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From 15 to 23 November, Ryoko Aoki will be performing in Mizato Mochizuki's opera OTEMBA - Daring Women, composed especially for her, on tour in Utrecht, Breda, Rotterdam and The Hague.

Vito Žuraj's composition Iomena will be premiered at the Taschenopernfestival in Salzburg in a production conducted by Peter Rundel with the SWR Vocal Ensemble and presented on four dates from 12 to 16 November.

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NEW RECORDINGS

Ilya Gringolts' recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Francesco Corti has now been released by Arcana as his label debut and was promptly awarded the Diapason d'or.

From 15 to 23 November, Ryoko Aoki will be performing in Mizato Mochizuki's opera OTEMBA - Daring Women, composed especially for her, on tour in Utrecht, Breda, Rotterdam and The Hague.

NEW RECORDINGS

Ilya Gringolts' recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Francesco Corti has now been released by Arcana as his label debut and was promptly awarded the Diapason d'or.

On 8 and 9 November, as part of the Voices Berlin Festival at the Berlin Academy of Arts, Simon Steen-Andersen's performance Run Time Anomaly, developed in collaboration with Wibke Storkan and László Sandig, will be presented, in which the youth dance company of Sasha Waltz & Guests interacts with the iconic building on Hanseatenweg through dance.

In its third edition, the Voices Berlin Festival will again present contemporary performing arts and music at various locations in the city from 24 October to 16 November, offering a platform to artists who have left their countries of origin for various reasons and are reinventing themselves in changing cultural landscapes.

As composer in focus at the Musikverein Wien, Chaya Czernowin will present her multifaceted music in five concerts in November and again in March, performed by the RSO Wien under Maxime Pascal, the Arditti Quartet and the Black Page Orchestra, among others.

Alejo Pérez is appointed principal conductor of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he will give his inaugural concert in May 2026.

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 as well as on 8 November at the Theater im Delphi, all presented by the Zafraan Ensemble.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

In June 2025, Philippe Manoury's 'Thinkspiel' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, based on Karl Kraus' monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind, premiered at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Peter Rundel and received enthusiastic reviews.

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.

From 15 to 23 November, Ryoko Aoki will be performing in Mizato Mochizuki's opera OTEMBA - Daring Women, composed especially for her, on tour in Utrecht, Breda, Rotterdam and The Hague.

NEW RECORDINGS

Ilya Gringolts' recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Francesco Corti has now been released by Arcana as his label debut and was promptly awarded the Diapason d'or.

EVENTS

WED 05.11.

Olli Mustonen: Paviljonki, Jyväskylä

Isabel Mundry: Temple de Fribourg

Isabel Mundry: Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki

Gringolts Quartet: Casino-Gesellschaft, Herisau

JACK Quartet: Portrait at Festival d'Automne - "Beautiful Trouble" with Natacha Diels

THU 06.11.

Antje Weithaas: Örebro Konserthus

Holly Hyun Choe: Orchestre de chambre fribourgeois

FRI 07.11.

Hyung-ki Joo: Latvian National Theatre

Bas Wiegers: Philharmonie Essen

Ilya Gringolts: Philharmonie, Cologne

JACK Quartet at open music Graz with H. Lachenmann's three string quartets

SAT 08.11.

Ilya Gringolts: Philharmonie Essen

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Delphi, Berlin

Simon Steen-Andersen: Academy of Arts, Berlin

SUN 09.11.

Michael Wendeberg: Casa da Música Porto

Holly Hyun Choe: Congress Centrum Pforzheim

Simon Steen-Andersen: Academy of Arts, Berlin

Simon Steen-Andersen: CC Sint-Niklaas

MON 10.11.

Anssi Karttunen: Memorial commissions for Kaija Saariaho

Ilya Gringolts: Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

TUE 11.11.

Michael Wendeberg: Casa da Música Porto

WED 12.11.

Peter Rundel & Vito Žuraj: Taschenoperfestival with SWR Vokalensemble

: De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Friedrichshafen

György Ligeti: Staatstheater Meiningen

THU 13.11.

Peter Rundel & Vito Žuraj: Taschenoperfestival with SWR Vokalensemble

Toshio Hosokawa at the festival MusicOlomouc

Castalian String Quartet: St. Mary's Bathwick

Johannes Maria Staud: Philharmonie Berlin

FRI 14.11.

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Anton Gerzenberg: Wiener Konzerthaus

Holly Hyun Choe: Kulturforum Lüneburg

SAT 15.11.

Peter Rundel & Vito Žuraj: Taschenoperfestival with SWR Vokalensemble

: De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam

Eliahu Inbal: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Ryoko Aoki: TivoliVredenburg Utrecht

SUN 16.11.

Meta4: Wigmore Hall, London

Steven Sloane: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

The Fluteman: Orchestra Show in Innsbruck

Peter Rundel & Vito Žuraj: Taschenoperfestival with SWR Vokalensemble

Holly Hyun Choe: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Mariam Batsashvili: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda's College, Oxford

MON 17.11.