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 | Tabea Zimmermann to receive the Ernst von Siemens Music PrizeThe 2020 international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize goes to Tabea Zimmermann! “This prize (…) honours her incorruptible musicianship, her authentic and personal approach as well as her artistic integrity, in addition to her uncompromising standards of quality, the new life she has breathed into the viola as an instrument, her dedication to contemporary music and, last but not least, her incredible contribution to education”, wrote the foundation about the award winner.... |
 | And the stars were shiningOn 20th December, Steven Sloane conducted the premiere of the new production of Puccini's Tosca, at Malmö Opera under the direction of Sofia Jupither. The opera, which was premiered 120 years ago at Teatro Costanzi in Rome, will be performed in Malmö through mid-February; the last performance with Steven Sloane will take place on 8 February.... |
 | Blacksmith at his originFrom 2 February Alejo Pérez will conduct a total of ten performances of Franz Schreker's last opera Der Schmied von Gent in Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges. The "great magic opera in three acts", first performed in 1932 and then almost forgotten, will be staged in Flanders in the new production of Ersan Mondtag.... |
 | Kurtág in focusOn 2 February, at the five-day Zeitinsel Kurtág Festival at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Arditti Quartet will perform works by Anton Webern and György Ligeti, as well as Kurtág's String Quartets op. 1 and op. 28, the 12 Microludes for String Quartet op. 13 and the Six moments musicaux for String Quartet op. 44. Caroline Melzer will also be present at the festival with two concerts on 5 and 6 February.... |
 | Who writes history?From 2 February onwards, Titus Engel will conduct BORIS at the Stuttgart Opera House: directed by Paul-Georg Dittrich, Modest Musssorgski's Boris Godunow will be intertwined with the world premiere of Sergej Nevsky's Second-Hand Time, based on Svetlana Alexievich's book of the same name. The new production can be seen on seven dates through 13 April.... |
 | Quartet plus/minus XThe ECLAT Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary in early February. The Arditti Quartet will be part of the festival in the most diverse combinations and concert formats on four of the five festival days - from 6 to 9 February at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. On 8 February, the ensemble will also perform with the conductor Michael Wendeberg in an orchestra concert with the SWR Symphony Orchestra.... |
 | Glance at Beethoven"My mother tongue is Bartók, and Bartók's mother tongue was Beethoven," explained György Kurtág, whose composition Quasi una fantasia is the focus of Bas Wiegers' debut concert with the SWR Symphony Orchestra. On 30 January, the Freiburg E-Werk will feature this Kurtág piece and Beethoven's piano sonata by the same name, as well as Gustav Mahler's string orchestra version of Beethoven's String Quartet op. 95.... |
 | Eerie secretsJeroen Berwaerts will once again perform with Ensemble Resonanz and Alexander Melnikov, both of whom he has worked with for many years, for a new exciting project. A performance on 27 January in the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin will be followed by two further concerts on 28 and 29 January in the Small Hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.... |
| Pure BeethovenDuring the Beethoven anniversary year, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn invites you to a jubilee edition of its annual Beethoven Week: the complete chamber music of the composer will be presented in 16 concerts from 17 January to 9 February, grouped into four concert blocks. Tabea Zimmermann, artistic director of the festival since 2015, executed the programme planning once again.... |
 | Maria-MarzellineOn New Year's Day, Marie Heeschen will make her role debut as Marzelline in the premiere of Beethoven's Fidelio at Theater Bonn. The production, directed by Volker Lösch, puts a focus on the composer right at the beginning of the Beethoven anniversary year and shows the work’s relevance for our times by referring to the political situation in Turkey.... |
 | New Beethoven CD Box OUT NOW: François-Frédéric Guy celebrates the start of the Beethoven year 2020 with a play-conduct recording of the complete piano concertos of the great composer. Together with the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Beethoven specialist presents his interpretation of the works at the piano and on the podium in a CD box released on Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo. |
Dates
J. Berwaerts and A. Melnikow with Ensemble Resonanz
27.01. Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin
Victor Aviat: Rencontres III with Zafraan Ensemble & KNM Berlin
28.01. Musikbrauerei Berlin
J. Berwaerts and A. Melnikow with Ensemble Resonanz
28.01. Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo at Theater Kempten
28.01. Kempten Theatre
J. Berwaerts and A. Melnikow with Ensemble Resonanz
29.01. Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Yeree Suh sings with Ensemble Intercontemporain
29.01. Philharmonie de Paris 2
François-Frédéric Guy @ La Folle Journée Nantes
29.01. Auditorium Waldstein Nantes
Maximilian Hornung and the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa
30.01. Palacio Euskalduna Jauregia, Bilbao
Premiere of Richard Galliano's Oratorio for choir
30.01. La Seine Musicale
Maximilian Hornung and the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa
31.01. Palacio Euskalduna Jauregia, Bilbao
François-Frédéric Guy @ La Folle Journée Nantes
01.02. Salle Cic Ouest Nantes
Valentin Uryupin & Rostov Symphony Orchestra
01.02. Rostov Philharmonic Hall
01.02. Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
Ilya Gringolts plays Johannes Maria Staud's "Oskar" | portrait concert Staud
01.02. Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Trio Mediaeval at the CAPE’lla Festival in Luxembourg
02.02. Vieille Église St-Laurent
Dietrich Henschel sings a Recital in Sapporo, Japan
02.02. Sapporo Concert Hall
Magazine
Tabea Zimmermann: BTHVN 2020
In July 2013, leading violist Tabea Zimmermann was elected chair of the Beethoven Haus Bonn. Since 2015 she has programmed the annual Beethoven Woche festival, which presents an excellent chamber music programme around one of the composer’s works that was written exactly 200 years previously. In her planning for the festival she is supported by journalist and musicologist Luis Gago. Malte Hemmerich met the two programme planners as well as the Beethoven Haus director Malte Boecker in Berlin, speaking with them about the 2020 edition of the festival, which marks Tabea Zimmermann’s last edition as Artistic Director, and is the crowning achievement of her time there....
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra: Breaking Ground
Just back from a highly successful European tour that included stops at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, and the Elbphilharmonie, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating their next highlight of the season in Ekaterinburg: beginning in late November, the Eurasia Festival will once again bring international artists to the city on the Urals. Yekaterinburg’s rich cultural scene has long been evident in the diverse activities of the Ural Philharmonic and the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Orchestra and will soon become even more apparent with the construction of a new building. The planning phase of Yekaterinburg’s new concert hall is accompanied by a symposium organized by karsten witt musik management, which will feature, among others, Christoph Lieben-Seutter and Matthias Naske, in a panel discussion moderated by Karsten Witt and Per Erik Veng, where they will discuss the demands and prospects raised by building’s construction....
Ryoko Aoki: Reinventing Noh
For her pioneering work as a contemporary interpreter of the Noh theatre tradition, Ryoko Aoki was awarded the Japan Arts Foundation’s Creative Tradition Prize in early November. The Noh actress and singer – who has performed works such as Toshio Hosokawa's Futari Shizuka and Peter Eötvös' Secret Kiss on stages the world over – incorporates into her performances a theatrical culture that, in the past, was largely reserved for male performers. She has interpreted over 50 new works to date, more than half of which were commissioned compositions. For the magazine, she shared with us what led her to this art form, as well as her relationship to Japanese and European cultural traditions....
We've launched CLSX.de!
Our new website now bundles all information about our own concerts. For the launch date, these include concerts in the Bremer Glocke, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and last but not least the Berliner Philharmonie, where karsten witt musik management has been regularly hosting the series The Beethoven Experience with Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique for two years....
Love under the Microscope – Chaya Czernowin
From life on the front line to the intimacies of love: Chaya Czernowin’s new opera Heart Chamber presents a huge tonal shift from the subject matter of her last project for the stage. Infinite Now, which premiered with huge success at Opera Vlaanderen in Ghent and Antwerp in 2017, took as its basis the short story Homecoming by Chinese writer Can Xue and Luk Perceval’s play Front – in turn based on Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. In contrast, her new opera, which will be premiered on 15 November 2019 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, is a microscopic examination of the beginning of love....
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