Georg Friedrich Haas‘ trombone concerto was premiered at Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016 by soloist Mike Svoboda.

On November 30 in Bari, the Teatro Petruzzelli Orchestra presents the world premiere of Fabio Vacchi’s Concerto per violino e orchestra, featuring soloist Francesco D’Orazio. John Axelrod conducts.

The one-act opera Julie by Philippe Boesmans opens at the Schauspielhaus Studio (Theater Magdeburg) this November 4, and runs through December 17. Book by Luc Bondy and Marie-Louise Bischofberger. Julie is based on August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie.

Nuria Schoenberg Nono talks about Luigi Nono’s orchestra pieces A Carlo Scarpa, architetto, ai suoi infiniti possibili and No hay caminos, hay que caminar... Andrej Tarkowskij.

The music of Gérard Grisey (1946 – 1998) has been featured in performances at some of the world’s leading musical institutions. He is considered among the founders of spectral music and a forerunner of the antistructuralist avant-garde movement. Grisey sought to overcome the dualism represented by the spiritual and material spheres, and it is precisely this poetic dimension that the Milano Musica Festival, in conjunction with La Scala Theater, sets out to portray in the series entitled Gérard Grisey: Intonare la luce (In Tune with Light).

On October 30, 2016, American conductor Brad Lubman leads the world premiere of Enno Poppe’s orchestra work Torf and the new version of Philippe Manoury‘s Sound and Fury (published by our partners Durand-Salabert-Eschig) at the NOW Festival in Essen. Find out more in this interview.

Sarah Nemtsov, Shiori Usui and Steffen Wick are the winners of the composer competition RicordiLab. A total of 217 composers from 45 different countries applied.

Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas is speaking today for the first time about his upbringing in a National Socialist environment in an interview published in the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. 

Performances of the definitive version of Emanuele Casale’s audiovisual opera Conversazioni con Chomsky  are scheduled on October 20 at the Arena del Sole in Bologna. Yoichi Sugiyama conducts. Featuring the voice of Diana Torto and the Teatro Comunale Ensemble. Video produced and directed by Fabio Scacchioli.

In occasion of the 15th anniversary of M° Giuseppe Sinopoli’s death  (April 2001), La  Scala theatre has organized a chamber concert on October 6 with the  ‘Cameristi della Scala’ conducted by the cellist Enrico Dindo. Before the concert the musicologist  Enzo Restagno and the composer Paolo Arcà will present the great musician in the double role of conductor and composer.