Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March to May 2020 at a glance.
You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunow (Version 1869)
Tsymbalyuk, Paster, Kares, Skorokhodow
Göteborger Opernchor
Göteborger Symphonieorchester, Kent Nagano
Und this link you will find more information and can listen to excerpts of the recording.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 has received three nominations for next year’s Grammy Awards 2020:
Find more information here.
Find more information on the recording here.
The Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein announced on Thursday, November 21, 2019 in Heide, that it will award Midori the Brahms Prize 2020. The award ceremony will take place on 3 May 2020 in St. Bartholomew’s Church in Wesselburen.
Excerpt from Brahms Society’s statement:
The Brahms Society honors an outstanding violinist and proven Brahms interpreter, one of the most impressive personalities in the music world. The famous artist is honored for her worldwide acclaimed interpretations of the works of Johannes Brahms as well as for her great support of the next generation of artists and the special commitment in the spirit of humanity for cultural projects.
Here you can find the complete Brahms Society’s statement (in German).
Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut with the Munich Philharmonic on 21, 22 and 24 November 2019. Below you will find the programme of the concerts:
21, 22, 24 November Munich, Philharmonie
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 49
Adler: Alone, I return from the Night – Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Sarah-Jane Brandon – soprano, Katija Dragojevic – mezzo-soprano, Martin Mitterrutzner – Tenor, Ain Anger – Bass
Hila Baggio – Soprano
Philharmonic Choir Munich
Further information about the concerts can be found here.
This coming weekend, David Philip Hefti’s Monumentum – music for string sextet will be performed by the Amaryllis Quartett and partners in concert near Munich, in Icking and Herrsching. The work was written in 2014 to a commission from the Moritzburg Festival, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center New York and the Käthe Kollwitz House in Moritzburg. Here you can find further information on it.
Overview on the concerts:
23 November, 19.30 h – Icking, Rainer-Maria-Rilke-Gynmasium
Hefti: Monumentum – music for string sextet
Amaryllis Quartet, Barbara Buntrock – viola, Christoph Heesch – violoncello
24 November, 19.00 h – Herrsching, Haus der Bayerischen Landwirtschaft
s. 23 November
The renowned cellist Jan Vogler will perform an extraordinary repertoire at the Philharmonie in Cologne on 19 November 2019: Benjamin Britten’s Symphony for Violoncello and Orchestra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski.
19 November Cologne, Philharmonie
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Britten: Symphony for Violoncello and Orchestra op. 68
Further information can be found here.
Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Dresden
On 3 November, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Dresden. The co-production with the Teatro Real in Madrid will be directed by Spanish opera director Calixto Bieito. Further performances will take place on 7, 13, 26 and 28 November.
Find more information here.
From 31 October to 8 November 2019, Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra are on tour in Japan. Together with the Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, the Philharmonic present works by Beethoven, Liszt, Mahler, Brahms and Widmann.
Violinist and UN messenger of peace Midori has been appointed to the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
“We are pleased to recognize this outstanding artist and dedicated teacher in this way,” said Curtis president and CEO Roberto Díaz. “The prestigious named chairs at Curtis honor the school’s significant legacy while demonstrating our continued commitment as leaders and innovators in training excellence in violin studies.”
The Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies was previously held by Aaron Rosand until his retirement in May 2019. Midori joined the faculty in 2018. In the 2019–20 school year, the Curtis Institute of Music celebrates its 95 years of existence.
You can read the official announcement here.