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.

Moritz Eggert has been a part of the Ricordi family since 1st January 2021. His works are characterized by humour paired with great intellectual depth, socio-political engagement with universality, and immediate accessibility with a love for experimentation.

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.

Now on sale, the new critical edition of Il Teuzzone, curated by Alessandro Borin and Antonio Moccia.

The Italian composer has been awarded by the BBTrust. The Award recognises Italian musicians who promote and encourage chamber music at home and throughout the world.

Casa Ricordi mourns the loss of Emilia Fadini (October 11, 1930 – March 16, 2021).

Casa Ricordi joins the many in expressing the most heartfelt condolences over the death of Paolo Castaldi (1930-2021).

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.