On Friday, 8 June, cellist and Artistic Director of the Dresden Music Festival Jan Vogler was honoured with the European Culture Award TAURUS in the Frauenkirche Dresden.
Find more information also about the award winners here.
On 8 June 2018, David Philip Hefti will be guest in Donaueschingen at the Boulanger Trio’s “Boulangerie”. This concert series connects concert and salon, traditional chamber music repertoire and contemporary music. David Philip Hefti’s works Lichter Hall – Trio No. 2 for Violin, Violoncello and Piano and Poème noctambule – for Violin and Piano will be performed. A talk between David Philip Hefti and the Boulanger Trio about Hefti’s works will also be part of the concert.
Overview on the concert’s details:
8. June Donaueschingen, Donauhallen
Hefti: Lichter Hall – Trio No. 2 for Violin, Violoncello and Piano
Hefti: Poème noctambule – for Violin and Piano
Boulanger Trio
You can find furter details on the concert here.
On 8 and 10 June, conductor Manfred Honeck will conduct the world premiere of a piece by Pittsburgh composer Reza Vali with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Heinz Hall. The work was commissioned by the PSO on the occasion of Manfred Honeck’s 10the anniversary as Music Director at the PSO. Further, works by Mozart, Wagner, Liszt and Beethoven will be performed. Soloist of the concert will be pianist Igor Levit.
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On Friday, 8 June, the Ceremony of the European Culture Award TAURUS will take place in the Frauenkirche Dresden. Entertainer and musician Götz Alsmann welcomes great artists such as the tenor Piotr Beczala, soprano, Anja Harteros, cellist Jan Vogler, actor Daniel Brühl, painter Gerhard Richter and the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko.
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Tonight on 1 June 2018, “Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends” will be guest at Berlin Philharmonie, to perform their program with texts and lyrics by Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain etc. as well as musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Astor Piazzolla etc.
The concert will start at 20.00
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The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal takes great pride and pleasure in announcing that Maestro Kent Nagano has received the Meritorious Service Medal from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, during a ceremony held in Montreal this evening. Kent Nagano had the following words in response:
“I am honoured today to receive the Meritorious Service Decorations from the Governor General of Canada Julie Payette. I am proud to collaborate with exceptionally talented musicians and with a top-level Chorus, and I am particularly happy about the inauguration of the Maison symphonique in 2011, the acquisition of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique*, and the projects and initiatives that bring us closer to the community, such as La musique aux enfants and the Classical Spree. Touring projects and large-scale event openings enable me to contribute to the Orchestra’s stature and influence in Canada, the Great North, the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. This medal is a recognition I find deeply touching.”
Meritorious Service Decorations are given to recognize people who have brought remarkable contribution, for a determined period, that bring honour to Canada. The Civil Division recognizes a deed or an activity that has been performed in a highly professional manner, or according to a very high standard: often innovative, this deed or activity sets an example for others to follow, improves the quality of life of a community and brings benefit or honour to Canada.
On 1 and 2 June, Omer Meir Wellber will stand at the rostrum of the Orchestre national de Lyon. Together with pianist Radu Lupu they will perform Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 3. Also works by Bardanashvili and Haydn will be on the program.
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Swiss composer David Philip Hefti represents at the Beijing Modern Music Festival the Swiss section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) at the World New Music Days on 24 May with his piece à la recherche… – for clarinet, viola and piano.
à la recherche… – for clarinet, viola and piano was composed in 2017 to a commission from the Swiss Chamber Concerts for François Benda, Jürg Dähler and Gilles Vonsattel, to whom it is also dedicated. They also gave the world première of the work on 25 October 2017 in Zurich.
Overview on the concert:
24 May, Beijing, CCOM Opera & Concert Hall
Beijing Modern Music Festival / ISCM World New Music Days
Hefti: à la recherche… – für Klarinette, Viola und Klavier+
You’ll find further information on the concert here.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano have unveiled the orchestra’s summer concert programming, including the 7th OSM Classical Spree in the end of August.
Click here for the trailer and here for all concert dates with the OSM and Kent Nagano.
On 23 May 2018, David Philip Hefti’s work “con fuoco – string quartet no. 4” will find his Russaion premier at the Saint-Petersburg International New Music Festival reMusik.org. The concert will take place at 20:00 at Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina. You can find further information here.