Four brand-new streaming productions with works from the London-based, Japanese composer Dai Fujikura bring new sounds to a spring that has been – thanks to the pandemic – far too quiet.

Donghoon Shin will be awarded the prestigious Claudio Abbado Composition Prize of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2022. As the winner, Shin has been commissioned to write a cello concerto for the 50th anniversary of the Karajan Academy.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the birth of Gérard Grisey, on June 17, we would like to remember the French composer with this mini-portrait made up of excerpts from an interview published on the occasion of the major retrospective dedicated to him in honor of his 50th birthday.

Swedish composer and ricordilab laureate Lisa Streich in on course for success: Her new ensemble work HIMMEL for the Collegium Novum Zürich saw a streamed world premiere, in 2022 her work will be rewarded the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis, and as part of an exciting collaboration with the Lucerne Festival she created sounds for an extremely exclusive clock.

World premiere of Matteo Franceschini’s Requiem (Siá Kará) at the Fondazione Haydn in Bolzano, on July 28, 2021. A dance piece in collaboration with choreographer Radhouane El Meddeb,

A new commission for Silvia Colasanti, who begins her three-year artist-in-residence program with LaVerdi Symphony Orchestra in Milan, and upcoming works.

Commissioned by Bamberg Symphoniker Stiftung for violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, together with Casa da Música, Orquesta Simfonica de Barcelona, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, in coproduction with IRCAM-Centre Pompidou. First dates of the tour are out.

World premiere at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2021, the cycle for string quartet and electronics, Aether Is a Haunted Place (2017-2021).

Heiner Goebbels has been awarded the GEMA’s Music Authors’ Prize. The Music Pen Club Japan awarded the prize for the “contemporary music” category to Dai Fujikura.

The studio recording of Enno Poppe’s violin concerto Filz is available now on СD. The Wergo production brings the piece’s commissioner Ensemble Resonanz, premiere soloist Tabea Zimmermann, and Poppe himself conducting together once again.