Starting now, we represent the young Italian violinist Giuseppe Gibboni. We are looking forward to working with the current winner of the Paganini Violin Competition!

In May, Ensemble Musikfabrik premiered Ming Tsao's Triode Variations in Cologne. We caught up with the composer during a visit to his Berlin flat in the run-up to the performance.

Following the world premiere at the Munich Biennale, the Deutsche Oper Berlin showed Bernhard Gander's new opera that was caught up in the terrible reality of war - Andrew Robert Munn sang one of the main roles in Songs of Exile and No Return.

The Armida Quartet has put together a comprehensive Mozart package in recent years: a concert series, a complete recording, and even an app - all with surprising perspectives on the composer.

As music director of the Folkoperan Stockholm, Henrik Schaefer started the season 2021/22 by bringing the house fresh ideas – and not just through the original romantic sound, as can be seen and heard in the video stream of his Don Carlos.

Isabel Mundry is visiting Tokyo at the end of August as Theme Composer of the Suntory Hall Festival with two portrait concerts and a composition workshop.

On August 18, Ensemble Modern will premiere Brigitta Muntendorf's opera Melencolia at the Bregenz Festival.

Across the threshold: Peter Rundel and Caroline Melzer can be seen at the Ruhrtriennale in August in a production with music by Grisey, Vivier, Scelsi, and Xenakis.

François-Frédéric Guy will play Chopin and Beethoven at the La Roque d'Anthéron Piano Festival on August 10; two days later he will be a guest at the Musique en Écrins Festival.

Antje Weithaas and Maximilian Hornung will go on a summer tour with the Bundesjugendorchester in the first half of August.

Simon Bode can be seen at the Salzburg Festival from July 30 to August 27 in Mozart's Magic Flute.

Mahan Esfahani will be awarded the Wigmore Medal on 16 July.

Holly Hyun Choe becomes principal conductor of the North German chamber orchestra ensemble reflektor.

Bas Wiegers will become Associated Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and will conduct MKO programmes spanning several epochs starting in the coming season.

On 19 June, Philippe Manoury turned 70, and his birthday is being celebrated musically all year round with numerous concerts. After the actual birthday concert, which took place at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique with musicians from the Orchestre National de France, his "thinkspiel" Kein Licht will be performed in Amsterdam.

Originally recorded for a film, this masterful interpretation of Mahler's Wunderhorn Lieder with baritone Dietrich Henschel and the Bochumer Symphoniker under Steven Sloane has now been released on CD.

The Armida Quartet becomes musical ambassador of the climate initiative Orchestras of Change.

Lion of Finland: Anssi Karttunen was honoured with the Pro Finlandia Medal.

Tabea Zimmermann is the new Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

The Castalian String Quartet's debut CD, released at the end of April, has received rave reviews.

Congratulations: Chaya Czernowin was awarded the German Music Authors' Award.

The new CD of the Gringolts Quartet was released on 1 April and received outstanding reviews.

In the FAZ, Ilya Gringolts is portrayed as a musician with enormous stylistic range and unwavering integrity. Both can be experienced at the concerts in the coming weeks.

From August 2022, the members of the string quartet Meta4 will take on an important artistic role at the Jyväskylä Sinfonia for two years.

Maximilian Hornung becomes artistic director of the Traunstein Summer Concerts

A Mozart with character, played to perfection: Rave reviews for the Armida Quartet's new CD.

Congratulations to Daishin Kashimoto: his CD with chamber music by Nino Rota received a Diapason d'or award of the year!

Congratulations to Titus Engel on his appointment as the new Principal Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta!

The first international orchestra to guest in two wonderful new halls: karsten witt musik management brought the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Robin Ticciati to Ankara and Istanbul.

The season brochure for 2022/23

“After a very difficult year, I wanted to offer the listeners an album full of positivity, lightness and beauty in a desire to return to a serene life“, violist Adrien La Marca explains about his new duo album Chanson Bohème.

Minna Pensola and Antti Tikkanen take over the artistic direction of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.

On Vito Žuraj's new CD Alavò, three large orchestras and renowned soloists interpret three works from the past five years.

Before the premiere of the first part of his large spacial orchestra triptych, Philippe Manoury talked about his musical career, his first contact with electronic music and his handling of the large orchestral apparatus.

The complete recording of Christophe Bertrand's instrumental works with the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Peter Rundel, and Brad Lubman was awarded the German Record Critics' Award 2021.

For his music building bridges between cultures, Toshio Hosokawa has been awarded the Goethe Medal.

Congratulations to Tabea Zimmermann: She is on the longlist for the German Record Critics Award.

As promised by its title, the new CD of Trio Mediaeval provides comfort: Solacium combines lullabies, hymns, and chorales from the Nordic countries with newly composed works.

Part science documentary, part true crime story: Philippe Manoury about his reconstruction of Boulez' Livre pour quatuor.

Valentin Uryupin steps into the role of chief conductor of Moscow’s Novaya Opera Theatre at the start of the 2021/22 season.

Just before Bas Wiegers conducted his first concerts in front of a live audience in May, he sat down for an interview to reflect on the preceding Corona year.

Journalist Barry Davis (The Jerusalem Post) accompanied the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's tour of Germany and drew an enthusiastic account of the first concert tour after the lockdown.

A much anticipated work by composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi received its world premiere at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2021.

Ilya Gringolts' solo-CD Ciaccona features music of today and draws inspiration from Johann Sebastian Bach.

For his recording of Bach's six partitas, Mahan Esfahani examined various copies and printed editions of the works.

Diapason d'or for Ilya Gringolts: on his new CD with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra he dazzles with music by Locatelli.

Congratulations to Antje Weithaas and Maximilian Hornung on winning the BBC Music Magazine Award!

Simon Bode talks about his wanderlust for musical journeys.

Composers of various generations talk about their personal encounters with Friedrich Cerha’s monumental Spiegel cycle.

With his work Api-danza macabra, Vito Žuraj addresses the explosive topic of bee mortality. The WDR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, premiered the commissioned composition this summer.

Eliahu Inbal's recording of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is the first purely orchestral release by the fledgling SWR Symphony Orchestra.

Congratulations to Ming Tsao on his award as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2021!

Marie Heeschen and her ensemble Paper Kite are dedicated to the evocative music created during or as a result of the Thirty Years' War.

Outrage is not enough: Titus Engel talks to the FAZ about conducting Bartók's only opera and about cultural politics in Corona times.

The winner of the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2020, Tabea Zimmermann, accepted the prize during the digital ceremony on 15 June 2021. A portrait by Patrick Hahn outlines her exceptional career.