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6 May
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Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 7.30pm Bertelsmeier Premiere Palacio Euskalduna Auditorium Avda. Abandoibarra, n° 4, Bilbao, Basque Country, 48011, Spain Spain
Vanessa Goikoetxea Soprano
Duncan Rock Baritone
Coro Easo Abesbatza
Xalbador Rallo Choirmaster / chorus director
Coro de Niños de la Sociedad Coral de Bilbao
Jose Luis Ormazabal Choirmaster / chorus director
Erik Nielsen Conductor
Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa
Birke Bertelsmeier : Zeru urdinetik Johannes Brahms : A German Requiem, Op.45
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8 May
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Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 8pm Hear and Now - Matthias Pintscher Conducts…. City Halls Glasgow Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
Matthias Pintscher, the BBC SSO’s Artist-In-Association, curates another evening of works, all originally commissioned for one anniversary or another. Ligeti’s frantic, scuttling culmination of his explorations into musical polyphony was written for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s 60th birthday. Hans Werner Henze’s Seventh Symphony commemorated the Berlin Philharmonic’s centenary and references Beethovenian symphonic form, German dances and the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. Olga Neuwirth’s recent work, meanwhile, began as a tribute Mahler to mark the centenary of his death but is inspired by memories of her grandfather’s life by the Danube and is, in her own words, “an impossible attempt to stop time by composing”.
The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Gyorgy Ligeti : San Francisco Polyphony Olga Neuwirth : Masaot/Clocks Without Hands Hans Werne Henze : Symphony No. 7
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14 May
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Friday, April 14, 2017 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera Continues its Wilde Opera Nights Series with the Concert Presentation of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) Jordan Hall, Boston 30 Gainsborough Street United States 617-585-1260 http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $25 and Up Odyssey Opera
Der Zwerg: Aleš Briscein (tenor)
Donna Clara, The Infanta: Kirsten Chambers (soprano)
Don Estoban: James Johnson (baritone)
Ghita: Michelle Trainor (soprano)
Conductor: Gil Rose
Boston’s most original and innovative opera company, Odyssey Opera, continues its Wilde Opera Nights series, a season-long exploration of operatic works inspired by the writings and world of Oscar Wilde. For one-night only, Odyssey Opera performs a concert version of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf (Der Zwerg), based on Oscar Wilde’s tale “The Birthday of the Infanta” (libretto by Georg Klaren). Led by conductor Gil Rose, this 90-minute opera is sung in German with projected English translations. Czech tenor Aleš Briscein sings the title role of “The Dwarf”—a return appearance with Odyssey Opera after his lauded performance as Dvořak’s “Dimitrij.”
Alexander Zemlinsky : The Dwarf
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22 May
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Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 8pm Conrad Tao World Premiere Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall Hong Kong China
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden Conductor
With Mahler’s Sixth—a tour de force for virtuoso orchestra—Maestro Jaap van Zweden and the HK Phil invite you to continue on our musical journey of Mahler’s symphonies. Within the Symphony’s compelling sonorities you’ll also hear passages of extraordinary beauty and calm—like the soaring “Alma theme”—a portrait of the composer’s wife—and sounds of cowbells from distant alpine pastures. In the last movement, listen for the three hammer blows of fate, “the last of which fells the hero like the stroke of an axe,” Mahler revealed. You are bound to feel the anguish of the prophecy. The concert opens with the world premiere of a new commission by the young American-Chinese composer Conrad Tao, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Composer-in-Residence for our 2016/17 season.
Conrad Tao : New Work Gustav Mahler : Symphony no. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
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27 May
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Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 7.30pm Missa World Première MuTh Hall Am Augartenspitz 1 1020 Wien Austria +43 1 347 80 80 muth.at/en/
Wiener Sängerknaben
Schubert-Akademie
Gerald Wirth Conductor
Nach dem Erfolg in der letzten Saison wieder im Programm!
Seit über 500 Jahren singen die Wiener Sängerknaben in der Wiener Hofburgkapelle Messen und Motetten vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne – an diesem Repertoire spiegelt sich die westliche Musikgeschichte. Geistliche Musik gibt es nicht nur im Christentum, und in dieser Konzertreihe bieten die Wiener Sängerknaben zusätzlich einen spannenden Ausblick auf spirituelle Musik aus anderen Kulturen.
Mit der eigens gegründeten Schubert-Akademie musizieren die Wiener Sängerknaben im MuTh Messen von Mozart, Haydn, Victoria, Schubert und Wirth; gepaart mit Hymnen, jüdischen Gesängen, indischen Bhajans, Qawwalis aus Pakistan, Liedern von Schamanen und Oberton-Meditationen.
Jedes der Konzerte befasst sich mit einem Thema: In der zweiten Saison geht es um Verzweiflung, Wut und Schrecken sowie Chaos.
Philosophen und Autoren, Schauspieler, Naturwissenschaftler und Politiker lesen dazu und denken gemeinsam mit dem Publikum über das Gehörte nach.
Franz Schubert : Mass no. 3 in B flat major, D.324 Gerald Wirth : Missa
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27 May
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Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 6.00pm - 6.30pm Five Joan Eardley Pictures Scottish National Portrait Gallery 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD Scotland
Tickets: unticketed free Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society
Chamber music by John Gourlay including a set of pieces inspired by the work of Joan Eardley in conjunction with the exhibition "A Sense Of Place" at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The players are Lynne Bulmer (flute), Stuart Smith (clarinet), Andreas Morrison (horn), Stephen Morrison (guitar), Vincent Gray (violin), April Randall (viola) & Katie O'Neil (cello).
John Gourlay : Five Joan Eardley Pictures John Gourlay : Aquarelle John Gourlay : Lithoglyph John Gourlay : Impasto
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27 May
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Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 7:30pm ERC Presents The Dreyfus Affair at BAM Fisher 4/27-5/7 BAM Fisher 321 Ashland Place United States 718.636.4100 http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $55 and Up Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Written by Eve Wolf
Directed by Donald T. Sanders
Sets and Costumes by Vanessa James
Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons
Projection Design by David Bengali
Actors: Mark Andrew Coffin (Commandant Hubert-Joseph Henry), Max Von Essen (Alfred Dreyfus), Mark Evans (Mathieu Dreyfus), Dee Pelletier (Madame Bastian), Meghan Picerno (Lucie Dreyfus), Daniel Rowan (Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen), Mark Light-Orr (Count Marie Charles Ferdinand Wallin-Esterhazy), Richard Waddingham (Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer Paty de Clam)
Musicians: Grace Park (violin), Daniel Cho (violin), Chieh-Fan Yiu (viola), Nico Olarte-Hayes (cello), Jake Chabot (flute & piccolo), Parker Ramsey (organ & harpsichord), Max Barros (piano)
Casting by Stephanie Klapper Casting
Celebrating its 16th season, the critically-acclaimed Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher with a two-week run of The Dreyfus Affair. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production illuminates the controversial story of the 1894 treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus that had a decades-long reverberation in the political landscape of France and the rest of the world. Featuring Max von Essen (Tony Nominee for An American in Paris) in the title role of Alfred Dreyfus and Mark Evans (Irish Rep's Finian's Rainbow) as his devoted brother Mathieu Dreyfus, this tragic tale of intrigue, undying love, conspiracy, and political will is brought to life through the fusion of drama, history, and music.
Cesar Franck : Piano Quintet in F minor Jean-Philippe Rameau : Excerpts from Les fêtes d’Hébé
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28 May
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Friday, April 28, 2017 at 20:00 Post Paradise Centrala Digbeth United Kingdom centrala-space.org.uk
Via Nova choir
Post-Paradise is a monthly concert series for New Music in Birmingham, UK. Programming local composers and guests from around the UK and abroad.
This month we invited Birmingham based Andy Ingamells, “an experimental musician who develops unorthodox methods of composition that blur the line between composer and performer.” Writing for contemporary music choir Via Nova.
Andy Ingamells : A Song
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28 May
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Friday, April 28, 2017 at 7pm Oskars Herliņš World Premiere Great Guild Hall Amatu 6, Riga, LV1050, Latvia Latvia
Jana Ozoliņa Violin
Sinfonietta Rīga
Normunds Šnē Conductor
Already for several years, Latvian violinist Jana Ozoliņa studies and works in Switzerland, frequently taking additional classes from the renowned violinist Boris Kuschnir. She performs with the Young Eurasian Soloists, chamber orchestra formed by her. In Riga the skilled and spirited soloist will perform the Vivaldi-inspired, melodically throbbing concerto The American Four Seasons by the founding father of American minimalism, Philip Glass. Another unusual encounter proposed by Sinfonietta Rīga will be the one with the string piece by Unsuk Chin, the best-known Korean composer in Europe – inspired by graffiti seen on the streets and embellished with bells and gongs. And finally, a new chamber concerto by the quiet Latvian with an ironic smile Oskars Herliņš.
Oskars Herliņš : 8-BIT CONCERTO Unsuk Chin : Graffiti Philip Glass : Violin Concerto no. 2 "The American Four Seasons"
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29 May
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29 May
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Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 7:30 PM Melodia Women's Choir of NYC presents Awakening the Spirit Church of the Holy Apostles 296 Ninth Avenue, NYC, New York United States +1 800-838-3006 http://www.melodiawomenschoir.org/ info@horsedragon-nyc.com
Tickets: $20 adv ($25 door)
Melodia Women’s Choir led by Cynthia Powell, Areta Zhulla (violin), Rita Costanzi (harp), an all-female string quintet, and Taisiya Pushkar (collaborative pianist)
Melodia Women’s Choir, New York’s premier ensemble for women’s choral music conducted by Cynthia Powell, continues its 14th season with Awakening the Spirit in a soaring concert featuring the U.S. premiere of John Rutter’s “Visions.” Written by Rutter as a showcase for violin and choir, “Visions” is a powerful work that examines the spiritual, religious, and historic importance of Jerusalem as a symbol of “a utopian ideal of heavenly peace and seraphic bliss for redeemed humanity” in four movements. Melodia is excited to work with accomplished violin soloist Areta Zhulla, along with harpist Rita Costanzi, and an all-female string quintet.
Also on the program is “The Dancers” from notable Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977), and women’s choral favorite “Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda” by Gustav Holst (1874–1934). “To say that I’m excited about this music would be an understatement,” says Artistic Director Cynthia Powell. “To be able to offer the U.S. premiere of a new work by John Rutter is a thrilling thing in and of itself, but to bring to life the gorgeous choral suite ‘The Dancers’ by Grace Williams.... Add to that the exquisite playing of violinist Areta Zhulla, and we have a knockout concert.”
John Rutter : Visions Grace Williams : The Dancers Gustav Holst : Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
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29 May
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Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 9pm Fiona Brice + London Mozart Players Matthews Yard 1 Matthews Yard, Off Surrey Street, Croydon CR0 1FF United Kingdom https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fiona-brice-london-mozart-players-relationships-tickets-33924330586
Tickets: FREE + priority booking option London Mozart Players
KANYE WEST & PLACEBO COLLABORATOR FIONA BRICE KICKS OFF OUR DEBUT #LMPONTHEMOVE TOUR AT MATTHEWS YARD, CROYDON, AS SHE HOSTS THE WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF HER NEW ORCHESTRAL WORK, RELATIONSHIPS.
A classically-trained composer, arranger and violinist, Fiona Brice is in demand as one of Britain’s most versatile and adventurous collaborators. Her credits as an orchestrator stretch thirty studio albums from the likes of Placebo, Ed Harcourt, Kate Nash, Sandy Dillon and John Grant, whilst performing alongside some of the world’s most prominent musicians, including Kanye West, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Meatloaf, Katherine Jenkins, Gorrillaz and Robbie Williams. As an artist, she is signed to Bella Union records and in 2016 released her debut instrumental album Postcards From.
Fiona Brice : Relationships Dmitri Shostakovich : Chamber Symphony Astor Piazzolla : Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
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30 May
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Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm Melodia Women's Choir of NYC presents Awakening the Spirit West End Collegiate Church West End Ave. at 77th St United States http://www.westendchurch.org
Tickets: $20 adv ($25 door)
Melodia Women’s Choir led by Cynthia Powell, Areta Zhulla (violin), Rita Costanzi (harp), an all-female string quintet, and Taisiya Pushkar (collaborative pianist)
Melodia Women’s Choir, New York’s premier ensemble for women’s choral music conducted by Cynthia Powell, continues its 14th season with Awakening the Spirit in a soaring concert featuring the U.S. premiere of John Rutter’s “Visions.” Written by Rutter as a showcase for violin and choir, “Visions” is a powerful work that examines the spiritual, religious, and historic importance of Jerusalem as a symbol of “a utopian ideal of heavenly peace and seraphic bliss for redeemed humanity” in four movements. Melodia is excited to work with accomplished violin soloist Areta Zhulla, along with harpist Rita Costanzi, and an all-female string quintet.
Also on the program is “The Dancers” from notable Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977), and women’s choral favorite “Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda” by Gustav Holst (1874–1934). “To say that I’m excited about this music would be an understatement,” says Artistic Director Cynthia Powell. “To be able to offer the U.S. premiere of a new work by John Rutter is a thrilling thing in and of itself, but to bring to life the gorgeous choral suite ‘The Dancers’ by Grace Williams.... Add to that the exquisite playing of violinist Areta Zhulla, and we have a knockout concert.”
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John Rutter : Visions Grace Williams : The Dancers Gustav Holst : Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 7.30pm - 9.15pm KOS Extra Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy KY1 1EH Scotland
Tickets: £8 adults, £4 children Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society
A programme contrasting music of the eighteenth century with contemporary compositions and school pupil work from this year's composition project.
John Gourlay : Aquarelle John Gourlay : Lithoglyph John Gourlay : Impasto
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