April

Premieres of Works by Sofia Gubaidulina in Germany and Lithuania
Two days after the world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s vocal symphonic work “O Come, Holy Ghost” at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, the Staatskapelle Dresden will present the German ...

Susanne Kessel Performs the World Premiere of Moritz Eggert’s “Hämmerklavier XXV” in Bonn
Moritz Eggert’s work series “Hämmerklavier” is unique in the new music scene for piano music. It meanwhile includes over a dozen works in which the composer explores, experimentally and in...

Daniel Smutny’s “12 Songs of a Love” Receives World Premiere
The piano duo Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen, together with the SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, will perform the world premiere of Daniel Smutny’s new vocal work ...

World Premieres: Guoping Jia and Xiaoyong Chen in Cologne
“China erlebt” (China Experienced) is the name of the programme on 18 April 2015 at the “Forum neuer Musik” (Forum of New Music) of Deutschlandfunk (DLF) in Cologne at the ...

Johannes Harneit composed for the 30th Anniversary of the “ensemble für neue musik zürich”
During the course of the “30 Jahre ensemble für neue musik” festival (30 years ensemble for new music) the new work “5 Fragments” for six musicians and two conductors by ...

German Premiere: Symphonic Poem No. 2 by Galina Ustvolskaya
Galina Ustvolskaya’s Symphonic Poem No. 2, premiered in 1959, will be given its German premiere at a concert organised by the Landesmusikrat Berlin e.V. ...

New Piano Version of Moritz Eggert’s “I Accept the Terms and Conditions”
On the final day of the “Ensemblia” festival in Mönchengladbach there will be a portrait concert for Moritz Eggert on 26 April 2015 at the Haus der Erholung. Next to the works ...

Lera Auerbach‘s “Triptych - The Mirror with three Faces” in Canada
On 22 April 2015 the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Piano Trio will perform the Canadian premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Piano Trio Nr. 2 “Triptych - The Mirror with three Faces” at the Academy of ...

Osmo Tapio Räihälä’s “Soliloque” Nominated for the “Prix Italia”
Osmo Tapio Räihälä’s “Soliloque” for five solo instruments, soprano and electronics was nominated for the “Prix Italia” 2015 in the category of ...

New Shostakovich Studies from Ernst Kuhn Verlag
One of the most important musicological sources for Dmitri Shostakovich research is the series “studia slavica musicologica – Texte und Abhandlungen zur osteuropäischen Musik” ...

Three World Premieres of Works by Johannes X. Schachtner in April 2015
“Historien-Kantate No. 2”, “Two Munich Monodies” and “Mare nostrum. Threnodie” are the titles of new compositions by Johannes X. Schachtner. All three works ...

“O Come, Holy Ghost” by Sofia Gubaidulina Given World Premiere
During the course of Sofia Gubaidulina’s residency with the Staatskapelle Dresden as “Capell-Compositrice”, her new vocal-symphonic work “O Come, Holy Ghost” will be ...

New Work “Flash” by Johannes Harneit
The composer Johannes Harneit has composed a new ensemble piece commissioned by the “Forum für zeitgenössische Musik e.V. / chiffren” on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of ...

Marius Felix Lange‘s “Snow White” in Switzerland
Marius Felix Lange’s opera for children and adults entitled “Snow White”, which received its world premiere in 2011 in Cologne, was given its French premiere in 2012 under the ...