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Following performances at La Scala in Milan and in Riga, Hyung-ki Joo will be appearing alongside acclaimed soprano Asmik Grigorian in the sensational recital A Diva is Born at the Vienna State Opera on 2 December.

The world premiere of Christian Mason's concerto for double bass and orchestra Deep Dazzling Darkness, featuring soloist Ricardo Delgado, will be the centrepiece of two concerts by the Orchestre national Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes under Richard Tognetti on 29 and 30 November.

Vito Žuraj's opera Blühen (Blossoming), named Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt magazine, will be staged in a new production at the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor from 27 November to 3 December.

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.

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

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.

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Following a performance with the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck on 16 November, Fluteman Gabor Vosteen will be appearing twice with solo programmes at the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr on 29 November.

As composer in focus at the Musikverein Wien, Chaya Czernowin will present her multifaceted music in five concerts in November and again in March, performed by the RSO Wien under Maxime Pascal, the Arditti Quartet and the Black Page Orchestra, among others.

Alejo Pérez is appointed principal conductor of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he will give his inaugural concert in May 2026.

On Johannes Maria Staud's new personal website, you can now find out the latest news and background information about his musical work and search a comprehensive database of his compositions.

Holly Hyun Choe is appointed Directrice musicale of the Orchestre national de Cannes.

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, will be launched in December on the Prospero label, and singles released on digital platforms are already generating excitement about the album.

This autumn, following a performance at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal, the JACK Quartet will be appearing at three concerts at the Festival d'Automne in Paris and two concerts at the Festival Musica Strasbourg, as well as in Essen, Graz, Katowice, Siena and Bern.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to Toshio Hosokawa on his 70th birthday! A series of performances in Japan, Germany and Czechia in October celebrated the jubilarian and his extensive oeuvre.

On 11 October, Antje Weithaas received the coveted OPUS KLASSIK Instrumentalist of the Year award at a concert in St. Elisabeth's Church in Berlin, where she also performed live as a soloist.

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.

NEW RECORDINGS

In May 2025, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo premiered Ming Tsao's second adaptation of Stockhausen's complex and open score Plus Minus, which has now been released on the Neos label.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

IN CONVERSATION

Vito Žuraj's first full-length opera Blühen (Blossoming), named Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 2023, was revived at Oper Frankfurt in October 2025 under the musical direction of Michael Wendeberg. In our interview, Vito Žuraj talks about his collaboration with librettist Händl Klaus, director Brigitte Fassbaender and the Ensemble Modern.

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.

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.

EVENTS

WED 26.11.

Peter Rundel: Slovenian Philharmonic Ljubljana

THU 27.11.

György Ligeti: Stadtcasino, Basel

György Ligeti: Casino Bern

Steven Sloane: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, Bochum

FRI 28.11.

Chaya Czernowin: NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice

SAT 29.11.

Gabor Vosteen: Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mühlheim

Johannes Klumpp: Museum Folkwang, Essen

Roland Kluttig: Hochschule für Musik C. M. v. Weber Dresden

Christian Mason: Premiere of double bass concerto in Clermont-Ferrand

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Gabor Vosteen: Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mühlheim

Isabel Mundry: Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan

SUN 30.11.

Johannes Klumpp: Sparkasse Vest, Recklinghausen

Michael Wendeberg: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

Antje Weithaas: Logensaal, Biel

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Isabel Mundry: Theaterhaus Stuttgart

MON 01.12.

Isabel Mundry: Teatro Elfo Puccini

TUE 02.12.

Hyung-ki Joo: Wiener Staatsoper

WED 03.12.

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Peter Rundel: Slovenian Philharmonic Ljubljana

György Ligeti: Stadtcasino, Basel

György Ligeti: Casino Bern

Steven Sloane: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, Bochum

Chaya Czernowin: NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice

Gabor Vosteen: Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mühlheim

Johannes Klumpp: Museum Folkwang, Essen

Roland Kluttig: Hochschule für Musik C. M. v. Weber Dresden

Christian Mason: Premiere of double bass concerto in Clermont-Ferrand

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Gabor Vosteen: Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mühlheim

Isabel Mundry: Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan

Johannes Klumpp: Sparkasse Vest, Recklinghausen

Michael Wendeberg: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

Antje Weithaas: Logensaal, Biel

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Isabel Mundry: Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Isabel Mundry: Teatro Elfo Puccini

Isabel Mundry: Teatro Elfo Puccini

Hyung-ki Joo: Wiener Staatsoper

Armida Quartet, Award winner in residence at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, at NDR Foyer Concert

Gaetano Lo Coco: Cankarjev Dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana

Armida Quartet: Farewell concert Sabine Meyer

Eliahu Inbal: TivoliVredenburg Utrecht

Eliahu Inbal: Queen Elisabeth Hall Antwerp

Bas Wiegers: Arsenal de Metz

Gringolts Quartet: Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone

Josefine Opsahl: WP with thechamber choir CAMERATA in Copenhagen

Simon Bode: Hauptkirche Sankt Jacobi, Hamburg

Johannes Klumpp: Foyer BETRIEBSWERK Heidelberg

Jenny Daviet: Théâtre Christian Liger, Nîmes

Holly Hyun Choe: Wunderino Arena, Kiel

Friedrich Praetorius: Opernhaus Bonn

Isabel Mundry: Symposium ›Afrodiaspora – Composing While Black‹ in Berlin

György Ligeti: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Gringolts Quartet: Associazione Barattelli, L'Aquila

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Raum 236, Zürich

Titus Engel: Premiere "The Snow Queen" at Semperoper Dresden

François-Frédéric Guy: Domaine Pommery, Reims

Peter Rundel: Casa da Música Porto

Gringolts Quartet: Auditorium Cesare Pollini, Padua

Titus Engel: Semperoper Dresden

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Christoph Prégardien: Wiener Konzerthaus

Ondřej Adámek: Norwegian premiere with Isabelle Faust