Karsten Witt musik management

Current vacancies: We are looking for a new employee to join us as manager for our project department.

Sarah Wegener performs for the first time with the Gringolts Quartet in Basel (29 October) and Blaibach (3 November).

For a performance of Arnold Schönberg's Pelleas and Melisande staged by Pierre Audi, Nô performer Ryoko Aoki returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest, which is celebrating the composer's 150th birthday with a musical triptych at the end of October.

ON OUR BEHALF

Current vacancies: We are looking for a new employee to join us as manager for our project department.

Sarah Wegener performs for the first time with the Gringolts Quartet in Basel (29 October) and Blaibach (3 November).

Alejo Pérez CR Radio France Christophe Abramowitz

Alejo Pérez returns to the Tokyo Nikikai Opera with the new production of Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, directed by Peter Konwitschny, which will premiere on 24 October as part of the Tokyo Opera Days.

VOICES 2023: Performing Arts Festival Video Recap

CLSX.DE PRESENTS

For its second edition, the VOICES Performing Arts Festival in Berlin from 2 to 29 November 2024 will feature a diverse range of new music, dance and theatre productions that explore the complexity of cultural and political upheaval.

NEW CDS

Congratulations to Antje Weithaas: The complete recording of the ten Beethoven violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon is honoured with the German Record Critics' Award 2024.

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As part of the final concert of the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Neue Vocalsolisten and the SWR Symphonieorchester under Vimbayi Kaziboni will premiere Chaya Czernowin's work Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings on 20 October.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard will perform Mark Andre's new work ...selig ist... for piano and electronics twice on 19 October in Donaueschingen.

On 18 October, the quartet Yarn/Wire will premiere Simon Steen-Andersen's grosso together with the SWR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Susanne Blumenthal in Donaueschingen.

‘Crazy masterpiece": Following the great success of the world premiere at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, Tito Ceccherini conducts Lucia Ronchetti's opera Der Doppelgänger ("The Double") at the Lucerne Festival and in further performances until January.

NEW CDS

For a recording now released on the Signum Classics label, the Castalian String Quartet has recorded the string quartet by the British composer Brian Elias.

Trailer: SANCTA | Staatsoper Stuttgart

From 5 October, Caroline Melzer can be seen at the Stuttgart State Opera in the title role of Paul Hindemith's short opera Sancta Susanna, which is presented there as a performance directed by Florentina Holzinger under the title Sancta.

KWMM ACADEMY

Congratulations to Louisa Staples! We are delighted to welcome the semi-finalist of the 12th Joseph Joachim Violin Competition and winner of the Chamber Music Prize to our kwmm Academy as first recipient of our newly created scholarship.

NEW CDS

A new CD with chamber music by Johannes Maria Staud, performed by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche and the Boulanger Trio, among others, was released in the NEOS label on 27 September.

NEW CDS

Toshio Hosokawa's complete works for guitar have now been released as a CD on the BIS records label, recorded by Jacob Kellermann with soprano Ilse Eerens and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Christian Karlsen.

Olli Mustonen Frank Schinski Ostkreuz exclusive for Neumarkter Konzertfreunde

IN CONVERSATION

Olli Mustonen talks about an early musical key experience, composers who have influenced him and the interplay between analytical thinking and intuition.

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.

NEW CDS

A new recording of Brahms' Symphony No. 1 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its Conductor Laureate Eliahu Inbal was released at the end of July.

At the age of 75, conductor Marc Soustrot has now announced his retirement from the stage. He has just released his last CD with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra featuring orchestral works by Maurice Ravel.

As a Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Holly Hyun Choe will work with the orchestra, its chief conductor Gustavo Dudamel and prominent guest artists in the 2024/25 season.

NEW CDS

Passionate, intense, balanced, multi-faceted, intimate: the Brahms CD by the Gringolts Quartet, released in June, was chosen by BBC Music Magazine as Recording of the Month.

Anton Gerzenberg is the first awardee of the new Martha Argerich Steinway Prize.

NEW CDS

In June, the fourth CD with orchestral works by Toshio Hosokawa was released on the Naxos label, including his trumpet concerto Im Nebel, which Jeroen Berwaerts recorded together with the Residentie Orkest under Jun Märkl.

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 new website friedrich-cerha.com.

For his new opera Don Juan's Inferno, which premiered at the Royal Danish Opera in April, Simon Steen-Andersen has been awarded both the Danish National Theatre Prize and the composition prize Carl Prisen.

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IN CONVERSATION

In June 2024, Mariam Batsashvili was once again a guest at the Klavier Festival Ruhr. In a very personal interview with festival director Katrin Zagrosek in the run-up to the festival, she spoke about what composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt mean to her.

Ming Tsao becomes Birge-Cary Professor of Music at the University at Buffalo, taking over the professorship once created for Morton Feldman.

IN CONVERSATION

Role debut as Sieglinde: Sarah Wegener performed Wagner's Walküre under the baton of Kent Nagano in six major European concert halls in 2024. In the run-up, she talked about her path to the new role and other vocal milestones of recent years.

karsten witt musik management is launching a new and practice-oriented range of courses: In our kwmm Academy we provide musicians with the tools for successful self-management. Registration is now open for three course programmes tailored to different needs.

ON OUR BEHALF

We have moved! You can now find us in our new office rooms in Berlin-Schöneberg.

IN CONVERSATION

"Don't touch" was what Carlotta Dalia heard as a child when it came to guitars. Luckily, she revolted against this order and now delights audiences with her playing on historical and modern guitars, even outside of sworn guitar circles.

ON OUR BEHALF

Current vacancies: We are looking for a new employee to join us as manager for our project department.

Sarah Wegener performs for the first time with the Gringolts Quartet in Basel (29 October) and Blaibach (3 November).

EVENTS

THU 17.10.

Ilya Gringolts: NorrlandsOperan, Umeå

Lin Liao & Jacob Mühlrad: Malmö Live Concert Hall

Sarah Wegener: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Shiyeon Sung: Town Hall Auditorium Auckland

Chaya Czernowin: Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris

FRI 18.10.

Toshio Hosokawa: Kursaal Engelberg

Olli Mustonen: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker Summit

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Stadthalle Reutlingen

Simon Steen-Andersen: World Premiere at the Donaueschinger Musiktagen

Ilya Gringolts: Teatro Verdi, Pisa

Antje Weithaas: Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi at Museo del Violino, Cremona

SAT 19.10.

Mark Andre: WP at the Donaueschinger Musiktage

Olli Mustonen: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker Summit

Olli Mustonen: Deutsche Oper Berlin

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Spitalhofsaal

Peter Rundel: Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Hall

Valentin Uryupin: Wiener Konzerthaus

Maximilian Hornung: codeks arena, Wuppertal

Olli Mustonen: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker Summit

György Ligeti: High Storrs School, Scheffield

Castalian String Quartet: Oxford International Song Festival

SUN 20.10.

Holly Hyun Choe: Salle Des Arlucs, Cannes

Olli Mustonen: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker Summit

Sarah Wegener: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Maximilian Hornung: Friedhofskirche, Wuppertal

Daishin Kashimoto: Novi Sad Synagogue

MON 21.10.

Fabián Panisello: Auditorio - Palacio de Congresos, Zaragoza

Fabián Panisello: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Daishin Kashimoto: Novi Sad Synagogue

TUE 22.10.

Ming Tsao: Slee Hall, Buffalo

Ilya Gringolts: Hochschule für Musik, Detmold

WED 23.10.

Maximilian Hornung: Opening concert Schaumburger Schlosskonzerte

Mark Andre: Eduard Söring Saal - Ahrensburg

THU 24.10.

Alejo Pérez: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

Ilya Gringolts: Espoo Culture Centre

Shiyeon Sung: Town Hall Auditorium Auckland

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

FRI 25.10.

Alejo Pérez: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

Ryoko Aoki: Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam

SAT 26.10.

Alejo Pérez: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

Caroline Melzer: Stuttgart Opera

Toshio Hosokawa: Campus-Essen-Werde

SUN 27.10.