Karsten Witt musik management

ON OUR BEHALF

Current vacancies: We are looking for a manager for our project department focussing on events, touring and the kwmm Academy as well as a freelancer for the administration and marketing of our kwmm Academy.

On 23 July, Bas Wiegers will be a guest at the Salzburg Festival with the Ensemble Modern and Dagmar Manzel for a concert performance of Michael Jarrell's monodrama Kassandra.

As a guest composer at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Josefine Opsahl will bring several of her works to Finland from 16 to 24 July, including a world premiere with the Trio Gaspard.

ON OUR BEHALF

As a guest composer at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Josefine Opsahl will bring several of her works to Finland from 16 to 24 July, including a world premiere with the Trio Gaspard.

From 18 July, Holly Hyun Choe will return to conduct the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in numerous concerts, before making her debut with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at the end of August.

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With the double bill Dido and Aeneas ... Erwartung, Valentin Uryupin makes his debut at the Bavarian State Opera on 13 July as part of the 150th anniversary of the Munich Opera Festival.

NEW WITH US

We are delighted to welcome composer Sivan Eldar to karsten witt musik management, and to announce a major world premiere: From 6 July, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will present her second opera The Nine Jewelled Deer.

On 12 July, Friedrich Praetorius conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in an open-air concert with captivating music from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

Instrumentalist of the Year: Antje Weithaas receives the OPUS KLASSIK 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!

Bernard Foccroulle's opera Cassandra, which premiered to great acclaim in Brussels in 2023, will be staged at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin from 19 June to 11 July.

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.

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

On 27 June, 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.

Toshio Hosokawa CD Cover Futari Shizuka Naxos

NEW RECORDINGS

Toshio Hosokawa's one-act opera Futari Shizuka with Ryoko Aoki in the title role and his acclaimed flute concerto Ceremony have now been released on CD, recorded by the Residentie Orkest under Jun Märkl for the Naxos label.

NEW RECORDINGS

‘Breakneck virtuosity’: Jeremias Schwarzer's album with four concertos for recorder by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Liza Lim, Dai Fujikura and Iris ter Schiphorst, recorded with four top-class orchestras, has now been released.

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

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.

NEW RECORDINGS

Out now: Carlotta Dalia's album Segovia, a tribute to the pioneer of classical guitar playing and recorded on his own historical guitar.

IN CONVERSATION

In April and May 2025, the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar presented Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger in a new production staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito under the musical direction of Roland Kluttig. We spoke to the conductor about his special relationship with Soviet music and the significance of Weinberg's opera for the memory of Nazi atrocities.

Holly Hyun Choe becomes Principal Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

Congratulations to Samir Odeh-Tamimi and the JACK Quartet: they each receive one of the coveted Italian Premio Abbiati critics' prizes.

For her chamber concerto SCHMUTZ, Ying Wang is honoured with the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart.

NEW RECORDINGS

Ying Wang's portrait album RE:Wilding, recorded by the SWR Symphonieorchester, Klangforum Wien, ensemble reflektor and Quatuor Diotima, among others, has now been released on the Kairos label.

NEW RECORDINGS

Congratulations to Peter Rundel: the recording of Hèctor Parra's opera Les Bienveillantes, premiered under his direction at Opera Vlaanderen in 2019 and released on three CDs in 2024, has been awarded the prestigious Grand Prix international du disque by the Académie Charles Cros.

IN CONVERSATION

Five questions for the JACK Quartet: For the Musikkollegium Winterthur magazine, the musicians gave humorous and revealing insights into their musical and literary passions.

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.

The 2025 Grawemeyer Music Composition Award goes to Christian Mason for his ensemble work Invisible Threads.

IN CONVERSATION

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.

Shiyeon Sung becomes Principal Guest Conductor of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.

NEW RECORDINGS

Milica Djordjević's portrait CD of orchestral works, released by BR-KLASSIK/musica viva, has received the prestigious Italian critics‘ prize Premio Abbiati del Disco and is included in the list of the best of the German Record Critics’ Award.

ON OUR BEHALF

On 23 July, Bas Wiegers will be a guest at the Salzburg Festival with the Ensemble Modern and Dagmar Manzel for a concert performance of Michael Jarrell's monodrama Kassandra.

As a guest composer at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Josefine Opsahl will bring several of her works to Finland from 16 to 24 July, including a world premiere with the Trio Gaspard.

EVENTS

WED 09.07.

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Alex Nante: Chateau de Fontainebleau

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Sivan Eldar: LUMA Arles Parc des ateliers Grande Halle

THU 10.07.

György Ligeti: National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

FRI 11.07.

Castalian String Quartet: St Mary’s Church, Lastingham

Isabel Mundry: Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, Munich

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Ilya Gringolts: Ritterburg Lockenhaus

Johannes Klumpp: Cine-Teatro Garrett, Póvoa de Varzim

SAT 12.07.

Lukas Ligeti: Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fee

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Olli Mustonen: Paliesius Manor

Friedrich Praetorius and Staatskapelle Weimar Open Air: A night in South America

Ilya Gringolts: Ritterburg Lockenhaus

Daishin Kashimoto: Rundāle Palace, Latvia

SUN 13.07.

Lukas Ligeti: Chatter Alburqueque

Sivan Eldar: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-provence

Meta4: Kuhmo Arts Centre

Valentin Uryupin & Bayerisches Staatsorchester: Dido and Aenaeas ... Erwartung

MON 14.07.

Sivan Eldar: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-provence

TUE 15.07.

Mark Andre: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz

WED 16.07.

Sivan Eldar: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-provence

Valentin Uryupin & Bayerisches Staatsorchester: Dido and Aenaeas ... Erwartung

György Ligeti: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Josefine Opsahl: Kuhmo Arts Centre

THU 17.07.

Carlotta Dalia: Parco Teresio Olivelli

FRI 18.07.

Josefine Opsahl: festival's guest composer at Kuhmo Chamber Music

Holly Hyun Choe: Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck

SAT 19.07.

Holly Hyun Choe: Thormannhalle, Rendsburg

Holly Hyun Choe: Messe Husum & Congress

SUN 20.07.

Ilya Gringolts: Église de Verbier station

Daishin Kashimoto: Incontri in Terra di Siena

Christoph Prégardien: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Estrela

Vito Žuraj: Théâtre de l'Archevêché

MON 21.07.

Josefine Opsahl: Kuhmo Arts Centre

Ilya Gringolts: Église de Verbier station

Vito Žuraj: Théâtre de la Criée, Marseille

TUE 22.07.

Daishin Kashimoto: Incontri in Terra di Siena

WED 23.07.

Bas Wiegers: Mozarteum, Salzburg

THU 24.07.

Josefine Opsahl: Kuhmo Church

Daishin Kashimoto: Incontri in Terra di Siena

FRI 25.07.

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Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Alex Nante: Chateau de Fontainebleau

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Sivan Eldar: LUMA Arles Parc des ateliers Grande Halle

György Ligeti: National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Castalian String Quartet: St Mary’s Church, Lastingham

Isabel Mundry: Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, Munich

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Ilya Gringolts: Ritterburg Lockenhaus

Johannes Klumpp: Cine-Teatro Garrett, Póvoa de Varzim

Lukas Ligeti: Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fee

Antje Weithaas: Chamber Music Festival "Fliessen"

Olli Mustonen: Paliesius Manor

Friedrich Praetorius and Staatskapelle Weimar Open Air: A night in South America

Ilya Gringolts: Ritterburg Lockenhaus

Daishin Kashimoto: Rundāle Palace, Latvia

Lukas Ligeti: Chatter Alburqueque

Sivan Eldar: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-provence

Meta4: Kuhmo Arts Centre

Valentin Uryupin & Bayerisches Staatsorchester: Dido and Aenaeas ... Erwartung

Sivan Eldar: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-provence

Mark Andre: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz

Sivan Eldar: Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-provence

Valentin Uryupin & Bayerisches Staatsorchester: Dido and Aenaeas ... Erwartung

György Ligeti: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Josefine Opsahl: Kuhmo Arts Centre

Carlotta Dalia: Parco Teresio Olivelli

Josefine Opsahl: festival's guest composer at Kuhmo Chamber Music

Holly Hyun Choe: Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck

Holly Hyun Choe: Thormannhalle, Rendsburg

Holly Hyun Choe: Messe Husum & Congress

Ilya Gringolts: Église de Verbier station

Daishin Kashimoto: Incontri in Terra di Siena

Christoph Prégardien: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Estrela

Vito Žuraj: Théâtre de l'Archevêché

Josefine Opsahl: Kuhmo Arts Centre

Ilya Gringolts: Église de Verbier station

Vito Žuraj: Théâtre de la Criée, Marseille

Daishin Kashimoto: Incontri in Terra di Siena

Bas Wiegers: Mozarteum, Salzburg

Josefine Opsahl: Kuhmo Church

Daishin Kashimoto: Incontri in Terra di Siena

Jenny Daviet at Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije