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Julian Anderson Wins the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Litanies
Dec. 21, 2022Schott Music is delighted to report that Julian Anderson is the recipient of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his work Litanies. Anderson is the first British recipient of the award in …
Picture a day like this, a new opera from the acclaimed partnership of George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, will premiere this summer at the Aix-en-Provence Festival on July …
Thomas Adès’s Song Cycle Növények Premieres at Wigmore Hall with IMS Prussia Cove
Dec. 21, 2022On November 26, Thomas Adès's Növények, seven Hungarian poems for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet, premiered at Wigmore Hall as part of the IMS Prussia Cove 50th anniversary series of …
Neil Brand’s The Hound of the Baskervilles Premieres at the Barbican
Dec. 21, 2022On December 20 at the Barbican, Timothy Brock and the BBC Symphony Orchestra premiered Neil Brand’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, a new evening-length adaptation of Arthur Conan …
HK Gruber and Nina Stemme in a Stunning All-Weill Program with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Dec. 21, 2022Composer-conductor HK Gruber has long been one of the finest interpreters of Kurt Weill’s music. One institution that in recent years has been a close partner in his Weill-related work has been …
Georg Friedrich Haas‘s limited approximations Performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin
Nov. 26, 2022The Konzerthaus Berlin presented a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas's masterpiece, limited approximations, on November 18 by the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and pianists Soojin Anjou, Pi-Hsien Chen, Anton …
UK Premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo's a raft, the sky, the wild sea
Nov. 26, 2022On November 2, soloist Joe Lovano and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Joshua Weilerstein, performed the UK premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo's a raft, the sky, the wild …
Bent Frequency Duo Premieres Alvin Singleton's Every Next Day
Nov. 26, 2022Bent Frequency Duo (Jan Berry Baker, saxophone and Stuart Gerber, percussion) commissioned and performed the world premiere of Alvin Singleton's Every Next Day for soprano saxophone and vibraphone on November …
Lyric Opera of Chicago's Production of Rossini's Le comte Ory Utilizes Bärenreiter's Milestone Critical Edition
Nov. 23, 2022From November 13-26, Lyric Opera of Chicago presented Rossini's Le comte Ory in a production conducted by Enrique Mazzola, directed by Bartlett Sher, and featuring a cast of star …
Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at Zürich Opera
Nov. 23, 2022Zürich Opera presented Wolfgang Rihm and Michael Fröhling's Jakob Lenz at the Zürich Opera House from November 19-26. The production is directed by Mélanie Huber and conducted by Adrian Kelly with design …