As part of the Visions festival, Bas Wiegers will conduct the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie on 13 February - the programme includes Mark Andre's Vier Echographien and Francesca Verunelli's From Scratch, which will be performed with the young percussionist Vanessa Porter.
Milica Djordjević and Mark Andre have been nominated for the 16th German Music Writers' Award.
"Few approach the unknown world of the organ with such patience and intensity,” enthused organist Stephan Heuberger about composer Mark Andre and his work iv15 Himmelfahrt.
In conversation with Jeffrey Arlo Brown, Mark Andre discussed teachers and companions, his German-French heritage and the aesthetics of fragility.