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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.

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

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 will receive the coveted OPUS KLASSIK Instrumentalist of the Year award at a concert in St. Elisabeth's Church in Berlin, where she will also perform live as a soloist.

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 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.

Bas Wiegers, together with Klangforum Wien and 50 pianists, will bring the North American premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' monumental concert installation 11,000 Strings to New York from 30 September to 7 October.

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.

IN CONVERSATION

Vito Žuraj's first full-length opera Blühen (Blossoming), named Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 2023, will be revived at Oper Frankfurt from 1 to 9 October 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

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.

From 20 September to 4 October, Antje Weithaas will be performing solo and, above all, in duo recitals on an extensive tour of Chinese concert halls, presenting her acclaimed Beethoven cycle with Dénes Várjon.

On 20 September, Simon Steen-Andersen's new music theatre piece Wie du warst! Wie du bist! was premiered in Zurich, where it is shown five times in autumn and then again in July as a production of the Zurich Opera House at the Bernhard Theatre.

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.

On 14 September, Christoph Prégardien performed Johannes Maria Staud’s newly orchestrated ensemble version of Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin with Klangforum Wien in Innsbruck. Entitled These Fevered Days, it is interwoven with seven new songs based on poems by Emily Dickinson. The work will also be performed in Porto and Vienna in the near future.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

EVENTS

THU 02.10.

Antje Weithaas: China National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

Shiyeon Sung: Town Hall Auditorium Auckland

Bas Wiegers: Armory Hall, NY

Jeroen Berwaerts: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Simon Steen-Andersen: Opernhaus Zürich

François-Frédéric Guy: SMAC Marseille

FRI 03.10.

Bas Wiegers: Armory Hall, NY

Antje Weithaas: China National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Lukas Ligeti: Sangamon Auditorium, University of Illinois

Eliahu Inbal: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Simon Steen-Andersen: Opernhaus Zürich

Simon Steen-Andersen: DigitIzmir

SAT 04.10.

Bas Wiegers: Armory Hall, NY

Toshio Hosokawa: Tokyo Cathedrale

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Antje Weithaas: China National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

François-Frédéric Guy: Église Saint-Laurent, Beaulieu-lès-Loches

SUN 05.10.

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Christoph Prégardien: La Monnaie / de Munt

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

Alejo Pérez: Farewell in Flanders with Beethoven und Mahler

François-Frédéric Guy: Festival de l'Orangerie des Sceaux

TUE 07.10.

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

Gringolts Quartet: Residenz Munich

Alejo Pérez: Farewell in Flanders with Beethoven and Mahler

WED 08.10.

Isabel Mundry: WP at the Hindemith International Viola Competition

Simon Steen-Andersen: Academy of Arts, Berlin

THU 09.10.

Isabel Mundry: WP at the Hindemith International Viola Competition

Meta4: Oulu Music Centre

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

François-Frédéric Guy: Chapelle de la Miséricorde, St Tropez

JACK Quartet: Miller Theatre Columbia University

Toshio Hosokawa: Tokyo Cathedrale

Roland Kluttig: Musikkens Hus, Aalborg

Simon Steen-Andersen: Academy of Arts, Berlin

Gringolts Quartet: Schloss Freudenstein

FRI 10.10.

Isabel Mundry: WP at the Hindemith International Viola Competition

Eliahu Inbal: Fukuoka Civic Hall

Antje Weithaas: Franz Liszt Academy Budapest

Milica Djordjević: NDR Kleiner Sendesaal

SAT 11.10.

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Antje Weithaas: China National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

Shiyeon Sung: Town Hall Auditorium Auckland

Bas Wiegers: Armory Hall, NY

Jeroen Berwaerts: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Simon Steen-Andersen: Opernhaus Zürich

François-Frédéric Guy: SMAC Marseille

Bas Wiegers: Armory Hall, NY

Antje Weithaas: China National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Lukas Ligeti: Sangamon Auditorium, University of Illinois

Eliahu Inbal: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Simon Steen-Andersen: Opernhaus Zürich

Simon Steen-Andersen: DigitIzmir

Bas Wiegers: Armory Hall, NY

Toshio Hosokawa: Tokyo Cathedrale

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Antje Weithaas: China National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

François-Frédéric Guy: Église Saint-Laurent, Beaulieu-lès-Loches

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Christoph Prégardien: La Monnaie / de Munt

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

Alejo Pérez: Farewell in Flanders with Beethoven und Mahler

François-Frédéric Guy: Festival de l'Orangerie des Sceaux

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

Gringolts Quartet: Residenz Munich

Alejo Pérez: Farewell in Flanders with Beethoven and Mahler

Isabel Mundry: WP at the Hindemith International Viola Competition

Simon Steen-Andersen: Academy of Arts, Berlin

Isabel Mundry: WP at the Hindemith International Viola Competition

Meta4: Oulu Music Centre

Michael Wendeberg conducts Vito Žuraj's opera "Blühen"

François-Frédéric Guy: Chapelle de la Miséricorde, St Tropez

JACK Quartet: Miller Theatre Columbia University

Toshio Hosokawa: Tokyo Cathedrale

Roland Kluttig: Musikkens Hus, Aalborg

Simon Steen-Andersen: Academy of Arts, Berlin

Gringolts Quartet: Schloss Freudenstein

Isabel Mundry: WP at the Hindemith International Viola Competition

Eliahu Inbal: Fukuoka Civic Hall

Antje Weithaas: Franz Liszt Academy Budapest

Milica Djordjević: NDR Kleiner Sendesaal

Eliahu Inbal: Kumamoto Prefectural Theater

Alejo Pérez: Opening night of Parsifal in Antwerp