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Mozart's complete string quintets in one day: the Gringolts Quartet and violist Lily Francis will play the works in historically informed performances in three concerts at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival on 11 April.

Johannes Maria Staud's new work Jagende Wolken, blendendes Blau! will be premiered on 8 April at the Osterfestival Tirol, interpreted by Ensemble Windkraft.

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.

Johannes Maria Staud's new work Jagende Wolken, blendendes Blau! will be premiered on 8 April at the Osterfestival Tirol, interpreted by Ensemble Windkraft.

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.

Eliahu Inbal conducts the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne on 6, 7 and 8 April with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (soloist is Elisabeth Leonskaja) and Shostakovich's last symphony.

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.

On 5 April, Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger will premiere at the Nationaltheater Weimar in a new production staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito under the musical direction of Roland Kluttig.

From 1 to 16 April, Valentin Uryupin will conduct Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades at the Teatro Regio Torino in a production stage directed by Sam Brown.

As focus artist of the Tongyeong International Music Festival 2025, Ilya Gringolts will perform solo and chamber music as well as Sibelius' Violin Concerto in its original version with the KBS Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov in late March and early April.

The new production of Aribert Reimann's ‘Trilogie lyrique’ L'invisible, staged by Daniela Löffner, will premiere 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.

Alejo Pérez will conduct a new production of Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina, directed by Calixto Bieito, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 25 March to 3 April.

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.

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.

NEW RECORDINGS

The Neue Meister label has released a new album by Josefine Opsahl, Cytropia, which focusses on the changing relationships between mankind, technology and nature.

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.

NEW RECORDINGS

In February, two very different albums with orchestra and big band were released, both recorded under the musical direction of Titus Engel: The orchestra and big band of the Deutsche Oper Berlin celebrate Duke Ellington, and the Basel Sinfonietta and the NDR Bigband present a new work by Michael Wertmüller.

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.

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.

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IN CONVERSATION

In an extensive interview for the World Federation of International Music Competitions, Hyung-ki Joo spoke about the humorous side of classical composers, about his collaborations with personalities such as Gidon Kremer, Asmik Grigorian and, early in his career, Yehudi Menuhin, and about his plans as the new Artistic Director of the Menuhin Competition.

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.

IN CONVERSATION

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

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NEW RECORDINGS

The album LAUTER! with the Ensemble Reflektor under the direction of its Principal Conductor Holly Hyun Choe, released at the end of November, presents works by Ethel Smyth, inti figgis-vizueta and Ying Wang.

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.

Johannes Maria Staud's new work Jagende Wolken, blendendes Blau! will be premiered on 8 April at the Osterfestival Tirol, interpreted by Ensemble Windkraft.

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.

EVENTS

THU 03.04.

Alejo Pérez: Grand Théâtre de Genève

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Holly Hyun Choe: Batiment des Forces Motrices (BFM), Geneva

Ilya Gringolts: Tongyeong Concert Hall

FRI 04.04.

Ilya Gringolts: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

SAT 05.04.

Anton Gerzenberg: Oriental Arts Center, Shanghai

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

Roland Kluttig: Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar

Johannes Klumpp: Philharmonie Essen

SUN 06.04.

Eliahu Inbal: Philharmonie, Cologne

Shiyeon Sung: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Ilya Gringolts: Historischer Reitstadel Neumarkt

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Southbank Centre London

Carlotta Dalia: Teatro Mercadante, Altamura

Christoph Prégardien: Gewandhaus Leipzig

MON 07.04.

Ilya Gringolts: Wiener Konzerthaus

Eliahu Inbal: Philharmonie, Cologne

TUE 08.04.

Johannes Maria Staud: Salzlager Hall

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Eliahu Inbal: Philharmonie, Cologne

THU 10.04.

JACK Quartet: Americas Society

Philippe Manoury: Wiener Konzerthaus

Steven Sloane: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, Bochum

Anton Gerzenberg: Paterskirche Kempen

Anton Gerzenberg: Cloud Gate Theater

Antje Weithaas: Teatro Politeama Pratese

FRI 11.04.

Gringolts Quartet: Aula der Alten Universität Heidelberg

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Roland Kluttig: Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar

György Ligeti: Musikverein, Vienna

Steven Sloane: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, Bochum

Gringolts Quartet: Aula der Alten Universität Heidelberg

François-Frédéric Guy: La Seine musicale

François-Frédéric Guy: Cloud Gate Theater

SAT 12.04.

François-Frédéric Guy: Cloud Gate Theater

Christoph Prégardien: The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Ilya Gringolts: Former Synagogee Fellheim

SUN 13.04.

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Alejo Pérez: Grand Théâtre de Genève

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Holly Hyun Choe: Batiment des Forces Motrices (BFM), Geneva

Ilya Gringolts: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Ilya Gringolts: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Anton Gerzenberg: Oriental Arts Center, Shanghai

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

Roland Kluttig: Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar

Johannes Klumpp: Philharmonie Essen

Eliahu Inbal: Philharmonie, Cologne

Shiyeon Sung: Tongyeong Concert Hall

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Ilya Gringolts: Historischer Reitstadel Neumarkt

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Southbank Centre London

Carlotta Dalia: Teatro Mercadante, Altamura

Christoph Prégardien: Gewandhaus Leipzig

Ilya Gringolts: Wiener Konzerthaus

Eliahu Inbal: Philharmonie, Cologne

Johannes Maria Staud: Salzlager Hall

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Eliahu Inbal: Philharmonie, Cologne

JACK Quartet: Americas Society

Philippe Manoury: Wiener Konzerthaus

Steven Sloane: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, Bochum

Anton Gerzenberg: Paterskirche Kempen

Anton Gerzenberg: Cloud Gate Theater

Antje Weithaas: Teatro Politeama Pratese

Gringolts Quartet: Aula der Alten Universität Heidelberg

Gringolts Quartet: Aula der Alten Universität Heidelberg

Valentin Uryupin: Teatro Regio di Torino

Roland Kluttig: Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar

György Ligeti: Musikverein, Vienna

Steven Sloane: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, Bochum

Gringolts Quartet: Aula der Alten Universität Heidelberg

François-Frédéric Guy: La Seine musicale

François-Frédéric Guy: Cloud Gate Theater

François-Frédéric Guy: Cloud Gate Theater

Christoph Prégardien: The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire

Friedrich Praetorius: Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig

Ilya Gringolts: Former Synagogee Fellheim

Ilya Gringolts: Cloud Gate Theater