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 ...
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 ...
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 ...