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On 18 January, Christoph Prégardien will celebrate his 70th birthday with a special recital at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Morton Feldmann's birth, the JACK Quartet, together with pianist Florence Millet, will perform his late masterpiece Piano and String Quartet on 16 January in Wuppertal and on 31 January in Tübingen.

At the Ultraschall Berlin festival, Ilya Gringolts will perform Kurtág's Kafka Fragments together with Johanna Vargas on January 15, and he will interpret a violin concerto by Mirela Ivičević in the closing concert on January 18 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Giedrė Šlekytė.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On 18 January, Christoph Prégardien will celebrate his 70th birthday with a special recital at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

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

"Brilliant and masterful": On 7 December, Titus Engel made his debut at the Semperoper conducting the premiere of Immo Karaman's production of Hans Abrahamsen's The Snow Queen. The multi-layered opera will run there until January 8.

The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo will perform a work by Claudio Ambrosini together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Marc Albrecht at the opening concert of the Ultraschall Festival on January 14.

The German magazine Focus devoted an extensive portrait to Jacob Mühlrad on the occasion of his highly acclaimed musical setting for the venerable Nobel Banquet.

NEW WITH US

Welcome Julian Steckel! We start our collaboration with the exceptional cellist, who launched his impressive international career in 2010 as winner of the ARD International Music Competition, now performing with renowned orchestras and chamber music partners worldwide.

NEW RECORDINGS

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

NEW WITH US

We are delighted to be working with the Kuss Quartet, which has been setting new standards for many years with its sophisticated conceptual programming.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On 18 January, Christoph Prégardien will celebrate his 70th birthday with a special recital at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

EVENTS

WED 07.01.

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

THU 08.01.

Johannes Klumpp: Kulturhaus Lüdenscheid

Titus Engel: Semperoper Dresden

Julian Steckel: Atatürk Cultural Center Merinos, Bursa

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy

FRI 09.01.

Johannes Klumpp: Pädagogisches Zentrum Lennestadt

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy

SAT 10.01.

Bas Wiegers: Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Johannes Klumpp: Apollo Theater, Siegen

SUN 11.01.

Johannes Klumpp: Apollo Theater, Siegen

MON 12.01.

Johannes Klumpp: Städtisches Gymnasium Bad Laasphe

TUE 13.01.

Kuss Quartet: Schloss Elmau

Johannes Klumpp: Erlöserkirche Salchendorf, Neunkirchen

WED 14.01.

Kuss Quartet: Schloss Elmau

Holly Hyun Choe: Universitetets aula, Oslo

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin

THU 15.01.

Lukas Ligeti: Université de Liège

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

FRI 16.01.

Johannes Maria Staud: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

Philippe Manoury: Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Radialsystem, Berlin

SAT 17.01.

Ryoko Aoki: Minato City Center for Traditional Culture, Tokyo

Michael Wendeberg: Radialsystem, Berlin

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

Bas Wiegers: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam

SUN 18.01.

Christoph Prégardien: Konzerthaus Dortmund

Antje Weithaas: Schloss Bad Iburg

Philippe Manoury: Konzerthaus Freiburg

Sivan Eldar: Stadtcasino, Basel

Ilya Gringolts: Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin

TUE 20.01.

Michael Wendeberg: Frankfurt Opera

THU 22.01.

Christoph Prégardien: Casals Forum, Kronberg Academy

Johannes Maria Staud: Congress Innsbruck

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

FRI 23.01.

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Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Johannes Klumpp: Kulturhaus Lüdenscheid

Titus Engel: Semperoper Dresden

Julian Steckel: Atatürk Cultural Center Merinos, Bursa

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy

Johannes Klumpp: Pädagogisches Zentrum Lennestadt

Gaetano Lo Coco: Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy

Bas Wiegers: Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Johannes Klumpp: Apollo Theater, Siegen

Johannes Klumpp: Apollo Theater, Siegen

Johannes Klumpp: Städtisches Gymnasium Bad Laasphe

Kuss Quartet: Schloss Elmau

Johannes Klumpp: Erlöserkirche Salchendorf, Neunkirchen

Kuss Quartet: Schloss Elmau

Holly Hyun Choe: Universitetets aula, Oslo

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin

Lukas Ligeti: Université de Liège

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Johannes Maria Staud: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

Philippe Manoury: Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Radialsystem, Berlin

Ryoko Aoki: Minato City Center for Traditional Culture, Tokyo

Michael Wendeberg: Radialsystem, Berlin

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

Bas Wiegers: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam

Christoph Prégardien: Konzerthaus Dortmund

Antje Weithaas: Schloss Bad Iburg

Philippe Manoury: Konzerthaus Freiburg

Sivan Eldar: Stadtcasino, Basel

Ilya Gringolts: Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin

Michael Wendeberg: Frankfurt Opera

Christoph Prégardien: Casals Forum, Kronberg Academy

Johannes Maria Staud: Congress Innsbruck

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Ilya Gringolts & Gringolts Quartet: Morton Feldman Centenary at Mizmorim Festival

Antje Weithaas: Radio Hall of NRK, Oslo

Bas Wiegers: Konzerthaus Ravensburg

Johannes Maria Staud: Congress Innsbruck

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Carlotta Dalia: St Andrew’s Church

Olli Mustonen: De Bijloke Muziekcentrum Gent