On 1 June Richard Galliano and his New Jazz Musette Quartet will be performing outdoors at the inner courtyard of the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau Building Ensemble. In cooperation with the Dresden Music Festival, the summer festival "Hellerau meets internationals" will feature a concert evening at which Richard Galliano will present his very own combination of jazz and French Musette music....

From 30 May to 2 June, Antje Weithaas will be a guest at the Festival Resonances in the Château de Halloy, south of Brussels in Wallonia, with a master class and numerous concerts. She performs works by Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky in various instrumentations....

On 30 May, the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien will premiere Friedrich Cerha's Micrograms for ensemble at the opening concert of the BERGfrühling Ossiach Festival. The work for four wind instruments, two percussionists, piano and strings will be performed in the Alban Berg Hall in Ossiach Monastery under the direction of Christian Muthspiel....

From 24 May to 5 June, Steven Sloane will be guest at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston with four performances of Richard Strauss' opera Salome. The conductor is closely associated with the festival, which he was the music director of from 1996 to 2000. Salome will be shown at the festival in a new production directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser; the main roles will be played by soprano Melanie Henley Heyn and tenor Paul Groves....

On 24 May, Bas Wiegers will conduct the Klangforum Wien during a guest performance at the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre. Performed in the darkness, the 3rd string quartet In iij. Noct. by Georg Friedrich Haas will be heard, followed by his work Hyena for speaker and ensemble. The performance follows Bas Wiegers' conducting of the revised version of Haas' opera Koma in Klagenfurt....

François-Frédéric Guy continues his long list of appearances with Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas: on 23 and 30 May, four of each of the works can be heard at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul. A year ago, he performed the first part of the cycle there over two concerts, which he has already performed in Washington, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Carlo, Norwich, Metz and Buenos Aires....

From 23 May to 1 June, Alejo Pérez will conduct five performances of Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel, newly staged by Emma Dante, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The Argentinean has a long-standing collaboration with the house, where he has conducted performances of La Cenerentola, Die Nase and Lulu, among others....

Anssi Karttunen was friends with both Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012) and Oliver Knussen (1952 - 2018). His first recording of Hans Werner Henze's great cello romance, the English Love Songs, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Oliver Knussen. is therefore particularly close to the cellist's heart. The CD will be released on 17 May by Wergo....

A major world premiere is scheduled for 19 May at the Kölner Philharmonie. In the final part of his Raumwerke trilogy for the Gürzenich Orchestra, Philippe Manoury gathers voices, instruments and electronics for his Lab.Oratorio, developed together with director Nicolas Stemann. The staged concert then goes on a journey: After the Cologne premiere, the work will be presented at the Musikfest Hamburg and at the opening of the Paris Festival Manifeste....

He has taken to the stage as Charles V, as Walter Benjamin, as Prince of Homburg, and as Friedrich Hölderlin. Now, in the role of Martin Luther, Dietrich Henschel adds another heavyweight to this eclectic list of key figures from political and intellectual history. In May 2019, the baritone will take on the role of the Protestant reformer in the premiere of Bo Holten's opera Schlagt sie tot! at the Malmö Opera....

Warner Classics announced the signing of Mariam Batsashvili, the young Georgian-born, German-trained pianist. Her first Warner Classics album, a solo programme of Liszt and Chopin, will be released in August 2019. Batsashvili gained international recognition in 2014 when she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht....

Although the 100th birthday of György Ligeti (1923 - 2006) is almost upon us, many of the composer's works today seem as fresh and surprising as they were when he first composed them. From 27 April to 26 May, the International Music Festival Hamburg offers plenty of opportunities to rediscover the fascinating musical world of György Ligeti and experience the absurd opera Le Grand Macabre, among other defining pieces of his....

From 6 April to 2 June, Brad Lubman and his Ensemble Signal will transform the spectacular new building into a sound installation for the opening of The Shed, New York's new cultural centre. Three to four times a day they contribute the sounds to the Reich Richter Pärt project, which unites the great names of the music and art world....