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We are currently looking for a freelancer for the administration and marketing of our kwmm Academy.

We are delighted to welcome composer Sivan Eldar to karsten witt musik management, and to announce a major world premiere: In July, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will present her second opera The Nine Jewelled Deer.

To mark the end of Kent Nagano's ten-year tenure as General Music Director in Hamburg, the Philharmonic State Orchestra will premiere Alex Nante's Symphony No. 3 Anahata for soprano, baritone, choir, organ and orchestra in the Elbphilharmonie on 29 and 30 June.

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We are currently looking for a freelancer for the administration and marketing of our kwmm Academy.

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Under the direction of Bas Wiegers, Ensemble Musikfabrik will premiere Milica Djordjević's new work In the interstices: lingering pixie dust in Cologne on 23 June.

On 27 June, Philippe Manoury's 'Thinkspiel' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, based on Karl Kraus' monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind, will be premiered at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Peter Rundel.

Nominated as Instrumentalist of the Year: Antje Weithaas is on the shortlist for the OPUS KLASSIK 2025.

Bernard Foccroulle's opera Cassandra, which premiered to great acclaim in Brussels in 2023, will be staged at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin from 19 June to 11 July.

IN CONVERSATION

In an interview between her spring engagements in Lyon and Montreal, Jenny Daviet surprises us with her unexpected approach to roles and works and reveals her dreams for the future.

Toshio Hosokawa CD Cover Futari Shizuka Naxos

NEW RECORDINGS

Toshio Hosokawa's one-act opera Futari Shizuka with Ryoko Aoki in the title role and his acclaimed flute concerto Ceremony have now been released on CD, recorded by the Residentie Orkest under Jun Märkl for the Naxos label.

NEW RECORDINGS

‘Breakneck virtuosity’: Jeremias Schwarzer's album with four concertos for recorder by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Liza Lim, Dai Fujikura and Iris ter Schiphorst, recorded with four top-class orchestras, has now been released.

We congratulate Titus Engel on winning the Swiss Music Prize 2025.

‘An insane performance’: As the music director of Opera Vlaanderen, Alejo Pérez conducts the new production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck staged by Johan Simons , which after its celebrated premiere will be shown first in Antwerp and then in Ghent until the end of June.

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.

NEW RECORDINGS

Mariam Batsashvili's new solo album Influences with works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt was launched by Warner Classics on 16 May.

NEW RECORDINGS

Out now: Carlotta Dalia's album Segovia, a tribute to the pioneer of classical guitar playing and recorded on his own historical guitar.

IN CONVERSATION

In April and May 2025, the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar presented Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger in a new production staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito under the musical direction of Roland Kluttig. We spoke to the conductor about his special relationship with Soviet music and the significance of Weinberg's opera for the memory of Nazi atrocities.

Holly Hyun Choe becomes Principal Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

Grau Schumacher Piano Duo cr Johannes Grau

Plus or Minus: At the Witten festival, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo premiered Ming Tsao's second realisation of Stockhausen's equally complex and open score Plus Minus which will be performed again at the KONTAKTE Festival of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin on 28 June.

Congratulations to Samir Odeh-Tamimi and the JACK Quartet: they each receive one of the coveted Italian Premio Abbiati critics' prizes.

For her chamber concerto SCHMUTZ, Ying Wang is honoured with the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart.

NEW RECORDINGS

Ying Wang's portrait album RE:Wilding, recorded by the SWR Symphonieorchester, Klangforum Wien, ensemble reflektor and Quatuor Diotima, among others, has now been released on the Kairos label.

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.

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 website friedrich-cerha.com.

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.

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.

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.

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We are currently looking for a freelancer for the administration and marketing of our kwmm Academy.

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EVENTS

SAT 21.06.

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Paretzer Scheune

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Chaya Czernowin: WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Cologne

Johannes Klumpp: Zeche Zollverein, Essen

Gabor Vosteen: Schlössli Mattstetten

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

Christoph Prégardien: Angelika-Kauffmann-Saal, Schwarzenberg

Ryoko Aoki: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Hameretz2, Tel Aviv

MON 23.06.

Bas Wiegers & Milica Djordjević: Philharmonie, Cologne

TUE 24.06.

Christoph Prégardien: Residenz Munich

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

THU 26.06.

György Ligeti: Konzerthaus Berlin

Toshio Hosokawa: Wiener Staatsoper

FRI 27.06.

Castalian String Quartet: Kilrenny Parish Church

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

Lin Liao and Simon Steen-Andersen at ManiFeste 2025

Carlotta Dalia: Chapelle des Pénitents

SAT 28.06.

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Tito Ceccherini & Toshio Hosokawa: Teatro Colón Buenos Aires

Friedrich Praetorius: 200 years Johann Strauss jr. - Birthday gala

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo & Ming Tsao: Academy of Arts, Berlin

Meta4: Castle of the Knights of Malta, Magione

SUN 29.06.

Alex Nante: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Castalian String Quartet: Bowhouse, Fife

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Toshio Hosokawa: Wiener Staatsoper

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

MON 30.06.

Alex Nante: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

WED 02.07.

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Hindsgavl Festival

Alex Nante: Kulturni dom, Nova Gorica

THU 03.07.

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Hindsgavl Festival

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

FRI 04.07.

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Christoph Prégardien: Schubertíada Valdegovía

SAT 05.07.

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

SUN 06.07.

Karsten Witt musik management

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Paretzer Scheune

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Chaya Czernowin: WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz, Cologne

Johannes Klumpp: Zeche Zollverein, Essen

Gabor Vosteen: Schlössli Mattstetten

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

Christoph Prégardien: Angelika-Kauffmann-Saal, Schwarzenberg

Ryoko Aoki: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Hameretz2, Tel Aviv

Bas Wiegers & Milica Djordjević: Philharmonie, Cologne

Christoph Prégardien: Residenz Munich

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

György Ligeti: Konzerthaus Berlin

Toshio Hosokawa: Wiener Staatsoper

Castalian String Quartet: Kilrenny Parish Church

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

Lin Liao and Simon Steen-Andersen at ManiFeste 2025

Carlotta Dalia: Chapelle des Pénitents

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Tito Ceccherini & Toshio Hosokawa: Teatro Colón Buenos Aires

Friedrich Praetorius: 200 years Johann Strauss jr. - Birthday gala

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo & Ming Tsao: Academy of Arts, Berlin

Meta4: Castle of the Knights of Malta, Magione

Alex Nante: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Castalian String Quartet: Bowhouse, Fife

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Toshio Hosokawa: Wiener Staatsoper

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

Alex Nante: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Hindsgavl Festival

Alex Nante: Kulturni dom, Nova Gorica

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Hindsgavl Festival

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Christoph Prégardien: Schubertíada Valdegovía

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Titus Engel: Frankfurt Opera

Marie Heeschen: Theater Bonn

Philippe Manoury & Peter Rundel: Oper Köln

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Sivan Eldar: LUMA Arles Parc des ateliers Grande Halle