Karsten Witt musik management

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

Role debut in Bonn: From 10 November to 31 January, Marie Heeschen can be seen in the title role of Handel's opera Alcina, which is being staged in a new production by Jens Daniel Herzog.

In November, Shiyeon Sung conducts the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in Antwerp and on a major tour of Germany, Austria and Slovenia. Mariam Batsashvili and Bomsori Kim will join the orchestra as soloists.

ON OUR BEHALF

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

Role debut in Bonn: From 10 November to 31 January, Marie Heeschen can be seen in the title role of Handel's opera Alcina, which is being staged in a new production by Jens Daniel Herzog.

NEW CDS

Premio Abbiati del Disco: The portrait CD with orchestral works by Milica Djordjević, released by BR-KLASSIK/musica viva and recorded by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Duncan Ward, Peter Rundel and Johannes Kalitzke, has received the prestigious Italian Critics' Award.

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.

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

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String quartets by Brahms, Haydn, Turnage and Schubert are on the programme of the seven concerts that the Castalian String Quartet will be performing on its tour of Canada and the USA between 3 and 17 November.

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NEW CDS

Antje Weithaas' recording of the Violin Concerto No. 2 by Pēteris Vasks, which she recorded together with the Camerata Bern, was released at the end of September.

Schubert's three great song cycles are the focus of the Asian tour on which Christoph Prégardien and his piano partner Michael Gees will be performing in Taiwan and Singapore from 2 to 12 November.

IN CONVERSATION

On the occasion of the world premiere of Samir Odeh-Tamimi's composition Roaïkron at the Biennale Musica in Venice in autumn 2024, Italian musicologist Gianluigi Mattietti spoke to the composer about his new piece and about his life stages in Israel, Greece and Germany, which are reflected in his music.

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.

From 3 November to 1 December, Jonathan Stockhammer will conduct Alfred Schnittke's opera Life with an Idiot at Zurich Opera House in a new production directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.

NEW CDS

Daishin Kashimoto's CD with Chausson's Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, recorded together with Éric Le Sage and the Schumann Quartet, was released by Sony Classical in October and was promptly voted Album of the Week by BR Klassik radio.

‘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.

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.

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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.

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

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

Role debut in Bonn: From 10 November to 31 January, Marie Heeschen can be seen in the title role of Handel's opera Alcina, which is being staged in a new production by Jens Daniel Herzog.

EVENTS

THU 07.11.

Roland Kluttig: Karlstad CCC

Bas Wiegers: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Milica Djordjević: Klangbrücke Aachen

FRI 08.11.

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Arboga

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Konzerthaus Berlin

Ilya Gringolts: Barbican Centre, London

Bas Wiegers: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Shiyeon Sung: Queen Elisabeth Hall Antwerp

Jonathan Stockhammer: Opernhaus Zürich

Brad Lubman & Johannes Maria Staud: Theater und Philharmonie Essen

SAT 09.11.

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Forsbacka

Milica Djordjević: Philharmonie Essen

Brad Lubman & Johannes Maria Staud: Philharmonie Cologne

SUN 10.11.

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Roland Kluttig: Karlstad CCC

Bas Wiegers: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Milica Djordjević: Klangbrücke Aachen

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Arboga

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Konzerthaus Berlin

Ilya Gringolts: Barbican Centre, London

Bas Wiegers: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Shiyeon Sung: Queen Elisabeth Hall Antwerp

Jonathan Stockhammer: Opernhaus Zürich

Brad Lubman & Johannes Maria Staud: Theater und Philharmonie Essen

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Forsbacka

Milica Djordjević: Philharmonie Essen

Brad Lubman & Johannes Maria Staud: Philharmonie Cologne

Johannes Klumpp: Konzerthaus Dortmund

Jonathan Stockhammer: Opernhaus Zürich

Castalian String Quartet: The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Ljusdal

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Tito Ceccherini: Casa da Música Porto

JACK Quartet: 92NY, New York

Shiyeon Sung: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Carlotta Dalia: Fundacion Casa Museo Andres Segovia

Milica Djordjević: Alte Feuerwache Köln

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Hudiksvall

Tito Ceccherini: Casa da Música Porto

Ying Wang: BKA – Berliner Kabarett Anstalt

Milica Djordjević: Tor 6 Bielefeld

Christoph Prégardien: Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall Singapur

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Kilafors

Shiyeon Sung & Mariam Batsashvili: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Johannes Klumpp: Theater Erfurt

Castalian String Quartet: Bourgie Hall, Montréal

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Västerås

Shiyeon Sung: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Jonathan Stockhammer: Opernhaus Zürich

Maximilian Hornung: Kilden Performing Arts Centre, Kristiansand

Roland Kluttig: Philharmonie Luxembourg

Castalian String Quartet: Longy School of Music, Cambridge

JACK Quartet: The Auditorium New York

Bas Wiegers: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Milica Djordjević: Szene 10 Essen

Michael Wendeberg: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam

Shiyeon Sung: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Armida Quartett on tour in Sweden: Skinnskatteberg