Korean composer Donghoon Shin will see a premiere with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä. At the same time, Musica Nova will present a number of works by Lisa Streich (another ricordilab laureate). Another focal point of the festival will be Australian composer Liza Lim, whose orchestral work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus will be performed in Finland for the first time.

In an act of Lockdown defiance, Ultraschall Berlin and ECLAT Festival Stuttgart are bringing concerts to radio and livestream – including world-premiers from Sergej Newski, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, and Enno Poppe.

«A string quartet explicitly based on Bach's The Art of Fugue to celebrate twenty wonderful years of Quartetto di Cremona». This is the next Fabio Vacchi's world premiere, written during the first Italian lockdown.

 

Fifteen years after the first recording, new CD release for Marco Stroppa's Miniature Estrose, performed by pianist Erik Bertsch for Kairos.

Curated by Marco Moiraghi and supervised by Emilia Fadini, the new release of the critical edition will be available on sale starting from March 2021.

On November 14th 2020, Dai Fujikura’s third opera A Dream of Armageddon was premiered at the New National Theatre in Toyko. The production united an international team around librettist Harry Ross, director Lydia Steier and conductor Kazushi Ono, who brought the work to the stage under exceptional circumstances.

In November 2020, composers Philip Venables and Peter Eötvös were recognized internationally for their contributions to the operatic repertoire. 

If the audience cannot come to Enno Poppe’s premieres, he’ll bring them to your home. In November and December, two new ensemble works celebrated their live streamed premieres conducted by the composer himself.

In the year that we celebrate the 80th birthday of the Maestro, three concerts streamed live from the Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, plus a new CD.

A portrait by Volker Hagedorn