Current vacancies: We are looking for a manager for our project department focussing on events, touring and the kwmm Academy as well as a freelancer for the administration and marketing of our kwmm Academy.
On 31 July, Anton Gerzenberg will perform in a duo with Martha Argerich at the Hitzacker Summer Music Days.
Mariam Batsashvili returns to the BBC Proms on 27 July to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.
From 25 July to 7 August, Antje Weithaas will be touring South America with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, performing seven concerts in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
The sea of sound: Before Toshio Hosokawa's new opera Natasha premieres at the New National Theatre in Tokyo on 11 August under the direction of Kazushi Ono, we are publishing an excerpt from the composer's work notes.
On 23 July, Bas Wiegers will be a guest at the Salzburg Festival with the Ensemble Modern and Dagmar Manzel for a concert performance of Michael Jarrell's monodrama Kassandra.
As a guest composer at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Josefine Opsahl will bring several of her works to Finland from 16 to 24 July, including a world premiere with the Trio Gaspard.
From 18 July, Holly Hyun Choe will return to conduct the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in numerous concerts, before making her debut with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at the end of August.
Instrumentalist of the Year: Antje Weithaas receives the OPUS KLASSIK 2025!
Milica Djordjević becomes Professor of Composition at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.
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!
We are delighted to welcome composer Sivan Eldar to karsten witt musik management, and to announce a major world premiere: From 6 July, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will present her second opera The Nine Jewelled Deer.
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.
Edition Peters, part of Wise Music Group, has announced the signing of composer, drummer, and visionary musical innovator Lukas Ligeti to its roster.
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.
‘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.
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.
Mariam Batsashvili's new solo album Influences with works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt was launched by Warner Classics on 16 May.
Out now: Carlotta Dalia's album Segovia, a tribute to the pioneer of classical guitar playing and recorded on his own historical guitar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five questions for the JACK Quartet: For the Musikkollegium Winterthur magazine, the musicians gave humorous and revealing insights into their musical and literary passions.
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.
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.
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.
Josefine Opsahl, New Piano Trio
Josefine Opsahl, composition
Trio Gaspard
Sergej Rachmaninow, Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18
Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"
Holly Hyun Choe, conductor
Hayato Sumino, piano
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 for two violins, strings and basso continuo
Ilya Gringolts, violin
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Ensemble Apollon, ensemble
“Father and Son”
Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Silke Avenhaus, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Trio C minor, Op. 9,3
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer'
Daishin Kashimoto, violin
Lise Berthaud, viola
Tim Park, violoncello
Alessio Bax, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Meta4
Theatre of Voices, vocal ensemble
Vito Žuraj, Burlesque
Modest Mussorgski, Songs and Dances of Death
Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Symphony No.9 in E-flat major, Op. 70
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op. 28
Vito Žuraj, composition
Aude Extrémo, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranèe
Marko Letonja, conductor
Josefine Opsahl, Tide
Josefine Opsahl, Core
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat major, KV 563
Lawrence Power, viola
Nicolas Altstaedt, violoncello
Dmitri Schostakowitsch, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Franz Schubert, Piano Trio No. 1 in b-flat Major D 898
Michael Jarrell, Cassandre
Bas Wiegers, conductor
Dagmar Manzel, singing
Ensemble Modern
Josefine Opsahl, Orbiting Jewels
Hana Hujanen, clarinet
Tami Pohjola, violin
Senja Rummukainen, violoncello
Matilda Kärkkäinen, piano
Ernest Chausson, Poème for violin and piano, Op. 25
Maurice Ravel, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G major
Johannes Brahms, Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 40
Radek Baborák, horn
Lucille Chung, piano
Olivier Messiaen, Poèmes pour Mi
Luciano Berio, Sequenza IV for piano
Philippe Manoury, Das wohlpräparierte Klavier
Jenny Daviet, soprano
Jean-François Heisser, piano
Philippe Manoury, composition
Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite, op. 40
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane
Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Chamber Symphony for Strings in C minor, Op.110a
Antje Weithaas, violin
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Toshio Hosokawa, Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano
Toshio Hosokawa, composition
Templum Ensamble, ensemble
Ryan Wigglesworth, for Laura, after Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.7 in E Major
Mariam Batsashvili, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
Lukáš Janata, New work
Paul Novak, New work
Sofia Jen Ouyang, New work
Zihan Wu, New work
Brad Lubman, conductor
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Templum Ensamble
Joseph Haydn, Piano Sonata D major, Op. 30 No. 3 (Hob XVI:37)
Franz Schubert, Impromptu F minor, Op. 142 No. 1, D 935
Franz Liszt, Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
Frédéric Chopin, Grande Polonaise brillante précédée d'un Andante spianato Es Dur op.22
Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 S.244/2
Maurice Ravel, Ma Mère l'Oye
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andante mit Variationen, K 501
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l‘après-midi d‘un Faune (für four hands)
Franz Schubert, Fantasy in F minor D 940
Maurice Ravel, La Valse – Poème choréographique
Sergej Rachmaninow, Symphonic Dances Op. 45
Anton Gerzenberg, piano
Martha Argerich, piano
Anthony Cheung, Twice Removed
Ania Vu, New work for String Quartet
Tyson Gholston Davis, New work for string quartet
Helmut Lachenmann, String Quartet No. 3 'Grido'
JACK Quartet
Chaya Czernowin, The divine thawing of the core
Chaya Czernowin, composition
Claire Chase, contrabass flute
Ensemble der Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor
Maurice Ravel, Jeux d'eau
Maurice Ravel, Une Barque sur l'océan
Maurice Ravel, Alborada del gracioso
Ludwig van Beethoven, Mondscheinsonate op. 27 Nr. 2 cis-Moll
Ludwig van Beethoven, Waldstein-Variationen
François-Frédéric Guy, piano
Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto, Op. 8 'Four Seasons'
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Ludwig van Beethoven, Great Fugue, op. 134
Johannes Brahms, 21 Ungarische Tänze
Lilya Zilberstein, piano
Franz Liszt, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, S173
Teacher Concert of the Masterclasses
Caroline Melzer, soprano
Thomas Lindhorst, clarinet
Hedayet Djeddikar, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 29 A major, K 201
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin concerto No. 5 in A major KV 219
Peter Tschaikowsky (Arrangement: Michael Waterman), String Sextet 'Souvenir de Florence', Op. 70
Cheetham Fraillon, Long Time Living Here
Klearhos Murphy, The Ascent
Peter Tschaikowsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 2 D major Op. 73
Shiyeon Sung, conductor
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Simone Lamsma, violin
