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Under the motto Tracce (Traces), the summer festival of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana will dedicate an extensive focus to György Ligeti's music in July and August 2024. The Orchestra della Toscana opened the programme with violinist Ilya Gringolts, who will again be performing there with Anton Gerzenberg on 11 August.

From 25 to 28 July, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen invite musicians from around the world to the festival Fliessen in the Spreewald region for the second time - among many others, Antje Weithaas will join in for the chamber music concerts.

"Outstanding": In May, Sarah Wegener performed Sieglinde in Wagner's Walküre at the Elbphilharmonie and the Kulturpalast Dresden to rave reviews. The production, which has already been successfully performed in Prague, Cologne and Amsterdam under the direction of Kent Nagano, will be shown for the last time in Lucerne in August.

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.

Saariaho: Mirage - Karita Mattila, Anssi Karttunen

Anssi Karttunen has a special relationship with the piece he will perform at the BBC Proms on 9 August - Kaija Saariaho's Mirage, for which he and soprano Silja Aalto will perform together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NEW CDS

The third and concluding part of Antje Weithaas' recording of all Beethoven violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon is just as enthusiastically received by critics as the two previous CDs.

Probeneinblick "Unmögliche Verbindung" | Uraufführung am 27. Juli 2024

Ondřej Adámek tried out a new way of composing for his new music theatre work Connection Impossible, which will be premiered at the Bregenz Festival on 27 July with the Ensemble Modern under the direction of the composer.

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IN CONVERSATION

On 3 June, 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.

ON OUR BEHALF

After a long and trusting co-operation as local management, we are now also representing Olli Mustonen internationally.

NEW CDS

Light and Darkness is the title of a new album of works for saxophone by Toshio Hosokawa released by the Kairos label.

NEW CDS

For a new recording with the Odense Symphony Orchestra and flautist Alberto Navarra, Holly Hyun Choe conducted works by Mozart, Reinecke and Nielsen.

Ming Tsao becomes Birge-Cary Professor of Music at the University at Buffalo, taking over the professorship once created for Morton Feldman.

NEW CDS

Together with the Mozarteum Orchestra, Lin Liao has recorded three works by Hans Werner Henze that are closely related to Mozart and Salzburg.

IN CONVERSATION

Role debut as Sieglinde: Sarah Wegener will perform Wagner's Walküre under the baton of Kent Nagano in six major European concert halls from March 2024. In the run-up, she talks 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

We have moved! You can now find us in our new office rooms in Berlin-Schöneberg.

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.

STREAMED CONCERT

At the memorial concert for Kaija Saariaho, who passed away last year, Anssi Karttunen performed the cello concerto Notes on Light with the Orchestre de Paris under Esa-Pekka Salonen on 15 February - the concert recording is available as a video on the Philharmonie de Paris website until August.

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.

NEW CDS

With a record release concert on 15 February at the Roulette in New York, the JACK Quartet presented the first album with compositions by its violinist Austin Wulliman.

NEW CDS

Outstanding reviews for the Armida Quartet's recording of works by Max Reger and Johanna Senfter.

In the summer of 2023, Titus Engel conducted Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise, an opera that not only goes beyond the usual dimensions of the orchestra, but in Anna-Sophie Mahler's Stuttgart production also incorporated the urban space and nature as a kind of pilgrimage. A documentary about the production is now available online in the ARD media library.

NEW CDS

Olli Mustonen's recording of the two 3rd piano concertos by Rautavaara and Martinů with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska was honoured with the German Record Critics' Award.

IN CONVERSATION

Lukas Ligeti is the artistic director of the World New Music Days, which took place in Africa for the first time in its centenary year 2023 - a unique opportunity for creative exchange: both the African audience and the guests from all over the world heard music they had never come into contact with before.

IN CONVERSATION

World premiere of the year: Vito Žuraj's first full-length opera Blühen came to the stage in Frankfurt in early 2023 under the musical direction of Michael Wendeberg and has now been named premiere of the year by Opernwelt magazine. In our interview, Vito Žuraj talks about his collaboration with librettist Händl Klaus, director Brigitte Fassbaender and the Ensemble Modern.

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In 1975, Les Percussions de Strasbourg premiered Karlheinz Stockhausen's scenic composition Musik im Bauch. At the Berlin festival Maerz Musik, the ensemble presented the work in a visually and musically impressive new production by Simon Steen-Andersen.

EVENTS

FRI 26.07.

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Kammermusikfestival Fliessen

Daishin Kashimoto & Maximilian Hornung: Incontri in Terra di Siena

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Filseck Castle, Uhingen

SAT 27.07.

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Kammermusikfestival Fliessen

François-Frédéric Guy: Abbaye de Pontlevoy

Ondřej Adámek: Bregenzer Festspiele

Maximilian Hornung: Incontri in Terra di Siena

SUN 28.07.

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Kammermusikfestival Fliessen

François-Frédéric Guy: Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije

Ondřej Adámek: Festspielhaus Bregenz

TUE 30.07.

Ilya Gringolts: Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Siena

WED 31.07.

Daishin Kashimoto: Festival Salon-de-Provence

SAT 03.08.

Michael Wendeberg: Kloster Michaelstein, Blankenburg

SUN 04.08.

Michael Wendeberg: Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche, Halle

TUE 06.08.

Carlotta Dalia: Auditorio Santa Úrsula

FRI 09.08.

Anssi Karttunen: BBC Proms

SAT 10.08.

Holly Hyun Choe: Inseli Rheinfelden

SUN 11.08.

Holly Hyun Choe: Villa Cagnola

llya Gringolts & Anton Gerzenberg perform works by György Ligeti

MON 12.08.

François-Frédéric Guy: Eglise / Fronton Musée, Guéthary

WED 14.08.

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Lin Liao: Teatret Svalegangen Aarhus

THU 15.08.

Castalian String Quartet: Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Lin Liao: Teatret Svalegangen Aarhus

FRI 16.08.

Castalian String Quartet: Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Simon Bode at Molyvos International Music Festival

SAT 17.08.

Mahan Esfahani: Queens Hall, Edinburgh

Armida Quartett & Benjamin Appl at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Gringolts Quartet: Turku Cathedral

SUN 18.08.

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Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Kammermusikfestival Fliessen

Daishin Kashimoto & Maximilian Hornung: Incontri in Terra di Siena

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Filseck Castle, Uhingen

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Kammermusikfestival Fliessen

François-Frédéric Guy: Abbaye de Pontlevoy

Ondřej Adámek: Bregenzer Festspiele

Maximilian Hornung: Incontri in Terra di Siena

Antje Weithaas & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker: Kammermusikfestival Fliessen

François-Frédéric Guy: Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije

Ondřej Adámek: Festspielhaus Bregenz

Ilya Gringolts: Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Siena

Daishin Kashimoto: Festival Salon-de-Provence

Michael Wendeberg: Kloster Michaelstein, Blankenburg

Michael Wendeberg: Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche, Halle

Carlotta Dalia: Auditorio Santa Úrsula

Anssi Karttunen: BBC Proms

Holly Hyun Choe: Inseli Rheinfelden

Holly Hyun Choe: Villa Cagnola

llya Gringolts & Anton Gerzenberg perform works by György Ligeti

François-Frédéric Guy: Eglise / Fronton Musée, Guéthary

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Lin Liao: Teatret Svalegangen Aarhus

Castalian String Quartet: Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Lin Liao: Teatret Svalegangen Aarhus

Castalian String Quartet: Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Simon Bode at Molyvos International Music Festival

Mahan Esfahani: Queens Hall, Edinburgh

Armida Quartett & Benjamin Appl at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Gringolts Quartet: Turku Cathedral

Gringolts Quartet: Turku Cathedral

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Armida Quartett at the Prizewinners' Week of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Jonathan Stockhammer: Zappa Day at Ljubljana Festival

Simon Bode and Antje Weithaas at Molyvos International Music Festival

Lin Liao: Teater Sort/Hvid Kopenhagen

Sarah Wegener: KKL Lucerne

Lin Liao: Teater Sort/Hvid Kopenhagen

Toshio Hosokawa: Japanese Premiere at Suntory Hall Summer Festival

Lin Liao: Teater Sort/Hvid Kopenhagen

Brad Lubman conducts the world premiere of Philippe Manoury's "Présence"

Holly Hyun Choe: Landesmusikakademie Hessen, Schlitz

Jenny Daviet sings George Benjamin at Festival Ravel

Christoph Prégardien: Angelika-Kauffmann-Saal, Schwarzenberg