March

Anne-Sophie Mutter Awarded Dortmund Cultural Foundation Prize
The Dortmund Cultural Foundation awarded its Cultural Prize endowed with € 25,000 for the seventh time on Friday, 26 March 2010. This time, the Foundation honoured ...

Wenchen Qin’s “Sounds that Awaken Memories” in a Review
The journal “Ensemble” published the following review of the printed edition SIK 8591 in its current ...

Munich: World Premiere of Daniel Smutny’s “Auf den Flügeln des Gesangs”
“In my piece ‘Auf den Flügeln des Gesangs,’ I am concerned (as in most of my works) with a highly differentiated musical language. Very special sound forms and ...

Music by Alfred Schnittke in the movie "Shutter Island"
Music by Alfred Schnittke - Hymnus II for violoncello and double bass - can be heard on the soundtrack to the new film "Shutter Island." The soundtrack was produced by ...

Frankfurt Music Fair 2010: Sikorski is there for you!
This year, too, we are represented by a booth at the Frankfurt Music Fair (24 to 27 March). Pay us a visit and collect interesting information. Here’s where ...

Russian Music at the Concert Series “Vredenburg Friday” in Utrecht during the 2010/11 Season
Alongside the already established concert series “The Sunday Matinee” of the Dutch Broadcasting Company, which takes place at the ...

Enigmatic and Profound: Celebrated Premiere of Moritz Eggert’s “Bordellballade”
The world premiere of the “Bordellballade” by Moritz Eggert at the Music Theatre in the Brauhaus Dessau during the course of the 2010 Kurt Weill Festival on 4 March has met with great ...

Ulrich Leyendecker: World Premiere of Viola Concerto in Kaiserslautern
Compared to its little sister, the violin, the viola sounds somewhat more stuffed up. And because it is usually damned to providing sleepily boring accompaniment in ...