MUSIC SALES CLASSICAL SEASON HIGHLIGHTS 2015–2016
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Focus on Nico Muhly Launching their 2015–16 season, the Paris Opera Ballet will be hosting an opening gala on September 24, featuring Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward, a new ballet by Benjamin Millepied with an original score by Nico Muhly. Over the 2015–16 season, Wigmore Hall will hold a series of events focussing on Muhly including two world premiere p erformances. On November 27, Stile Antico will perform the world premiere of Gentle Sleep alongside a number of Tudor motets as part of the celebration of their tenth anniversary. A week later on December 4, Iestyn Davies, Allan Clayton and James Baillieu will perform another new M uhly work as part of a programme of English and American song devised by Baillieu. The Focus on Nico Muhly series will continue in to the 2016–17 season. To celebrate its 75th Anniversary, the Utah Symphony has commissioned Muhly to compose a work inspired by the landscape and national parks of southern Utah. The premiere will be conducted by Music Director Thierry Fischer on December 4 and 5.
New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic has appointed Esa-Pekka Salonen as its resident composer for three years, beginning in the 201516 season. The residency will launch with performances of Salonen’s LA Variations conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert on September 25 and 26. On March 17, 18 and 19 the orchestra will give the New York premiere of Karawane, a work co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic. The third Salonen work currently planned for the 2015–16 season is a new commission for June 11 2016, once again under the baton of Gilbert. In addition to his compositional responsibilities, Salonen will also advise the orchestra on new-music programming and will conduct during the Philharmonic’s Messiaen Week, including a performance of the Turangalîla-symphonie with pianist Yuja Wang.
Concerto for the left hand
Agerfeldt Olesen concerto The Danish composer Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen has written a cello concerto for German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, who will premiere the piece on September 24 with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Soustrot. On November 25 Giordano Bellincampi will conduct the first two performances in Duisburg. This work was co-commissioned by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Duisburg Philharmonic.
Thomas on record A sixth disc of music by Augusta Read Thomas is now out on Nimbus Alliance. This album is the final compilation in the series of Thomas’ music to be released by the label. The complete set of recordings represents over 40 works by Thomas and spans her orchestral repertoire, works for various chamber ensembles and solo pieces. Described as having ‘extraordinary clarity and elegance with a bold resonant vitality’ by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, her compositions are influenced by jazz as well as composers including Bach, Mahler and Berio.
Hans Abrahamsen has been commissioned by WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne in collaboration with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra to write a concerto for pianist Alexandre Tharaud. The work is for just the left hand. The title Left, alone conveys several possible interpretations ranging from a sense of solitude and being left alone to the more concrete ‘only the left hand’. Abrahamsen believes the piano is a different instrument when only one hand is playing. The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne will premiere the concerto with Tharaud, conducted by Ilan Volkov on January 29 2016. Let me tell you for soprano and orchestra by Abrahamsen will receive its US premiere in Boston with Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Barbara Hannigan on February 4. By January 2016 Let me tell you will also be released on CD by Winter & Winter in a co-production with Bayerische Rundfunk. The work was the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society award for largescale composition in 2015.
Concertos for Nielsen Carl Nielsen was close friends with the members of the Copenhagen Wind Quintet. He had planned to write a solo concerto for each but only finished the flute concerto and the clarinet concerto before his death in 1931. In 2015 we celebrate Nielsen’s 150th anniversary and Odense Symphony Orchestra has commissioned the three remaining wind concertos from Anders Koppel, Søren Nils Eichberg and Sunleif Rasmussen. The concertos will be premiered in October 2015; the Horn Concerto by Eichberg on October 22 with soloist Tone Sundgård Anker, then the Oboe Concerto by Rasmussen with Henrik Skotte Larsen and the Bassoon Concerto by Koppel with Morten Østergaard on October 30. Odense Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Eivind Aadland and Eva Ollikainen respectively.
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Betsy Jolas France features prominently in the season to come at Berlin Philharmonic and in 2016 highly regarded composer Betsy Jolas will be present for the premiere of a new orchestral work on June 16. Simon Rattle will conduct at the Berlin Philharmonie. The concert is part of a series of short orchestral works stretching across several seasons. Amongst others Hans Abrahamsen will contribute to it.
SpanISH Orchestral news Ángel Illarramendi has composed an overture, Zarautz, dedicated to his home town in the north of Spain. Bilbao Symphony Orchestra will premiere this work on February 18 2016, at the Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao. Orquesta Clásica de Santa Cecilia will then perform it on June 9 in Madrid. Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia with the conductor Dima Slobodeniouk will perform Three Interludes for Orchestra by Benet Casablancas on October 15, 16 and 17 in venues in Galicia. Albert Guinovart will perform as soloist in his own Piano Concerto No 2 ‘Traces’ in three concerts, in Castellón on November 6, then in Barcelona on November 13 and 14.
Island in the City Trio con Brio is this season’s ensemble in residence at The Danish National Radio P2, and Bent Sørensen has been commissioned to write a Triple Concerto for the trio and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. The world premiere of Isola della città – Island in the City will take place on January 21 2016 at the Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. Sørensen describes the piano trio as an island floating in the city of the orchestra, trying to break free from the shadowy presence of the city. Although there are several movements, it will emerge as one continuous work. In November 2015 Tine Thing Helseth will tour with Bent Sørensen’s Trumpet Concerto, performing with the NDR Radiophilharmonie conducted by Andrew Manze, visiting Hanover, Cologne, Freiburg and Vienna.
Canta-Concerto On October 1 and 3 Canta-Concerto by Marc Neikrug written for the mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke, will be premiered by the New York Philharmonic with Alan Gilbert. Of his new piece, the composer notes: ‘Instrumental students are always told by their teachers that the voice is the most natural and beautiful instrument and should be imitated. But it struck me that with the exception of a concerto by Glière, there are no concertos for voice. Since vocalists are very tied to the word, they are always choosing a middle ground between diction and pure sound production. I wanted to write a piece where the sound production dominates and the range of emotional context was that of a concerto for an instrument. The piece is in four movements: a dramatic first movement, a scherzo-like interlude, a slow movement, and a finale that owes more than a bit to jazz.’
Bryce Dessner Quilting by Bryce Dessner will have several performances in the 2015–16 season. It was premiered in May 2015 by lead commissioner LA Phil under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. The work will be given its country premiere in the Netherlands on S eptember 25 by co-commissioners Philharmonie Zuidnederland under the direction of Kees Bakels. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, who co-commissioned the work, will give the UK premiere on April 21, under the direction of Joshua Weilerstein. Cork Opera House will host Sounds from a Safe Harbour, a festival of music, art and conversation, from September 17-20, curated by Dessner. It will include a performance of the collaborative work, Wave Movements, composed by Dessner and Richard Reed Parry, on September 19. The US premiere of the piece will take place on November 6 by the New York Philharmonic. The Australian premiere follows in Sydney on January 16. The work was initially premiered at the Mountains and Waves weekend at the Barbican, and is accompanied by a film by Japanese p hotographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Dorman at Cleveland On March 17, 18 and 19, the Cleveland Orchestra will feature a concert - opener by Avner Dorman that was commissioned by Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the orchestra, to celebrate the organisations’ ten-year partnership. Dorman’s work revels in the diverse influences that comprise Miami’s musical landscape. The Cleveland Orchestra will give further performances of the piece at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
Corigliano’s Stomp How would you begin your second season as music director of the Houston Symphony? Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the director of Houston Symphony will open his second season with a fully orchestrated version of the devilishly tricky Stomp by John Corigliano. Originally written for the International Tchaikovsky Competition, in this orchestration Corigliano meticulously realised the implied harmonies of the solo version while maintaining the elements of American fiddle music, jazz and bluegrass found in the original (including foot stomps by the orchestra players). The Houston Symphony debuts this new orchestral piece from September 17 to 20 with their music director on the podium.
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Stewart Copeland Concerto for Trapset and Orchestra: Tyrant’s Crush by Stewart Copeland receives its world premiere from February 19 to 21 2016 with the composer as soloist, the Pittsburgh Symphony and Marcelo Lehninger conducting. On January 21 to 23, the American Modern Ensemble presents the North American premiere of Copeland’s chamber opera The Cask of Amontillado. Based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe with a libretto by David Bamberger, The Cask of Amontillado is a criminal’s account of a transgression committed fifty years earlier – a crime for which he was never caught but now confesses. The performances will take place at SubCulture in New York City.
Detroit Symphony The Detroit Symphony has commissioned two Music Sales composers for the coming season. Aaron Jay Kernis has written a flute concerto for a premiere by the inimitable Marina Piccinini. Leonard Slatkin conducts from January 21 to 23. True to his nature, Kernis harnesses the vast array of orchestral color to surround Piccinini’s particularly beautiful, lyrical style. Gabriela Lena Frank is hard at work on a concerto for orchestra as the culmination of a three-year residency with the orchestra. Frank will draw on her Peruvian-American roots and incorporate folk song elements into her dazzling orchestral exploration. Her piece premieres on May 26 and 27 with Leonard Slatkin conducting. On October 23 to 25 the orchestra will give the US premiere of the Viola Concerto by Nico Muhly.
Springtime Dance The Orchestre National de Lyon has commissioned a concert version of Springtime Dance from The Winter’s Tale by Joby Talbot. This orchestral work has been extracted from the critically acclaimed ballet premiered in 2014 and will be performed as a stand alone work in Lyon on December 18 conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
Salonen at The Ballet
Mata Hari The Ballet
The Royal Ballet will present a number of world premieres in 2016, including a new ballet by Wayne McGregor set to the 2011 orchestral work Nyx by Esa-Pekka Salonen. The premiere performances will be conducted by Salonen with lighting design by Lucy Carter. Salonen’s symphonic poem takes inspiration from the elusive Nyx, the Greek goddess of night. There will be six performances of the work on May 28, 31 and June 3, 10 and two performances on June 11.
Tarik O’Regan and Ted Brandsen, artistic director and choreographer of Dutch National Ballet, are working together on a new ballet, Mata Hari, to be premiered on February 6 2016. This is O’Regan’s first full-length ballet commission. The music will be performed by the Dutch Ballet Orchestra conducted by Matthew Rowe. Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle) is one of the most iconic women in Dutch history. The turbulent life of this Dutch spy and dancer is at the heart of the large-scale production. Mata Hari was born to a well-to-do Frisian family in 1876 as Margaretha Zelle. Following an unhappy marriage, Zelle went to seek adventure in Paris. As the exotic, mysterious Mata Hari, she became one of the most famous dancers of her day. She travelled throughout Europe and had highly placed lovers everywhere, which seemingly made her an ideal spy during World War I. She was accused of being a double agent and was executed by firing squad in France in 1917.
Dancing to Dessner In February, April and May 2016 a new ballet will be presented by New York City Ballet. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Most Incredible Thing, the story of a young man who creates a magnificent clock in an effort to win a contest and the peculiar consequences that ensue, resident choreographer Justin Peck’s first narrative work will be set to a commissioned score by composer Bryce Dessner. Peck’s collaborative vision will feature 50 dancers, including 11 children from the School of American Ballet, with costumes and scenic designs by the contemporary artist Marcel Dzama. The string quartets Tenebre and Delphica by Dessner have been arranged for 16 strings by the composer for use as the music in Hubert Essakow’s Tenebre at Ballett am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Tenebre forms part of a triple bill to be performed on June 4.
Raven Girl Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl is a modern fairytale created in collaboration with award-winning composer Gabriel Yared and writer Audrey Niffenegger. Commissioned by the Royal Ballet in 2012 it will return to Covent Garden, London for seven performances from October 6.
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Joby Talbot Critically acclaimed collaborations between Joby Talbot and Christopher Wheeldon enjoy revivals and premieres in Europe and North America. Fool’s Paradise is at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago from September 16 and at Vienna State Ballet from October 29. Tide Harmonic made in 2014 by Wheeldon to Talbot’s score of the same title returns to Pacific Northwest Ballet in September. The Winter’s Tale is presented by its co-commissioner National Ballet of Canada in November and the company takes it to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in January. Following the success of its premiere The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden revives The Winter’s Tale in April 2016. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland goes to Stockholm in May 2016 followed by more European outings later in the year. Chroma, Talbot’s first major work with Wayne McGregor from 2006, can be seen in Pennsylvania from October 22. The piece is presented alongside MGV, Christopher Wheeldon’s blisteringly vivid collaboration with Michael Nyman.
Wohl Dance Projects Composer Daniel Wohl is working on two dance projects this season. He’s written a new score for gloATL which is, in the composer’s words, ‘divided into six movements. Using as point of departure the cyclical characteristics of the physical world, as well as those of human psychology and biology, each of the six movements explores how music, through its own internal cycles (harmonic, rhythmic, formal...) reflects the reality we experience.’ gloATL workshops the piece throughout the coming season with a public premiere s cheduled in April. Choreographer Jody Oberfelder is using music from Wohl’s penetrating Corps Exquis in her project entitled The Brain Piece – a collaboration of dance, sound, science and audience that examines how the mind works. The Brain Piece features at Dance Place in Washington, DC on April 16 2016.
The Great Gatsby Song from the Uproar Los Angeles Opera will present a newly updated production of Song from the Uproar, the opera by Missy Mazzoli based on the life and writings of Swiss adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt. At the age of 20, after her mother, father and brother passed away within three years of each other, Eberhardt left her life in Switzerland for a nomadic and unfettered existence in North Africa. She travelled extensively through the desert on horseback, relentlessly documenting her travels in detailed journals and short stories. She fell in love with an Algerian soldier and they began a chaotic relationship marked by dramatic fights and long separations. Eberhardt defied conventions of her time; she dressed as a man, drank, smoked and even joined a Sufi brotherhood that typically excluded women. At the age of 27 she drowned in a flash flood in the desert. Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt explores her tale, more than 100 years after her death. Los Angeles Opera’s production features Abigail Fischer in the title role and Steven Osgood conducting the NOW Ensemble. The production runs from October 8 to 11.
Becoming Santa Claus Dallas Opera present the world premiere of Becoming Santa Claus by Mark Adamo from December 4 to 12, with a cast starring Juan José de León, Jennifer Rivera and Matthew Boehler; conductor Emmanuel Villaume; and director Paul Curran. In an Elven kingdom in the Far, Far North, Prince Claus will celebrate his 13th birthday with the party to end all parties; however, a bright star has signalled a momentous birth. When his most important guests decide to celebrate the new baby instead of him, Claus dazzles the newborn with an assortment of gifts, before discovering that love is the most treasured gift of all.
The Great Gatsby by John Harbison will receive its European premiere at Semperoper Dresden on December 6 2015, produced by the British stage director Keith Warner and conducted by Wayne Marshall. The opera is based on the widely read American novel of the same title written by F Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Fitzgerald’s magnificent portrait of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ in the United States – in all its idealism, hopes, excesses, glamour and decadence – tells of the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan, married to brutish Tom. In the opera, the novel was respected only insofar as it furthered the musical design. The characters expand with the space which the music creates for them.
María Moliner Antoni Parera Fons has been commissioned by Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid for an opera centred on the fascinating character of the Spanish philologist and lexicographer María Moliner (1900-1981). She was the first to draft a dictionary of Spanish usage and, thus, crucial in the history of modern Spanish language. The peculiarity of her story is that she was not a member of the Academy of Language and, aware of the deficiencies of the official dictionary, decided to improve the definitions of words on her own. It took her fifteen years to finish this overambitious task. The world premiere of María Moliner will take place on April 13 2016 with four subsequent performances in Madrid on April 15, 17, 19 and 21. Paco Azorín will stage this new opera production with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid conducted by Víctor Pablo Pérez. The libretto is a text by Lucía Vilanova. Parera Fons has written over 250 songs, some of which have been performed by Victoria de los Ángeles, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras and Plácido Domingo.
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Only the sound remains Kaija Saariaho and Peter Sellars will create a new music theatre work to texts by Ezra pound inspired by Japanese Noh plays, Always strong (Tsunemasa) and Feather mantle (Hagoromo). Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor and Davone Tines, bass baritone will enthrall us on a unique journey into luminosity and darkness, visionary power and symbolism. The sound world will be defined by the ensemble consisting of flute, kantele (Finnish folk lute), string quartet, percussion, electronics and a vocal ensemble embedded in a stage set designed by Julie Mehretu. Only the Sound Remains is a co-commission by Dutch National Opera, Opéra de Paris, Canadian Opera Company, Finnish National Opera and Teatro Real, Madrid. The world premiere takes place on March 15 in Amsterdam.
future humans Opera The Norwegian National Opera will debut Elysium, the new opera from Rolf Wallin. Mark Ravenhill’s sci-fi libretto is set one hundred years in the future; humans have developed microchip technology that allows a new, improved form of human to communicate through strange and fascinating sounds at an incredible rate and abandon speech. Forty humans without such enhancement are kept under strict security with the sole purpose of performing Beethoven’s Fidelio for the pleasure of their keepers. So that one might understand the human experience of this futuristic world of
technological marvels, the audience follows the narratives of two women from polarised backgrounds: an original human wife seeking to escape her captivity, and a transhuman woman who longs to return to a truly human state. Soprano Eli Kristin Hanssveen will play Ravenhill’s transhuman protagonist and Audrey Luna is cast as the captive human. British director David Pountney will direct the production and Leslie Travers will design the set. Baldur Brönnimann will conduct the seven performances that will take place between March 12 and April 2 2016.
Iain Bell’s operas The third opera by Iain Bell, In Parenthesis, will be premiered on May 13 2016. Commissioned by Welsh National Opera, the new production will be directed by David Pountney and Carlo Rizzi will conduct. Further performances take place at the Royal Opera House on June 29 and July 1 2016 and at the Birmingham Hippodrome on June 10. The new opera marks both the 70th anniversary of the Welsh National Opera’s founding and the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. David Jones’ epic poem of the same name forms the basis for Bell’s narrative in which the audience follows the military life of a young English private, John Ball, from enlistment to the trenches of the Western Front. The libretto has been adapted by David Antrobus and Emma Jenkins. Andrew Bidlack will perform the title role alongside a fantastic cast of British talent including Graham Clark, Donald Maxwell, Alexandra Deshorties and Peter Coleman-Wright. Welsh National Opera will also present the UK premiere of Bell’s A Christmas Carol from December 18 - 20 2015. Premiered in 2013 by Houston Grand Opera, this new British production at the Wales Millennium Centre will be conducted by James Southall and narrated by the English tenor Mark Le Brocq.
Jocelyn Pook Following sell-out runs at the Almeida Theatre and in the West End, King Charles III, with music by Jocelyn Pook will run at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from S eptember 4 to 19 before embarking on a UK national tour. The production will also transfer to Broadway, p laying at the Music Box Theatre from October 10. The incidental music by Jocelyn Pook has been praised for its sensitivity to the subtleties of Bartlett’s drama. Drawing Life is a multi-media portrayal of life in the Terezin concentration camp featuring dramatized song, film and poetry. The work will be performed on January 27 in Nottingham, then three days later at Milton Court, London. Composed by Jocelyn Pook, and created in collaboration with director Emma Bernard and video artist Dragan Aleksic´, the performance features poems and drawings by Jewish children imprisoned in the camp.
Mrs Henderson Presents The 2005 film starring Judi Dench, Mrs Henderson Presents, showcases a score by George Fenton. It has been refashioned into a musical and will receive its premiere at the Theatre Royal Bath from August 15 to September 5. Fenton has composed the music for the stage adaption and joins a distinguished team of writers and producers including d ouble Tony Award-winning Don Black. Janie Dee stars as Mrs Henderson.
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Solar Trilogy in Holland One of the largest and most ambitious orchestra scores by Poul Ruders is his Solar Trilogy, a thrilling experience for a udiences and a challenge for orchestras. The 70 minute work, composed between 1992 and 1995 is a huge symphonic triptych depicting in music the life and behaviour of our nearest star: the sun. The 2016 Holland Festival will feature the work together with The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Gong, Zenith and Corona are the titles of the three movements – each of them inspired both by modern astrophysics and the radiant energy that we experience every day. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz will perform the work on June 25 2016 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
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Total Immersion: Dutilleux 2016 is the centenary of the birth of Henri Dutilleux and celebrations will be taking place all over the world, most notably by Philharmonie de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse. Not allowing himself to conform to any schools or movements, Dutilleux is unanimously considered as a genius. The BBC Symphony Orchestra will continue their hugely successful Total Immersion series with an in-depth look at the music of Dutilleux on April 30 2016 at the Barbican, London. A screening of the 1952 film L’amour d’une femme, the soundtrack to which was scored by Dutilleux, will begin the day. Two concerts of chamber music and orchestral works will be performed by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the BBC Symphony Orchestra respectively. Dr Caroline Potter of Kingston University, a leading academic on the music of the French composer, will give a comprehensive introduction prior to the evening’s performance. Pascal Rophé will conduct some of Dutilleux’s most definitive works including Symphony No 1, The Shadows of Time, Metaboles and his cello concerto Tout un monde lointain, which will be performed by leading German cellist Alban Gerhardt.
Paul Mealor Pro Coro Canada, the country’s leading professional choir has appointed Paul Mealor as Composer in Residence. Mealor will work intensively with the choir and its conductor, Michael Zaugg on a new commission; the Canadian premiere of Mealor’s 40-minute oratorio, The Farthest Shore (September 27 2015, Edmonton, Alberta), and composition workshops for young composers as well as working with the National Youth Choir of Canada. On November 19 at St Machar’s Cathedral in Aberdeen the premiere of Mealor’s Symphony No 1 ‘Passiontide’ will celebrate the composer’s fortieth birthday. The performers will be the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir and the orchestra of Scottish Opera, conducted by James Jordan. The 70-minute work for choir, soloists and orchestra, the largest Mealor work to date, is a meditation on the crucifixion. Distinguished Concerts International New York will host a Mealor concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City on February 15. The programme, conducted by James Jordan will include the New York premiere of Mealor’s Stabat Mater and a specially commissioned work, Jubilate Deo.
Unión Musical Ediciones celebrates its 25th anniversary in the Music Sales Group with a series of concerts taking place at Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid, October 6-9 2015. Works by Joan Albert Amargós, Sergio Blardony, Benet Casablancas, José Luis Greco, Jorge Grundman, Albert Guinovart, Ramón Paus and José Zárate among others, will be performed. The celebrations continue with the world premiere of Albumblatt für Trio by Benet Casablancas in Barcelona on November 5 at Palau de la Música Catalana, and with the Austrian premiere on November 13 at the Kollegienkirche, Salzburg. The seventh string quartet by Ramón Paus will premiere on January 18 2016 at the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid. String Quartet No 7 ‘De ultramar’ is a commission from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Judith Weir Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir continues in her role as Composer in Association with the BBC Singers. Weir plans to write one large-scale work per year for the group in her three-year tenure. The role also involves workshops and curating concerts. London’s Wigmore Hall has commissioned Weir for a new work for the soprano Ailish Tynan and chamber ensemble. Tynan will premiere the work on March 29 2016.
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