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US premiere of Greenwood’s X Years of Reverb at the Big Ears Festival
Apr. 23, 2025On March 29, James McVinnie and Eliza McCarthy gave the US premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s eight-hour organ work X Years of Reverb at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. …
The Scottish Ensemble Tours Martin Suckling’s Postcards
Apr. 23, 2025From April 13-15, the Scottish Ensemble toured two movements from Martin Suckling’s Postcards to Edinburgh, Inverness and Aberdeen as part of their The Night Overtook Us program with …
Thomas Adès Conducts the UK Premiere of America: A Prophecy with The Hallé
Apr. 23, 2025Thomas Adès returned to Manchester as part of his Artistic Residency with The Hallé on March 27 to conduct the UK premiere of the expanded version of America: A …
Kurt Weill Revelation in New York City
Apr. 23, 2025Just days after the 125th anniversary of Weill’s birth, and precisely bracketing the 75th anniversary of his death, productions in New York of two key works offered a unique opportunity …
Opera Dijon's New Production of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles Uses Bärenreiter's Critical Edition
Mar. 31, 2025The love triangle between two longtime friends, Zurga and Nadir, and their love for the Brahmin Leïla, is one of the favorites of the operatic canon. What few know: The source …
Beat Furrer and Thomas Stangl's Opera Das grosse Feuer Premiered in Zürich
Mar. 31, 2025Beat Furrer’s latest opera, Das grosse Feuer, was premiered on March 23 at the Opernhaus Zürich in a production directed by Tatjana Gürbaca and Vivien Hohnholz and conducted by the …
The Wet Ink Ensemble Performs Kate Soper's IPSA DIXIT at Big Ears
Mar. 31, 2025On March 27, the Wet Ink Ensemble performed Kate Soper's IPSA DIXIT at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN as part of Big Ears 2025. The composer performed the …
Led by Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Alisa Weilerstein and the New York Philharmonic premiere Thomas Larcher's returning into darkness on April 3-5 at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall.
Larcher describes his new work …
Spotlighting Zen-On's Women Composers
Mar. 30, 2025In honor of Women's History Month, Japanese publisher Zen-On celebrated the exceptional female composers on their roster by highlighting their compositions, from solo works to large-scale orchestral compositions, chamber works, …
Violinist Bomsori Kim Named an Ambassador of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Music
Mar. 30, 2025World-renowed Korean violinist Bomsori Kim has taken on the honorable title of Ambassador of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music, which she performs worldwide, promoting the legacy of Poland’s most important woman composer.
What …