May

Sofia Gubaidulina at the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg
Sofia Gubaidulina is composer in residence at this year’s Aspekte in Salzburg, an annual festival for new music. The festival, which takes place ...

Eino Tamberg Turns 80
“Ever since I got to know it, Eino Tamberg’s Trumpet Concerto has not let go of me,” says the Hamburg trumpet soloist and academy professor Matthias Höfs, “and I like his ...

Kronos Quartet Plays Franghiz Ali-Zadeh in Rome and Hamburg
The Kronos Quartet will be concentrating on music from Azerbaijan during their European Tour in May 2010. During the course of this tour, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s string quartets ...

Portrait Concert for Sofia Gubaidulina in Ireland
A Portrait Concert for Sofia Gubaidulina will be held on 1 May 2010 in Drogheda, Ireland, organised by the Louth Contemporary Music Society in cooperation with the ...

RUHR.2010 – Cultural Capital City of Europe: World Premiere of Jan Müller-Wieland’s “Traumbilder leichenstill” in Dortmund
Under the motto of RUHR.2010, the Ruhr metropolis of Essen and all cities and communities of the Ruhr District are ...

A “Message” to Ustvolskaya and Shostakovich Worth Reading in the “News of the Paul Sacher Foundation”
Rachel Jeremiah-Foulds reports on an “extraordinary relationship“ and nonetheless “sharp rifts” in the relationship between the two Russian composers Galina Ustvolskaya and ...

Make a Note of This: International Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch 2010
In July 1960 the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich stayed for several days in Gohrisch, a fresh-air spa town in the “Saxon Switzerland” near Dresden. It was ...