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Michael Wendeberg conducts the PHACE ensemble in two different concert programmes on 13 and 14 March in Salzburg, featuring world premieres by Sarah Nemtsov and others.

The Kuss Quartet will team up with soprano Sarah Maria Sun on 12 March at the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg to perform a work by Sara Glojnarić, before Anssi Karttunen takes to the stage there the following day with pianist Nicolas Hodges to present works by Betsy Jolas and Morton Feldman, among others.

From 12 to 28 March, Ilya Gringolts will lead and perform as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on an extensive tour ‘Down Under’, presenting a diverse programme.

Michael Wendeberg conducts the PHACE ensemble in two different concert programmes on 13 and 14 March in Salzburg, featuring world premieres by Sarah Nemtsov and others.

From 12 to 28 March, Ilya Gringolts will lead and perform as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on an extensive tour ‘Down Under’, presenting a diverse programme.

Bas Wiegers will open the ASPEKTE Salzburg Festival with the Munich Chamber Orchestra on 11 March, featuring the Austrian premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's work Stachel, among other pieces.

"A cool organiser of madness": On 1 February, Titus Engel conducted the highly successful world premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Monster's Paradise. Following six performances in Hamburg, he will make his debut at the Zurich Opera House on 8 March with the opera which is based on a libretto by Elfriede Jelinek and directed by Tobias Kratzer.

From 8 to 26 March, Alejo Pérez will conduct Janáček's opera Jenůfa, which will be staged at the Gothenburg Opera in a production by Nicola Raab.

NEW RECORDINGS

Simone Menezes and her Ensemble K have recorded a chamber version of Gustav Holst's Planets Suite, which has now been released on CD under the title Cosmos.

NEW RECORDINGS

Just in time for Friedrich Cerha's 100th birthday, the Kairos label has released an album featuring his complete works for organ, recorded by Wolfgang Kogert.

NEW WITH US

Welcome, Christian Øland! We are delighted to begin our work for the young versatile Danish conductor, who took up two new chief positions this season.

NEW WITH US

We are delighted to announce our collaboration with conductor Simone Menezes, who builds bridges between different musical traditions and artistic disciplines with musical rigour and a discerning curatorial eye.

NEW RECORDINGS

"Stylistic confidence and gripping expressiveness": The Kuss Quartet receives one of the coveted International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) for its first recording of two works by Ernst Gernot Klussmann.

From February 22 to March 15, Gaetano Lo Coco conducts Verdi's Nabucco at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp in a production staged by Christiane Jatahy, with which he will also make his debut at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg in May.

CERHA 100

In 2026, the music world will celebrate the 100th birthday of Friedrich Cerha and honour the composer, who died in 2023, with publications, concerts and even a world premiere; a special stamp will also be issued to mark the occasion.

ON OUR BEHALF

For the Business of Classical Music podcast, Karsten Witt spoke with Leon Dreher in early 2026 about young artists' expectations for their careers, the day-to-day business of artist management, and the future of the international classical music industry.

Now available to stream in full length: Toshio Howokawa's new opera Natasha premiered in August at the New National Theatre in Tokyo under the baton of Kazushi Ono and was enthusiastically received.

NEW RECORDINGS

Anton Gerzenberg's debut CD, Ravel Reflections, was launched on 5 December on the Prospero label.

NEW RECORDINGS

Anssi Karttunen has recorded Betsy Jolas' complete works for cello and piano together with Nicolas Hodges – the double album has now been released on the bastille musique label.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

‘He sings beyond competition’: The press pays tribute to the great tenor Christoph Prégardien on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which he celebrated on 18 January 2026 at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Holly Hyun Choe has given her inaugural concert as Principal Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK) on January 14 with Beethoven's Third Symphony.

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NEW RECORDINGS

Ilya Gringolts' recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Francesco Corti has now been released by Arcana as his label debut and was promptly awarded the Diapason d'or.

NEW RECORDINGS

Recorded by the Ensemble Ascolta, the album Sounds, Archaeologies, now released on the KAIROS label, brings together compositions by Isabel Mundry that understand listening as an active, participatory process.

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.

Gringolts Quartet © Tomasz Trzebiatowski

IN CONVERSATION

Following the performance of all six Mozart string quintets at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Ilya Gringolts explained to us what attracts him to historical instruments and why the Gringolts Quartet will continue to play on gut strings more frequently in the future.

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.

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.

In June 2025, Philippe Manoury's 'Thinkspiel' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, based on Karl Kraus' monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind, premiered at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Peter Rundel and received enthusiastic reviews.

NEW RECORDINGS

Under the baton of Titus Engel, the WDR Symphony Orchestra recorded Betsy Jolas' Musique d'hiver – the album has now been awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.

ON OUR BEHALF

Now available as a podcast: For the series Menschen und ihre Musik (People and Their Music), Karsten Witt spoke with hr2 radio presenter Niels Kaiser in autumn 2025 about his unusual career as a music manager and about the music that has particularly moved and accompanied him along the way.

Johannes Klumpp and the Heidelberger Sinfoniker are awarded the OPUS KLASSIK for their complete recording of all Haydn symphonies, completed in autumn 2024. Our congratulations!

Toshio Hosokawa has received 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.

Titus Engel is appointed Conductor in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Michael Wendeberg conducts the PHACE ensemble in two different concert programmes on 13 and 14 March in Salzburg, featuring world premieres by Sarah Nemtsov and others.

From 12 to 28 March, Ilya Gringolts will lead and perform as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on an extensive tour ‘Down Under’, presenting a diverse programme.

EVENTS

TUE 10.03.

Christian Øland: Koncertsalen Alsion

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp

WED 11.03.

Friedrich Cerha: Konzervatoř a střední škola Jana Deyla, Prag

Johannes Maria Staud and Bas Wiegers at the aspekteFESTIVAL

Christian Øland: Harmonien, Haderslev

THU 12.03.

Alejo Pérez: Göteborgs Operan

Christian Øland: A. P. Möller-Skolen, Schleswig

Ilya Gringolts: Wollongong Town Hall

György Ligeti: Musikhochschule Würzburg

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp

FRI 13.03.

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Michael Wendeberg: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

György Ligeti: Rudolf-Oetker-Halle Bielefeld

Christoph Prégardien: Recinte Modernista Sant Pau, Barcelona

Hyung-ki Joo: Stavanger Concert Hall

Anssi Karttunen: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

SAT 14.03.

Simone Menezes: Sala Cecília Meireles, Rio de Janeiro

Johannes Maria Staud: SZENE Salzburg

Titus Engel: Opernhaus Zürich

Ilya Gringolts: Melbourne Recital Centre

Michael Wendeberg: SZENE Salzburg

SUN 15.03.

Shiyeon Sung: Staatstheater Braunschweig

Simone Menezes: Sala Cecília Meireles, Rio de Janeiro

Ilya Gringolts: The Arts Centre, Melbourne

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp

Alejo Pérez: Göteborgs Operan

György Ligeti: Wiener Staatsoper

Fabián Panisello: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

MON 16.03.

Ilya Gringolts: Melbourne Recital Centre

Shiyeon Sung: Staatstheater Braunschweig

TUE 17.03.

Ilya Gringolts: Adelaide Town Hall

WED 18.03.

Alejo Pérez: Göteborgs Operan

Titus Engel: Opernhaus Zürich

György Ligeti: Gewandhaus Leipzig

Ming Tsao: Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Ilya Gringolts: Winthrop Hall, Perth

Peter Rundel: Prinzregententheater Munich

Julian Steckel: The Lighthouse, Poole

Michael Wendeberg: Alte Oper Frankfurt

Kuss Quartet: Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi", Torino

THU 19.03.

Julian Steckel: Guildhall Portsmouth

Lin Liao at the Interfinity Festival - Swiss Premiere of Robert Laidlow's "Exoplanets"

György Ligeti: Rudolf-Oetker-Halle Bielefeld

Toshio Hosokawa: Prinzregententheater Munich

FRI 20.03.