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Unter der Leitung von Kent Nagano bringt die Dresdner Philharmonie am 26. Oktober Alex Nantes neue Komposition nach Bachs Choral Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott zur Uraufführung.

Holly Hyun Choe is appointed Directrice musicale of the Orchestre national de Cannes.

New works by Samir Odeh-Tamimi will be performed on 25 October as part of the Voices Berlin Festival and on 4 November at the Philharmonie Berlin, both presented by the Zafraan Ensemble.

Unter der Leitung von Kent Nagano bringt die Dresdner Philharmonie am 26. Oktober Alex Nantes neue Komposition nach Bachs Choral Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott zur Uraufführung.

Holly Hyun Choe is appointed Directrice musicale of the Orchestre national de Cannes.

New works by Samir Odeh-Tamimi will be performed on 25 October as part of the Voices Berlin Festival and on 4 November at the Philharmonie Berlin, both presented by the Zafraan Ensemble.

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With the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Adam Fischer, Jeroen Berwaerts will perform Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35, in October at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Elbphilharmonie and the Philharmonie Berlin, as soloist alongside Igor Levit and (in Berlin) Alexander Lonquich.

In its third edition, the Voices Berlin Festival will again present contemporary performing arts and music at various locations in the city, offering a platform to artists who have left their countries of origin for various reasons and are reinventing themselves in changing cultural landscapes.

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On 19 October, Hyung-ki Joo will appear alongside acclaimed soprano Asmik Grigorian at La Scala in Milan, before they travel to Riga and Vienna in November and December with their sensational recital A Diva is Born.

Mark Andre dedicates his new orchestral work Im Entfalten to the memory of Pierre Boulez. It will receive its world premiere on 17 October at the opening concert of the Donaueschingen Music Days with the SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth.

NEW RECORDINGS

Anton Gerzenberg's debut CD, Ravel Reflections, will be launched in December on the Prospero label, and singles released on digital platforms are already generating excitement about the album.

This autumn, following a performance at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal, the JACK Quartet will be appearing at three concerts at the Festival d'Automne in Paris and two concerts at the Festival Musica Strasbourg, as well as in Essen, Graz, Katowice, Siena and Bern.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to Toshio Hosokawa on his 70th birthday! A series of performances in Japan, Germany and Czechia in October will celebrate the jubilarian and his extensive oeuvre.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

In mid-October, the club Porgy & Bess in Vienna and the Budapest Music Centre will each present two-day portrait events celebrating Lukas Ligeti's 60th birthday and showcasing his range as a composer and improviser.

From 17 to 19 October, Sivan Eldar's highly acclaimed chamber opera Like Flesh will be presented in a new production as a Swiss premiere as part of the interdisciplinary Interfinity festival in Basel.

On 11 October, Antje Weithaas received the coveted OPUS KLASSIK Instrumentalist of the Year award at a concert in St. Elisabeth's Church in Berlin, where she also performed live as a soloist.

ON OUR BEHALF

Now available as a podcast: For the series Menschen und ihre Musik (People and Their Music), Karsten Witt spoke with hr2 radio presenter Niels Kaiser in autumn 2025 about his unusual career as a music manager and about the music that has particularly moved and accompanied him along the way.

IN CONVERSATION

Alejo Pérez will bid farewell as Music Director of Opera Vlaanderen in the autumn with a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal and with Mahler's Lied von der Erde. In an interview, he reflects on an intensive and successful time with the orchestra.

NEW RECORDINGS

In May 2025, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo premiered Ming Tsao's second adaptation of Stockhausen's complex and open score Plus Minus, which has now been released on the Neos label.

Titus Engel is appointed Conductor in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

IN CONVERSATION

Vito Žuraj's first full-length opera Blühen (Blossoming), named Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 2023, was revived at Oper Frankfurt in October 2025 under the musical direction of Michael Wendeberg. In our interview, Vito Žuraj talks about his collaboration with librettist Händl Klaus, director Brigitte Fassbaender and the Ensemble Modern.

Toshio Howokawa's new opera Natasha premiered in August at the New National Theatre in Tokyo under the baton of Kazushi Ono and was enthusiastically received.

NEW RECORDINGS

As soloist and conductor, Antje Weithaas has now recorded another joint album with the Camerata Bern - the CD with Dvořák's Violin Concerto and his String Serenade has now been released by CAvi-music.

NEW RECORDINGS

Jeremias Schwarzer's album featuring four concertos for recorder by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Liza Lim, Dai Fujikura and Iris ter Schiphorst, recorded with four top-class orchestras, has been awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.

Gringolts Quartet © Tomasz Trzebiatowski

IN CONVERSATION

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.

We congratulate Titus Engel on winning the Swiss Music Prize 2025.

Johannes Klumpp and the Heidelberger Sinfoniker are awarded the OPUS KLASSIK for their complete recording of all Haydn symphonies, completed in autumn 2024. Our congratulations!

IN CONVERSATION

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.

Milica Djordjević becomes Professor of Composition at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.

Edition Peters, part of Wise Music Group, has announced the signing of composer, drummer, and visionary musical innovator Lukas Ligeti to its roster.

Toshio Hosokawa has received the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the "extraordinary reach of his music, which tends a bridge between the Japanese tradition and contemporary Western aesthetics", according to the jury.

NEW RECORDINGS

Mariam Batsashvili's new solo album Influences with works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt was launched by Warner Classics on 16 May.

CERHA 100

In 2026, the music world will celebrate Friedrich Cerha's 100th birthday. In view of this occasion, we would like to draw your attention to a selection of the most important works by the composer, who died in February 2023 - and to the website friedrich-cerha.com.

ON OUR BEHALF

Variations on a theme: On the occasion of kwmm's 20th anniversary, filmmaker Uli Aumüller listened in on us with his camera and created a portrait of the company from 18 conversations about our work.

Unter der Leitung von Kent Nagano bringt die Dresdner Philharmonie am 26. Oktober Alex Nantes neue Komposition nach Bachs Choral Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott zur Uraufführung.

Holly Hyun Choe is appointed Directrice musicale of the Orchestre national de Cannes.

New works by Samir Odeh-Tamimi will be performed on 25 October as part of the Voices Berlin Festival and on 4 November at the Philharmonie Berlin, both presented by the Zafraan Ensemble.

EVENTS

WED 15.10.

Toshio Hosokawa: Toppan Hall Tokyo

Lukas Ligeti: Budapest Music Center

THU 16.10.

Alejo Pérez conducts Parsifal

Olli Mustonen: Lappeenranta Hall

Holly Hyun Choe: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

FRI 17.10.

Mariam Batsashvili with Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Sivan Eldar: Voltahalle Basel

Eliahu Inbal: Bucheon Arts Center

Mark Andre: WP with the SWR Symphonieorchester at Donaueschinger Musiktage

SAT 18.10.

Sivan Eldar: Voltahalle Basel

Lukas Ligeti: Wolf-Ferrari-Haus Ottobrunn

SUN 19.10.

Alejo Pérez conducts Parsifal

Eliahu Inbal: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Sivan Eldar: Voltahalle Basel

Hyung-ki Joo: Liederabend at Teatro alla Scala with Asmik Grigorian

MON 20.10.

Gringolts Quartet: Philharmonie Luxembourg

Jeroen Berwaerts: Musikverein, Vienna

TUE 21.10.

Olli Mustonen: Moyzesova sieň, Bratislava

Valentin Uryupin: Novi Sad Synagogue

WED 22.10.

Alejo Pérez: Derniere of Parsifal

THU 23.10.

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Toshio Hosokawa: Toppan Hall Tokyo

Lukas Ligeti: Budapest Music Center

Alejo Pérez conducts Parsifal

Olli Mustonen: Lappeenranta Hall

Holly Hyun Choe: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

Mariam Batsashvili with Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Sivan Eldar: Voltahalle Basel

Eliahu Inbal: Bucheon Arts Center

Mark Andre: WP with the SWR Symphonieorchester at Donaueschinger Musiktage

Sivan Eldar: Voltahalle Basel

Lukas Ligeti: Wolf-Ferrari-Haus Ottobrunn

Alejo Pérez conducts Parsifal

Eliahu Inbal: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Sivan Eldar: Voltahalle Basel

Hyung-ki Joo: Liederabend at Teatro alla Scala with Asmik Grigorian

Gringolts Quartet: Philharmonie Luxembourg

Jeroen Berwaerts: Musikverein, Vienna

Olli Mustonen: Moyzesova sieň, Bratislava

Valentin Uryupin: Novi Sad Synagogue

Alejo Pérez: Derniere of Parsifal

Armida Quartett & Sabine Meyer: Adieu with Mozart - Farewell concert Sabine Meyer

Shiyeon Sung: Teatro de la Maestranza, Sevilla

Toshio Hosokawa: Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall

Brad Lubman: Odense Concert Hall

Philippe Manoury: Kyoto Prefectural Citizens’ Hall ALTI

Jeroen Berwaerts: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Shiyeon Sung: Teatro de la Maestranza, Sevilla

Daishin Kashimoto: Barockschloss Mannheim, Rittersaal

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Radialsystem, Berlin

Simon Bode: Brahmstage Baden-Baden

Holly Hyun Choe: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Michael Wendeberg: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Alex Nante: Premiere with Dresdner Philharmonie and Kent Nagano

Daishin Kashimoto: Barockschloss Mannheim, Rittersaal

Toshio Hosokawa: Liederhalle Stuttgart

Toshio Hosokawa: Liederhalle Stuttgart

Jeroen Berwaerts: Philharmonie Berlin

Holly Hyun Choe: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Armida Quartet: Stadtcasino, Basel

Roland Kluttig: Hochschule für Musik C. M. v. Weber Dresden

Brad Lubman: David Geffen Hall, New York

Mariam Batsashvili: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

György Ligeti: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam