November

Johannes X. Schachtner‘s “Fourteen – Tableau dramatique” given World Premiere
The Rosenheim Music Society will perform the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms, composed during the time when Rosenheim was elevated to the status of a town 150 years ago, as part of the ...

Jan Müller-Wieland: World Premiere of “Egmonts Freiheit oder Böhmen liegt am Meer”
“He can do both: comedy and sorrow,” was the verdict of Hans Werner Henze on his pupil Jan Müller-Wieland, who is as gifted in his dramatic instinct as in his delicate sensitivity ...

Alfred Schnittke - His 80th Birthday
Regardless of how post-modern or abstract Alfred Schnittke’s is composed, as the pianist Maria Lettberg once said, one always senses something profoundly humane in it. On 24 November 2014 we ...

Russian Premiere: “Eterniday” by Lera Auerbach in Moscow
Under the direction of its principal conductor Vladimir Spivakov, the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra will present the Russian premiere of Lera Auerbach‘s Hommage à Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

World Premiere of “Arrival of the Street King” by Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert’s ensemble music “Arrival of the Street King” for free-form youth ensemble, composed in 2014, will be given its world premiere on 16 November 2014 at the 25th Festival ...

New Works by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Johannes X. Schachtner and Krzysztof Meyer on Julius Berger’s 60th Birthday
On the occasion of the 60th birthday of the cellist Julius Berger, who will be honoured on 15 November 2014 with a celebratory concert in the Golden Hall of Augsburg City Hall, the composers ...

Danish premiere: Sofia Gubaidulina’s successful “Fachwerk” in Copenhagen
The bayan player Geir Draugsvoll and The Royal Danish Orchestra of the Music Academy Copenhagen conducted by Rolf Gupta will perform the Danish premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s ...

Sofia Gubaidulina: Premieres in Belgium and the Netherlands
Two works by the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina will receive their respective local premieres in Belgium and the Netherlands on 9 November 2014.Gubaidulina‘s “Why?” for ...

Lera Auerbach‘s Cadenzas to W. A. Mozart‘s Flute Concerto D major K. 314 given World Premiere in Washington
The flutist Aaron Goldman will perform the world premiere of the Cadenzas to W.A. Mozart’s Flute Concerto in D major, K. 314 by Lera Auerbach on 13 November 2014 at the Kennedy Center in ...

The First “Kitchen Opera” in Music History: Moritz Eggert’s “In Teufels Küche”
The North German festival “KinderKinder” is a classic for children and youth culture in North Germany. The world premiere of a new piece by Moritz Eggert is also on the programme of the ...

Lera Auerbach‘s Ballet “Tatiana” Now in Russia
The Hamburg choreographer John Neumeier (together with the Moscow Stanislavsky Theatre) had commissioned Lera Auerbach to create ballet music for the famous subject of ...

World Premiere: Wind Quintet by Giya Kancheli at “Tbilisi Wind Festival”
The soloists Janne Thomsen (flute), Giorgi Gvantesladze (oboe), Levan Tskhadadze (clarinet), Francesco Giussani (bassoon) and Rob van de Laar (horn) will perform the public world premiere of ...

Jörn Arnecke’s “Gegen-Sätze” Given World Premiere in Heilbronn
The world premiere of the new work “Gegen-Sätze” for oboe and string orchestra by Jörg Arnecke will be at the centre of focus at the 3rd Heilbronn Concert of the ...

German Premiere: Marius Felix Lange‘s “The Canterville Ghost” in Berlin
In 2013 the composer Marius Felix Lange has taken up the material of Oscar Wilde‘s famous horror story the ”The Canterville Ghost“, in a new libretto by Michael Frowin, in response ...

World Premiere: Jan Müller-Wieland‘s New Version of “King of the Night” in Hamburg
The Hamburg-born composer Jan Müller-Wieland has been Professor of Composition at the Munich Music Academy since 2007. His long collaboration with the Burgtheater actor Klaus Maria Brandauer ...

Music of Today: Marko Nikodijevic in London
The British premiere of the piece “gesualdo dub / raum mit gelöschter figur” and a performance of “music box / self-portrait with ligeti and stravinsky (messiaen is also ...