Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Heinz Holliger
born: 05/21/1939
nationality: Switzerland
Upcoming:
String Quartet No. 2
03/22/2010 | Grande Auditório - Lisboa - Portugal
Tonscherben
Conductor: Heinz Holliger
03/24/2010 | Philharmonie - Berlin - Germany
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News
08/04/2009
Jörg Widmann and Heinz Holliger at Lucerne Festival
As Composer-in-residence at this year’s Lucerne Festival, Jörg Widmann has been commissioned to write a new Oboe concerto for the legendary oboe player, conductor and composer Heinz Holliger. The world premiere will take place on 13th August with George Benjamin conducting ...
08/03/2009
Work of the Week - Heinz Holliger: (S)irat(ó)
On the occasion of Heinz Holliger’s 70th birthday earlier this year, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer will presents his orchestral work (S)irat(ó) at the BBC Proms on 4th August. The piece was composed between summer 1992 and spring 1993 and was ...
07/17/2009
There is a great deal to enjoy in the contemporary music being presented across this year's Summer Festivals. Among many other key events, we would like to recommend the legendary BBC Proms where our composers are particularly strongly featured with works by Casken, Goehr, Holliger, Hookawa, Martland, ...
05/06/2009
"My entire relation to music is such that I always try to go to the limits", Heinz Holliger once said. The ever restless Swiss composer, oboist and internationally acknowledged conductor turns 70 on 21 May. After studying composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez, Holliger found ...
04/27/2009
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2009 online
Shakespeare in Music Contents: p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-7: World Premieres: Christian Jost: Hamlet in Berlin, Kenneth Hesketh: PatterSongs in Liverpool, Rodion Shchedrin: Lithuanian Saga in Vilnius, Jörg Widmann: Dubairische Tänze in Berlin etc. ...
03/02/2009
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Antiphon
Jörg Widmann’s Antiphon for orchestral ensembles starts its worldwide journey through the concert halls this week. After premieres in the US , France , and Finland , the work will see its first performance this week in France , before it makes its way to Great Britain in ...
07/09/2008
Work of the Week - Heinz Holliger: Ardeur noire
On 12 July, The Zurich Festival 2008 will present the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's new work, Ardeur noire d'après Claude Debussy . The composer himself will conduct the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich and the Swiss Chamber Choir with soloists Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Brigitte ...
09/03/2007
Work of the Week - Arnold Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces op 19
Arnold Schoenberg's 6 Little Piano Pieces op 19 (1911) are compositions of extraordinary aphoristic brevity and are particularly characteristic of Schoenberg and his early period of free atonality. Each movement has a specific mood expressing the musical substance in a highly condensed form: 'My ...
08/18/2007
schott aktuell - the journal 5/2007 online
Download complete issue (PDF, 1.3 MB) FILM MUSIC IN CONCERT Contents: p. 2-5: World premieres, Henri Dutilleux Le temps du horloge in Matsumoto - Peter Eötvös Seven in Lucerne ...
06/14/2007
schott aktuell - the journal 4/2007 online
Download complete issue (PDF 1.2 MB) Summer Music Festivals Issue Contents: p. 2-5: Schott Composers at Summer Music Festivals, Carl Orff - Herbert Willi - Krzysztof Penderecki - Heinz Holliger ...
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