September

Reinhold Glière / Eckart Schloifer: Italian Premiere of the Two Concerto Pieces for Viola and String Orchestra in Monforte d’Alba
Eckart Schloifer`s adaptation of the Two Concerto Pieces for Viola and String Orchestra by Reinhold Glière will be given its Italian premiere ...

Copenhagen: Danish Premiere of Benjamin Yusupov's Viola Concerto
Benjamin Yusupov`s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra will receive its Danish premiere on 30 September 2011 at the Copenhagen Conservatory. Under the direction of Lan Shui, the well-known ...

Sofia Gubaidulina: Two Spanish Premieres at the Alicante Festival 2011
At this year`s Alicante Festival there will be two Spanish premieres of works by Sofia Gubaidulina.The "Festival de Música de Alicante (FMA)" is organised by the Ministerio de ...

Alte Oper in Frankfurt: Minguet Quartet Plays Peter Ruzicka's Six String Quartets
On 19 September 2011, the Minguet Quartet will present in the String Quartets Nos. 1-6 ...

Lera Auerbach's String Quartet No. 5 to be premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden
The subtitle of Lera Auerbach`s new String Quartet No. 5 is "Songs of Alkonost." Alkonost are magical birds of good luck and hope that are sympathetic towards people. They come from the ...

Memorial Concert for the 10th Anniversary of the Attack on the World Trade Center
On Sunday, 11 September 2011, there will be a memorial concert at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, during the ...

Sofia Gubaidulina's “Fachwerk“ to Receive German Premiere
The German premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina`s "Fachwerk" will be given in Potsdam on 17 September 2011. This bayan concerto was premiered in 2009 in Gent, Belgium by ...

International Shostakovich Days 2011 in Gohrisch
The International Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch will be held for the second time from 16 to 18 September in the Saxon spa town of Gohrisch. Last year, the birth year of the new festival, the ...

Lera Auerbach's “Milking Darkness“ for Piano Solo at the ARD Music Competition
An award at the ARD Music Competition has been a springboard for the careers of many of today`s well-known artists, including Jessye Norman, Francisco Araiza, Mitsuko Uchida, Thomas Quasthoff, ...

Alexander Raskatov: World Premiere and British Premiere in London
There will be two premieres of works by the Russian composer Alexander Raskatov at the Royal Festival Hall in London, both on 21 September 2011. Raskatov`s orchestral work "A White ...

Music and Art – Kreuzspiel by Jörn Arnecke
The composer Jörn Arnecke has enjoyed a friendship and collaboration of many years` standing with the visual artists Gerhard Göschel and Friedrich Heißmeyer. The flutist ...

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh's Music in the Ukraine and in Ireland
On 24 September 2011, the Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh will be performed during the course of the Kiev Music Festival with the soloist Alexander Piriyev and the ...

Gubaidulina's Music at the Zermatt Festival 2011
From 2 to 18 September 2011, concerts with classical and new music at the Zermatt Festival will round off the late summer at the foot of the Matterhorn. The Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, consisting of ...