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Congratulations to Holly Hyun Choe: the young conductor is honoured with the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award 2025.

Titus Engel and the Basel Sinfonietta will travel to the Hamburg International Music Festival at the Elbphilharmonie for a concert on 10 May, featuring works by Dieter Ammann and John Luther Adams.

Bas Wiegers conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart and at the ACHT BRÜCKEN festival in Cologne on 8, 9 and 11 May with works by Lutosławski, Saariaho and Debussy. Violinist Carolin Widmann will perform with the orchestra as a soloist.

Congratulations to Holly Hyun Choe: the young conductor is honoured with the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award 2025.

Titus Engel and the Basel Sinfonietta will travel to the Hamburg International Music Festival at the Elbphilharmonie for a concert on 10 May, featuring works by Dieter Ammann and John Luther Adams.

With performances of Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Steven Sloane will commemorate the end of the war 80 years ago on 8 and 9 May. Three choirs from Germany, France and Poland will join the orchestra.

IN CONVERSATION

The Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar is presenting Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger in a new production staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, which celebrated its highly successful premiere on 5 April 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.

On 5 May, the Collegium Novum Zürich and the Orchestra La Scintilla, conducted by Jakob Lehmann, will premiere Milica Djordjević's new work Ušća for baroque orchestra and contemporary ensemble.

Toshio Hosokawa's opera Matsukaze can be seen in Munich as part of the Ja, Mai festival. The new production, staged by Lotte van den Berg and Tobias Staab with a stage design by artist Alicja Kwade, will be performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper from 3 to 11 May.

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Plus or Minus: The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo will premiere Ming Tsao's second realisation of Stockhausen's equally complex and open score Plus Minus at the Witten festival on 3 May.

Holly Hyun Choe conducts the Orchestre de Paris on 30 April with Shostakovich's 9th Symphony as well as works by Bernstein and Strauss.

NEW RECORDINGS

Before Mariam Batsashvili's new solo album Influences with works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt will be launched by Warner Classics on 16 May, single releases are already whetting the appetite for the album.

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Conceived during the inhumane separations of refugee families under the first Trump administration and composed under the impression of the terrible events in Israel and Palestine in 2023/24, Chaya Czernowin's NO! is a work of lament and protest. It will be premiered on 29 April with the LA Phil New Music Group.

In April and May, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre presents the acclaimed production Sounding Light as part of Taiwan Week in Taipei and in Tainan. The piece will also be shown in Europe from spring 2026.

The acclaimed Beethoven interpretations by Antje Weithaas and her piano partner Dénes Várjon can be heard on a tour of Italy at the end of April and in Budapest at the beginning of May.

From 24 to 29 April, Bas Wiegers will be on tour with the Asko Schönberg Ensemble in the Netherlands and Belgium, conducting Pierre Boulez's groundbreaking work Répons to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.

From 21 April to 2 May, the string quartet Meta4 will be touring the USA with five concerts in Texas, California, Oregon and New York.

NEW RECORDINGS

Carlotta Dalia's album Segovia, a tribute to the pioneer of classical guitar playing and recorded on his own historical guitar, has just been released.

The new production of Aribert Reimann's ‘Trilogie lyrique’ L'invisible, staged by Daniela Löffner, premiered at Oper Frankfurt on 30 March and can be seen in six further performances under the musical direction of Titus Engel until 2 May.

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.

Toshio Hosokawa receives 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.

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

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.

Role debut in Bremen: From 9 February and until May, Ulrike Mayer can be seen in the female title role in Hector Berlioz' Béatrice et Bénédict.

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.

IN CONVERSATION

There are good reasons to celebrate in Porto: the Remix Ensemble is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025. The ensemble's artistic director Peter Rundel looks back at its beginnings.

Congratulations to Holly Hyun Choe: the young conductor is honoured with the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award 2025.

Titus Engel and the Basel Sinfonietta will travel to the Hamburg International Music Festival at the Elbphilharmonie for a concert on 10 May, featuring works by Dieter Ammann and John Luther Adams.

EVENTS

SAT 26.04.

Michael Wendeberg: Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Valentin Uryupin: Theatersaal Augustinum Mölln

Johannes Klumpp: Stadthalle Sigmaringen

Titus Engel conducts Aribert Reimann's "L'invisible"

Shiyeon Sung: Jacksonvílle Center for the Performing Arts

Bas Wiegers: Floraliënhal Gent

SUN 27.04.

Johannes Klumpp: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Valentin Uryupin: Thormannhalle, Rendsburg

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Antje Weithaas: Casals Forum, Kronberg

Marie Heeschen: Congress Center Ramstein-Miesenbach

Eliahu Inbal: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Bas Wiegers: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam

MON 28.04.

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Meta4: Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Salle del Castillo, Vevey

Antje Weithaas: Teatro comunale Città di Vicenza

TUE 29.04.

Christian Mason: 1901 Arts Club

Meta4: Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland

Bas Wiegers: deSingel Antwerp

Antje Weithaas: Sala Filarmonica Rovereto

WED 30.04.

Antje Weithaas: Kursaal (Kurhaus) Merano

Holly Hyun Choe: Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris

THU 01.05.

Lin Liao: Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Castalian String Quartet: Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge

FRI 02.05.

Titus Engel conducts Aribert Reimann's "L'invisible"

Meta4: 92nd Street Y, New York

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Armida Quartet: Markus Sittikus Saal, Hohenems

SAT 03.05.

Armida Quartet: Tainan Cultural Center

Ming Tsao & GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Rudolf Steiner Schule Witten

Michael Wendeberg: Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Armida Quartet: Kolleg der Schulbrüder, Illertissen

Castalian String Quartet: The Glasshouse, Gateshead

JACK Quartet: The Drawing Center

Toshio Hosokawa: Utopia (former Reithalle) München

Antje Weithaas: Carmelite Monastery, Budapest

György Ligeti: Konzerthaus Berlin

Ondřej Adámek & Ondřej Adámek: Saalbau Witten

SUN 04.05.

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Michael Wendeberg: Arvo Pärt Centre, Laulasmaa

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Valentin Uryupin: Theatersaal Augustinum Mölln

Johannes Klumpp: Stadthalle Sigmaringen

Titus Engel conducts Aribert Reimann's "L'invisible"

Shiyeon Sung: Jacksonvílle Center for the Performing Arts

Bas Wiegers: Floraliënhal Gent

Johannes Klumpp: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Valentin Uryupin: Thormannhalle, Rendsburg

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Antje Weithaas: Casals Forum, Kronberg

Marie Heeschen: Congress Center Ramstein-Miesenbach

Eliahu Inbal: National Theatre and Concert Hall Taipei

Bas Wiegers: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Meta4: Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Salle del Castillo, Vevey

Antje Weithaas: Teatro comunale Città di Vicenza

Christian Mason: 1901 Arts Club

Meta4: Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland

Bas Wiegers: deSingel Antwerp

Antje Weithaas: Sala Filarmonica Rovereto

Antje Weithaas: Kursaal (Kurhaus) Merano

Holly Hyun Choe: Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris

Lin Liao: Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Castalian String Quartet: Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge

Titus Engel conducts Aribert Reimann's "L'invisible"

Meta4: 92nd Street Y, New York

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Armida Quartet: Markus Sittikus Saal, Hohenems

Armida Quartet: Tainan Cultural Center

Ming Tsao & GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Rudolf Steiner Schule Witten

Michael Wendeberg: Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Armida Quartet: Kolleg der Schulbrüder, Illertissen

Castalian String Quartet: The Glasshouse, Gateshead

JACK Quartet: The Drawing Center

Toshio Hosokawa: Utopia (former Reithalle) München

Antje Weithaas: Carmelite Monastery, Budapest

György Ligeti: Konzerthaus Berlin

Ondřej Adámek & Ondřej Adámek: Saalbau Witten

Ondřej Adámek: Tainan Cultural Center

Antje Weithaas: Carmelite Monastery, Budapest

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

György Ligeti: Konzerthaus Berlin

Isabel Mundry: Ickinger Frühling