Works by Shostakovich and Schnittke at the Summer Music Days Hitzacker 2021
We are already looking ahead to the Summer Music Days Hitzacker, which are exciting every year and have once again been able to engage world-renowned soloists for the ambitious festival in the...

Marvão: World Premiere of Ferran Cruixent’s “Post lucem” for String Quartet
The Mandelring Quartet will perform the world premiere of the new string quartet “Post lucem” by Catalan composer Ferran Cruixent at the Festival Internacional de Música de Marvão.

Moritz Eggert’s Football Oratorio “The Depth of Space” on BR Klassik
The European Football Championship is still on!!! Bayerischer Rundfunk has taken this as an opportunity to broadcast the “First Half” of Moritz Eggert’s distinctive and truly...

Three International Classical Music Awards in 2021 or works by Sikorski Music Publishers
In the Audio and Video Awards, Sikorski Music Publishers are represented in the category ‘Concertos’ by the Hyperion recording of Shostakovich’s ...

Dejan Lazić’s Mozart arrangement Rondo concertante for piano quintet at the Mattseer Diabellisommer 2021
Mozart's quartets for piano and string trio and Dejan Lazić's Mozart arrangement Rondo concertante for piano quintet will be performed at the Diabellisommer 2021 in Mattsee on 1 July 2021.

Dejan Lazić is Artist in Residence at the Münchner Rundfunkorchester 2021/2022
As a pianist, Dejan Lazić gives concerts all over the world. His “fantastic sound culture, virtuosity and expressiveness” are praised repeatedly by many commentators. Born in Zagreb and now...

Johannes X. Schachtner’s “Carnival of the Animals” for piano six hands with Ensemble PianinoPoetico
On 16 December 2021, we will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns. To mark this occasion, the young Bavarian composer Johannes X. Schachtner, who has already...

Elisaveta Blumina records piano works by Grigori Frid for Naxos
The pianist Elisaveta Blumina has recorded a CD featuring various piano works by Grigori Frid on the NAXOS label.

Gerald Resch’s 3rd string quartet “attacca” released on CD
The Aris Quartet has released the world premiere recording of Gerald Resch’s string quartet No. 3 “attacca” ...

Quintet works by Grigori Frid released on CD by Capriccio
A CD featuring two quintet works by Grigori Frid (1919-1998) has just been released on the Capriccio label.

Frederick Ashton’s legendary choreography of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” on DVD at Opus Arte
There are countless choreographies of Sergei Prokofiev’s legendary ballet classic “Cinderella”.

Marcin Danilewski releases Krzysztof Meyer’s “Capriccio interrotto” and a first recording of the Six Preludes for solo violin on CD
The Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer, who now lives in Germany, once stated a few years ago that the time had come to “never discover melody”.

Nicholas Angelich releases Prokofiev album featuring 8th piano sonata and Visions fugitives
The American pianist Nicholas Angelich highly praised for his “fine filigree work”, as the newspaper WELT once put it, has dedicated an album of his own to Sergei Prokofiev on the Erato label ...

Unbridled energy and urgency in Marc Coppey’s recording of Shostakovich’s cello concertos
The Strasbourg-born cellist Marc Coppey was predicted a great career by Yehudi Menuhin even as a young musician ...

Composers on the Coronavirus Crisis
The consequences of the coronavirus crisis move us all. We have asked our composers how these months and weeks affect their artistic work. What they answer will be published progressively in this...

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.