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25.11.2019
Landscapes of tones and sounds: Beat Furrer is turning 65
Beat Furrer, the winner of the 2018 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, will be celebrating his 65th birthday on 6th December 2019. Born in Schaffhausen in Switzerland but with his home for a long time now in Vienna, the composer, conductor, university lecturer and founder of major institutions (the ensemble “Klangforum Wien” among others) is one of the most prominent and influential figures in today’s musical scene. “With Beat Furrer we enter into a landscape of tones and sounds in which any noise of the commonplace is not heard,” as the poet Uwe Kolbe put it in his citation in honour of Beat Furrer’s music. Devoid of the commonplace, Furrer’s musical landscapes create their own fascinating allure – his works are of existential power. »more«
16.10.2019
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini‘s Mahler spirits
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini has been commissioned by the Jena Philharmonic and its Music Director Simon Gaudenz to compose a short, independent orchestral work »more«
16.10.2019
Autumn concerts with works by Charlotte Seither
A whole series of new works by Charlotte Seither is planned for autumn. Following the first performance of “stilles haus (nachbeben)” for flute and inside piano at the Kunstfest Weimar, a new work receives its premiere on 11 October 2019 »more«
11.09.2019
Manfred Trojahn's 70th birthday
On 22 October composer Manfred Trojahn, born in 1949 in Cremlingen near Braunschweig, celebrates his 70th birthday. In Düsseldorf, the city where he has been Professor at the Hochschule for many years, performances of his Herbstmusik will be given on 13, 15 and 16 September 2019 with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. His highly successful music theatre work “Orest” will be revived at the Wiener Staatsoper on 14, 17 and 20 November. »more«
11.09.2019
New works by Beat Furrer
Beat Furrer devotes new compositions to two closely related, yet fundamentally different instruments: in “Il mia vita da vuolp” he interweaves a baritone saxophone with a high soprano. “My life as a fox”, after Rhaeto-Romanic texts by the poet Leda Semadeni, are five highly fascinating linguistic images about death. Marcus Weiss and Rinat Moriah present the first performance on 14 September 2019 at the Festival Rümlingen (Switzerland). »more«
11.09.2019
Miroslav Srnka's trumpet piece for Simon Höfele
“Rising Stars”, the portrait series of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) is now a firmly-established fixture in the international concert business: young ambitious performers, “stars”, are given the opportunity to present themselves in programmes they themselves have devised. The trumpeter Simon Höfele asked Miroslav Srnka to write a new work for him. »more«
11.09.2019
The rediscovery of the dialogue version of Gounod's "Faust"
The first concert performance of Charles Gounod’s “Faust” in its first version, composed in 1859 for the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris, with dialogues and previously-unknown vocal numbers and mélodramas, was one of the presents for Gounod’s 200th birthday. »more«
