November

Gerald Resch’s “Seven Madrigals” Receive World Premiere in Salzburg
The “Seven Madrigals” on contemporary love poems for five voices and accordion by the Austrian composer Gerald Resch will be given their world premiere at the Schlosskirche in Salzburg on ...

World Premiere of ZWEI ÜBERMALUNGEN by Peter Ruzicka in Hamburg
The upcoming world premiere of Peter Ruzicka’s new orchestral work “ZWEI ÜBERMALUNGEN” (ÜBER UNSTERN, R.W.) for large orchestra by the Philharmoniker Hamburg directed by ...

Lera Auerbach: String Quartet No. 8 “Sylvia’s Diary“ Given World Premiere
Lera Auerbach’s newly finished String Quartet No. 8 will be given its world premiere at the University of Rochester (USA) on 17 November 2013, performed by the Ying Quartet (USA) during ...

Portuguese Premiere of Alexi Matchavariani’s Symphonic Suite “Hamlet”
At a concert entitled “East of Shakespeare” with works of Sibelius, Shostakovich and Matchavariani, the Porto Symphony Orchestra directed by the Finnish conductor John Storgårds will ...

Bogota: Ferran Cruixent’s “Focs d’artifici” in Colombia
The Colombian premiere of Ferran Cruixent’s “Focs d’artifici” for percussion and orchestra will be presented on 15 November 2013 by the percussionist William Léon and the ...

Lera Auerbach in Brazil
A special interest in the oeuvre of Lera Auerbach has developed recently in Brazil. South American premieres of her major orchestral works ”Post silentium“ and the ”Requiem for a Poet” ...

Alexander Knaifel's 70th Birthday
The Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was originally a cellist, but then had to give up instrumental playing due to neuritis in both arms. And because Knaifel, born in 1943 in Tashkent, could not ...

Sofia Gubaidulina at the Festival ”The Rest Is Noise“ in London
During the entire year 2013 the London Southbank Centre is organising a festival of 20th century music entitled ”The Rest Is Noise“. Sofia Gubaidulina has now been invited to the ...

“The Canterville Ghost“: Marius Felix Lange’s New Opera Given World Premiere
Oscar Wilde‘s famous horror story of the ”The Canterville Ghost“ that is completely demystified by an American family that can be impressed by nothing, is not being adapted for the ...

Johannes X. Schachtner’s “Neuf fatrasies” in Austria
The soprano Monika Lichtenegger and the pianist Rudi Spring will present excerpts from Johannes X. Schachtner’s “Neuf fatrasies” at the opening concert of the festival ...

World Premiere by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf’s ”Hommage à Daniel Libeskind Volume III”
The Freiburg “ensemble aventure” will perform the world premiere of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf’s “Homage à Daniel Libeskind Volume III” for six players on ...

Ferran Cruixent: “Cyborg” Receives US Premiere
The American premiere of Ferran Cruixent’s “Cyborg” for orchestra will be given at the renowned Orchestra Hall in Detroit on 7 November 2013. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, whose ...

German Premiere of Grigori Frid's “Phaedra”
The Atrium Quartet, founded at the St. Petersburg Music Academy in the year 2000, together with the pianist Oliver Triendl, will perform the German premiere of ...

World Premieres of Works by Gerald Resch in Vienna
During the course of the major Austrian new music festival “Wien Modern”, there will be world premieres of new works by Gerald Resch on two evenings in November. The festival, being ...

Polish premiere of Krzysztof Meyer’s “Chansons d’un rêveur solitaire”
Claudia Barainsky (soprano) and the Poznán Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marek Pijarowski will present the Polish premiere of Krzysztof Meyer’s ...