January

Tigran Mansurian: 75th Birthday on 27 January 2014
“In my music, the medieval monody of Armenia plays an important role”, says the composer Tigran Mansurian. “It is my cultural memory that helps me to understand the present”. On 27 January 2014 ...

World Premiere of “Musique de la lumière et de la pénombre” by Krzysztof Meyer
The “notabu.ensemble neue musik”, founded in 1983 and resident at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, will present the world premiere of “Musique de la lumière et de la pénombre” for ...

“Bring Me Up, Bring Me Down” by Moritz Eggert Receives World Premiere
During the course of the event “Schönes Wochenende - Festival für modernes Hören” at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, the new chamber work “Bring Me Up, Bring Me Down” for ...

New York Festival “FOCUS!” Presents Alfred Schnittke and His World
In honour of Alfred Schnittke, born on 24 November 1934 in Engels in the former Volga German Republic and who would have turned 80 this year, the renowned Juilliard School in New York is ...

World Premiere: “Air - to Samuel’s Aerophone” by Johannes X. Schachtner in Munich
Johannes X. Schachtner’s new work “Air - to Samuel’s Aerophone” for large wind ensemble was commissioned by the Ensemble Zeitsprung for a concert of the ...

“Reverie” by Jan Müller-Wieland Given World Premiere at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Conservatory Competition in Berlin
The required piece for double bassists at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Conservatory Competition of the University of the Arts in ...

AULODIE by Peter Ruzicka in Switzerland
The oboist Albrecht Mayer and the Musikkollegium Winterthur will perform the Swiss premiere of Peter Ruzicka’s “AULODIE” for oboe and chamber orchestra on 22 January 2014 in ...

Alexander Raskatov’s “A Dog's Heart” Receives French Premiere
Alexander Raskatov has truly had a great success with his first opera “A Dog’s Heart”. His music, emanating lightness and esprit, perfectly corresponds to the grotesque quality of ...