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From 18 to 28 June, Titus Engel will conduct Frank Zappa’s opera 200 Motels in Geneva; its Swiss premiere will mark the conclusion of Aviel Cahn’s final season as General Director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

At the closing concert of the Generace International Composition Competition in Ostrava on 16 June, the expert jury, chaired by Ondřej Adámek, will select the best composition from this year’s entries.

Artists-in-Residence: The Armida Quartet will be performing at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival from 13 June to 6 September, giving 19 concerts featuring a wide variety of programmes and musical partners.

On 11 June, Holly Hyun Choe will take to the podium with the Copenhagen Philharmonic as part of the Tivoli Festival, conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 and Nielsen’s Masquerade Overture, as well as Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp (soloists: Emmanuel Pahud and Anneleen Lenaerts), before making her debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in early July.

Simone Menezes has captivated audiences worldwide with her project Amazônia, which combines Sebastião Salgado’s moving photographs with music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass, and she will now be performing the programme with the Dresden Philharmonic (6 June) and the Gulbenkian Orchestra (11 and 12 June).

Johannes Maria Staud’s opera missing in cantu (eure paläste sind leer), based on a libretto by Thomas Köck, had its Austrian premiere on 23 May at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck in a new production by Bettina Bruinier, and will run until 7 July.

With Alban Berg’s Lulu in a new production directed by Jens-Daniel Herzog, Roland Kluttig made his debut at the Staatstheater Nürnberg on 17 May, and he will continue to conduct further performances until the end of June.

"An outstanding debut album": Jan Liebermann's recording, featuring works by Marcel Dupré and Maurice Duruflé, among others, was selected as an Editor's Choice by Gramophone magazine.

Friedrich Praetorius is appointed principal guest conductor at Leipzig Opera.

"A recording for the ages": Daishin Kashimoto’s interpretation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Berlin Baroque Soloists has received rave reviews.

Until 21 June, Peter Rundel will be conducting eight performances of Sara Glojnarić’s new opera Station Paradiso at the Stuttgart Opera House, including the world premiere on 10 May.

From 9 May to 5 July, Johannes Klumpp will be conducting Mozart’s The Magic Flute in Gelsenkirchen, which will be presented in a completely new guise at the Musiktheater im Revier – directed by Nora Krahl using digital techniques, artificial intelligence and interactive technologies.

"Verve, energy, and charm": To kick off of their complete recording of Mozart’s string quintets, supplemented by contemporary musical ‘postcards’ to the composer, the Kuss Quartet has now released the first of three planned albums, in collaboration with violist Muriel Razavi.

We are delighted to announce that we are now working with the pianist Marianna Shirinyan, who captivates audiences as both a soloist and a chamber musician with her charismatic stage presence, as well as her delicate sensitivity, technical mastery and beautiful tone.

A warm welcome to Sasha Stychkina! We are pleased to announce that we are now taking over the management of this young musician, whose virtuosity at the piano has brought her early success in competitions and who now captivates audiences with her confident musicality and technical brilliance.

Welcome, Jan Liebermann! We are thrilled to begin our collaboration with one of the most promising artists on the international organ scene.

For the German magazine Fono Forum, Arnt Cobbers spoke to Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher about cosmic music, their collaboration with composers such as Stockhausen and Kurtág, and interpretative freedom in both older and contemporary music.

In 2026, the music world will celebrate the 100th birthday of Friedrich Cerha and honour the composer, who died in 2023, with publications, concerts and even a world premiere; a special stamp will also be issued to mark the occasion.

To mark the release of his new album Notebook, Lukas Ligeti spoke in April 2026 in an in-depth interview with Samuel Andreyev about formative musical experiences and his artistic development.

Simone Menezes and her Ensemble K have recorded a chamber version of Gustav Holst's Planets Suite, which has now been released on CD under the title Cosmos.

Anton Gerzenberg's debut CD, Ravel Reflections, was launched on 5 December 2025 on the Prospero label.

On the occasion of the new recording of Stockhausen's epochal piano work Mantra, Götz Schumacher talks in an interview about the intensive relationship that has connected the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo with the work since its beginnings.

Following the performance of all six Mozart string quintets at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Ilya Gringolts explained to us what attracts him to historical instruments and why the Gringolts Quartet will continue to play on gut strings more frequently in the future.

In an interview between her spring engagements in Lyon and Montreal, Jenny Daviet surprises us with her unexpected approach to roles and works and reveals her dreams for the future.